Permanent
recruitment
At Hays recruitment agency, we have more than 50 years of experience recruiting specialists and leaders for permanent positions. We provide expert consultancy and accompany you throughout the entire recruitment process, adapted to your specific needs and timeframe.
Our recruitment consultants are specialised in a variety of sectors and industries, for example IT, Engineering, Life Sciences, Sales & Marketing. They have a strong network within their respective specialisms, where they use a throughly tried-and-tested recruitment process to place the right candidates in the right position and in the right organisation.
Our expert knowledge is one of the pillars of our recruitment consultants. Every year, Hays publishes reports and analyses, such as The Future of Work and What Workers Want. This helps us better understand both the global and local labour markets, and which competencies and skill-sets are particularly attractive in your line of business. That's how we recruit the best employees for you.
Below you can read more about our recruitment process, as well as the advantages of using a recruitment agency – and how they may be an asset to your own internal TA or HR-department.
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Our process
for permanent recruitment
1. Starting the recruitment process
► We perform a detailed analysis of your needs, as well as the current candidate market in your industry and location
► We draft a requirement profile, as a backbone of our search
2. Candidate search
► Evaluation of professional and personal qualifications, based on CVs and phone screenings
3. Analysis and presentation
► We select the best candidates
► Short-list and presentation reports are sent to the hiring manager
4. Interview, feedback & contract
► You evaluate the candidates
► First interviews with selected candidates
► Evaluation of interviews and next interview rounds
► Feedback for us and candidates
► Contract is signed – or a new search is performed
Your contact person
for recruiting employees
FAQ
Often asked questions about recruitment
There's a lot of good reasons to use a recruitment agency or a headhunter, but it's important to understand when it's the right choice – and which agency is right for you. At Hays, we're experts in specialist recruitment. That means we're specialised in recruiting employees and freelancers, who are specialists within their own respective areas. We'll find the candidates who are hard to find, screen them to ensure that they're the right match for your organisation and offer our expertise, guidance and market knowledge throughout the whole process.
A brief conclusion to the below: You should use a recruitment agency when you cannot afford to wait for the right candidate to stumble upon your organisation. It's expensive to have unfilled positions, and it's expensive to recruit the wrong person.
Some of the advantages of using a recruitment agency:
- A quicker and more effective process
Recruitment is the core of our business – we have more resources and experience than almost any Talent Acquisition or HR department, we have specialised consultants within your specific area, and we have a large, global network of candidates. But a recruitment agency does not need to be an alternative to your own TA department; conversely, it's an excellent tool for the positions which are niche or hard to fill.
- High quality of candidates and time saving
We spend most of our time screening candidates to understand their profile and where they could be a good fit. We make sure that you only have to spend time on candidates which are qualified for your open positions – allowing you to cut out several steps from your recruitment proces and save time on reading applications and doing administrative work.
- Knowledge of the market and salary levels
We know the employment market, your industry and the salary levels. We can advise you on whether it's realistic to find the right candidates within your salary range, and if not, where we can adjust the requirement profile to find a suitable match.
- An interdisciplinary approach
We believe in a interdisciplinary approach; if you're looking for a Marketing Manager for a pharmaceutical company, our Life Science and Sales & Marketing departments will work together to solve the job. It's rare for your internal recruiters to have the right specialist knowledge of all the positions within your organisation, or be able to compete with a recruitment agency on the scope of their candidate database within your industry.
There's a lot of good reasons to use a recruitment agency or a headhunter, but it's important to understand when it's the right choice – and which agency is right for you. At Hays, we're experts in specialist recruitment. That means we're specialised in recruiting employees and freelancers, who are specialists within their own respective areas. We'll find the candidates who are hard to find, screen them to ensure that they're the right match for your organisation and offer our expertise, guidance and market knowledge throughout the whole process.
A brief conclusion to the below: You should use a recruitment agency when you cannot afford to wait for the right candidate to stumble upon your organisation. It's expensive to have unfilled positions, and it's expensive to recruit the wrong person.
Some of the advantages of using a recruitment agency:
- A quicker and more effective process
Recruitment is the core of our business – we have more resources and experience than almost any Talent Acquisition or HR department, we have specialised consultants within your specific area, and we have a large, global network of candidates. But a recruitment agency does not need to be an alternative to your own TA department; conversely, it's an excellent tool for the positions which are niche or hard to fill.
- High quality of candidates and time saving
We spend most of our time screening candidates to understand their profile and where they could be a good fit. We make sure that you only have to spend time on candidates which are qualified for your open positions – allowing you to cut out several steps from your recruitment proces and save time on reading applications and doing administrative work.
- Knowledge of the market and salary levels
We know the employment market, your industry and the salary levels. We can advise you on whether it's realistic to find the right candidates within your salary range, and if not, where we can adjust the requirement profile to find a suitable match.
- An interdisciplinary approach
We believe in a interdisciplinary approach; if you're looking for a Marketing Manager for a pharmaceutical company, our Life Science and Sales & Marketing departments will work together to solve the job. It's rare for your internal recruiters to have the right specialist knowledge of all the positions within your organisation, or be able to compete with a recruitment agency on the scope of their candidate database within your industry.
There's a lot of factors at play here – how early do you reach out to us, do you need our help to define the position and benchmark salary, how complicated or senior is the role, coordination between candidates and hiring manager, etc. But on average, it will take 26 days from initial talks to presentation of candidates.
There's a lot of factors at play here – how early do you reach out to us, do you need our help to define the position and benchmark salary, how complicated or senior is the role, coordination between candidates and hiring manager, etc. But on average, it will take 26 days from initial talks to presentation of candidates.
Guarantees are a standard part of our recruitment agreements, which means we'll start a new recruitment process free of charge, if your new colleague quits within an agreed upon amount of time. However, how long the guarantee period is, will depend on your specific agreement.