Using Recruitment Consultants

To get the most out of recruitment consultants, you need to understand how they fit in to the overall recruitment picture.  Recruitment consultants are facilitators, they are ‘middlemen’ who undertake an important role in bringing employers and candidates together.  They are professionals who have a unique understanding of the market place both in terms of who are looking for staff and who are looking for jobs.  They are professional match makers. Recruitment consultants make no charge to their candidates.  They derive their income by successfully placing a candidate with a client company.

To get the best out of your recruitment consultant the following guidelines may be helpful:-

• Be open with them and work with them
• Keep in touch with them
• If you promise to attend an interview and either cannot make it or decide to pull out, let them know
• Clayton consultants are specialists in their respective fields.  Tap in to that knowledge
• You are likely to experience rejections along the way.  Clayton consultants will give you feedback (both good and bad) that will help you to learn from the process
• Clayton consultants ensure that they are briefed on the positions that they handle.  Use that knowledge to prepare yourself for the interview
• Job offers can sometimes be a delicate stage.  Clayton consultants are experienced in the process and can be of great benefit to both parties in helping to negotiate a fair outcome

Job hunting is a real venture into the unknown in all sorts of respects.  Clayton consultants have unique knowledge grounded in experience to advise you in planning your career, in salary expectations and in undertaking the process of finding that important job.