How to open a recruitment agency?

The cadres decide everything. Despite the advanced age of this phrase, it does not lose its relevance to this day. Every day companies need new employees, and the staff is in search of new employers. But there is also a third party of the medal - recruitment agencies. It is they who organize the meeting of the company and its future employee. If we imagine that the demand and supply of labor in the near future will not exactly end, then such a business as a recruitment agency is unlikely to lose its relevance soon. But where to start this business, so that it becomes profitable? Let's try to understand.

How do recruitment agencies work?

Today, all recruitment agencies and recruitment companies are usually called recruiting. At one time the word "recruit" was a person who voluntarily left to serve in the army, and the recruiter - the one who picks such people. This is the simplified version of the principle of the work of a recruitment agency. In the modern version, the main tasks of recruiting are the search and selection of qualified personnel, as well as the formation of an adequate labor market. Today the recruitment agency is an intermediary between the employer and the applicant. Moreover, this is the best option for both sides, because the company gets exactly the specialist that was needed, and the applicant receives the position and the salary that was promised. Today, these companies are taking an increasing share of the labor market and have excellent growth trends. However, to open your own business, it is important to know in detail what the recruitment agency is doing and choose its technology of staff selection, price policy, etc. It is from these characteristics that the types of personnel agencies depend. Consider the main ones:

  1. Classic agency Executive Search. The basis of such agencies are various representatives of Western agencies. The most common phrase (Executive Search is "search for managers") is also called the method of selecting the cadres of managers. This method is also called targeted search.
  2. Personnel agencies Selection Recruitment. These companies specialize in the selection of middle and senior managers. They have their own database, place ads in the media and the Internet, and personally interview candidates. They take from 1 to 4 weeks to pick up the order, select 3-5 suitable candidates, and the cost of the service is approximately 2 salaries of the future employee.
  3. Personnel agencies Selection Recruitment and Executive Search. Companies whose main methods are direct search and classical recruitment. Such companies, as a rule, exist on the market for a rather long time, are trained by their Western colleagues, have an extensive base of candidates and employers. The cost of their services leaves 20-30% of the annual income of the selected specialist.
  4. Screening recruitment agencies. They are engaged in the selection of personnel of the lower and middle level, on such grounds as sex, age, length of service, education, etc. Their candidate base is formed through ads and summaries on the Internet. These agencies do not conduct interviews with candidates. Most send resume to employers. Their clients are mostly small firms that can not afford to pay for the services of higher-quality recruiting companies. Screening agencies make up the majority of existing companies today and are not competitive.

How to create a recruitment agency?

Choosing the direction of your future company, it is worth considering what will be the structure of the recruitment agency. It depends on the number of personnel, the policy of the head, etc. In general, agencies consist of a client department (search for employers), production (search and selection of candidates), as well as marketing and advertising departments, accountants, system administrators, etc. Having decided the question with the staff, we will understand how to organize a recruitment agency in stages:

  1. It is necessary to develop a development strategy. It is best to start with paid employment of citizens, helping to make a resume and conducting consultations. Play and gamble on the difficulties in finding a job. From this, the unemployed will not become less and you will not lose anything.
  2. Other income options at the initial stage are used as part of development.
  3. Register the PI or LLC with the system of taxation "income minus expenditure".
  4. Think of a capacious and memorable name that will match you and your style of work.
  5. Take care of the future office. Rent a room of 15-25 square meters. Furniture should be comfortable and functional. Well, if it will be two colors, maybe corporate. In the future, this will help to develop an individual style of the company. Take care also of office equipment.
  6. Advertise your company and your website. This is the key point in the development of your company. It is from where, how and how much advertising you will give about yourself, your start will depend. Your main goal is to become familiar and remember, and for this all means and scales are good.
  7. Having decided the question of how to open a recruitment agency and having gained the base of those who came to the consultation at the first stage, it is possible to start working with new candidates and offer their services to companies.

An approximate payback period for a recruitment agency is six months. This indicator depends on the city, the density of its population and the demand for such services in the labor market. In any case, this is quite a good and profitable option for opening your own business.