Client Services, Positions Filled, & Industries Served
The landscape of work has changed.
In today’s world, the structure, content, and process of work have changed. Work is now: more cognitively complex. more team-based and collaborative. more dependent on social skills. more dependent on technological competence. more time pressured.
The factors influencing the change in work include technological advancement, outsourcing, changing worker attitudes and values, demographics, and diversity, plus globalization.
Organizations that are successful are nimble. Embracing change is a requirement. Managers are increasingly focused on the work they need done, many are making skills-based decisions, thinking about both the openings on their team right now, and as more openings evolve post-pandemic.
Whether your need is direct hire, contract, temp-to-perm, interim, and/or project; onsite, hybrid or remote, maybe all that is needed is support – RPO, Work/Life Recruiting has you covered.
Work/Life Recruiting is a contingency recruiting services business. We deliver flexible hiring options to your human capital need(s).
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Client Services
Remember when companies would tout the perks of being in the office? It became a stereotype for tech startups to show off their catered lunches, their onsite yoga instructors, and their ultra-cool workspaces. Those are not such big selling points anymore. Lately, more people want to work from anywhere. It’s just one of many ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed recruiting and hiring.
Today, hiring teams are confronted with a wide range of hiring challenges:
On-site
Direct Hire
Confidential
Routine replacement
Hybrid
Contract
Succession Planning
Performance related
Remote
Interim
FLMA
Obsolete skills
Plus, there are a range of business situations that impact hiring needs.
Merger or Integration
Acquisition – new ownership
Economic forced changes
Offshoring or outsourcing
Change in leadership
Contingency & Engaged Options for Direct Hires
Work/Life Recruiting offers contingency and engaged options for Direct Hire positions.
Contingency Solutions
There are times when a company’s in-house recruiter(s) cannot keep up with an unexpected hiring demand or hiring a unique skill, therefore hiring a contingency recruiter is a good short-term solution until the hiring demand slows down.
Engaged Solutions
A recruiter engagement fee is a compromise between a contingency recruiting agreement and a retained recruiting agreement.
With engaged recruiting agreement, there is a greater level of commitment on the part of the organization compared to a contingency recruiting agreement. The agency receives an “engagement fee” which shows commitment to the position to be hired and the recruiting agency by the organization.
The organization pays an engagement fee that is applied to the final invoice. The balance of the recruiting fee is contingent upon the outcome and is paid after the start date.
Knowing the organization has “skin in the game”, Work/Life Recruiting will prioritize their time, energy, and resources over other contingency recruiting assignments.
Situations were Engaged is appropriate:
- When the organization has been unsuccessful filling the position on their own using job boards such as LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Biospace and others within 90 days.
- When the urgency of filling the position is high and response to the organizations’ efforts have been unqualified or no candidates.
- When the organization is considering between promoting someone from within the organization and what may be available from outside the organization.
- When the organization wants to hire an executive and does not want the commitment of a retained recruiting agreement
Support Services
Occasionally, what is needed is support not an outside recruiting agency.
Example
A job has been posted for more than 30 days and the results do not meet expectations.
Candidates, or not the right type of candidates, are responding to your job description. This is a common experience.
The organization wants assistance, but not the financial commitment of recruiting with an outside agency
Work/Life Recruiting offers support services on an hourly basis.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) / Contract Recruiter
Contract recruiters are recruiters who work on a contract, time basis instead of a contingency recruiter type fee structure. Contract recruiting is a form of recruitment process outsourcing or RPO. A contract recruiter will typically work on assignments on an ongoing basis, or until such time that the hiring needs are satisfied.
Types of Contract Recruiting Solutions
Contract recruiter solutions use a simple hourly, weekly, or monthly wage or fixed bid project for a set amount of time to help with hiring demand during an uptick in hiring. This type of recruiter can be seen as a recruiting consultant who works with a company on a short-term basis to get their hiring needs met and improve their overall talent acquisition.
When all job openings have been filled and the company is satisfied with its new employees, then the contract is typically complete, and the recruiter can move on to the next job or contract position.
Example
An established company had been using manufacturers’ representatives for all outside sales. The decision was made to switch to a direct sales force. This meant they needed to hire 16 representatives to cover the United States. The company wanted to make this transition quickly. They wanted to hire well qualified people that were likely to be long term contributors.
In this example Work/Life Recruiting placed 18 people with an average tenure of 47.67 months. 8 of the 18 (44%) people are still on the job after 66 months.
If you have a hiring project that requires multiple hires in a short period of time, then contract staffing is a cost-effective alternative to contingency, engage or retained recruiting agreements.
Benefits of Hiring Contract Recruiters
- Flexible contract basis. Our on-demand recruiters work on a simple contract basis, without long-term requirements.
- No search or staffing agencies fees. Our contract recruiters have no placement fees or “success fees” of any type.
- Save time for hiring managers. Are your departmental managers spending half their time hiring? Contract recruiters relieve this burden.
- Augment team during high demand. Hiring is cyclical by nature, so hiring full-time in talent acquisition can be difficult. Flex up your hiring in times of high demand.
- Help your recruiting manager. If you have one or a small team of full-time talent acquisition managers, contract recruiters are a great way to ramp up on a flexible basis.
- Reduce contract staffing solutions. Demand for temp labor often comes with a fast turnaround. Having a contract recruiter on your team can reduce spending on external staffing agencies.
Contract Recruiter Expense
The pay for a contract recruiter is straightforward: pay by the hour, week, or month. Pay ranges for a contract recruiter vary widely by skill, niche, and experience, with compensation from $40/hour for a junior level or more administrative role, to $100+/hour and more for strategic talent acquisition consulting and recruiting project management. Some contracts also tie additional compensation to the successful completion of a particular recruiting and hiring project or include bonuses for hiring performance.
Staffing
Staffing is another way to fill open roles within a company or organization.
Work/Life Recruiting provides staffing solutions for technical positions on short-term roles or specific projects.
When you use Work/Life Recruiting for your staffing needs, you ignore certain requirements of other role-filling practices, such as arranging company benefits, and taxes.
Work/Life Recruiting offers the following staffing services for engineers and other technical positions:
- Contract
- Temp-to-perm
- Project
Positions we fill
Work/Life Recruiting focuses on manager through senior director positions. Positions whose performance is commonly measured on KPIs, P&L, ROI & CAGR. These positions may be expected to bring analytical skills previously not available, new production or operational efficiencies, improved quality, respond to regulatory issues, new supply chain strategies, and growing revenue via marketing and sales activities.
Since 1997 we have successfully completed 400+ direct placements in the fields of:
Accounting/Finance
Quality
Engineering
Regulatory
Marketing
Sales/Business Development
Operations
Supply Chain
Whether your need is direct hire, contract, temp-to-perm, interim, and/or project; onsite, hybrid or remote, maybe all that is needed is support – RPO, Work/Life Recruiting has you covered.
Industries
Work/Life Recruiting works with a wide range of companies in multiple industries within the B2B space.
The industries that we represent are technically sophisticated, developing new products to help people, animals, and environment while making businesses more productive, sustainable, and safer for their employees.
We focus on industries have significant demand for educated and uniquely skills employees and contractors. These people earn above average compensation and enjoy greater career stability compared to other industries.