Finding The One
A client of ours called this summer with a plea to help her recruit an Operations Manager who could share the load of managing her growing business. Sales were exploding (yay!) and the related admin tasks were taking up way too much time, leaving little energy to devote to finding new clients, and developing new products and services.
This is a common scenario for most small business owners - if you have played your cards right - eventually managing the business becomes too onerous, and there is simply not enough time left to devote to growing the business. This is the point at which a) the business either stagnates or b) you outsource appropriate tasks and take it to the next level. It is exactly this crossroads which inspired us to launch AskMax - to provide the support entrepreneurs need at that crucial juncture.
Now, recruiting is never easy, and while some placement firms are fantastic, a lot of them charge a bundle and don’t really ever understand what it is that you are looking for. In the end a lot of people waste a lot of time meeting candidates who are underqualified, overqualified, uninterested, or just downright uninteresting.
Our virtual recruitment service helps entrepreneurs keep control over the search process, while outsourcing the time consuming administrative and technical tasks. We help them identify what they really need, develop the job descriptions, define a search strategy which takes into account timing and budget constraints, post the ads, screen the CVs, and do preliminary interviews to validate candidates’ knowledge and skills. Once this legwork is done, we set up face to face or virtual interviews between the client and the best candidates, and provide additional support services as required (e.g. reference checking, recommendations on compensation, etc.).
We did find a great Operations Manager for our client, and she’s been on the job now for a couple of months. Our client, the previously harried and frenzied entrepreneur, just returned from her first real vacation in over 2 years…and is ready to hire again!!
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Tags: entrepreneur, online recruitment, recruitment, search, small business, staffing
