Is Your Recruitment Marketing Outsource Being Outsourced
I met with a client today and it dawned on me that most clients don’t where their work is coming from. Most recruitment marketing agencies or recruitment advertising agencies are just outsourcing their work. Don’t get me wrong not all of them are of this practice but I have been on both sides of this, from getting the client and then going through a recruitment advertising firm to finish the work or that the recruitment advertising firm will come to me to quote their work.
This isn’t a bad practice it’s just a practice that you as a client should be aware of. Not only are you paying a premium to that agency to manage your account but your also not sure where the work is coming from. Also if there is a problem with the work you go to them they go their outsourcer. Most of the time the work that is outsourced has a mark-up placed on it whereas if you did a little digging you could have dealt directly with the resume sourcing company or name sourcing company.
So here are a couple of questions to ask prior to engaging a recruitment marketing company to handle services for you.
1. Do you outsource any or all of your work?
2. Can I contact the company directly or receive references from the company that you will be using?
3. Will I receive a discount if you’re not completing the work yourself?
4. How long have you been using this company and will the work be completed in the United States?
5. What qualifications does the outsource company posses if any?
6. What percentage of your work do you outsource?
7. What in-house resources do you have to perform this work?
These are just best practice questions to ask an recruitment advertising agency, as with CareerMetaSearch or Sharkstrike all of our work is performed in-house including video, name sourcing, interactive marketing and resume database mining. Buyer beware.