Fixed Fee Recruitment? The End of Recruitment Agencies for Permanent Recruitment

Feb. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- As the number of job vacancies coming onto the market increases at dramatic space, BusinessBusStop.com points to evidence showing a dramatic decrease in the use of traditional recruitment agencies in the next 5 years.

John Williams, Fixed Fee Recruiter at http://www.BusinessBusStop.com explains:

"search for fixed fee recruitment on Google and see what happens. You get a multitude of companies all advertising fixed fees ranging from £199 through to about £995, all at considerable savings from the services of a traditional recruitment consultant."

There has been criticism from a range of trade bodies that fixed fee recruiters cannot deliver the same quality service.

Williams replied "Nonsense. The service the fixed fee recruiters provide is often the same service recruitment consultants give. The only area recruitment consultants operating on traditional percentage levels will have the advantage is in specialist areas such as legal recruitment or at the top end of managers and directors. BusinessBusStop.com charges £499 for the service, which includes CV shortlisting and advertising, together with a full money back guarantee if unsuccessful."

Fixed fee recruitment varies quite widely from an advertising management service right through to full recruitment services. However the reality is that most have the cost of subscriptions to job boards and CV banks such as Jobsite or Totaljobs, and use these to access candidates and create shortlists.

"The internet is a wonderful tool for cutting costs for businesses," said Williams. "However a lot of businesses get left behind without appreciating the benefits of searching around for a better deal and low cost services such as accountancy, legal, debt recovery, recruitment, IT support, cloud computing, SEO services, online and email marketing."

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BusinessBusStop.com offers outsourcing services to businesses of small-medium size including IT consultancy, web hosting, recruitment, outsourced back office services including typing, debt recovery, accountancy and many more, all at very low cost.