You only have one week to recruit for a mental health professional position and received 100 applications on job portals. It will be very tiring to go through each and every one of them and you would do anything to get only like 10 good candidates to choose from.

The best solution is to leave it all to a recruiting agency that helps you save time, money, energy and gives you access to its resources.

 

How do you choose a recruitment agency?

• Word of mouth – Ask friends, colleagues, and business partners about recruitment agencies they have worked with and get the references they can provide about them.
• Online Search – Look for recruiting agencies in your area by using search engines. The top result page is the most trusted: you can find there reputable recruiting agencies with SEO optimized sites, customer-orientated, offering a nice and easy navigation experience and a business image – these are references to the professionalism and reliability that characterize them when you turn to their services.
• Social Media – Search for behavioral health recruiters on professional and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram etc. and analyze their profile. Is it a professional profile? Is it updated? Does the agency recruit for the type of job profiles you look for – mental health professionals?
• Media – Another way to find a recruiting agency is to read career magazines and specialized websites that provide recruitment agencies lists as well as HR manager statements. This gives you an overview of the most visible agencies and their expertise as mental health recruiters.
• Phone – Once you find an agency that fits your professional needs, ask for more details on the phone and evaluate further. Is the conversation professional and friendly or hurried and lacking consideration? Also consider the attitude after the phone conversation ends: does the agency send you promptly an e-mail with a presentation and an offer? If things happen professionally and quickly, you can consider hiring that agency.

 

The advantages of hiring a recruiting agency to identify good mental health professionals for your company

The recruitment agency takes over the recruitment organization process by identifying project requirements, defining the job specifications for a mental health professional, establishing a candidate search strategy, activating channels to attract them, creating a preliminary list, organizing interviews, direct interviews with the employer, feedback interviews as well as follow-up for candidate integration.

A recruitment agency specialized in recruiting mental health specialists offers valuable results because it has contacts and experience in recruiting top candidates. The provided benefits are also related to time management: a recruiter helps you reduce your interviewing time, matching your company with the best candidates, and allowing you to focus on those who best fit the mental health job requirements.

As a consequence, hiring a recruitment agency provides a significant cost reduction opportunity compared with the scenario in which you deal with everything personally. You also get consultancy and relevant expertise for the labor market, advice on legal matters as well as tools for evaluating candidates.