1 - Reach the greatest number of qualified candidates

Using a specialist recruitment agency such as an engineering recruitment agency or a marketing recruitment agency will give you easy access to the highest number and best quality applicants within the industry required. Recruitment agencies should have a database of active candidates. They can also directly contact highly skilled and qualified marketers who are not openly seeking a new role but who may be open to an opportunity if it's a good fit for their skills.

A marketing recruitment agency will also advertise your role on the most relevant marketing job boards and help you promote your vacancy via social media, with a good understanding of how to rank the role high in search results online (a necessary requirement in a competitive job market.)

2 - Tangible timesaving

Using a specialist marketing recruitment agency will cut down the amount of time and in-house resources needed to fill a vacancy, making it a cost-effective way to secure your ideal candidate.

Often, companies do not have a dedicated HR team and recruitment falls to a head of department who may not necessarily have the skills and experience required to handle the task quickly and efficiently. Using a specialist marketing recruitment agency to fill a marketing role can save you hours and even days sifting through applications, so you only spend time viewing those worth consideration.

A good recruitment agency will offer recruitment services such as scheduling interviews with candidates, ensuring they are prepared, and managing any administrative tasks, such as notifying unsuccessful applicants and providing feedback or verifying candidate information like qualifications and references.

3 - Money-saving support

Time is money!

A specialist recruiter should have access to the job boards that target your key audience, rather than across the board, saving you money on costly advertising in the wrong places. Working with a skilled recruiter also removes the impact on in-house staff who can focus on productivity in their own roles.

The flexibility of using a recruitment agency means that you can team up as and when required, without making a long-term, ongoing financial commitment too. In the longer term, partnering with the same recruiter will save you money by speeding up the recruitment process as they will already be familiar with your organisation, culture, values, and recruitment process.

Finally, working with a specialist marketing recruitment agency in London will dramatically reduce the likelihood of making a 'bad hire' with all related costs (e.g. investment in training and developing a new staff member that proves to be ineffective within the role and, ultimately, may need to be replaced.)

4- Specialist advice

An industry-specific recruitment agency can give you pin-pointed advice on things like salary benchmarking along with identifying and seeking out the skills, experience, qualifications, and personal qualities needed to fill a specific marketing position.

Specialist recruitment agencies are also seasoned in writing compelling job descriptions, filtering out all but the ideal applicants, devising tailored screening questions, and managing the offer to on-boarding process once a candidate is selected.

5 - Industry insight

Understanding specific industries is key in identifying the right marketing candidates. It pays to go with a specialist agency that understands the specific functions of that role, the technology and terminology that separate a good candidate from the best candidate.