Recruitment Research is an extremely valuable service for search firms and corporate human resources departments. Simply stated, research consulting is a professional service that can be incorporated as a part of any executive search assignment. The research process works best when conducted in concert with a recruiter or a company's own human resources department. In-house staff and recruiters can prepare themselves for the latter stages of the search while the research consultant identifies qualified individuals for the position in the time-consuming early phases of the search. This consists of:

• Targeting appropriate companies.
• Generating names of individuals in the specific department.
• Initial phone screening to qualify prospective candidates.

This careful process requires thorough networking and therefore can become a drain on the financial and manpower resources of a corporation or search firm. Instead, this time consuming task is best accomplished by a skilled specialist who can turn an assignment around quickly. Utilizing a research consultant can help keep costs down while giving recruiters more time to concentrate on what they like to do best. The recruiter or corporate human resources director maintains control over the facets of the search process where the recruiter is most visible to their client.

Moreover, a search firm/corporation can instantly augment its research staff by contracting the services of Research2Recruit.com As a result, the search assignments do not need to be turned down because of limited staff capability. While confidently gaining the ability to expand the client base or operate on a larger scale, search firms/corporations are also increasing their potential for profitability.

How does Recruitment Research work?

At the beginning of each assignment Research2Recruit.com will discuss with you your corporate culture, your target marketplace and the outline of your job profile to determine the number of hours required to successfully generate candidates for your employment opportunity. Once the estimate is proposed and agreed upon,Research2Recruit.com will assist you in developing a target company listing and a formal job profile that will be used to evaluate all prospective executives.

Recruitment Research involves direct sourcing of target companies by senior, library science professionals to find candidates -- the best people, currently performing the job you need done. Our senior level researchers locate candidates through cold calling and networking with people in the industry and relevant professional associations.

At Research2Recruit.com human effort is complimented by our state of the art candidate sourcing technology. Research2Recruit.com has access to all the major resume databanks (Monster, Hot Jobs, CareerBuilder, Workopolis, etc.). We search paid and free job boards for new active candidates and we deploy the latest web crawler technology that scours ISPs, corporate & educational web servers, and the major search engines for passive candidates; who don't have their resumes posted in resume databanks.

The end result is a thoroughly researched and filtered list of prospective candidates tailored to your specific position, and submitted to you in a detailed research report. The research report provides a list of candidates who have the experience, education, salary and geographical preference specified in the job profile.

Cost effectiveness

By utilizing research consulting for executive search, your firm can save thousands of dollars in employment search fees, handling the bulk of the project internally and leaving the time-consuming, labour-intensive research process to specialists. While research time varies for specific employment fields and positions, the average executive research project will require between 70 to 90 hours of work; the entire candidate list can be generated for less than $8,000 versus $30,000 or more for executive search firm services. It does not make economic sense to pay for a service that a company can handle internally. Conversely, it does not pay to attempt something complicated that is easily accomplished by a specialist.