Flat Fee Recruitment - The noticeable change in the Recruitment Landscape

The Internet has emerged as an important medium in the last few years and we have noticed that the internet is being used for unimaginable things. Right from booking travel tickets to transacting business, to even ordering food everything can be done online. The Internet has also emerged as an important medium to get in touch with people, relationships are being developed and at times broken online too. Likewise, it is a medium for business relationships to develop, that between two businesses and even between an employer and an employee.

Well, so how does the Internet work to help build a relationship between employers and an employee. The Internet helps to get in touch with prospective employees through an Online job advert which the potential recruits can review and apply on. They can use the Online links featured with the job advert to know more about the business which is advertising the job.

Likewise the employers can know a lot about the prospective employees by going through their online profiles on Social networking sites and their resumes on job sites. This way the employer and the employees can get to know each other better even before they meet.

As per the statistics featured on Careerbuilder.com, two out of every five companies use social networks to research about a candidate. Of these companies, 34 percent have not hired someone because of what they saw on the potential hire's social network profile. Similarly 29 percent of these companies decided to hire someone based on their social network presence.

The report further states that of the companies who have not started using social networks as part of their recruitment process yet, 11 percent plan to start promptly. The popular social networks which these companies use to check up on the potential employees are Face book (65 percent), LinkedIn (63 percent) and Twitter (16 percent) respectively.

Given the ease with which the recruiters and the job seekers can get in touch with each other, there has emerged a new service which makes it even more easy to hire through this medium. They are the online recruiters. As experts in using the online medium to hire recruits, they tap into these networks to identify the best candidates as well as find out about them. Like wise the potential employers are able to use the internet to apply directly to their dream employers, get the information about the upcoming vacancies, and hopefully bypass the recruitment process.

Emergence of Flat Fee Recruitment

As much as the social networks are useful in finding potential jobs and employees, there us a new business that is emerging and gaining popularity. It is the recruitment services which use the online medium to find the right candidate for any kind of openings. These agencies help you to hire for a flat fee, and they help you through the entire recruitment process right from identification of the potential employees to actually hiring them.

Flat Fee Recruitment (or fixed fee recruitment as it is also called) is a service which is carried out for clients for an agreed and fixed pre-meditated price. The pre-decided fee ensures that the recruitment process is within the stipulated budget. Hence any business which does not want to invest too much in recruitment costs should go for the flat fee recruitment firms. These firms will help them to hire swiftly and economically.