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RECRUITMENT & SELECTION

Recruitment & Selection Support

Finding the right person is exciting. Getting it wrong? Not so much.

We help you take a more thoughtful approach to recruitment, giving you practical support to find the right person for the role and your business.

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Bringing someone new into your business should be a positive step. Maybe you're growing your team, replacing someone who's moved on or finally getting some much-needed extra hands on deck.

But recruitment takes time, and a poor hiring decision can be expensive. There's the cost of recruiting and training someone who doesn't work out, the management time spent dealing with the fallout and the extra pressure it can put on the rest of your team.

Whether you need help with one part of the process or someone to support you from start to finish, we can take some of the work off your hands and help you make hiring decisions with greater confidence.

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From Job Advert to Job Offer (And Beyond)

Recruitment involves more than putting an advert online and hoping the right person applies. A good process starts with understanding who and what you actually need and continues until your new employee is settling into their role.

We can help at every stage:

1. Getting the Role Right

Before you start advertising, we can help you get clear on what the job involves and what you're looking for in a candidate. This can include creating job descriptions and preparing job adverts that attract the right applicants.

2. Finding and Assessing Candidates

We can help manage the time-consuming parts of recruitment, including placing adverts, liaising with recruitment agencies, screening CVs and carrying out initial telephone interviews. We can also help you design an interview and assessment process that gives you a better understanding of each candidate's suitability.

3. Making the Offer

Once you've found someone you'd like to hire, we can support the next steps, including offer letters, employment contracts, references and appropriate pre-employment checks.

4. Helping Your New Starter Settle In

Recruitment doesn't end when someone accepts the job. We can help you put together a structured induction plan so your new employee understands their role, gets the support they need and has the best possible start.

Making Recruitment Easier with Hireful

We've partnered with Hireful to give our clients access to recruitment technology that makes finding and managing candidates a whole lot easier. Their Applicant Tracking System (ATS) brings everything together in one place, helping you stay organised, save time and give candidates a professional experience from their first application.

With Hireful, you can:

  • Keep recruitment organised: manage applications, interviews and feedback without juggling spreadsheets and overflowing inboxes.
  • Reach more candidates: advertise vacancies across multiple job boards, with access to discounted job postings.
  • Make a great first impression: create a branded careers page and give candidates a consistent experience throughout the recruitment process.
  • Keep everyone in the loop: involve hiring managers, share feedback and track progress without endless email chains.
  • Manage candidate information securely: keep applications and communications together in a system designed to support GDPR compliance.

And when you need more hands-on help, our team can support you with the people side of recruitment too. Hireful is included as part of our Ongoing HR Support packages.

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First Impressions Work Both Ways

When you're recruiting, it's natural to focus on finding the right person for your business. But while you're assessing candidates, they're forming opinions about you as an employer. And those opinions don't always stay private.

With recruitment experiences increasingly being shared on LinkedIn and other social media platforms, poor communication or a badly managed process can quickly affect how people view your business. Nobody enjoys applying for a job and never hearing back, being left waiting for updates or feeling their time hasn't been respected.

Even candidates who don't get the job should come away feeling they've been treated well. Because the way you recruit gives people a glimpse of what working for your business might be like.

We can help you create a recruitment process that's professional, organised and considerate of everyone involved.

What Our Clients Say

We're proud of the relationships we build with the businesses we support. Here's what some of them have to say about working with us.

Kate Armitage

People Pillar client testimonial

I thoroughly enjoyed it the session People Pillar delivered, but more importantly our team did and got so much out of it. Many of them commented on how much they enjoyed your delivery and approach.

I am certain it has given us good awareness and some useful tools for communicating better in the future.

Ready to Find Your Next Team Member?

Whether you're recruiting for the first time or growing an established team, we can help make the process more manageable.

Tell us what you're looking for and we'll talk through how People Pillar can support you.

Or call us on 01303 769700

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