Sticking within the framework

A new recruitment service has just been launched by Michael Ham (AREC) of Acuo Recruitment. The Framework Consultancy service assists Small to Medium Businesses across the country with their recruitment processes, with the theory behind it helping clients overcome recruitment worries, whilst still attracting the staff they needÖ

Acuo is not simply a recruitment company ñ Recruitment is what they do but only when they have primarily unearthed the business objectives of their clientsí companies. They work to pin-point the right staff to meet business needs and Michael is passionate about not letting the new laws hinder finding the right people for your team.

New Age Discrimination Laws mean all areas of the employment process need to be assessed and reviewed ñ a task that can often be so much easier from an outsider looking in. Keeping on the right side of the law is largely about diligence, but of course first you need to understand what the rules require.

Another reason that recruiting correctly is so important is that, according to top management guru Sir John Harvey-Jones, the cost of bad recruitment is incalculable - reckoned to run into billions of pounds across British industry every year. Specialist recruitment advice is therefore vital to make the best possible use of human resources.

Interesting statistics back up this belief...
35% of small workplaces (in a recent survey commissioned by the EOC) estimated that a failed or wrong recruitment had cost anywhere from 1,000 to 28,000, and training of replacements 500 to 20,000 per annum.

On the Framework Consultancy Michael commented: ëThe crucial factor for employers is to ensure that they have reviewed their recruitment policies. Advertisements and application forms need to be considered, information packs to prospective employees need to be checked and most crucially employers need to ensure that they introduce a skills based selection process that looks at the applicants competencies and ignores their age.í

It can be seen that using a cost effective and valid selection method to assess the key behaviours you have identified as being relevant to the role can contribute directly to the bottom line of your business. The Framework Consultancy asks; ëAre you getting the right people through your door with the right qualities, are you using the right recruitment process and, are you doing enough to ensure that you have the best probability of selecting the best?í