First of all, recruitment is super easy. All you do is post a job, wait for applications to come in, screen them, and you find THE ONE every time. You offer them the job, and they accept it 100% of the time. It’s not like there’s any sourcing, selling, closing, and managing any kind of process.
Badabing badaboom.
But anyway, the reasons…
1. The exorbitant fees, duh. (you save money)
Hiring outside help costs more money than just doing it yourself or using your internal staffing team.
Why pay anyone 15%, 20%, or more percent of the candidate’s salary, when you can just pay your own team less for working multiple roles at once, or doing all the work yourself.
Saved money on a search that goes on for months with no luck totally makes sense!
Hiring managers, sorry I ever cold called you back in my staffing agency days.
2. Time (you can afford to move slowly)
You have all the time in the world, and can afford to keep an urgent role open for 90+ days.
3. Control (you keep all of it)
You get to keep absolute control of your entire process instead of letting some random outsider in to ruin your candidate experience, employer brand, and overall messaging.
Major points if you’re also bad at communicating your hiring needs and properly delegating to others so that they can be excited about protecting your brand and keeping the process sharp in collaboration with your company’s efforts.
Seriously. I can’t believe anyone ever pays recruiters to find talent while you’re over there saving all the money, time, AND control.
Teach us your ways fr.
4. You have the reputation (your network and brand recognition alone take care of everything)
Your organization is well-known, established, and people WANT to work for a big name.
It doesn’t even matter how many awful Glassdoor reviews your company has, or how there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to how your company’s culture, pay practices, internal politics, and otherwise inside secrets disparage your brand’s name in the public eye.
The fact that you’re confident that your network will never run dry, and you move quickly and efficiently through the hiring process, already puts you way ahead of your competitors.
At your caliber, people want to work for you so desperately, that all you have to do is say the word, and the talent appears.
Why would you seek staffing help when you already own the industry?
5. You had a previous negative experience working with external recruiters (need I say more?)
This is the most valid of all reasons to stay away from recruiters forever.
Everyone is the same, and your destiny will forever be to have a bad experience with recruiters even if you both earnestly collaborate. The logic tracks.
The bad experience probably stemmed from engaging every contingent agency that reached out to you since it was all free labor unless one of them found you the talent you needed. I mean, you received resumes from all directions, so one of them was bound to be a fit, and regardless, you didn’t make any type of financial investment.
And since none of the recruiters you engaged actually prioritized your roles for free, instead of sending their candidates to other actual high-paying clients, you can be assured that the “somewhat a fit” talent they sent you was not the same level as the talent they sent to their financially invested hiring teams.
Anyway, you didn’t need focused attention or quality, you just needed proof of work volume so that you could tell your boss at every check-in that things were still “in progress.”
Smart.
You really can do it all yourself.
Ava Loreimy 