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Why Most New Recruitment Agency Will Not Last More than 12-18 months

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Business will go downhill!

With the onslaught of many new agencies setting up everywhere and the market open itself to more dimensions, the loyalty for a recruitment consultant staying in a company for many years is a distant memory. You see, the business of recruitment agency can be easily duplicated and apparently when one of the top recruitment consultants in a company reaches the top sales for a few months…..Greed and EGO take over….

Many people who work in a recruitment agency handles the clients and candidates directly and when they make over $10,000 – $20,000 per month in sales, they will be a tendency for them to believe that they can earn more IF they were to start on their own.

What happen is that they will talk to many potential investors and eventually one of them who are not in the industry will be willing to pump in the money and of course that recruitment consultant will automatically become the Managing Director of the new company.

When the new agency is set up, the Managing Director will stop to do sales and even there are new job orders, they will push them to the new consultants. Being trained by the previous manager who kept everything by themselves, the skills the new MD had learned will also be limited and most likely have not really has the experience runing a business before. They only know how to talk to clients and talk to candidates!

How to Start a Profitable Recruitment Agency

recruitment-agencies-steps-to-successIn actual business, it is more than clients and candidates; in real business it involves the following:

  1. Sourcing for the best place to work (Office). Most people were slaughter by this because they have no idea what is the best deal in the market, 9/10 of them will be misled by the commercial agents as they are not IN the market.
  2. Creating a brand that has a deep impact. Many people think this is redundant because they are not into marketing and branding and of course they do not know it is EXTREMELY important. The fact that the brand says a lot about yourself and if you cannot create the difference, you will be like any of them out there.
  3. Recruiting the right staff, most of them who are a recruitment consultant fail in their selection of the candidates because many of them are not even trained how to do so, they just go through many hundreds and thousands of resume and they believed they are good interviewers.
  4. Leadership and retention – This will kill many. Seriously speaking, these things usually does not exist in the new MD themselves because they are not trained how to do so….however many still believe they are good in these areas!
  5. Understanding the industry – Most new agencies does not even know about the Market Tumours and when I explained to them the MT, most just stared blindly to me and at a lost of words because I had decoded the entire recruitment agency industry and tear it apart to bit and pieces where they have not seen before.
  6. Managing the cost of operating, most of the new MD does not have this skills because they are not trained at all.
  7. Generating sales –  basing on the 80/20 rules, 8 of your consultants will not be producing and only 2 will produce, with that the salary will be more than the sales and any logical investor will pull the plug eventually. If the investor is the MD himself, he will feel even more painful in this issue.
  8. The MD will need to incorporate new ways to generate new consultants, new clients and new candidates because they will find that the previous method they use will not yield good returns….
  9. Training – Your staff needs training in almost all areas, most of them they do not believe it is a need to train staff, well if the skill set of the company staff is not up to standard, eventually the sales and clients will go elsewhere!

The Secret of Generating 100 Recruitment Agency Clients in 2 Weeks Revealed

Anyhow, managing a recruitment agency is not easy as it seems, it takes more than hard work and sales to make it happens. You will need to focus, innovate, positioning, branding, change and adept to be able to make it big… Good luck!

Dougles Chan is the recruitment Guru ,a Personal Mentor, Business Adviser and also a Web Sales Expert that assist clients in their business needs in recruitment and sales, specialised in creation of sales, leads and traffic in many industries including employment agencies, advertising agencies, gifting industry, education industry, training industry, software industry and many others. His clients comes from Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom, USA, South Africa, Germany and many other countries.

He is the author of Job Seekers Power Manual and recruitment agency manual – Financial Success in Recruitment Industry which had received tremendous praises from job seekers and CEO and Directors of companies all over the world.

If you are seeking for someone train and mentor you or to brand and create more sales and generate leads for your side, you can speak to Dougles Chan to see how you can use the latest techniques and technology to your advantage. He will be able to blend in the most effective way with the least cost to get things done at the shortest time. Dougles can be contacted at dc@dougleschan.com or you can contact him at +(65) 93880851

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Recruitment Agencies in Singapore, The Downfall of the Industry

Singapore Headhunter Article by The Recruitment Guru – Dougles Chan

If you are involved in Recruitment Agencies in Singapore for the last 10-20 years, you will notice that the number of cases and sales value a recruitment consultant can close compared to many years ago is declining every year averagely.

10-20 years ago, a normal recruitment consultant in any recruitment agencies in Singapore will be able to close an average sales value of S$20,000 – S$30,000 per month but in the year of 2012, a normal recruitment consultant that is able to close a value of S$5,000 – $10,000 per month is consider to be quite good.

The Secret of Generating 100 Recruitment Agency Clients in 2 Weeks Revealed

If this trend continuous to decline, I can foresee that the whole industry can dis-integrated and falls apart. Many will failed, including the bigger players. There are many valid reasons why I have the guts to make this projection:

The Recruitment Agencies in Singapore Mindset

The Diminishing Factor 

Most of the newer recruitment agencies bosses comes from the background of being a consultant before in one or more of the agencies, the knowledge and skills they have learned from their “mentor” are always limited because the mentor never wants to teach them much things, don’t even talk about skill sets. Hence when the knowledge of the new recruitment agencies bosses are so limited, the new consultants under their wings under this new bosses will be even lesser because they are not able to learn much from their current bosses. To make matter worst, these new consultants will think they are so great that they gather together and form another recruitment agencies and hope to make huge income from becoming their own bosses. This cycle goes on and on and eventually the skill set of the consultants gets weaker and weaker.

The Secret Trap

Many recruitment agencies bosses never share their clients and database with their consultants because they are afraid that the consultants will steal their clients and database to use it when the consultants forms a new company. Assuming that the boss has 50 job orders and they are not open enough to share to their consultants, they will not be able to fulfilled these 50 job orders entirely because of lack of time and resources. They are very happy they are able to close 5 case and lose the other 45, that means the other job orders will be lost to other agencies…How’s that for been “Smart”? Get the picture? If he is open enough to throw the other 45 orders to the rest of the consultants, the company will be able to close more cases many time compared to just 5 job orders. (Assuming that the job orders are real and valid.)

Secret of Closing 10-20 Clients Job Assignments in 1 month! 

The Competitions Factors

10-15 years ago, there were about 500 recruitment agencies in Singapore but in the year 2012 there are coming to over 3,000 recruitment agencies in Singapore, hence the clients have more choices and better pricing, the smaller agencies will have problem even to break even at all, if times are bad, then the agencies will make a loss and eventually have to close shop.

Inadequacy of Skills

A recruitment consultant has to be a great sales person, a great presenter, a great interviewer, a great searcher, a great advertiser and a great negotiator, do you really believe a 2-3 days crash course can make a consultant to be able to become the superman? The hard fact is that it is almost impossible to find someone of such skills because most of them are not trained to be at that level! The entire industry is filled with people that DO NOT have the right skills, no adequate training, no investment done on training and no coaching and mentoring….Could this be the doom and the end of the Singapore recruitment industry?

The CEI Problem

Many smaller agencies will not have the resources and money to pay for the new recruitment consultant and even if they are willing to there is a risk that the consultant may leave the agencies due to some KPI issues or having a better offer. Hence the small players are very cautious and unwilling to pay for the total fees that are amounted to about S$600.00 per consultant. Bigger players with good brand and financial resources will be able to play this “BULLY” game as they are not afraid of losing the S$600.00 because the consultant usually got more to lose than the bigger agencies.

I am The Boss Mindset

Talk to any consultant out there and ask them the question: Would you want to have your own agency when you have the opportunity and the financial resource? I bet 8 out of 10 of them will say YES! Why is that so? Simply because they want to make more money and want to be their own boss, many of them will go for the opportunity even if they were to partner with a few others, simply because they LOVE to be their own boss and apparently they will believe that they are going to be a better boss compared to the current one! (Oops did i rang any bell?) With this mindset, recruitment agencies are usually not able to retain good staff simply because the good ones decided to have their own firm. When there are no good staff, there will be lesser sales and eventually you will know what happen…

The time will come where the entire recruitment agencies system will face a crisis and there will be a total revamp and market will change and the first one to set the trend will be able to dominate the industry entirely. The time will come and when it happens, many players regardless of whether small or big, will face total elimination! Mark my words…it is already happening.

The Death of Recruitment Agencies in Singapore continues…

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