Outsourcing
At Quest we have been offering services to clients outside of our core recruitment activity for many years. We have now brought these together in our Outsourced Services Division.
By outsourcing your recruitment to Quest, you will have the opportunity to rapidly acquire high performing staff and reduce operational costs, whilst accessing some of the best recruitment expertise and technology in the marketplace.
By bringing together all recruitment services, Quest Search and Selection can reduce your costs significantly by introducing innovative pricing structures, adapting our existing candidate sourcing and screening methodology to hone the best bespoke sourcing strategy for your business. Recruitment Process Outsourcing at Quest does not just mean volume clerical staff; it covers senior executives, experienced hires, and both volume and specialist hires.
If you are new to outsourcing or you have a particular need right now, then you may be interested in using or finding our more about some of our outsourced services:
Response Handling
We can take on response handling on a permanent basis or on a project by project basis, handling all responses, either direct, through advertising or through 3rd parties. We will screen all CV's, respond to all applicants whether successful or not, and telephone interview relevant candidates prior to submitting to you.
Market Research
To really know how your employer brand is perceived in the market is extremely important in today's marketplace where competition is fierce for the best talent. We can provide bespoke qualitative & quantitative research, from a pre-specified audience, so you can start to make business decisions based on the very best data straight from those people who matter most: our candidates and your prospective employees.
Assessment Centre Venues & Facilitation
If you have pool of candidates in locations remote from your head office and no access to facilities, we can help by providing numerous venues nationwide where you can host your own assessment centre. If the prospect of running an assessment centre fills you with dread then speak to us, the experts - we can also offer a full assessment service; writing, hosting, facilitating and providing testing and exercises, or you can pick and choose from our menu of services to make your day as productive and stress free as possible.
Testing
Quest has made a large investment in industry recognised testing, and can offer out of hours access to fully trained SHL& DISCUS behavioural profile testers in all manned office locations.
Salary Surveys & Benchmarking
Quest recognises how important it is for you to be competitive in terms of salaries and benefits. We are perfectly placed to offer you the best and most relevant up to the minute information. We can offer bespoke salary & benefits surveys - looking at any range of data you choose.
Candidate Experience
What do you the people who walk through your door for interview really think? More importantly what do they really think once they are in the business? It is competitive out there and this information is key in order to increase staff retention, offer to acceptance ratios, win the referral race and improve your employer brand. We will design bespoke research to get the bottom of what happens from start to finish.
Outplacement Services
We can provide an extremely valuable service in what can often be a difficult time. When candidates are displaced they are often thrown into a job search that they may not have been contemplating and a market that may have changed considerably since they were last looking. We can help by offering CV & interview advice, guidance on their job search and of course new job opportunities. What is more, we will come on site and do this at your offices so they don't even have to leave the building.
Recruitment Process Audit
So you aren't happy with your current recruitment process or you aren't happy with your current suppliers? But you don't know what good looks like, you don't what works and what doesn't? Speak to us, we have seen it all before - the good, the bad and the ugly! We can look in detail at your current recruitment process and offer practical consultancy that will really make a difference, or if you are reviewing your supplier list we will help you choose the best suppliers.
So whether you are looking to fully outsource your recruitment to an external business or whether you would like more information on any of the above, please contact our Commercial Director Tom Irwin.
