If you are a business owner and have a vacancy or number of vacancies that you want to fill then you will probably be all too familiar with the usual time-consuming recruitment process and costly expense of advertising the job and then trawling through a mountain of CV’s that land on your desk. Even when you have whittled the CV’s down you will then have to endure hours of interviews with a number of candidates before finding the right one.

Research shows that on average it costs a business approximately £4500 to fill a vacancy, this is in advertising and time. By using a recruitment agency to find the right candidates for you, they can take a lot of the hassle away by doing all the advertising of the job, filtering through CV’s and then pre-assessing people that you wish to attend an interview.

Agencies will of course charge a fee for their service which is often a percentage of the salary of the job for permanent positions or a fixed price. It is often a good idea to employ more than one agency to find you candidates for you as you will only pay the one who supplied the applicant that you successfully hire.