Why Hiring a Technical Recruiter Isn’t Just for Tech Companies

Andrew Hilson
Don't Panic, Just Hire
3 min readJan 9, 2018

You’ve no doubt heard about tech startups hiring technical recruiters to find the best possible talent. If you’ve always thought technical recruiters focused only on tech businesses, think again. It’s not a industry role that has to stay so rigid based purely on a title.

Just like a lot of other roles usually boxed in from a formal title, a technical recruiter can mean a lot to other industries beyond technology.

You can hire a technical recruiter for your own company, no matter what niche you’re in. To prove how valuable a recruiter is to all companies, let’s look at other industries where you can hire the same kind of person via outsourcing.

Creating Strategic Recruitment in Sales

If you work in sales, you already know how rare it is to find natural-born salespeople. Not everyone has the knack for selling well, and sometimes it’s impossible to teach certain techniques.

Those rare ones you want to hire may always seem elusive when you start recruiting. This shows you how important a recruiter is for the sales industry as much as in technology. Part of this involves finding ways to make you look attractive to those major talents.

What’s most important about outsourcing a recruiter is they’ll know people and understand exactly what kind of employees you need. An outsourced recruiter with experience in sales understands what companies like yours require to succeed.

Even better is many outsourced recruiters work one-on-one with you so they fully understand your requirements. Outside agencies don’t always do this, in addition to being overly expensive.

Quickly Finding Employees for Your Finance Company

Another industry that can use an experienced recruiter is in finance. There isn’t any more important industry category nowadays for clients who worry about how they handle their money and where to invest it.

Finding experienced, talented, and smart financial experts for your financial firm has perhaps been a major burden in recent years. If you went through a standard recruiting agency, you probably had no way to do much targeting, hence hiring someone not quite suitable for the job.

Hiring someone you’re not sure about is one of the riskiest things you can do when it comes to handling other people’s money. Not having enough knowledge of certain investments or risks could place your clients in major financial jeopardy.

When you suddenly have turnover and need to find a replacement fast, a regular recruitment agency wouldn’t really know how to find someone suitable in a week. An outsourced recruiter would since they’ll already know exactly what you’re looking for and the talent pools available.

Finding the Right Talent for the Retail Industry

Any of you working in retail should seriously consider an outsourced recruiter as well. Customers are becoming more demanding now in the retail world and want clerks and other employees to give them a positive shopping experience.

It takes a certain type of employee to naturally have or acquire skills fully understanding their customers. Just like in sales, the real talents with the most real-world experience are perhaps overly selective in where they want to work.

To attract them to your retail store, your outsourced recruiter can tell them your story and connect it to the candidate. Every retail store has a story behind its brand and overall mission. Having your recruiter fully understand this beforehand is going to become invaluable in how they match you with the right prospects.

While outsourcing might sound expensive, it really isn’t. The best outsourced recruitment agencies only charge a flat rate per month.

This is exactly what we do at Expansion Pack Search and Selection. Visit our website to find out more about which industries we serve, including our focus on recruiting for the tech industry.

Originally published at www.expansion-pack.com.

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Andrew Hilson
Don't Panic, Just Hire

Aspiring superhero sidekick and backup singer. Herder of brilliant talent @Expansion Pack Search and Selection