Agency Partnership Framework

We are currently working on a framework for other Recruitment Agencies to work with us. Agencies working together? Whatever next? Well we haven't got it working yet; (although we know we've got a fantastic product that will work for other agencies); when we’ve introduced the idea in the past it didn't generate much interest. We feel that agencies may have thought that all we were after was their client list. So we’ve decided that we need to offer a benefit in line with traditional recruitment agency services. We propose that all vacancies that we receive from our clients, we will inform our partners and get them to identify candidates for us for a pre-arranged margin and vice-versa (of course we would be working on it ourselves at the same time). This way we both gain something straight away. It doesn't matter who found the candidate, just that the client is happy with the service. The construction industry has been working like this for years using sub-contractors which are invisible to the end client. Why can't we set up partnerships with other agencies that work in exactly the same way? Once this partnership is established and we have worked together successfully we could explore other/further opportunities. For example: When a client finishes Contractors or halts permanent recruitment because they are off-shoring the testing department; the agency will lose a revenue stream. Traditionally there is very little that they can do about this. Partnering with Together Recruitment will also bring access to Test-Direct. Test–Direct as a solution partner, offer near shore solutions which might allow agencies to win some of this business back.
We would also look to partner with Development Companies and other service providers to fill any gaps in the service that we offer to our clients and continue to open new markets. There are many possibilities. Yes it's unconventional, but I am working hard to ensure it will work to the benefit of all parties and hopefully we'll have recruiters eager to partner with us.

Facebook

We gone from being established for almost 18 months without a website and now we now have almost every resource available. Blog, website and now facebook page. Have a look at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Together-Recruitment/9835888724

We've only created it today but we have soon really good ideas so keep looking.

Sport Relief 2008 - Sunday 16th March

A few individuals from Together Recruitment and Test-Direct (www.test-direct.com) ran in a 3 or 6 mile events for Sport Relief in Preston. We managed to raise over 350 pounds and had an excellent afternoon out. Thankfully the weatherwas kind to us - at least it didn't rain.


Natasha (Together) heads for the finish


Gary (Test-Direct) looks nervous at the start!


The Team warm up before the event.



Gary practices his sprint finish.


Kevin (Test-Direct) and Anthea (Kevin's partner) looking relaxed after 6 miles.

Everyone is keen to do some other events. Natasha is going to do the race for life and I'll be running the London Marathon for Macmilliam www.justgiving.com/rosslitherland

Sport Relief 2008

I've just finished the raffle for a bottle of champagne and managed to increase my fund-raising total by 5 times. That was easy cause I'd only raised 5 pounds. 6 of us are running on Sunday for sport relief - a mixture of Together and Test-Direct (www.test-direct.com) employee's and partners. Check back after the week-end for a write up and pictures of us in our Sport's relief socks!

Our website is live!

Check out www.recruittogether.co.uk
We are really happy with it and have been busy listing our jobs for all to see and hopefully apply too. We promised something different, I hope it's not just viewed as the standard agency stuff - comments welcome. We really like the idea of Guerilla Marketing and since we haven't the budgets of the big agencies, we'll definitely be coming up with ideas to try this out. Actually the first one is this blog. We have had loads more ideas since we signed off development for the site and I'm sure a 2nd release will be along sooner or later.

Networking our clients together

Ok this blog is hoping to show the world (well hopefully a few individuals at least) that we are serious about offering innovative recruitment services. This month we have successfully managed to win two new clients already. Fantastic, this is what all recruiters aim to do but nothing exceptional. However there could be an opportunity for us to sell one of these clients' services to the other. Not only would we make a fee (albeit a small one) on this, but the client who would be providing the services would probably require further resources as a result. How's that for a different service? We truly believe this is the future and a service that all Agencies should be providing (but we're secretly glad they are not).
We are very keen whenever possible, to offer a different solution to our clients resourcing needs. Not only just the traditional offering of Contract or Permanent resources. We will offer our clients/partners services as well as a third option. Is there a better way to build the relationship with a client by helping them to sell their services?

Our Website!

You figure that when you start a business that one of the very first things that you'll do (these days anyway) is get the website going. Well it doesn't work like that for me. We have been operating for almost 16 months and we are finally going to launch this week. I wish I could blame someone for this, but it is purely my fault! Too much day to day stuff to look at and make decisions on.
Anyway we are days away from having it Live. I'm sure it will change and develop over the next few months - we are doing some charity stuff which might be worthy of a mention.
We just have to come up with an idea to market it. We're very pleased with it so it would be great to show it off.