What does a transactional recruitment model look like?
Transactional recruitment is all about filling roles fast, focusing on skills and qualifications often at the expense of long-term fit. If you advertise your jobs without considering what your business and team truly need or without customising your adverts you might not get the best outcome.
Your next port of call might be to engage multiple recruiters in a competitive race to fill roles. Further contributing to the transactional recruitment trap, the focus then shifts from finding the right people to simply filling vacancies.
If you're taking this approach to your recruitment, you might be experiencing some of the following issues.
High Turnover: Quick hires often lead to higher turnover, costing time and money as you replace staff.
Cultural Mismatch: Ignoring company values can result in hires who just don’t fit in and damage culture internally.
Missed Talent: Focusing only on skills means you might overlook great candidates who could bring fresh perspectives.
Bad Candidate Experience: A transactional approach can make candidates feel like just another number, hurting your company’s reputation.
Short-Term Thinking: This method prioritises immediate needs instead of aligning with long-term goals, leading to reactive rather than proactive hiring.
Shifting to a more strategic approach can help you avoid these issues and build a stronger team.
From transactional to Strategic recruitment...
In contrast, a more strategic approach would involve deeper engagement with candidates. Understanding not only their skills but their motivations and potential. Considering how this aligns with your company values and the organisations long term goals.
It helps foster a stronger workplace culture and reduce turn over in the long run. Candidates have a positive experience from the minute they see the advert, they understand that your organisation values its people.
And if you need to engage a recruiter make sure it’s a good one, one taking a relationship-based strategic approach, one you trust to give insight into your business and what you’re looking to achieve. One who will repay that trust with their time, a tried and tested process and transparency. You want a recruiter who genuinely cares about finding the right fit, just like I do.
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