Crawford Thomas Recruiting Makes Hiring Easier for Your Talent Acquisition Team
Even a great internal talent acquisition team can use extra recruiting support. Hiring needs change quickly, difficult positions can consume valuable time, and the best candidate for a role may never submit an application. That’s where Crawford Thomas Recruiting can help.
Working with a recruiting firm doesn’t mean replacing your internal recruiters. Crawford Thomas Recruiting works alongside talent acquisition teams as an additional recruiting resource—helping source candidates, manage difficult searches, expand candidate reach, and ultimately make hiring easier.
Here are five ways we can support your team.
1. We Give Your Talent Acquisition Team More Recruiting Power
Your internal talent acquisition team has a lot to manage. Recruiters may be handling multiple openings while also coordinating interviews, communicating with hiring managers, reviewing applicants, managing offers, and keeping candidates engaged.
Adding Crawford Thomas Recruiting gives your team another group of recruiters actively working on your open positions.
Instead of asking your internal team to simply do more, you can expand your recruiting capabilities when and where you need them.
This can be especially valuable when you’re experiencing:
- A sudden increase in hiring
- Multiple openings at once
- Hard-to-fill positions
- New locations or markets
- Specialized hiring needs
- Positions that have remained open too long
Your team stays in control of the hiring process. We simply give them more resources to get the job done.
2. We Find Candidates Who Aren’t Applying
Posting a job is important, but it’s only one part of recruiting.
Some of the strongest candidates aren’t actively searching job boards every day. They may already be employed, performing well, and willing to consider the right opportunity—but someone has to find them first.
Crawford Thomas Recruiting proactively searches for and engages qualified candidates instead of relying solely on incoming applications.
Our recruiters can identify potential candidates, reach out directly, introduce the opportunity, discuss their experience and determine whether there’s mutual interest.
That gives your talent acquisition team access to a larger candidate pool, including passive candidates they may not reach through a traditional job posting.
3. We Take on the Searches That Need Extra Attention
Not every position requires the same recruiting strategy.
Your internal recruiters may be able to fill certain positions quickly while another opening remains unfilled for weeks or months.
That’s a good opportunity to bring in additional help.
Crawford Thomas Recruiting can focus recruiting resources on hard-to-fill, specialized, urgent or high-priority positions while your internal talent acquisition team continues managing the rest of your hiring needs.
Our recruiters work across industries and professional disciplines including construction and homebuilding, specialty pharmacy and healthcare, technology and engineering, sales and marketing, finance and accounting, legal, human resources, operations, management and executive leadership.
You don’t have to outsource every position. Use a recruiting partner where they can provide the most value.
4. We Do More Than Send Resumes
More resumes don’t necessarily make hiring easier.
The goal should be to get your hiring managers in front of candidates who actually make sense for the position.
Crawford Thomas Recruiting helps evaluate candidates before they’re introduced to your team. Our recruiting process can include reviewing experience, conducting recruiter interviews, discussing compensation expectations, understanding career goals, and confirming interest in the opportunity.
We can also help market and promote your open positions online across multiple job boards and recruiting channels.
That means your internal talent acquisition team can spend less time sorting through applicants and more time evaluating qualified candidates who have already been recruited and screened.
5. We Work as an Extension of Your Team
The best relationship between an internal talent acquisition team and an external recruiting firm shouldn’t feel competitive.
It should feel collaborative.
Crawford Thomas Recruiting works with your hiring managers and internal recruiters to understand what you’re actually looking for—not just what’s written in the job description.
That includes understanding the position, required skills, compensation, company culture, hiring timeline and what would make someone successful after they’re hired.
As hiring priorities change, you can use Crawford Thomas Recruiting when you need additional recruiting support without having to permanently expand your internal team.
Internal Recruiting and External Recruiting Can Work Together
Companies don’t have to choose between building a strong internal talent acquisition team and working with a recruiting firm.
You can do both.
Your internal team brings valuable knowledge of your company, culture and long-term hiring strategy. Crawford Thomas Recruiting can add sourcing power, recruiting experience, passive candidate outreach and additional bandwidth when your team needs it.
For companies with difficult searches, growing hiring needs or recruiters who simply have too much on their plate, that combination can make hiring much easier.
Crawford Thomas Recruiting provides contingency direct-hire recruiting services to companies nationwide. Whether you need help with one difficult position or ongoing support across multiple departments, our recruiters can work alongside your existing talent acquisition team to help find the right people.
Your talent acquisition team doesn’t have to do it alone.