Strategy | In House Recruitment v Recruitment Agency

When deciding if in-house recruitment or a recruitment agency is the most effective model to recruit the best candidates how do you evaluate which works best for you?

Which model suits you will typically depend on your organisation goals and future hiring aspirations. Agency recruiters are tasked with finding the right people for the right roles as are in-house recruiters, who usually have a far wider remit than this spanning across employer brand, referrals, talent management and onboarding.

Same End Game

Both in-house recruiters and recruitment agencies will be working to deadlines and targets such as cost-per-hire, time-to-hire and of course quality of hire and whilst there are differences in the sourcing methods and approach, there are some common themes that both have to demonstrate. After all both are in the hiring business and are working to the same end game despite having different roles: