Step by Step Guide to your Recruitment Business

Becoming a recruiter is always challenging because it is two-fold the efforts.

1) Sales - Find clients looking for candidates.
2) Sourcing - Provide clients with candidates.

Some basic considerations:

Attitude: Need a positive attitude and it is a very target based process. Need to be
friendly to all
job seekers and clients.
Attention to details: Get a full understanding of the job requirements. Need to
understand key points of the role, like, maximum and minimum experience,
sponsorship considerations, primary and secondary skills, relocations etc.
Network: Start creating a good network in various offline and online mediums.

Let’s start with the recruitment business.

1) Get yourself registered.

If you are an independent recruiter and wants to start with your business, the first of
all start with business registration. Your name also depends on your online
presence. If you already have a business entity, then go to step 2.
Try getting a business name which is closer to your business niche and see if any
matching website domain name is also available. Go to either GoDaddy
or any domain registering a website and search for available names and then you can
come up with a good business name.
Try to include keywords like recruitment, staffing, consulting which can specify your
business.

2) Get a website for your business.

If you already have a professional website, then go to step 3.
Based on your business name, buy a domain from any known website domain
providers like www.namecheap.com or www.godaddy.com . Once you have bought
the domain
, then try to get a professional website for your business.
You can get it done by affordable designers.
3) Set up basic infrastructure, tax, and insurance.
For tax and insurance, you can connect with local agencies. We need basic
infrastructure,
like a phone number or skype with which you can make many calls. Check for the
providers with these details.

4) Search for tasks.

Now you have your basic setup done, we need to start for tasks.
Register yourself in recruitment marketplace and start searching for initial gigs.

Try in below sites:

https://www.reflik.com/
https://www.sourcr.com/
https://www.jobhuk.com/
http://recruitalliance.com/
https://www.smartrecruiters.com/
https://dawaami.com/
https://www.recruiting-hub.com/
http://www.myhiringbox.com
https://recruitersupermarket.com
https://www.recruitmyjob.com
https://scriptifi.com/
https://www.hiringplug.com/
https://www.hiring-hub.com/
https://recruitloop.com

After registration, try to work on a few jobs from few of these sites which matches
your niche or expertise.
There may be some spams, or fake jobs in these marketplaces to attract user logins
but try to have a positive attitude and you can get your first client from here.
Try to promote these job requirements and get candidates for these.

5) Get membership from Jobisite

Jobisite offers membership for recruiters which is free to try for one month and then
very minimal charges. Using this service, you can get access to full premium job ads
posting and resume access. It is known to be popular among startup recruiters and
very beneficial for them. Try registering in www.jobisite.com and then go
to : https://www.jobisite.com/employeePremium.htm

6) Promote job requirements

If you have good budget, then you can register in various paid job boards, otherwise,
we can use below job boards which allows free option also.

https://www.indeed.com/
https://www.jobisite.com/
https://PostJobFree.com

Start with just few and post job vacancies and try to get candidates from here.

7) Go Soacially
Create Facebook and Linkedin pages and twitter account where in you can promote
your job roles. Create google plus and some wordpress blogs.
Register in https://ifttt.com/ and connect your social accounts here and create recipes
to automate your content.For example ,connect your facebook page with twitter , so
whenever you tweet, it posts in facebook also.

Create whatsapp groups with other vendors and recruiters. You can find them in
linkedin posts in most of the recruiter groups.
Create email groups with other vendors and recruiters. You can find them in linkedin
posts in most of the recruiter groups.

You can again use ifttt to automate everything.

8) Find job seekers online.

Posting to job boards is referred to as passive technique. One can start searching for
candidates online also.
The list may be irrelevant many a times as it doesn't have job seekers who are
actively looking but a good one to create your network.

Some sites allows to search resume online

Some more sites for free resume
http://www.jobs4jobs.com
https://www.eresumex.com
https://www.postjobfree.com/
https://www.jobisite.com

9) Find Resume
Below are search strings to be used in google. Just change the job title with
keywords like "Customer service", "Nurse", "web developer".
Pick one by one keyword and try the below string one by one.. Go for 20-30 links ..
you will find email address and then contact him. You can use gmail/yahoo email
for sending email.

10) Inbound traffic for jobs: Promote your online presence/Online Marketing
a) Write blogs/useful topics related to hiring/technology frequently
Content length: A good blog has around 700-800 words length
Create catchy headlines
You can use online sites for generating good titles
https://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator
https://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker

You can put a subject related to career. Like cover letters, resume, interview, jobs,
education, employment, technology etc
Select any good title.
Google some content for that blog/topics and research on that.

You can find some free images here: https://pixabay.com/

You can also create some nice images from here: https://www.wordclouds.com/

b) Submit to business directories

As part of online presence, we can submit our website to various directories online.
Seodirectoryonline.org
Usawebsitesdirectory.com
 Seoseek.net
Linkroo.com
Allstatesusadirectory.com
Hydeparkbooks.com
Freedirectorysubmit.com
Alistdirectory.com
1abc.org
Gmawebdirectory.com
Galyeannursery.com
Digitaleveuk.org
Deeplinksdirectory.co
Dondir.com
Contenteurope.com
Callyourcountry.com

c) Find any seo provider for at least 2-3 months of online marketing. You may find
some good ones in https://www.jobisite.com/gigs.htm or try searching
from https://forums.digitalpoint.com/

11) Shortlist Candidates

Now we have received many candidates, the process will be to shortlist them. Try
Zoho or any free tool for candidate management. You can call them to get an initial
check of their skills. This also can be outsourced or you can find a few gigs where
people are offering these services.
There are many websites which allow creating online question papers and can help
in initial skill check round. One can also speed up initial check with using google
forms for getting resumes where users get shortlisted based on experience, skills,
conditions.
One can also use https://calendly.com/ , https://zoom.us to set up free video
meetings before sending their profile to clients.