In today’s busy world of recruitment we all want to place amazing candidates with our clients who will turn out to be one of their best recruits ever!

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How To Know You Have Found An
Amazing Candidate

3. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
In today’s busy world of recruitment we all
want to place amazing candidates with our
clients who will turn out to be one of their best
recruits ever!
An aspirational goal maybe and one definitely
worth pursuing.
Think of the benefits that everyone will

4. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
Your client gets a great, productive new member of the
company that will add to the bottom line.
Your candidate gets a
great job where they will
feel valued from day one.

5. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
Finally you have a happy client that is likely to
make your recruitment desk his or her first port of
call when they have a vacancy to fill.
The ideal scenario? Yet how, as a busy recruiter
can you make sure that the candidates you
identify and put forward really will turn out to be
your client’s employee of the year.

6. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
Well we could do some digging around on facebook or
Google.
Much better though to ask some
questions that will help you
identify some of the key
behaviours that will make your
candidates get nine out of ten
on your clients check list.

7. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
1. They have high standards
Every client wants an employee that is easy to
manage.
As a general rule people that have higher
standards fit this box.
Why? For a start you don’t have to highlight every
single company policy or rule.

8. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
They know the value of good timekeeping,
standards and attention to detail.
A few well placed questions
and your own experience
initial experience will shout
out to you that this is the
case; or not.

9. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
2. They enjoy learning
Every company want
to grow. If that is going to
happen they need a
team around them that
is willing to develop and importantly; without being
pushed.
An avid learner is luckily quite easy to spot.

10. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
Just ask a few questions that focus around their
favourite activities and you will soon see a
‘learning’ mentality come through.
The sheer volume of ‘stuff’ they know will give you
a big clue.
Ask them about their previous roles and what it
entailed. You will soon be able to identify the
projects they were involved in and how they
coped.

11. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
3. They understand people
Candidates can be mature
at 18 and immature at 60!
It is all about a state of
mind and an understanding
of people.

12. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
Really great employees are self-aware. They know
their own good points and what they need to work on.
They can also spot it in other people and alter their
behaviour when they need to.
They are also grown up enough to understand the
dynamics of balancing work and home and are ready
willing and able to cut colleagues some slack or call
them on their stuff when they need to.

13. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
4. They produce
Employees in any
organisation have a job
function and need to
produce something.

14. How To Know You Have Found An Amazing
Candidate
As a recruiter you are measured on the number of
vacancies you fill for clients. That is easier to spot.
What about the roles you are recruiting into?
What would be key results your clients need?
Can your candidates demonstrate that they can
deliver, whatever it is consistently without whinging
and whining!

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