Contract recruiters are recruiters who work on a contract basis as a consultant to a company. They help companies to source, screen and communicate with candidates and are qualified in hiring every type of employee the company needs, including a recruiting manager. Contract recruiters lead the process of hiring more people at one time by scheduling and resume-screening. Companies generally find contract recruiters through staffing agencies.

Contract recruitment involves several different steps. The company must first recognize its own needs and decide the positions for which it wants to hire contract workers. The next step would be to hire a professional recruitment agency like Brunel to help with the compilation of candidates, vetting, and recommending the best. If all goes well, your business will hire and sign a contract with your chosen candidate. Payments can be handled internally or funneled through the recruitment agency, whichever is easier. The model is also scalable.

Hiring surges are time sensitive. They need specialized and immediate efforts to fill the roles quickly and efficiently. It can take time for you to hire in-house recruiter which may lead to delays in hiring within the surge window. A more efficient way can be to hire specialized on-demand recruiters, on a contract basis. This contract recruiting taskforce can be scaled up or down depending on your changing hiring needs.

Without prior experience and expertise, bulk hiring can be quite tricky as well as chaotic. With the demands surging into hundreds of open positions, filling them requires a full-fledged recruiting team working 24X7 trying to screen and select candidates that fit the bill. This is difficult to manage if you have a small/inexperienced recruiting department.