Why should an employer use a recruitment agency? There are many reasons why an employer may seek to engage the services of a professional recruitment agency whether for contract recruitment, permanent recruitment or recruitment process outsourcing.

The man that can:

I have always believed that a good tradesman is worth his weight in gold and this is no different when it comes to a good recruitment consultancy, by allowing a professional recruitment consultant to source the best talent for your business, you can concentrate on what you do best.

Tools of the trade:

Because a Recruitment Agency recruit all day, every day they will have access to state of the art tools, talent banks and resources that make the recruitment process far more effective and comprehensive.

Specialism:

Many recruitment consultants will specialise, and as such will have a very good understanding of your industry and your competition, by engaging their services you will enable the recruiter to source relevant candidates and talent to your business, that otherwise would not be aware you are looking to employ.

Time Saving:

The simple fact is recruiting a new employee can be very time consuming, by working with a professional recruitment consultancy you can pass on most of the legwork to them, and because they do this for a living, they do it well, just spend some initial time drawing up a job spec, employee requirement and give the recruiter a good overview of the company and where it is heading, expectations etc.. And leave them to find your new recruit!

Cost Saving:

Recent reports have stated that on an average it takes £5000 to recruit a new employee, due to advertising, interviewing, wasted time etc... Now with online recruitment and RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) options an employer can dramatically drive down costs and hire an employee using an agency from as little as £550 per hire, even if you advertised yourself you would struggle to do it for this, and it certainly would not give you the exposure to the talent banks that recruiters utilise daily. Some of the options are commonly called flat-fee recruitment and this really offers the best of both worlds, low cost but managed and recruitment outsource.

First line defence:

Besides the obvious benefits associated with using a Recruitment Agency for your hiring needs, the digital age gives you exposure but with it large scale response in many cases blocking up your inbox, by allowing a recruitment agency to recruit for you, they take all the first line response and consequent headaches, this alone is a great reason to outsource your recruitment and just get quality CV’s that have been screened and sifted forwarded to you.

So if you are in any doubt that you should leave it to the man that can, or woman please feel free to get in touch, we are members of the Institute of recruitment professionals.

The overall online business space in Nigeria is an emerging one with small and disparate players pursuing various opportunities. They tend to be forums, directories like Nigeria business directory, and its derivatives like Lagos business directory, and Abuja business directory as well as blogs and other content-based websites like online versions of offline newspapers.

Monetization is primarily via google adwords. As elsewhere, it is more difficult for the content-based websites to monetize their traffic via any other revenue model than google ads. An interesting approach is being used by Nigerian Business Directory along with its derivatives such as Abuja business directory and Lagos business directory, which use a freemium model, while its other sub-sites like Abuja Entertainment and Lagos Entertainment use a sponsorship driven model.

Market Growth Rate

The penetration of the internet in Nigeria @ last count was 8% and growing. With this growth comes the growth of the online business space. Also, accessing the internet via mobile phones seems to be growing rapidly. Given that there is some 60million plus people with mobile phones, the growth of internet access can be expected to grow even faster.

While mobile is widely accepted as the platform of the future, the masses who use only mobile to access the internet also tend to be the ones who are less banked, as well as have less disposable income. These people will also take a bit more hand holding to get to the point of transacting over the mobile internet. However, this represents a huge opportunity for Nigerian Companies, especially Lagos Companies & Abuja Companies to reach users with ads. The potential is real; it only needs more work to turn it into an opportunity.

Payment Systems

Nigeria is interesting in that there are well developed electronic transaction switching and payment solution providers. The two major ones, are Interswitch and E-Tranzact, with Interswitch being the largest. All local banks, almost invariably, have both of these rolled out across all cash machines and distribute payment cards on these platforms. Increasingly VISA and MasterCard are also being rolled out. With these, the infrastructure exists for the acceptance of online payments though the trust level is rather low and will take time to resolve. Well established Nigerian companies such as local airlines, have gone beyond this hurdle. The few companies doing online business almost invariably tend to be Lagos Companies & Abuja Companies, especially those focused on Lagos Entertainment and Abuja Entertainment respectively. 

Nigeria-specific Insights Rules & Regulations

Significant difficulties exist in doing internet businesses in Nigeria though. Within Nigeria, there is a general lack of trust when the internet is mentioned as a medium of doing business due to the huge incidence in the recent past of the 419 scheme, which is basically synonymous with the word internet in Nigeria. Externally the problem is compounded by a general negative press about the country which leads most to be especially circumspect when dealing with it.

Projections for the future

Whether the Nigeria Business Directory space in Nigeria evolves or not will be partly a function of how Nigerian Companies embrace the internet space. There is a local bent to this. Hence the same will apply locally, Lagos Business Directory will evolve better if Lagos companies embrace the net more. Similarly, Abuja Companies will influence the final state of Abuja Business Directories. It all depends on the local populace.

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