Maintain relationships with hirers and establish their recruitment requirements
URN: INSREC002
Business Sectors (Suites): Recruitment
Developed by: Instructus
Approved on:
2025
Overview
This standard is about maintaining relationships with hirers and establishing their recruitment requirements. It includes establishing contact with hirers with the purpose of clarifying, promoting and offering recruitment requirements. It also covers building and maintaining relationships with hirers.
This standard is for HR professionals and recruitment specialists involved in contacting hirers and establishing recruitment requirements.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- identify and contact potential hirers
- respond to enquiries from potential hirers
- identify and use appropriate channels to promote recruitment services to hirers
- gain hirers’ commitment to use recruitment services
- identify the hirers’ recruitment requirements
- agree with hirers the recruitment services to be offered and processes to be used
- carry out hirer credit checks and monitor credit levels
- clarify and agree terms of business and record them
- align the recruitment processes with current legislation, ethical and professional codes of practice
- clarify your requirements to hirers
- discuss and agree a timetable for action with the hirers
- collect and maintain detailed information about hirers’ needs
- make sure all data collected is compliant with organisational procedures, current legislation
- keep track of all relevant information and maintain security of records
- develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with hirers
- monitor and review recruitment processes with hirers
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- the relevant organisational procedures, codes of practice and legislation relating to recruitment
- the procedures for safeguarding confidentiality in accordance with data protection regulation
- the relevant procedures for obtaining and recording information
- the latest technologies and tools for sourcing, pre-screening, assessing and interviewing the jobseekers
- the jobseekers’ experience and how it links with technologies, values and employer branding
- how to organise agile, flexible and adaptive to change workforce
- how to arrange training for recruitment and selections
- the procedures and guidelines for dealing with complaints from hirers and jobseekers
- the questioning and active listening techniques
- how to identify and contact potential hirers
- the methods to identify and promote your services to hirers
- the sources of information on the nature of a hirer’s business
- how to gain hirers’ commitment to use your recruitment services
- how to establish hirers’ predicted recruitment needs
- the range of recruitment services being offered to hirers
- how and when to carry out credit checks and monitor credit levels
- the purpose of clarifying and agreeing terms of business
- the hirers’ employment policies and how they impact on recruitment services
- the reasons why hirers may decide not to proceed with specific requirements
- when to refer assignments to alternative recruitment sources
- how to build mutually beneficial relationships with hirers
- the purpose and benefits of agreeing a timetable for action with hirers
- the purpose and benefits of communicating with hirers
- the purpose and benefits of establishing employer and individual preferred styles of working
- how to monitor and review recruitment processes with hirer
- the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) practices
- the global and cross-cultural considerations in recruitment
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Links To Other NOS
External Links
Version Number
1
Indicative Review Date
2030
Validity
Current
Status
Original
Originating Organisation
Instructus
Original URN
CFAREC2
Relevant Occupations
Human resources and industrial relations officers, Human resources administrative occupations, Human resource managers and directors
SOC Code
4138
Keywords
Recruitment, contact with clients, hirer requirements, establishing relationships, maintaining relationships