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This section of the website is designed to help our Clients to fully prepare on how best to lead your recruitment process. We have created a guide below containing all the information you will need.

Building a Job Specification

A thorough and comprehensive job specification can help you attract the most suitable candidates for your position.  A job specification should be thorough but concise and should not include too much jargon as this can confuse candidates. 

Need help writing your job specification? Why not use our simple guide below. 

Information you will need:

• Job Title
• Salary Range
• Hours of Work (Flexible working? Overtime?)
• Location (Is travel required?)
• Short summary of the role
• More in-depth guide to responsibilities
• Reports to
• Responsible for
• Contract type (perm, temp, fixed term, interim)
• Benefits

Click Here to Use Our Job Specification Template

Interested in seeing how your company's salaries and benefits rate in the current market?  Our salary survey is the perfect tool to utilise for this.  If you would like a free copy of the results, or if you would like us to undertake specific salary or benefit benchmarking on your behalf please Click Here

Building a Person Specification

A person specification is also another invaluable tool for attracting your perfect candidate.  Not only can a person specification help you find your ideal candidate, it will also eliminate those candidates without the correct skills and experience.  A person specification will also enable candidates to highlight the required skills in their CV making it easier for you to create your shortlist.  

Things you will need for the perfect person specification are as follows:

• Level of Education Required
• Qualifications Required (Academic and Professional)
• Level of Experience Required
• Personal Attributes Required
• Skills Required

Click Here to Use Our Person Specification Template

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Application form

Some companies want all candidate applications to be the same.  Although we format all our CVs to the same style, some clients find the use of an application form a useful way of regulating responses.  If you do require an application form to be completed alongside or instead of CVs then please do not hesitate to draw our attention to it.

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Interview Processes

The interview process will help you get to know any potential candidates and will ultimately lead to the appointment of new talent in your organisation. However, there are many different interview styles and techniques which can be deployed depending on your role requirements including: standard question and answer interviews; competency based interviews; personality profiling; and psychometric testing.

Here at Sammons we can undertake your first interview stage for you, including setting tests for candidates, undertaking competency based interviews and also conducting video interviews if required. Alternatively we can also offer you our office to conduct your own interviews if your role is confidential.

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How to Make the Most of your relationship with Sammons Pensions

Struggling with a mountain of duplicated CVs?  There are many advantages to retaining Sammons as your sole agency.

The pensions industry is a very niche industry and many of the agencies that specialise in pensions recruitment will have the same candidates on their books, meaning that you can end up reviewing a person's CV numerous times, which is not only time consuming but also frustrating.

We suggest you use Sammons as your sole agency because:

• We have a strong market presence, and are recognised as an award-winning market leader
• We will invest time in working very closely with you to ensure your exact requirements are being met
• We offer a discounted fee structure when you use Sammons as your sole agency
• We advertise your vacancy in both Pensions press and online at no additional charge. This applies to all recruitment whether sole agency or not, however for sole agency basis we can offer branded adverts in carefully selected pensions press which if you were to undertake yourselves would cost in the region of £2,000 per publication. To find out more and to look at our advertising examples Click Here.

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