Recruiting Firms Services

The vendor required to provide recruiting firms to assist city staff in the recruiting process for classified, unclassified, and sworn employees.
- Full Cycle recruitment process
1. Develop an ideal candidate profile for each classification by meeting with key decision makers, position specification development, and creation of action plan
•    The various organizational needs, vision, mission, goals, strengths, challenges, opportunities, dynamics, culture, and staff of the governing body 
•    Position competency requirements, i.e., knowledge, skills, and abilities 
•    Ideal candidate’s skills, experiences, and characteristic profile 
•    Personal and professional attributes required of and priorities for the new incumbent 
•    Conditions and challenges in achieving the priorities identified above
•    Type of working relationship leadership desires with the new incumbent 
•    Report of any concerns and issues 
•    Advertising strategies in conjunction with a national outreach 
•    Geographic strategies 
•    Compensation levels 
•    Completion timetable
2. Recruit and recommend candidates for interview
•    Develop a candidate profile and a professionally produced recruitment brochure for review prior to printing. 
•    Develop and execute a recruitment strategy coordinated with the city to identify relevant national, state, and local government and industry sources where prospective candidates are likely to be found. 
•    Advertisements will be prepared and placed for publication in appropriate newsletters, job bulletins, websites, professional magazines, industry trade journals, professional organizations, public sector newsletters, etc. 
•    The strategy will also include posting ads on appropriate social media outlets, such as LinkedIn. 
•    Review, acknowledge, and evaluate all resumes and other supporting materials received from all candidates. Candidates should meet the minimum qualifications.
•    Identify the most promising candidates for the position, based on the position profile, and then conduct preliminary screening interviews with those candidates. 
•    Develop a list of targeted candidates and will encourage these candidates to apply for the position. 
•    The goal is to recruit candidates from diverse backgrounds utilizing local, regional, and statewide resources, as well as professional websites as appropriate. 
•    Vendor will present the preliminary slate of top prospects to the director for further evaluation.
- Referral based recruitment
•    Advertise position to candidates and encourage candidates to apply to positions which have been designated as a referral-based recruitment. 
•    The vendor will be compensated for services if the candidate indicates they have been referred to apply by the vendor, competitively competes for the position, successfully passes all phases of the recruitment process, and is selected for the position.
•    Advertise, reach out to applicable candidate pools, and refer candidates to apply to eligible open positions.