We say this ALL the time at TeamJobs.
You can have two CVs in front of you.
One ticks every box. Perfect experience. Perfect job titles. Perfect industry.
The other? Maybe they’re missing a few things. Their experience isn’t quite as obvious. They’ve had a career change, a gap on their CV or they’ve never worked in your exact industry before.
On paper, you pick candidate number one. Easy.
But recruitment isn’t done on paper.
We’ve interviewed thousands of people over the years and some of our best placements have been the candidates who weren't necessarily the obvious choice from their CV.
Why?
Because you can teach someone a process.
You can train someone on a system.
You can show someone how your business works.
It’s much harder to teach attitude, reliability, work ethic and actually wanting to be there.
That’s where good recruitment comes in.
Our job isn't just to search a database for the same job title and send you the CVs that match.
We speak to people. We ask questions. We find out why they left their last role, what they're actually good at, what motivates them and – importantly – whether we think they'll fit into your business.
Sometimes that means we'll send you someone who doesn't tick every single box.
And we'll tell you exactly why we're sending them.
Because the best CV might get someone through the door. The right person is the one you’ll want to keep.
That's the difference between filling a vacancy and actually recruiting.
And we'll choose the second one every time.