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Recruitment process

FHH Consultants (Pty) Ltd offers a comprehensive range of services by bridging the gap between exceptional candidates with a unique set of skills and experience with incredible organisations looking to enhance their value proposition in an ever-changing market.

We have a niche set of professionals who strive to deliver exceptional results and exceed expectations. Those professionals are known as committed recruiters. A recruiter works under the umbrella in the Human Resources field, where the functionalities of finding, screening and matching applicants with the correct positions at organisations

The talent acquisition process is owned by the recruiter and has a broad range of steps to fulfil which includes lead generation, attraction and recruiting, interviewing and assessments, reference checks, final selection as well as hiring and onboarding.

Some of the core characteristics of a recruiter would include qualities of confidence, superb communication skills, has an approachable demeanour and thrives in intentional listening to make the correct candidate choice.

In addition to the above qualities of a recruiter, it should be important to note that the recruiter is the first point of contact and the facilitator between multiple parties which makes it a particularly “multi-faceted” role.

Candidates are comprehensively reference checked, all qualifications are verified and ITC and criminal checks are performed where necessary. There are many different types of recruiters and can be categorised into two categories, namely internal and external recruiters.

We deliver high levels of service at a rate that is very competitive. We provide staffing solutions for companies ranging from SMEs to Major Corporations, specialising in recruiting for vacancies such as Top and Middle Management, Customer Service, Administration, Sales, IT, Insurance, Marketing, Accounting, Events Management, Call Centre, Logistics, Pharmaceutical, Technical, Human Resources and Blue Collar.

Look no further than FHH Consultants for all your staffing solutions. 

Regardless of the size of your company, it is crucial that you consider the following HR-related responsibilities, and that they are being handled professionally for your business. It can be easy to overlook HR responsibilities. Many entrepreneurs get their businesses off to a flying start but struggle with managing the staff as the business starts to thrive. Managing staff takes time and requires specific expertise. HR management is a skill many business owners lack.

Basic functions of HR include:

• Recruitment
• Onboarding
• Managing payroll
• Employer / Employee relations
• Leave management
• Training and development
• Employment law compliance
• BBEEE and POPI

Here are some good reasons why you should hire FHH Consultants as your HR Manager to be confident knowing that all the recruitment and HR related processes are being done correctly.

Employee Relations & Evaluating Performance

HR is usually tasked with championing a consistent and helpful performance evaluation process for employees. This is a big one! If policies are not being followed, the HR manager together with department heads, have to step in and correct the situation…whether it’s a personal / Employee issue; or, perhaps a non-compliant or compliance to expected standards within the company

Training & Development

FHH Consultants is the right fit for your company for training and the development of skills. These are important for any company’s success and growth, and HR can help support training and development initiatives by assisting with a company-wide skills analysis, developing and coordinating a training plan; and so HR can work with management to ensure that training and development is both cost and time effective and help them recognise the value that training brings. To learn more about this, read our training and development strategy article.

Hire highly qualified candidates faster

At some point, every business needs to recruit new employees…whether due to growth or turnover. Using a recruitment agency can save your company’s time and money. A hiring process can be very time-consuming. Using a recruitment agency as ourselves can help you save your employees’ time and in return money due to loss of their productivity.

In today’s highly competitive, candidate-driven job market, finding and hiring the ideal job candidate is difficult. This is why many companies turn to HR and recruitment agencies to help them recruit the right people for open job posts.

FHH Consultants can improve the quality of your hire. We specialise in a large variety of sectors and industries. Successfully placing candidates at all levels from general workers up to senior managers, locally, nationally and across the border means that we already have a pool of highly skilled candidates at our disposal.

Besides the fact that we recruit on our clients’ behalf for a living, we make sure that indeed the candidates are a great fit for your position.

Cost Savings

Saving costs is something all if not most businesses aim to achieve. Of course, HR processes contribute to costs, however, if you have professionals doing the job, who will implement an HR strategy that can support business goals making a business more efficient through the planned use of human resources.

These are only a few of the essential functions that need to be attended to, there are MANY other important duties that human resources perform in any company, of any size. Employing a dedicated HR Consultant isn’t a luxury for businesses, it’s essential. It’s common for businesses to think they can wear the HR hat but looking after HR and the complexities of employment law could be complicated especially should something go wrong. Looking for an HR Consultants? Contact us to find out more.

In the midst of the high unemployment rate in the country, finding not only your desired job but one to put food on the table and make ends meet is a job and a half. Whether you’re a fresh graduate or someone who’s been in the job market for years – job hunting is tough.

According to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the third quarter of 2021 show that the number of employed persons decreased by 660 000 in the third quarter of 2021 to 14,3 million. The number of unemployed persons decreased by 183 000 to 7,6 million compared to the second quarter of 2021.

Have you tried rethinking your approach to finding a job in South Africa? While there are thousands of ways to make your job search a success, the truth is it is tiring and draining. However, recruitment companies such as FHH Consultants have made it easy for job seekers to find a job in South Africa.

With FHH Consultants, all you have to do to be matched with a choice employer is send us your comprehensive and updated CV, and if there is an employer who is looking for a candidate such as yourself on our records, we will then screen you and set up an appointment with you.

We have identified the skills shortages in South Africa in certain sectors that are worth keeping an eye out for:

• Advanced ICT
• Engineering
• Artisan
• Executive level finance
• Healthcare
• Executive managerial
• Specialist & academic
• Executive level mining
• Risk management
• Languages

It’s no secret many companies have slow hiring processes — or at least slower than you’d like. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot you can do to expedite the process on their ends. You can, however, take some simple steps to eliminate time-consuming obstacles on your end and fill out this quick form. With FHH, you’ll rest assured knowing that you’re not alone during your job search. View our current vacancies today.
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You may not realise it, but your recruitment process may be biased. This can lead to limited diversity within a company which creates a work environment with lower levels of innovation and creativity. It may also lose customers as your brand will not be relatable to a large demographic. Here are a few guidelines to reduce recruitment bias in your recruitment process:

Analyse your biases

As much as we don’t like to admit it, we each have our own biases. If you make the final decision in the interview process, you need to analyse your biases. Analyse yourself by thinking about your personal biases and making a conscious decision to work on them in order to avoid hiring people for the wrong reasons.

Reword job descriptions

The wording of the job description has a large impact on the type of people that will apply for the position. Certain wording resonates more with male candidates and can deter female candidates from applying for the position. It is advised that businesses use wording that is neutral for the description to be equally attractive to male and female candidates.

Blindly review CV’s

To blindly review a CV is to review the skills, personality profile, qualifications, experience and other information without looking at the personal information regarding the age, gender, name and picture of the individual. This will reduce the chance of biases getting in the way of choosing applicants for the interview process.

Keep interview questions standard

Do not change the questions that you ask during the interview process. Standardised questions will help you through the hiring process as you will be able to choose the candidate that has answered questions in the most suitable way for the position.

On-the-job training is a way to help employees gain knowledge while in the workplace. This is beneficial to the company and its employees as people will able to grow with the company by improving their skills and upgrading their roles. Before this growth can happen, a training programme must be developed. Here’s how to develop a successful on-the-job training programme:

Needs analysis

The first step in creating a successful on-the-job training programme is to perform a needs analysis. A needs analysis will determine what skills the employees within the company need to improve in order to reach the business goal. Business owners will need to think of effective training exercises that will improve these skills.

Planning and objective development

On-the-job training is more than just implementing a training programme, extensive planning must be done. Plan how you want to go about training people. make a list of objectives that you want to be reached by each employee that completes the on-the-job training programme.

Design

The next step in the development of an on-the-job training programme is the design. The design stage requires the business owner to decide which training exercise or exercises to use. Another decision is made in this stage regarding which managers or employees will run the training programmes.

Implementation

The implementation of training is the last step in the development of a successful on-the-job training programme. The head of the training programmes must inform employees of the programmes and tell them when training will take place. Employees will then spend the necessary time – be it hours, days or weeks – completing the on-the-job training programme and improving their skills.

Leadership skills are very important to have in business. They are necessary for you to be able to move forward in your career. There aren’t many people that are gifted with these skills, most people will have to develop these skills along their road to success. Here are a few ways to develop leadership skills:

Discipline

A great start to developing your leadership skills is to be disciplined. Be disciplined in everything that you do; from work, to home, to social situations. You need to be the person that inspires other to be better.

Continue learning

Don’t ever think that you’ve learnt enough! The world is constantly changing and all that we know is being upgraded daily. To develop your leadership skills, you will always need to learn new things. Even the greatest leaders still learn new things every day.

Take on tasks

Don’t sit back and let other people do all the work. If you have the opportunity to be part of an assignment that could improve your leadership skills, grab it with both hands . Not only are you improving your leadership skills by learning new things, but are showing people that you have what it takes to be a leader by taking initiative.

Be there for your team

Leadership is not just about being someone to look up to. It is also about being someone to speak to. Learn to be an avid listener, assist where you can and learn to deal with conflict appropriately. In order to be a leader, you need to be someone that your team can trust and speak to in times of need.