Because We Are Good At What We Do
At Hire A Migrant, you know know how to work and we know how to find it.
Start with these facts:
- An average of 4% of all jobs are always available.
- Only 20% of jobs are advertised in newspapers or handled by placement companies.
- On average, 80% of people use ads as their primary job source in a 10 to 20% market.
- The number of resumes received by a city based employer as a result of the ad is commonly between 20 and 1,000.
- Resumes usually come in 48 to 96 hours after the ad; the third day is usually the peak day.
- Only 2 to 5 out of every 100 resumes received will survive the first review. This means that 95 to 98 out of every 100 resumes are initially screened out before making short list for an interview.
If a candidate has a very strong career history presented in an excellent CV with a targeted cover letter, they should be the on that short list.
And this research:
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Percentage of Total Job Seekers Using the Method
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Method
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Effect Rate
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% Using vs Effect Rate
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66.0%
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Applied directly to employer
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47.7%
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72
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45.9%
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Private employment agency
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23.9%
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52
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50.8%
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Asked friends about jobs where they work
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22.1%
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45
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6.0%
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Knocking on the Right Doors
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22.2%
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370
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28.4%
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Asked relatives about jobs where they work
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19.3%
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68
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1.6%
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Placed ad in local newspaper
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12.9%
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806
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41.8%
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Asked friends about jobs in other businesses
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11.9%
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28
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27.3%
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Answered local newspaper and online ads
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7.4%
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27
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The information shows the effectiveness of going straight to the employer or using someone else’s personal network. Personal advertising also works for a few people. Overall, these figures show that most people are not using the most effective means for job search - a direct approach. And remember, these figures relate to people looking for work in their own country, not migrants.
For many applicants, we can assist you with strengthening your tailored CV, working to a relevant target list of prospective employers and highlighting strong selling points in making a direct approach to potential employers.
For example, we suggest to employers that their business might benefit from hiring a manager who can market and present products to different ethnic groups to gain incremental sales, or an engineering service firm might appreciate the improvisation and maintenance skills that come from hiring someone who never had access to a full set of tools.
Looking in the right area also helps!
Unless a client is an excellent candidate, working with recruitment agents is not the best or only way forward. It’s unfair, but it is just economics. For a top-end-of-town recruiter, they might earn $50,000 as a commission for placing a candidate into a $200,000 year salary package for a corporate manager.
Now it becomes clear why recruiters often don’t like to work with migrants who may settle for lower salaries and cannot start work for a few months (the recruiter usually gets paid at the time they start work).
Furthermore, a busy employer may also not have the time to sit down with consultants for several hours to develop job descriptions and detailed skills requirements, nor might they have the $10,000 to $15,000 needed to cover the recruitment consultant’s fees for a fairly basic position.
But how and where should you start your search?
Hire A Migrant offers assistance in eliminating the leg work of employer research and the more tedious aspects of finding employment - dealing with all the negative replies and frustrations of receiving no reply. This is why Hire A Migrant was set up - to do, to remove the drudgery and difficulties in finding willing employers who would hire and sponsor a migrant.
Hire A Migrant possesses quality contacts made during employer education seminars being held in regional and metropolitan Australia together with migration agent partners, informing employers of the different visa choices and giving reasons why they should consider overseas born workers and understanding their recruitment needs.
You can stay at home and keep working at earning your salary without having to advise your employer of your intentions just yet, while we:
- Make sure you have a tailored application and professional CV
- identify the vacancies and apply for you
- list and search all media in many States and approach employers directly
- follow up on regular basis, (soon with our call record online)
- develop and co-ordinate interviews so that any required visits to Australia are more productive
- present you with the choices
- help negotiate job details with employers
Although we aim to deliver a consistently high success rate with our strategies and quality presentation skills, there are no guarantees that even with substantial databases, rich networks and professional marketing skills it will be enough to find vacancies for some clients. Not everyone has immediate employment prospects. This is addressed by our split fee structure.
Where possible we will identify the weaker cases early and either smarten up our strategies or advise the client that we cannot take them on. Where we miss out during a job search project, clients have the option of renewing their contract with a much different search strategy including less restrictive choices about location and job types.
With Hire A Migrant providing support, if you have all the right skills but do not know the best way to find work, you can rest easy - because we will help you.
- You do not need to take months of time to develop your own job search network.
- You do not need to pay to live in Australia for several months trying to find work.
- You do not need to figure out how to overcome your supposed lack of local knowledge or other differences.
- You can remain thousands of miles away until you are needed for personal interviews - many only require a telephone or a webcam.
If you have any more questions or would like to speak with a Hire A Migrant representative regarding our services, please e-mail us at info[AT]hireamigrant[DOT]com or call us at +61 3 9583 4826 (work hours only please, Australia is 10 hours ahead of the UK, 15 ahead of USA East Coast, 5-6 hours ahead of India and China).
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