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Why Every Facilities Management Candidate Shouldn’t always get an interview

It’s important to find the right person for the facilities management position that you have open. However, based upon sheer volume, it will be impossible to give everyone an interview. More importantly, not every candidate should get an interview because they won’t have the necessary experience for the position, which means that an interview is only wasting your time. Facilities management recruitment can make this process even easier for you.

Time is of the Essence with FM Jobs

In most cases, you have an open position in your company because another person has left. This means that there is a vacancy in your organisation that you need to fill right away. Since time is of the essence, you need to focus on choosing the best candidate without dedicating a lot of time to the task. If you were to do an interview with every single candidate, you could find yourself conducting thousands of interviews. This isn’t time that you have.

Instead, facilities management recruitment companies will go through all of the CV’s that you have, focusing on the necessary criterion that makes a candidate qualified to take on the jobs in facilities management that you have open. As the pile of CV’s gets smaller, you are able to get one step closer to hiring the right person for the job.

Once the pile of CV’s is reduced significantly, the facilities management recruitment firm can even do preliminary interviews for you. This way the interviews that you do conduct are completely focused on choosing the best candidate for your organisation. By only interviewing the top 5 or 10 candidates, you ensure that you are spending your time on the best of the best.

Education and Experience is Essential in Facilities Management

Facilities management jobs vary by building and by client requirements. This means that the CV’s chosen for interviews could be different for every single client. Education and experience are the primary focuses in facilities management because it ensures that every candidate who does receive an interview is qualified on paper at the very least.

There is no sense interviewing a candidate and dedicating time and energy in the process if the person doesn’t have the education that is necessary to perform the job. This holds true, too, if the person has never worked in facilities management or doesn’t have the necessary job skills on their CV to be an asset to your company.

An interview should only be given to those who have the required education and experience. The interview will then focus on behaviours, personality and other questions or concerns that you want to address. When you are given the top candidates from the job search, you need to have additional criteria that will help to separate the good from the bad. This provides you with the ability to choose the very best person for the job. By not wasting time interviewing everyone and letting a recruiting company help with the process, you will make a quality hire that will last in your organisation for a very long time.

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Peter Forshaw BA Hons
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The Need For Facilities Management Recruitment

While technology may be taking many jobs away from people in today’s marketplace, there are always a number of jobs in facilities management because it still requires a living, breathing person to do the job. Facilities management recruitment is an art form because it provides businesses with the right candidates for the job, paying close attention to their education, their experience and their ability to handle the demands of the particular account.

There are a lot of jobs in facilities management and not everyone is qualified for every job. Maxwell Stephens has learned the delicate balance in facilities management recruitment to help companies get the best qualified candidates so that they can ensure they have the right person in place. Without the right person in place, accounts could be lost, profits could diminish and clients could be unhappy.

Trends have been popping up within FM jobs that show just how much the industry is evolving. The hard services manager is being replaced with someone who understands the softer services, too. However, that is not enough within some organizations and facilities. In some cases, there must be a balance between the two. This can be harder to accomplish than many realize.

A lot of new recruits are eager to enter the industry right after college. They have the computer knowledge and the book smarts. What they lack, however, is the technical experience that comes from years of working within the industry. Meanwhile other FM directors have years of technical experience without any knowledge of computers or the customer service aspect.

This can make locating the right candidate for FM jobs seem nearly impossible. However, at Maxwell Stephens, we have learned that it’s not just about finding the right candidate for a client. It is also finding the right client for a candidate. We work with all of the candidates to let them know what they need to succeed in the industry.

By dedicating time to the improvement of many of the facilities management candidates, we can control what kind of experience and education they have. We will suggest internships, courses and seminars for them to take that will improve their level of knowledge and experience. While this won’t help fill an immediate position, it will provide for a more qualified candidate down the road.

Hospitals, sporting arenas, entertainment venues and a number of other venues across the region need facilities management in place to ensure that the place runs like it should. We can help identify the type of facilities management jobs that are needed, staff the facility with qualified individuals and even provide short-term solutions until the “right” one is located.

Locating the right balance between experience, education and personality can be difficult. We are up for the task, however, because we understand what facilities management is about. Our team of professionals are disciplined and dedicated to locating the right staff that will make the difference within a client’s organization. It is what we do and what we do best – which can be seen with every candidate we provide.

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