What is Full Life Cycle Recruiting?
Full life Cycle Recruiting—also known as life cycle recruiting and end-to-end recruiting—refers to a recruitment service that carries out the complete recruitment process. Full Life Cycle Recruiting begins with identifying the requirements of a position and ends with the recruitment and onboarding of the new hire.
Large companies may divide responsibility for the various stages of recruitment between several individuals or even several departments, each responsible for part of the recruitment process.
Third-party executive recruitment specialists may mirror this division of responsibility by focusing on one or more components of the recruitment process. For example, they may focus on candidate discovery or interviewing, but leave candidate selection or hiring to the client or a different third-party service provider.
In contrast, a Full Life Cycle Recruiting service carries out every stage of the recruitment process alongside their clients.
How does Full Life Cycle Recruiting affect businesses?
Full Life Cycle Recruiting allows businesses to outsource the entire recruitment process to a trusted third party, who will carry out:
- Preparation, helping the company to clarify its recruitment goals, decide where to focus recruitment efforts, and create employer branding content to appeal to the right candidates.
- Sourcing, the discovery of suitable candidates.
- Screening, which might include resume screening, phone interviews, panel interviews, and more.
- Selecting, helping the company to decide on selection criteria and apply evidence-based selection models to the candidate pool.
- Hiring, including negotiation with candidates and referencing.
- Onboarding, supporting the client as they bring their new employee into the company.
Full Life Cycle Recruiting services are often preferred by mid-sized companies that lack the internal resources and expertise to carry out a comprehensive national search for senior executive recruitment.