Looking for a valuable employee can often feel overwhelming. With limited budgets, numerous ongoing projects, and an onerous workload, the hiring process can often take months.
As a recruiter, have you experienced the pressure and frustration of managing everything solo — from posting job listings to evaluating applications and scheduling interviews?
You could save your time and resources by outsourcing some or all of the stages of the hiring process to a reliable partner who understands the complexities of recruitment in the international development sector – DevelopmentAid Recruitment Solutions – or DRS.
In this article, you will discover the reasons why these organizations chose to partner with the DRS team.
You will also gain an exclusive insight into the work we do, our success stories, and take a peek at the cost of our services.
Why opt for recruitment solutions from DRS?
With our company as a partner, you get:
1️⃣ Best available candidates’ CVs. Fast. Our highly searchable database includes the CVs of 200,000+ professionals. Furthermore, we will externalize the search if necessary to ensure that you receive profiles that would be difficult to find by yourself.
2️⃣ A dedicated team of professionals working on your specific request so that you can concentrate on other important tasks for your organization. You’ll be surprised how many unique profiles we can find for you. Finding unicorns is our specialty.
3️⃣ A tailored approach to fit your specific needs, beginning with the evaluation of CVs until the final stage of recruitment. You decide on the hiring stages you want us to be involved in.
DRS success stories
Finding unicorns is our specialty, remember? Here are some latest examples of our achievements in international development recruitment.
Africa
DRS managed to complete several successful searches for the largest INGO in the world. We helped the BRAC HR team to identify candidates for:
- Three Country Representative positions in Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
- Three Associate Director positions for Health and Nutrition, Education and Adolescent Empowerment and Agriculture, Food Security, and Livelihood activities.
Latin America
- We filled the position of Head of Mission in Venezuela for Fundacion Ayuda en Accion
- We found a team of international and local evaluation experts for an educational project in Guatemala to complete a challenging assignment for Enfants du Monde.
Western and Central Asia
- In Iraq, we worked with Dorcas Aid to find a Country Director, and with Nonviolent Peaceforce to recruit a Head of Mission.
- In Southeast Asia, we helped the Earthworm Foundation to find the best candidates for the Rapid Deforestation Verification and Palm Oil programs in Malaysia.
A detailed breakdown of DRS services
CV screening
Do you manage multiple projects and receive an overwhelming number of applications for every vacancy you advertise? Share all those CVs with us and forget worrying about them. We will screen and evaluate the resumes and diligently complete the assessment grids based on the specific job descriptions. The candidates that match the best will have the highest ranking.
The process is quick, taking roughly 2-3 working days.
CV shortlist
Have you identified some candidates for a role but feel somehow dissatisfied and still open to more options? Let us headhunt more professionals for you. We will screen all the profiles, tailor their CVs to your job description and present a shortlist of three or four alternative candidates. The selection of candidates will be based on their CVs.
This process takes about 10 working days.
Talent Hire
Talent Hire is a recruitment service that is suitable for any type of role. Delegate most of the stages of the recruitment process to DRS and receive the CVs of between four and six highly qualified candidates, supported by a compliance analysis, to quickly understand the key points rather than waste time on analyzing resumes. For a shortlist of a maximum of six CVs, we usually screen about 20 candidates. This also includes candidate phone interviews.
We can also assess their language skills, and personality (at your request). The only recruitment stage you will be involved in is the final evaluation to choose the candidate that you are ready to hire.
This process takes 20+ working days.
Executive Search
Executive Search service is an end-to-end recruitment solution for high-level executive roles.
This service is similar to Talent Hire so we will also guide you hand in hand until the moment you select one (of a maximum of 10) of the shortlisted candidates and sign a contract with them. Upon request, we can also help you to arrange the final interviews and assist you with these, undertake reference checks and psychometric tests, and finally we can collect all the required work certificates.
The process takes 20+ working days.
Our client testimonials
What’s next?
Contact DRS today at DRS@developmentaid.org to schedule a conversation with a Client Manager and discuss your challenges and the optimal solutions that will fit your requirements and budget. Whether you need a few additional CVs or a comprehensive executive search, we are here to help you to find the best talent for your organization and quickly achieve your goals.
