FAQs
Agenda has a wealth of life science recruitment experience and understands that recruiting the right person can be a lengthy, expensive and sometimes frustrating process. Planning, administration, selection and interviewing can all take up valuable management time. If you are recruiting from outside your organisation, advertising will only add to your substantial costs and should the selected candidate prove to be unsuitable, the whole cycle has to be repeated. Your ideal candidate may already be on our industry leading database and our recruitment and selection service could save you a great deal of time, effort and money. Not only that, we add value by including advertising and pre-employment security screening as standard on our fees.
Our service can be as simple as sending you CV’s and completed application forms from suitable candidates and arranging the first interview, or we can provide a total service package including arranging medical checks and sending contracts of employment to selected candidates. At no extra cost, Agenda provides a full security clearance on all successful candidates. Upon taking details of a permanent vacancy from a client, our service includes:
Our extensive and sophisticated database includes people with expertise, experience and qualifications at all levels from junior technicians to senior managers and directors. We also have excellent candidates on our books who specialise in related disciplines such as study directors and research scientists. We have extensive life science networks and a keen understanding of social media, job boards, job listings and web sites (including Agenda’s) and life science publications to advertise vacancies far and wide to get the best possible candidates.
It entails a qualified member of the Security team contacting the candidates and conducting a comprehensive telephone screening after receiving written consent. Once this has been completed the Security screening will conduct the following: