Darbai Svetur, an experienced recruitment agency from Lithuania, was one of the recruiting businesses hit by Brexit. More specifically, after the UK left the EU, entering the country for work has become more complex. Even though Darbai Svetur already had blossoming partnerships with UK employers, they were suddenly forced to look for other opportunities.
Work in The Netherlands: Challenges and Solutions
The agency’s next move was pitching business in the Netherlands, but the process has proven to be very arduous, and at first, they only had limited opportunities to offer to their candidates.
Shifting to the Netherlands from the UK was a serious move for the agency, since the United Kingdom was the most popular destination for job seekers who were looking for international recruitment opportunities via Darbai Svetur. And after Brexit, job seekers kept asking the agency more and more about Dutch opportunities.
“So, more and more people were inquiring about the jobs in the Netherlands, and they were attracted to the salaries and working conditions. Also, the Netherlands was closer to home than the UK, which was also something people would take into consideration,” says Gintarė Januškaitė, the owner of Darbai Svetur
Darbai Svetur owner, Gintarė Januškaitė
“We saw a demand, so we needed to react to it and regroup our job offers. Because, as I mentioned before, you know that our main recruiting base was in the United Kingdom, but now we needed to connect with employment agencies in the Netherlands by ourselves. That wasn’t enough because we had limited job offers, and we wanted to provide a variety of options for our job seekers to choose from,” adds Gintarė
While signing new partnerships and contacting new agencies isn’t new to an experienced professional such as Gintarė, even with all the know-how, this was a complicated and time-consuming process that would only lead to more inefficiency down the line.
However, after seeing all the agencies from the Netherlands that the Hire Abroad team was connected to, they saw that this was the right opportunity. Joining Hire Abroad saved them many hours, and they skipped several phases of the common practice, which include:
- Sending proposals
- Making connections
- Negotiating
- Signing a contract
Apart from networking and paperwork, Hire Abroad also helped Darbai Svetur:
- Offer more jobs to candidates
- Smoother onboarding processes thanks to the organised daily calls with the HA team
- Platform features allow Darbai Svetur agents to organise and plan better, thus matching more candidates.
- A large number of returning candidates.
More About Darbai Svetur
Gintarė Januškaitė established Darbai Svetur in 2010, in Lithuania, to help people find jobs in the international labour market. Nowadays, Darbai Svetur is one of the better-known names in Lithuania when it comes to recruiting.
As an international recruitment agency, they have partners who are looking for workers all over the world. If you register on Darbai Svetur, you will find job opportunities from 18 European countries as well as the USA, Australia, the Middle East, and the UAE. They cover a variety of different industries, including production, logistics, the automotive industry, hospitality, etc.
When Did Darbai Svetur Start Recruiting for Hire Abroad?
Darbai Svetur is among the first companies to join Hire Abroad, and it’s the company that helped with testing the platform, providing us with valuable user feedback and features. (which we are thankful for!).
During the recruitment agency’s 13-year run, this was their first time using a similar platform or service. They previously partnered up with other recruiters and recruitment companies and helped them fill the vacancies.
While this was somewhat similar to the Hire Abroad formula, it was more old-fashioned, less compact, and straightforward. All they did was help agencies fill specific vacancies by finding suitable candidates, but there was no follow-up, no overview, or anything similar to that.
According to Gintarė: “With Hire Abroad, this is on a different level.”
And at the moment, the agency has 341 people under their name, including recruiters and candidates, partly thanks to their staying active and partly because there are a large number of vacancies and a high job variety, which allows Darbai Svetur’s recruiters to be busy.
The Onboarding Experience
Experts can’t stress enough the importance of proper onboarding. It’s a pivotal step in allowing new clients/partners/customers to fully understand your product or service.
From this regard, at no point during the onboarding process was Gintarė left alone. The process was smooth, and the support she received throughout exceeded her expectations. She had daily calls with the assigned support team member, who helped her understand the ins and outs of the platform.
She said: “When you receive help when you need it, when you ask questions that are answered immediately, it is hard to complain.”
The Biggest Benefits for Darbai Svetur
In addition to tapping into the Dutch market in the blink of an eye, the biggest benefit for Darbai Svetur is that they expanded the assortment of job offers they could pitch to job seekers. Having a large number of vacancies from different sectors to send to their clients is something the recruiter was after, and this has been one of their primary goals ever since Brexit.
Next to the obvious benefits the platform offered to the recruitment agency, some features have also proven to be extremely valuable. Gintarė loved two things in particular. Before she started cooperating with Hire Abroad, she didn’t have high expectations. She thought that her company would receive vacancies it could fill and that all they had to do was deliver the candidates.
However, that was far from it. She describes Hire Abroad as “a well-functioning mechanism”.
According to Gintarė, the platform is easy to use and well-organised. You can see everything relevant to what you do – the number of people a company needs, the people who got accepted, the people who accepted the offer, and ultimately, whom the agency picked.
This allowed Darbai Svetur recruiters to navigate and plan their day better, as well as plan which candidates to look for next.
There was one more thing she loved. Perhaps the best is to hear this one from her, directly:
Moreover, the assortment of job offers Hire Abroad provides allowed Darbai Svetur to have “returning candidates”
This isn’t beneficial just from the standpoint of earning money. Returning candidates make your life easier because you don’t have to search for new ones every time. Also, this creates additional value, and Darbai Svetur’s goal has always been to help people find good job opportunities that would help them improve their lives.
In recruitment, candidates are always a top priority. According to the team from Darbai Svetur, success in recruitment lies in the ability to provide candidates with several job offers instead of trying to convince them to choose one, or make them agree to limited offers.
Thanks to Hire Abroad, the agency now always has access to a large number of jobs, which makes a big difference in recruiting and the number of returning candidates.
As a matter of fact, candidates themselves are approaching the recruitment agency to find them better jobs and opportunities because they know about their extensive offer and their client-first approach, making them proud of what they do and how they are changing people’s lives for the better! At Hire Abroad, we’re just glad to be a part of that.
Should Other Recruiters Follow Darbai Svetur and Join Hire Abroad?
To wrap things up, we asked if she liked the platform and if she would recommend it to other recruiters and recruitment companies.
She said: “Yeah, definitely. Because the platform is, as I said, very well-organised and very easy to use. There are also a variety of job offers and an amazing team that will support you. So yeah, just all good things to say.”
If you want to join Darbai Svetur and other recruiter agencies who are thriving through Hire Abroad, make sure you get in touch with us so we can schedule an introduction meeting with you.
Happy recruiting!
