We Are an Admin Recruitment Agency
An Administrator is a crucial hire in every office, and companies do not have to reach a certain size to hire administrative support.
Office Administrators keep the day to day administration of the business running smoothly; fielding calls, diary management, maintaining office systems and day to day coordination as well as administration tasks across the company.
Office Administration is often a big time stealer for companies, and lack of admin support can limit business growth and profitability in the long term. We can advise on all aspects of business administrative support and guide you to the perfect admin support hire for your business.
Get in touch with us clients@bainandgray.com if you need help hiring your Administrator.
How we can help you hire an admin assistant
We always take a full and thorough brief, ideally in a face to face meeting so we really get to understand the right person specification alongside the experience required for the role.
At this level we are often asked to work with our clients on defining the role, especially if they are working closely with other C suite support individuals such as those working in Business Assistant or Chief of Staff roles. Bain and Gray has an outstanding network of active and passive job seekers.
All candidates are met by members of our team and are thoroughly competency interviewed, drawing out examples of their soft skills as well as questioning their experience.
What sets us apart from other Admin Recruitment agencies?
Bain and Gray is an admin assistant recruiter that is unique in its space. We are an Employee Owned Trust, which means the business is effectively owned by the employees. This gives an added purpose as the stakeholders (the employees) all work to our common business purpose of ‘Driving Client success through sourcing exceptional business support candidates’.
We stay up to date on the business support market, and keep our clients current with salary benchmarking, candidate attraction and the changing recruitment landscape. Read more on our Salary Survey
We can help you recruit for a wide range of other business support roles. Get in touch with us if you’d like to:
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some points that indicate when it might be the right time for you to hire an office administrator:
- Administrative tasks are taking up all your time and you are rarely getting to the important revenue-generating jobs you should be doing.
- Administrative and operational duties are not allowing you to make as much progress as you would like.
- Important deadlines are not being met because you have difficulty keeping on top of your schedule.
- Internal processes and systems are not efficient, but you don’t have time to change them.
- You are the main point of contact for everyone, from clients to suppliers and you struggle to keep on top of email and calls.
- There are certain admin tasks that are not done and could easily be delegated to an admin assistant.
- The company can absorb the cost of hiring an admin assistant because the improved productivity will help increase profits.
Companies hire admin assistants at different points. Determining why you need to hire an administrative assistant depends on how you’re time is being best spent. It does not have to be at a point when a company is a certain size.
If your business is growing rapidly and you can't keep up with the day to day workload, hiring an Office Administrator will definitely help. Equally if your business growth is slowing because you can't delegate admin tasks and don't have time to devote to growing it, then an Office Administrator should be your next hire.
To get more advice on hiring an Office Administrator email clients@bainandgray.com or call and speak to one of our consultants on 020 7036 2030
When hiring an Administrator you will need to list out the tasks that you require doing and see if they fit into one role or within the organisation.
It may be duties are across one or two roles, or indeed highlight whether some of these tasks fall into the Office Manager remit or other roles within the organisation. We often see roles that don’t necessarily fall under other headings being given an Administrator title, but most commonly these roles are given to team support or are more specific to the remit of the role such as Office Administrator, HR Administrator, Facilities Administrator, etc.
Once the role is clearly defined, hiring an Administrator is always an engaging hire. The soft skills are often crucial to a successful candidate securing the role. For more advice speak to one of our consultants on 020 7036 2030 or email clients@bainandgray.com
