Background and Services

 Grand River Personnel Limited is a professional staffing and training firm which was founded in 1978 by our President and Owner, Linda Dancey.

Our main function is to recruit for local businesses who are searching for candidates to accept temporary, contract and full-time positions. Our service is completely free of charge to all candidates.

We also offer free candidate computer training and testing. Tests range from reliability multiple choice test to full-fledged application tests for programs like MS Word and Excel.

Application and Placement

 Because of the nature of our business, we are always looking for new candidates in many fields. Just because we don't have a position today that matches your skills and abilities doesn't mean that we won't tomorrow.

When a person applies to us, his or her name and accompanying skills and abilities are entered into our candidate database. When an order arrives from a client, the requirements are entered and the computer performs a search and flags candidates with matching skills.

Our professional recruiters take the list of candidates and assess each match through test results, interview notes, reference checks (only after it is "okayed" by the candidate) online interview answers, etc. From this assessment comes the recruiter’s short list of resumes to "route" to the client. The candidates are contacted by the recruiter for permission to send the resume at which point they can accept or decline the offer.

Skills Testing and Training

 Prove It! testing, the official supplier of candidate skills testing for GRP, offers us the ability to eliminate any guesswork and the power to identify and select the most talented candidates, based on true test results. Prove It! offers GRP and its' candidates a true competitive advantage in our ability to put the best candidates with the best clients. To view more about the skills testing and training we offer and to see an exhaustive list of the tests we can provide, visit our "links" page and click on the Prove It logo.

Routing and Interviewing

Once a resume is routed to our client it is up to them to look at the resumes (and any other information which was given to them) and decide whom they will or will not interview. With the GRP recruiter acting as the facilitator, mutually convenient interviews will be set up. In most cases, interviews take place at the client location but other arrangements can be made for extraordinary circumstances.

Reference Checking

When interviews have been completed and the client has narrowed the list of applicants, detailed reference checks take place. Most often these reference checks are completed by the GRP Recruiter and the results presented to the client but this is not always the case. Some clients prefer to perform the reference checks themselves.

Job Offers and Thereafter

After a client has identified the candidate they would like to fill the position with, they are asked to create a job offer, which will be presented to the chosen candidate. At this point the GRP Recruiter will once again act as a facilitator to iron out all of the little details which come with any job offer.