Now more than ever before, it has become a top priority for business owners across industries to find and recruit top talent. Rapidly advancing technological innovations and business norms have made it essential for employers to identify those professionals who will be able to quickly adapt to the shifting professional landscape and bring vital new skills with them into the workplace. And yet at the same time, employers today face some unprecedented challenges in their ongoing pursuit of talented job candidates. For one thing, many HR departments simply lack the bandwidth and resources to be able to cut through the clutter and find those candidates who are uniquely well-positioned to join their organization’s workplace culture and mission. In addition, hiring and recruitment best practices are evolving at a rate that many employers simply are not able to keep pace with. For example, a recent study from Glassdoor found that “79% of job seekers are likely to use social media in their job search.” The upshot of this finding is that employers can either modernize their recruitment strategy by embracing social media, or risk being left behind.
All of this is to say: if you feel overwhelmed by the difficulties and demands of trying to find top talent employees in today’s business landscape, you are not alone. Luckily, partnering with a staffing firm is a simple and affordable way to start finding and recruiting talented candidates in your area.
In this article, we’ll introduce you to a few of the many benefits of partnering with a professional staffing agency, and how it can provide solutions to all of your recruitment needs.
What is a Staffing Firm?
Before we break down some of the specific benefits of partnering with a staffing firm, let’s first clarify exactly what it is that we’re talking about.
Simply put, a staffing firm is a third-party organization that helps companies to identify, screen, interview, and ultimately onboard new employees. Staffing firms typically maintain large databases of on-the-market job candidates, which they’re able to leverage in order to connect employers with those candidates who will most effectively be able to meet the demands of a particular industry, workplace, and role. They also specialize in maintaining rapport and communications between hiring managers and job candidates, so as to reduce the number of lost opportunities for both parties. In other words, staffing firms help to facilitate the communication process between employers and candidates, which is a crucial step to the elimination of ghosting from the hiring process.
What are the Benefits of Partnering with a Staffing Firm?
Okay – now that we have a basic sense of what staffing firms are and how they operate, let’s now turn our attention to the major benefits of working with one.
As we briefly mentioned above, staffing firms can help streamline and optimize the communication process between hiring managers and job candidates. But that’s only one small part of how partnering with a staffing firm can enhance your workforce.
Here are four more examples of how teaming up with a third-party staffing firm can improve your hiring and recruitment process:
- Access to a broader pool of candidates. As we mentioned earlier, staffing firms have a huge network of job candidates at their disposal. This enables them to identify top talent candidates that HR departments with limited resources at their disposal would otherwise miss.
- Cut back on recruitment costs. As any HR professional will be able to attest, the in-house hiring and recruitment process can be quite expensive, particularly when it’s more long and drawn-out than it needs to be. Through the use of efficient communications strategies, a staffing firm can help you to streamline your recruitment timelines, thereby reducing overhead costs in the process.
- Increased employee retention. In many cases, employers who are overseeing the recruitment process on their own will hire a candidate who looks perfect for a role on paper, but who ultimately proves to be totally unfit in reality. This can lead to high rates of employee turnover, which can have a wide range of negative consequences on an organization’s morale and reputation. A staffing firm can minimize your chances of a mis-hire, which can in turn increase rates of employee retention and overall satisfaction across your organization.
- More freedom for you and your team to focus on running your business. As we’ve already seen, it requires a considerable amount of bandwidth to identify, screen, and recruit new employees. This is particularly true for smaller companies staffed by a handful of employees who are almost constantly engaged in multiple tasks at once. When you partner with a third-party staffing agency, you can significantly reduce the pressure on yourself and your employees to commit time, energy, and attention to the recruitment process. It will therefore become easier for you and your team to start optimizing the day-to-day operations that need to be attended to in order for your business to thrive.
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At Patel Consultants Corporation, we specialize in pairing employers from a wide variety of industries with top talent local job candidates. To learn more about our professional services or to get started on your search for your next employee, please email Nick Malefyt at nickm@patelcorp.com or contact our office today!