Finding The Right Candidates For Your Environment By Using A Staffing Agency

Recruiting the right candidate isn’t always easy, especially when you consider the ongoing labor shortage. This is why more and more employers are turning to staffing agencies to fill open positions more consistently. 

Since staffing can help hire both temporary and permanent employees, their services are valuable in supporting the business growth of your business. 

What Is A Staffing Agency?

A staffing agency is a service provider that connects businesses to ready-to-work candidates. Furthermore, they take over all staffing duties from checking references and screening resumes to shortlisting candidates and scheduling interviews.

Unfortunately, even if you schedule your employees well, you can’t avoid running into staffing shortages. For instance, some workers may take time off, or you may require some extra hands on board to complete a project. Whatever it may be, in these circumstances you may not have enough internal resources to find candidates. 

With a staffing agency, on the other hand, you can unlock a lot more flexibility when hiring, all the while finding more time to focus on business-critical tasks, take on new projects, and lastly, downsize staff when extra projects are completed. 

But the biggest advantage is the fact you can leverage a staffing agency to find the right candidate for a high-level position a lot easier.

Why Hire Through A Staffing Agency

Hiring employees with the help of a staffing agency has plenty of advantages over sourcing candidates using your own internal resources. Here are the main ones:

1. Faster hiring process

By leveraging staffing services, you can significantly decrease the time required for filling an open position. Because staffing agencies already have vast databases in their database, and a huge network, they can locate people even if you need someone with a niche set of skills in record time. 

Furthermore, since the candidates you receive for review already fit your criteria, you can benefit from a short hiring time.

2. Gain access to top talent

Because of the aforementioned access to a large number of pre-screened candidates, working with a staffing agency gives you the ability to get introduced to only the highest-quality candidates. In other words, you’ll get to choose from talent that has already been carefully vetted. 

Recruitment and staffing agencies deal with new candidates daily, and due to their expertise, they have an established process of analyzing the applicants’ suitability for different roles. So in a way, you always know you’re gaining access to top talent, without going through the hassle of infinite job postings.

3. Make better hiring decisions

One of the biggest challenges in recruitment is the fact your in-house HR team may have to conduct interviews for positions they aren’t familiar with. This is very common in the IT sector, where roles are diversifying and growing in complexity every day.

A staffing agency may be dedicated to one vertical, and thus, they’re deeply familiar with the skills required in the industry. For instance, here at Griffin Global, we specialize in tech staffing in a wide variety of sectors, from finance to the medical industry and everything in between.

4. Attract passive talent

Top candidates are not actively looking for new jobs which is why they’re considered passive talent. These individuals may be open to switching jobs, but the problem is that passive talent is not easy to find. 

As luck would have it, professional staffing agencies already have passive candidates on their radar, and they have a natural knack for incentivizing them to give other companies a chance. This can be a lifesaver if you’re trying to fill a niche or a high-level position.

 5.Improve your knowledge of the market

Since staffing agency specialists interact with candidates and companies alike, they typically gain valuable expertise in the industry they’re recruiting for. By extension, when you partner up with an agency, you can gain valuable insight that you may not be able to access otherwise.

For example, you may learn about the current salary rates in the industries, career development, hiring complexities, as well as market trends in the sector. 

6. Save money 

Although it may seem counterintuitive, paying for staffing agency services can actually end up saving you money. Look at it this way, staffing agencies are experts at what they do, and they already have experience with the full spectrum of hiring processes. Because of this, they can deliver better results with a fraction of the budget that it would require you to achieve the same. 

For instance, you may lose time and money writing ineffective job ads that end up going nowhere, while a recruitment specialist already knows which type of job ads work best for maximizing the number of applicants.

In addition, leaving a position open for too long will have an impact on your other team members and harm the overall productivity and performance of your business. Working with a staffing agency comes with minimal disruption, which also minimizes your losses. 

7. Scalability

Many companies need more flexibility with their workforce. Why? Let’s say you have an important project to complete. You can either push your current employees which can leave them with burnout and you with excessive overhead costs, or hire someone else. 

None of these options are optimal, and you’re better off working with a staffing agency and hiring temporary employees. This is a more cost-effective way to push the project forward and scale back when those employees are no longer needed. 

Need A New Partner?

Saving time and achieving your hiring goals has never been easier, and considering the benefits described above, you really have nothing to lose by partnering up with an agency. After all, you may not have a problem working with a marketing agency to boost your brand visibility, so why insist on hiring internally if it’s consistently hit or miss?

Recruiting specialists at Griffin Global will quickly scope out your requirements, and assist you in searching for that perfect candidate. We serve different industries, and because we’ve been in this business for multiple decades, we know we can deliver on our promises, no matter the circumstances.

If you need a partner who will completely overhaul your hiring process, fill out our contact form or call (855) 747-4334 to get started.