Staffing Agencies—The Future of Recruiting Process

By Goodfit/ On 17 February, 2018

The staffing/ recruiting agencies carry out  selection & recruiting processes for the companies which don’t have the expertise, necessary time or resources needed to hire their staff.

These days there are some recruiting agencies which provide temporary workers, and others provide candidates for temp-to-hire arrangements.

Whatever the employment type, the staffing companies have provided the organizations/ clients with ease of doing business, by giving the expertise in the terms of cost, quality of the staff, helping the organizations with retention of the employees.

Expertise

The recruiting agencies these days have expertise that exceeds most of the employers’ human resource departments as they are specialized agency to handle the whole process with far better results.

The staffing agencies have changed the whole process of the recruiting process.

Hiring the HR staff from the executives to the level of the GM level who will supervise the hiring process requires the cumbersome and lengthy process of hiring the HR personnel.

The recruiting agencies give the services that are unmatchable by the best trained recruiters and employment experts, generally at a lower cost than hiring own HR team.

The personnel at the staffing agencies are usually specialists in the matters related to latest market trends of employment, industry’s best recruiting practices & job knowledge by virtue of doing continuous placement of employees into various sectors & industries.

Many recruiting agencies also have industry-wise staffing skills like in the case of health care providers.

Cost Effective

Using the services of a staffing agency can result in cost-cuts in hiring adequate & qualified staff to recruit the new applicants.

As the staffing agencies do the entire employment process, they also relieve the employers of costs associated with the pre-employment testing, background investigations and various other screening processes.

The employers also save their organization’s capital related to the expenses for the salaries, payroll processing and other job benefits administration.

The small employers are finding that they can bank upon the staffing agencies to provide them with pre-screened and qualified employees with significant savings.

Advantages of the wide Network

The recruiting agencies have a stronger & larger network of 24×7 available workers than any HR team of an organization can have.

Employers looking to hire temporary/ contractual staff, for instance, would need to their advertise job vacancies, interview the candidates and process new hire documentation for a relatively short period of employment which would involve a lot of time and resource on behalf of the organization.

The professionally managed recruiting agencies, on the other hand, have relationships with the required workforce whom they’ve already screened as dependable, conscientious & reliable & can fill the vacancy in a matter of days, or even hours as per the requirement of the organization.

Network maintained by the staffing agencies is an extensive one from which they can tap the potential workforce who can fill up any position an employer have or will have in the future.

Problem Solved- Employee Retention

 First of all the workforce provided by the staffing agency is pre-screened, well coached & drilled by the agency so the basic problem of retention is well taken care of.

The employers who take the services of a recruiting agency to hire temporary staff get the opportunity to discern the worker’s qualifications, their performance, attitudes before handing the temporary workforce a permanent job. This can significantly lower the hiring organization’s employee turnover ratio, making both the employee and the employers satisfied.

The Takeaways

• Lower costs of employment.
• Lower overall management costs.
• Less employee turnover ratio.
• Advantage of strong & large network of employee pool.