Last Updated on September 20, 2024
What Staffing Agencies Do?
Staffing agencies are an external help in filling a company’s open positions. They find, select, vet candidates, screen resumes, schedule and conduct interviews, and present the best candidates to employers. The main goal of an agency is to place quality talent quickly in a company.
While the employee works for the company and is under its direction, the staffing agency hires that person. Agencies build big pools of passive and active candidates ready to respond quickly to a call.
When Do You Want to Use a Staffing Agency?
Even if your company has an HR team, you might be interested in hiring a staffing company to assist you during specific hiring periods. While staffing agencies offer many benefits, it is not a one-to-all solution.
Candidates hired through a staffing agency are employed by the agency, not your company, which might not suit everyone. But there are times when you need to fill up positions with temporary workers. Some of the scenarios why companies hire through staffing agencies might include the following:
- Your company is experiencing rapid growth and needs multiple new employees
- Your business is seasonal, or your position has a high turnover rate
- You need temporary workers to fill in for someone
- Your company lacks the resources to start a new recruitment search
- Your company lacks time to start a new recruitment search
If this sounds familiar, your company should explore the option of using a staffing agency.Â
When You Shouldn’t Hire Through Staffing Agencies?
While this is a solution to some, your company might not need to hire temporary workers. Consider the following when looking into hiring through a staffing agency:
- Is the open position long or short-term?Â
- Does the job involve a lot of training?Â
- Will the temp worker fit in the team?
- How much control do you want to have in the hiring process?
Sometimes direct hiring can help build a more energetic and productive team, so you must carefully evaluate your company’s needs.Â
6 reasons (benefits) why companies hire through staffing agencies
Recruiting is essential to every organization, and it is hard to trust an outside staffing agency to do all the work. However, there are multiple benefits to using staffing agencies that might sway you into hiring one of them.
1. Get Greater Reach
Hiring agencies build connections, networks, and pools of candidates for years which gives them an advantage in finding the right candidate quickly.
Among other things, staffing agencies use paid tools and platforms to increase their reach and visibility when publishing a job that wouldn’t make sense to purchase for a regular company.
2. Cut Your Recruitment Costs
Running an HR team is a costly endeavor. Searching, advertising, interviewing, and hiring costs accumulate rather quickly.Â
But what if the person you hired is a poor fit? According to Business News Daily, the cost of a bad hire starts at $17,000, which is often much more than the cost of hiring a staffing agency. Besides that, agencies offer a grace period, replacing a bad hire at no extra cost.
3. Save More Time
The cost of hiring somewhere does not stop with the hiring process expenses, as you also need to allocate a significant amount of time to hire a qualified person, especially if you are in a rush.
Companies that hire through staffing agencies also save time on training the employee, as agencies find talent ready to jump on the tasks immediately.
4. Hiring During Growth or in Volume
If your company experiences rapid growth requiring additional talent, staffing agencies might relieve some hiring pressure while quickly supplying many temp candidates.
Additionally, staffing agencies can help you fill multiple open positions. That works great for seasonal business or service-based roles.
5. Industry-Specific Knowledge and Recruiters
Along with the staffing services of an agency, you get access to current industry trends, salary ranges, and available talent.
Often agencies have niche-specific recruiters that know how to find the best candidate in the field. Who better than an IT Recruiter to find an IT candidate?
6. Temporary Hires
If your permanent employees are no longer available due to sick leave, parenting leave, or on leave of absence, you can cover your company’s short-term needs by hiring temp workers through a staffing agency.
You don’t need to worry about payroll and onboarding, as the staffing agency takes care of that.
How Can Hire Integrated Help?
Hire Integrated is a recruiting company specializing in staffing, specialty hiring, and executive search. We truly integrate with companies we work with to hire the way you’d hire.
We take a curious, open-minded, and service-centric approach to the work we do. We recommend hiring processes we think are worthy of your time and wallet. We value your trust above all things.
If you are at a hiring peak or need staffing solutions, we would be happy to chat with you and suggest the best way to make you happy because we believe in #recruitinghappy.
Emily Rushton, Founder and CEO of Hire Integrated, has over a decade of experience in recruitment, helping companies solve high-volume hiring challenges. Her unique, storytelling approach has made her a trusted leader in the industry, helping both businesses and candidates succeed.
