Every business needs to hire the right employees to remain successful, but attracting and hiring quality candidates can be a challenge. Posting job ads, reading through applications, and conducting interviews takes a lot of time, and choosing which candidates to hire can be stressful. What if you hire the wrong person, and have to start the whole process from the beginning? It’s enough to make any business owner anxious.
Working with a staffing agency is a great way to solve your company’s staffing problems. Here are some reasons to start working with a Canadian staffing agency.
You Get Access to Better Candidates
When you post an ad in the local newspaper or on an online job board, you may not catch the attention of the best candidates. Candidates need to be actively looking for a job, and looking in the places where you’ve posted your ad, to see the ad. You may get lucky and find some great candidates this way, but you can’t count on it. You may find yourself settling for mediocre candidates.
Staffing agencies have a much larger pool of candidates since they have access to both active and passive job seekers. Active job seekers are people who are proactively trying to find new jobs, either because they’re unemployed or because they’re ready for a new opportunity. Passive job seekers are people who already have jobs, and aren’t actively looking for a new one. However, if the right job comes along, they’ll be open to making a change.
With a larger candidate pool, staffing agencies can find high-quality candidates for your vacant positions.
You Can Fill Vacant Positions Quickly
Sometimes, businesses need to fill vacant positions quickly. One of your employees could quit without notice, or they could get sick and need to take medical leave. You may need to fire a crucial employee for bad behaviour. Any of these situations can cause major strain for your business.
Until you hire a new employee to replace the one you lost, your other employees will need to pick up the slack. They may not be happy about having to work extra hours, and if they are, you may not be happy to need to pay overtime. Of course, productivity will suffer until the vacant position has been filled. It could take a month or two for you to find a replacement.
When you work with a Canadian staffing agency, you can replace employees quickly. Staffing agencies have a wide pool of candidates, and since these candidates are already screened and approved, you can hire someone right away.
You Can Save Money
The hiring process is expensive, both in terms of time and money. To find candidates, you need to spend time writing job ads and may need to pay to post those ads. You need to spend hours reading through resumes, and then you have to spend even more time conducting interviews. Calling references and performing pre-employment assessment tests adds even more time to your recruitment efforts. While you’re handling all these tasks, your current staff may be working long hours and collecting overtime.
This adds up to a lot of wasted money for a business owner. One study found that finding and training a replacement employee can cost six to nine months of the departing employee’s salary. That means that replacing an employee with a salary of $30,000 per year could cost your company between $15,000 and $22,500.
To reduce these costs, work with a Canadian staffing agency. Since the agency handles the time-consuming parts of hiring and helps fill your vacant positions quickly, you’ll save money.
