A staffing supplier can act as an extension of your human resources department. When you outsource, you won’t be giving up control of your hiring process, you’ll only be strengthening it to ensure quality hires. Partnering with a staffing supplier can be a great strategic decision that will allow you to improve your business.
There are several advantages to outsourcing your staffing needs to a recruitment firm. Five of them are listed below.
1. Free Up Your Time
Hiring new workers requires a significant investment of time, effort, and resources. And you can’t afford to take hiring lightly or rush through hiring decisions to take the task off of your plate. Unfortunately, recruiting can be an arduous process that can take weeks, or even months, to complete successfully. And during this time, you’ll be distracted from your strategic goals that enable business growth.
Outsourcing your staffing needs can be especially beneficial to small businesses that do not have the time or manpower to ensure quality hires. For larger companies, outsourcing can be beneficial because it can free up HR managers to focus on more important responsibilities. You can get back to the core objectives that matter and still be confident that your recruiting and hiring needs will be taken care of.
2. Improve Candidate Quality
When you post ads on job boards, you probably get dozens, if not hundreds, of resumes flooding in. Unfortunately, though, the majority of these applicants won’t be qualified for the job. They won’t have the skills or experience needed to be efficient, productive, and successful in the role. When you don’t have access to top talent—whether because you don’t know where to find top performers, don’t know how to approach them, or don’t know how to identify them—then hiring top talent can seem impossible.
A staffing supplier, though, can help you to identify, vet, and contact talented candidates that will bring relevant experience to the role, that have a proven track record of success, that will fit with your company’s goals and culture, and that will stay around for a long time. You’ll receive critical hiring advice, and your staffing supplier will be able to leverage a diverse candidate pool to meet your needs. Staffing firms build up their talent pools for decades and have access to thousands of active and passive candidates.
3. Get Access to Better Resources
Successful hiring today isn’t as easy as it used to be. You can’t just put an ad in the newspaper and find top talent. You need the latest recruiting tools to expand your search, you need recruiting technology to narrow down your choices to the best candidates, and you need applicant tracking software to increase efficiency and streamline your process for greater success. Instead of having to invest in these resources on your own, you can get access to them by partnering with a staffing supplier.
4. Reduce the Cost of Bad Hires
Making bad hiring decisions can be expensive, especially for more critical roles at your company. Typically, replacing an employee will cost you one third of his salary. To avoid expensive turnover costs, you need to reduce your bad hiring decisions. Instead of hiring the wrong employee and then having to replace him, you can do it right the first time instead by engaging a staffing supplier with a history of success and a proven process for recruiting top talent that is a fit to your company.
5. Protect Your Investment
When you make bad hiring decisions, the onus is on you. And you are the one who then has to pay to replace that worker. But when you work with a staffing supplier, you’ll likely get a service guarantee. You can leverage the firm’s warranty program in case a new hire doesn’t work out and a replacement is required.
