Why Should I Hire A Staffing Agency
Hire a staffing agency for top talent! Learn the benefits and strategies in our blog. Elevate your hiring game today.
Last week, we examined the pros and cons from an employee standpoint: this week, we will discuss the pros and cons of hiring a staffing agency from the employer perspective.
Staffing is expensive! Why should I use a staffing agency to help me find employees?
Locating Talent:
It happens every time; you post a high-skill level job for a mechanical maintenance tech, for example, and within hours, you are flooded with resumes of people who have absolutely no mechanical maintenance experience. Yet, you still must dig through the haystack if you are going to find the needle, that one-in-a-million candidate will typically be buried under a bunch of candidates with no discernable experience listed on their resumes.
Once you have narrowed the field a bit, there are some telltale signs that recruiters look for on resumes that can be indicators of problems or success down the road, and those might not be evident to HR staff who are tasked with handling multiple other aspects of employee management and don’t necessarily focus on resume analysis. For a Staffing Agency, however; that’s precisely what we do all day! Our recruiters are trained to know what to look for before we even pick up the phone or start typing out an email, and this allows us to be laser-focused on our mission, which is finding the right person for the right job. Missing potential red flags up front can mean hours spent interviewing and processing a candidate who won’t stay very long, and missing sheer potential up front can mean that your company misses out on a stellar employee that could have positively impacted your bottom line.
It is our ability to analyze things like wording, formatting, content, and a person’s basic ability to follow initial instructions that can spare you from spending an exponential amount of time chasing after the wrong type of candidate for your business, and time is one of your most precious commodities.
Here are some great hiring tips from Forbes, and the author brings up a great point: don’t forget about interns, because with so many schools and colleges in the Greater Tulsa area, this can be a great tool to incorporate into your overall hiring plan for bringing new talent into your organization.
The New Hire Process:
Anyone in HR knows that there are not enough hours in a day, but what we don’t tend to accurately assess is just how many of those hours are spent on the new hire process. Once you have spent hours weeding through the resumes you receive to narrow down a final candidate pool, you will then spend hours, not only of your time, but of other managers’ and employees’ time interviewing, assessing, meeting and discussing potential candidates. Then you will spend more time performing background checks, perhaps coordinating drug screens, setting up files and data records, payroll, benefits, etc.
If the employee you bring onboard stays around for a long time, this process will thankfully be over for that position, however, if you have filled the position with an employee that doesn’t stick around long, get ready to go through this entire process again. All of those hours spent bringing a new employee on board represent a fair amount of money, and nobody likes to lose money!
Our process is simple and can enable your team to focus more on production and profitability; you can learn more about it here.
Payroll:
At first glance, payroll may not seem like such a big deal; collecting hours, figuring out deductions, calculating taxes, and cutting checks. Until there are mistakes that need to be corrected, checks to be recut, onerous Health Care reporting regulations with which to comply, and benefits administration. Just one employee change of address can take up an hour of your time depending on how many various places and ways you have to communicate the new information. For smaller companies that may not have dedicated HR staff, or their HR staff must juggle multiple hats, it can save a great deal of hassle and working hours to have a staffing company handle your payroll instead. Compound the year-end payroll duties with other accounting or financial year-end activities you might contend with, and the stress level shoots through the roof!
Barracuda Staffing, Inc. has been recognized by Inc as one of the 5000 fastest growing companies in the US! We do this by living our core values every day:
One: We aggressively pursue the perfect fit for all
Something truly special happens when the ideal candidate is matched up with just the right company. So, we aggressively hunt for the best fit for clients and candidates alike. Make no mistake, this is matchmaking, and we always look relentlessly to create the best partnership.
Two: We are highly adaptive to market changes
The only constant is change, and it’s only accelerating in the highly dynamic 21st-century marketplace. That’s why we constantly adapt our methods and services accordingly, not merely to stay up to speed, but always stay one step ahead.
Three: We never stop looking for new opportunities
Innovation rarely just shows up at your door, which is why we approach every day with hyper-vigilance toward new ways of doing things. We carefully monitor and study cultural and economic trends to capitalize upon them in the best ways possible.
Four: We pledge to be the best value in the industry
An ambitious promise, yes, but one we are absolutely committed to. We stress operational efficiency across every department and discipline within our company, delivering the highest level of services at the best value possible.
Five: We want our clients to absolutely love working with us
We love what we do, the lives we help change, and the companies we help grow. We want our passion and appreciation to be contagious. In an era when work-life balance and job satisfaction are more important to everyone than ever, we want working with us to be as great a pleasure as possible. Spread the love. Feel the joy. You’ll be amazed at the difference it makes.
One of the most compelling reasons to seek out the help of a trusted staffing agency is if you have empty, idle workstations, and not enough time to get those positions filled. This represents lost sales for your business, and potential loss in productivity for the existing workers that may feel overwhelmed and frustrated while they try to pick up the slack. Contracting with a staffing agency is almost like having your own dedicated Hiring Manager working directly for you, except you don’t need to provide that Hiring Manager with an office, vacation time, or a Keurig machine; we’ve got it covered!