The Benefits of Staffing Firms vs. In-House Talent Acquisition

Your organization needs to be able to fill its open positions quickly and effectively. The stress, strain, and wasted resources of trying to find just the right employees to fill empty chairs in your organization can cause a negative impact on your business’ profits and on the current working environment.

An organization that tries to hire its own people through an in-house recruiting team often faces disappointment when it cannot find the right people, or when the people it hires leave or end up being fired shortly after completing training because they were not the right fit for the position. 

On the other hand, partnering with a staffing firm that specializes in IT talent means that your organization can fill its open positions with the right people in a shorter amount of time than it would take to try to recruit on its own. 

Specialists

As specialists in information technology and engineering, they have the most current information on the top graduates in the country. They also keep their ear to the floor about individuals who are currently working but who may be willing to change organizations if the right opportunity presented itself. Always networking and having conversations with individuals in these fields means that we have already identified an excellent pool of talent for our clients’ positions. 

Additionally, because they are so engaged in networking, they have access to individuals who may not be seeking a position right now, people who are not constantly searching the job boards that an organization’s in-house recruiting team may be posting on, frantically looking for the right person. Working with a skilled and knowledgeable staffing firm means that you have access to this pool of talent as well. It also means that your stress level about hiring the right people is cut significantly.

Wasted Resources

As a decision maker, you know that your employees’ time and energy should be put into finding better ways to serve your customers and increasing the bottom line. It makes more sense to put the money you would spend paying salary and benefits of an employee to find workers for the company, into working with a staffing firm. Your managers and HR team can do other tasks like supervise and handle the needs of current employees instead of posting open positions, responding to email inquiries and phone calls about jobs, and reviewing resumes. 

Wouldn’t it be smarter to simply have your managers and HR personnel interview only highly-qualified candidates for positions who have already been pre-screened by a staffing firm that knows exactly the type of worker you’re looking for?

Our team takes the time to develop a strong relationship with your organization, to learn exactly what type of people it wants to hire. We learn about your company culture and values. We then take that information and screen potential candidates. Your organization can make a final determination about whether they want to hire someone after this tedious process has been completed – by us, not your employees. 

Let’s turn to budget and profits. Partnering with a staffing firm means you significantly reduce the chances of hiring someone who won’t be around long in the organization. This decreases the amount of wasted training dollars that the organization incurs preparing someone for a role they will not fill for long. With a staffing firm, you find people with the right skills and experience, so you can further cut back on training costs. When you find the right person, you also decrease the chance that the person will be unhappy with the company or position and will quit or get fired soon after they are on-boarded. 

When a person is placed into a position by a staffing firm, the hiring organization also benefits from reduced time that the position is open. A staffing firm can often help a business fill a position quickly, which means that the current employees don’t have to take on additional work to cover for the open position, and the overall productivity of the organization doesn’t take a nose dive for a significant period while the position is empty. 

Contract Workers

If your business doesn’t want to pay the salary and benefits that come with hiring someone as a permanent, full-time employee, working with a staffing firm to find the right contractors makes sense. Hiring temporary staff to fill immediate needs can save the company money and help you to get people in the positions quickly. The longer a position is open, the lower an organization’s productivity, notes a Business News Daily article. This can mean more money down the drain over the long term than simply partnering with a staffing firm. 

Another benefit of working with contract workers is that you can avoid paying taxes and insurance as the staffing agency covers these costs for you. This can increase payroll costs by 20 to 30 percent, possibly even more, according to Forbes.

If the contract worker is using their own equipment and space, you don’t have to pay for that cost either, which is added savings for your organization. There is less wear and tear on your company’s equipment, and you don’t have to purchase new equipment for the organization to accommodate a new full-time employee. 

If you use a staffing firm to hire contractors, you avoid having to deal with firings and layoffs. You can also avoid potential lawsuits related to overtime, discrimination, or paid time off to be with a new child or an ill family member. 

Without the guidance of a staffing firm, your organization’s foray into the field of talent acquisition can be daunting. It can completely miss the right person for the job because it doesn’t know who is available or who might be looking nearly as well as a staffing firm. Partnering with us can help you to fill your IT and engineering roles quickly and efficiently. Use our knowledge, experience, and expertise to work for your organization today by working with us to find your next great employee or contractor.