Optimize Outcomes with Your Staffing Agency

Finding qualified talent in today’s job market remains challenging for many small and large companies alike. A recent study shows that seven in ten employers worldwide struggle to hire skilled workers in high-demand sectors, including IT, sales, marketing, manufacturing and production, and operations and logistics. One simple solution is to optimize outcomes with your staffing agency.

Sourcing candidates, screening resumes, and negotiating salaries can all take time and energy away from a business owner’s existing obligations, which may end up hurting the business in the long run. Utilizing the expertise and efficiency of a staffing agency will optimize results in a job search as they handle most front-end recruiting processes, allowing in-house employees to focus on higher-return ventures for your business.  

How can businesses benefit from using a staffing agency to optimize their business goals?  

A staffing agency acts as a middleman between employers and workers, helping to match qualified candidates with companies that have current job openings. In 2021, recruiters laid out their five biggest priorities in the hiring process: improving quality of hire (52%), increasing retention rate (24%), improving time-to-hire (23%), growing talent pipeline (22%), and diversity hiring (22%). Using a staffing agency can help to efficiently prioritize these goals and improve outcomes over the course of the recruitment and hiring journey. 

It saves money and time. 

Technical staffing agencies help find qualified workers while saving employers time and money so they can focus on other business aspects. Sometimes employers looking for resumes may have projects that require a specialist, or someone with certain expertise. An agency can set an employer up with a skilled staffing expert and save them time by evaluating hundreds of resumes, checking references, and taking calls from candidates who may or may not be qualified. 

Training new employees can also require a significant allocation of resources. When searching for a temporary position to cover a few months’ worth of work, it may be unreasonable to invest money and time in training them. By using a temporary staffing agency an employer is provided with someone capable and ready to do the work they need. 

It widens the pool of qualified candidates. 

One of the greatest benefits of staffing agencies is their access to an enormous and ever-growing pool of candidates. A high-quality staffing agency spends years building up their talent network of top-tier talent through referrals, networking, and speaking with candidates daily, whereas an employer usually doesn’t have the resources to constantly engage talent at the same level.  

Staffing agencies may have access to candidates who are outside of your search area or ones who sought a staffing agency to find the exact job you seek to fill. With more access to talent in your industry, you can find the right people to help your organization grow. 

It matches experience and expertise. 

Headhunters in a professional staffing agency have experience working with clients of various sizes and industries. After interacting with a large volume and wide variety of both clients and candidates, they have undoubtedly gained insights that can be a valuable tool for forming your hiring strategy to help you identify and achieve your strategic workforce goals. 

How to optimize outcomes with your staffing agency

Provide context of your organization. 

Communicate your business’s personality, culture, and brand. Give them a clear idea of what kind of employee will fit in well with your business. Provide details about the work environment, benefits package, and what makes your company unique. 

Clearly define needs. 

Share job descriptions, desired qualifications, preferred paid, possible short- and long-term openings as well as production/staffing statistics.  

Offer feedback. 

By engaging in an ongoing and honest dialogue with the staffing agency, each of your companies will be able to form the most productive relationship. It is important to maintain an open line of communication and give prompt feedback to the recruiter on candidates and whether they are a fit for the job or missed the mark. 

Understand the job market. 

Discuss the employment market with your agency so you can realistically determine what kinds of candidates you can expect to find within your budget. If necessary, talk through different ways to adjust the job expectations. For example, if you require a lengthy skill set, you may want to consider including some on-the-job training instead of expecting the full package ready for hire. 

Let us help 

BCTG can help connect your company with the most in-demand technical experts and consultants in the industry. With decades of experience, we design talent solutions that fit your business, function, or project. Contact us today to learn more.