You may be asking why use a recruiting agency? Each business will have their reasons; it may be access to the strong talent pool that you might otherwise miss out on or a way to manage staffing costs or the need to fill an essential role quickly. An agency can get the right candidate in the door. A recruiter can save you time, money, resources – even headaches and frustration. So here are the top 5 reasons to use a recruiting firm the next time you need to fill a position (or several) with your company:
Recruiters Can Save You Time
You could quickly receive up to 75 resumes for any job posting. That’s a lot of applicant screening. Even if you only spend a few minutes reviewing each one, that could mean spending hours looking for a good candidate – to say nothing of the follow-up calls and interviews. Depending on the nature of your business, the effort and energy alone in pre-screening may just be too high a cost. A recruiting agency can help lighten the load so that you can devote your time to only on the most qualified people.
Recruiters are a Smart Use of Your Resources
If you don’t have a dedicated recruiter on your team, you’re probably pulling valuable talent away from projects and services when it’s time to hire. Especially for smaller offices or organizations, where management time is already stretched thin, recruiting on your own may not be the best investment of your resources. Working with a recruiting agency to hire top talent can let your internal team focus on what needs to get done. Given that you’re probably already short a person or need to add to your team to meet higher demands, hiring is an excellent time to bring in an expert.
Recruiters Have Industry Expertise
If you are looking to fill a high-level position, then it’s important to pick an agency with experience recruiting for your industry. Remember those 75 applicants? If even half of them turn out to be unqualified, that’s more hours just to weed people out. Let’s say you’ve decided to hire a web developer, but your HR staff knows very little about coding or what to look for on a resume. Recruiters who specialize the IT industry can let you know what to expect throughout the process, introduce you to the right candidates, and help you determine a fair compensation package.
Not Just More Candidates, the Right Candidates
Matching up a candidate’s qualifications and ambitions with your company’s needs is essential because the last thing you need is more resumes to sift through. Quality hiring firms will spend the time to make sure your candidates are a good fit for your business – as much as you are a match for them. Recruiting agencies are continuously adding to, refining and cultivating their networks. This gives you access to a broader, deeper candidate pool that has been carefully evaluated, and that can produce quality applicants quickly.
Access to Skills You Need
One of the reasons that companies use a recruiting agency is to gain access to candidates with crucial strategic skills. With demands peaking and talent shortages in healthcare now potentially hindering growth, it’s not surprising that this is the case. Recruiters have connections with people who may be interested in hearing about new opportunities but may not be looking at job search sites or making their search public on LinkedIn.
Think of a recruitment firm as an extension of your company. Because recruiting is all about building relationships, they’re interested in developing a long-term partnership to find you the right candidate not just a pool of applicants. A good firm will work with you to establish a relationship that will go beyond simply placing a person in your company. We’d love to tell you more about what Prestige Staffing can do for you. Please contact us here.
