What is meant by a Staffing agency?
A staffing agency is an entity that has employees that can be hired out for temporary or long term work. A staffing agency is also referred to as an employment agency. staffing agencies are different from placement agencies or retained search services.
Placement services
What is the use of a Staffing Agency?
Staffing firms can play a critical role in helping companies find talent. By staffing firms, I mean any external search firm that earns a fee for making a placement with a company. This includes staffing agencies, RPOs, contingency and retained executive search firms, and their hybrids.
Why you need to choose a Staffing Agency:
- To Save Time
- To improve the quality of hiring
- No in-house hiring expertise
- For Additional Security
To save time:
There are two main ways in which using a Staffing agency can save your company’s time. First, the hiring process can be quite time-consuming. Using a Staffing agency can help you save your employees’ time.
Second, Staffing agencies are professionals who recruit for a living. This is why they probably already have candidates in their applicant pool who are exactly the right fit for your open job positions. This is a great advantage that can significantly shorten the full cycle staffing process. In other words, the staffing agency can hire the best candidate much faster!
To improve the quality of hire:
The second main reason why many companies turn to staff agencies is to improve their quality of hire. The main advantage of using a staffing agency is that most of them are specialized in certain industries or functions, which mean they already, have a pool of talent at their disposal.
No in-house hiring expertise :
Some companies, such as start-ups and small companies don’t have a dedicated in-house recruiter. These companies lack the expertise and resources to find and hire the best candidates. To ensure that their hiring process is done professionally and effectively, they choose to use the services of staffing agencies to hire the right candidate for your requirements.
For additional security:
For many companies, the most important advantage of using a staffing agency instead of in-house recruiters is that staffing agencies offer additional security when it comes to new hire retention. All the best staffing agencies offer guarantee periods. This means that they guarantee you that your new hire will stay at your company for a certain period of time (usually 3 – 6 months). If your new hire is terminated or leaves before the expiry of a guarantee period, recruitment agencies will give you a full refund or, most commonly, find a new, replacement candidate for no extra charge.
In short, choosing the right staffing agency can help you recruit and retain the right people faster and even cheaper!