Business

What role does staffing agencies play in hiring employees for the companies?

If your company or organization wants to hire new employees, it may be time-consuming and expensive for them. So, for this purpose they choose the best staffing agencies to put their burden on them. These help them to find the employees that are right match for the job. The agencies make sure that they should satisfy requirements of both the employees and the companies.

Staffing agencies hiring cycle:

  1. Discovery:  The recruiter of the agencies first gather information about the organization and its requirement and then start recruiting the employees whose skill and qualification matches with the company’s requirement.

The recruiter of the agency has a deep knowledge about:

  • Mission and value of the company or the organization
  • Job role clarity
  • Timeliness
  1. Sourcing and screening: They post the job with the job description and select the resume of the candidate based on their education, skills and also their social media presence. After that screening is done to pick out the best ones from that huge pool of candidates. This can be done through telephonic interview and once the candidates are short-listed they are called for the personal interview with recruiter.
  2. Employer interviews:  The recruiter of the agency focuses on the resume and employers background and also ask if the employer is currently doing any job. 
  3. Selection: After the interview best employees are selected and their salary package is decided according to range provided by the companies or organization. 

How staffing agencies help companies in other ways

  1. Temporary and seasonal placement: Suppose some of the team members of the company are on medical leave or absent due to some other reason or if the team requires some extra support while doing some hectic work then staffing agencies help them to get some skilled professional employees temporarily. If the selected employees perfectly fit in the job they may become a permanent member.
  2. Full-time hiring: Suppose a company wants to expand and they need some permanent employees quickly then the staffing agencies help them in immediate recruitment because they have wide network and have contact with many professional employees and skilled workers. They also organize organizational culture fest to find suitable employees within that limited time.
  3. Long-term consultants:  Companies can hire the staffing agencies for a long-term if they are working on some lengthy project and may need their help at any time. Same agencies can be hired again and again for the cyclic projects of the company.