Many employers turn to the Staffing Agency to handle all benefits associated with the candidates they hire including taxes, payroll, workers compensation, unemployment and other benefits, thereby reducing overhead costs for employers.
Staffing agency can help to find, screen, and match job seekers with employers on a daily basis – and can fill jobs within hours or days, by working closely with Staffing Agency recruiters, hiring managers can ensure that workers are equipped with the skills needed to meet your specific needs.
Staffing agency, also referred to as temporary staffing or employment services agencies, provide employers with skilled workers for work assignments to supplement their staff on a temporary basis. Employers may need these workers for days, weeks or even up to a year.
Meanwhile staffing agency typically pay the workers throughout the term of the temporary assignment and charge fees to the employer based on a number of factors.
Here are 8 reasons companies benefit from working with a staffing agency like Scion Staffing:
- Try Candidates Before You Hire
Temporary employees give your company the chance to try out an employee before making a full-time job offer. Gauge the fit before hiring a temporary worker, and, if they are exactly what you’re looking for you can then decide to hire once they’ve checked all of your boxes. This is one of the main benefits of using a staffing agency.
- Ability to Fill Positions Quickly
Because staffing agency recruiters keep a pool of readily available talent for a variety of jobs and industries, a job opening can easily be filled within a matter of hours or days. Staffing services lead to a faster hiring process, agencies handle background checks, drug screens, skills testing, interview scheduling and carefully qualify each candidate’s work experience. These services alone help staffing clients find top talent faster by up to 80%
- Save Cost
Using staffing agency can result in lower costs associated with hiring adequate staff to recruit applicants. However, because staffing agency manage the entire employment process, they also relieve employers of costs related to pre-employment testing, background investigations and drug screening. In addition, employers save money related to the expense of payroll processing and benefits administration. Small employers find that they can rely on staffing agency to provide them with qualified employees at remarkable savings.
- Network of Professional Workers
Staffing agency have a larger network of professional available workers than do many employers. Employers looking to hire seasonal workers, for example, would need to advertise job openings, interview candidates and process new hire documentation for a relatively short period of employment. Staffing agency, on the other hand, may have relationships with workers they’ve already identified as dependable, reliable and conscientious and who can fill a vacancy in a matter of days, or even hours. The network that staffing agency maintain is a broad one from which they can tap potential employees who can fill any position an employer might have or anticipate.
- Access Specialized Candidates
Staffing agency have a broad network of candidates and connections that are not easily found through a simple job search. Whether you have a specialized opening that requires a specific skill set, certification, or a large number of openings that need to be filled quickly, an agency is your best bet.
- Increased Workforce Flexibility
Employers are able to adjust their workforce to changes in business demands. Companies depend on staffing services to provide them with talented workers who can meet a wide range of needs. The flexibility to easily change the size of your workforce based on project load or demand is another benefit to using a temporary agency.
. Hiring peaks
. Seasonal needs
. Special project
. Large number of openings
. Hard-to-fill jobs
- Recruiting Partner
Top staffing agency hire recruiters with direct experience in niche industries. Recruiters know the recent trends and changes in the market. Over 1,500 clients have come to Scion Staffing with a variety of hiring issues and continue to use our resources because they experience the benefit of staffing firms.
. Accounting/Finance
. Administrative
. Professional
. Human Resources
. Customer Service
. Light Industrial
. Manufacturing
. Technical and more
- Administrative and Payroll
Other time consuming duties that the staffing agency handles such as pre-screening, verifying references, education checks, processing payroll, unemployment and workers’ compensation are other perks you can enjoy not having to do.
. Pre-screening (criminal background checks, drug screens, skills testing, interviews, references and education)
. Processing payroll, unemployment and workers’ compensation
Conclusion
Employers that engage the services of staffing agency for temporary employees get an opportunity to observe employee performance, qualifications and work habits before offering the temporary worker a permanent job. This can cut down on turnover once the trial period is complete and both the employee and employer are satisfied the job is a good fit. Using staffing agencies for high-volume placements can result in tremendous savings related to turnover, training costs and the intangible costs of turnover, such as employee morale.
