Why should you hire a recruiting firm?

A professional recruiting firm can help meet your staffing needs by augmenting your internal HR team and provide direct hires for specific roles or they can help by taking on all your recruiting needs. Here are five reasons why a recruiting firm can benefit your business:

Benefit #1 - We save you time

Whether you are a small business owner, a business leader of a growing business or and internal HR professional, you have a lot of other responsibilities to take care of without reading through hundreds of resumes and countless hours phone screening candidates just to find exceptional candidates to interview for one job — let alone multiple positions at once. Recruiting is a FULL TIME job.

Partnering with a professional recruiting firm can help you save time and effort by sourcing and screening candidates on your behalf based on your specifications, needs, and goals. Recruiting and staffing headhunters write and develop detailed job descriptions, spend significant time screening and vetting candidates, and in some cases, handle candidate contract negotiations on your behalf.

Benefit #2 - We provide better quality candidates

Since the recruiting firm’s sole job is to source, screen, and place top candidates with businesses across many industries, professional recruiting firms and headhunters continuously strive to develop relationships with an abundance of candidates with varying skills and experience levels. This provides your company, and HR department specifically, with extended reach and an advantage over competitors who rely exclusively on in-house HR teams.

Additionally, because recruiting firms and headhunters are not employees of your company, they can cross into the gray area of recruiting candidates from your competition without your business directly poaching employees from one another and creating conflict.

Benefit #3 - We have access to passive candidates

In addition to being well-versed in recruitment laws and processes, experienced professional recruiters tend to be highly informed of current hiring trends and the needs of employers in different industries. One of the most significant benefits of using a recruiter is that they have access to extensive recruiting databases, candidate networks, and other resources and can access passive candidates who are not actively looking for jobs. All of these things, in addition to the knowledge and expertise they have honed through years of experience in the industry, help to attract a broader and deeper pool of applicants.

Benefit #4 - We use targeted and effective recruiting strategies

Companies that have years of experience recruiting and staffing for other businesses can apply the knowledge they have gained to benefit your organization. Experienced recruiting firms will implement proven recruiting strategies to source, screen, and place more qualified candidates with your company. An effective recruiting strategy can help your organization stand out from competitors; enabling you to recruit the talent you need to meet growing business goals.

Benefit #5 - We will improve your hiring efficiency

Partnering with professional staffing agencies or headhunters tends to be more cost-effective in the long run than hiring an extensive team of in-house recruiters to handle your recruiting and staffing needs. Whether your company hires frequently or infrequently, using a professional recruiting firm can save money and relieve stress. By using a staffing firm as needed, companies that hire new personnel only a few times a year don’t have to waste resources and budget to employ someone for such a limited task. Additionally, working with a professional staffing agency helps to lessen the workload for understaffed and overworked in-house recruiting teams.