How Partnering with The Right Staffing Firm Can Save You Money and Time
(Originally posted on LinkedIn)
When partnering with a staffing firm, the ultimate goal is to shorten the time to hire period for each open position while aligning a cost-effective process. That can be difficult as budgets tighten. A top tier staffing firm will be able to save you time by providing highly qualified, local candidates that you know will be worth looking at. Here are a few ways that the right staffing firm can provide savings!
How Can The Right Staffing Firm Save You Money?
With the current climate and financial impact that Covid-19 has had, focus on eliminating additional costs is a top priority. In many cases, using an outside staffing firm is viewed as a cost center. With the right staffing firm, their focus will be on finding local, full-time candidates that will eliminate additional costs associated with relocation, traveling for interviews, and lodging. Beyond that, finding full-time candidates versus contractors will eliminate the ongoing expenditures, and higher compensation typically required for temporary work. One area that is not often measured by cost is the knowledge lost with contractors. The right staffing firm will strategize with you to ensure that there is a plan in place to finish projects on time while keeping the tribal knowledge of the health system, application build, and culture. When you lose this information, every new hire will have to ramp and relearn everything and that comes at a high price.
How Can The Right Staffing Firm Save You Time?
Time is the real benefit of working with any staffing firm. The price you pay for their service is to shorten the time it takes to hire for each position while leveraging their expertise to provide candidates with the shortest ramp time. The way a staffing firm can do this is by investing their time early in the process. They will work closely with hiring managers to get to know them personally, the health system, and every role in detail so that every candidate they submit will be worth looking into. Instead of combing through one hundred resumes, hiring managers will only be looking at candidates that will be worthwhile. These firms will work hand in hand with you throughout the interview and offer process so that there is no lapse in time for scheduling interviews, getting additional documentation, and or scheduling travel if required. This early investment will ensure that each hiring manager gets to focus only on what is important and eliminates the monotonous and time-consuming task of speaking with unqualified candidates.
Partnering with the right staffing company, with processes mentioned above, will save you time and money from the initial job posting beyond their first day. Once you work with a firm of this quality, the cost for their services will be overshadowed by the benefits they provide!