Blogging About Staffing Solutions

Working with an employment agency is a great way for your organization to meet its hiring and personnel needs. When evaluating staffing agencies, there are some important factors you need to consider to maximize the long-term productivity, flexibility and growth of your organization.

• Hiring and employment often dig up complicated issues that require collaborative efforts to reach prompt, yet sustainable staffing solutions. You need a staffing agency that communicates clearly, makes it a point to understand your organization’s workflow, meshes well with your organization’s culture and is 100% responsive to your needs.

• Seek out a firm with specialized staffing services to provide the most appropriate solutions for your specific industry and field.

• It’s important that the placement agency have a well-established reputation, extensive reach and intimate connections with a highly competitive pool of job candidates within your local area.

• You shouldn’t seek a “vendor relationship” for your staffing services. Third-party vendors don’t adapt to your specific needs or put time and energy into customized services. A true staffing partner functions as an extension of your HR team , respecting your company’s culture and working with you to move your organization forward.

• Too often, employees provided by staffing services are under-qualified and inexperienced. Or perhaps they’re qualified, just not for the role you need them to fill. Therefore, employees don’t perform to the level that your needs require, sometimes through no fault of their own, and their relationship with your company is polluted with negative (and temporary) energy.

• A staffing agency must make it a point to get a clear understanding of how your organization works. They should know that this is the only way to find employees with the best fit for your organization.

• Identifying what makes a candidate the right fit for your company is a significant task. While the establishment of basic requisite skills and experience is a given, this pursuit must go beyond — taking into account important factors like company culture and work flow.

• A qualified staffing agency should have a proven process for high-performance staffing solutions. This process should include the following:

• Detailed job descriptions that take personality, productivity style and workplace preferences into account
• Exhaustive background checks, skill validation and pre-hire screening
• Discussion of your previous recruiting efforts with analysis of both positive and negative results
• Clearly defined expectations for your candidates; i.e., what you want in an employee and how you see them fitting in with your current team
• On-site workforce management solutions for post-hire administration, employee management and tracking, staffing analytics, on-the-spot complication resolution and instant collaboration/feedback

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