When employees truly care about their jobs, they use what’s called “discretionary effort.” This means they’re not just working for a paycheck or a promotion, but on behalf of your organization’s goals. If you’re mindlessly filling your employment voids with faceless job seekers who have no “skin in the game,” then you’re going to suffer the consequences of high turnover and low engagement.
You want your employees to go the extra mile for your company, right? That means you have to go the extra mile to find the right candidates in the first place. The good news, though, is that you don’t have to do it alone.
Partnering with a professional staffing agency to handle your recruitment process and employee transitions not only saves you money, but it also ensures that you’re strengthening your organization with engaged employees … not uninspired and unenthused job seekers.
The engaged employee is your biggest asset.
Engaged employees bring better business outcomes. There is tons of research out there from companies like Towers Watson and Kenexa that prove this: Engaged workers have 6% higher net profit margins; engaged companies have five times higher shareholder returns over five years; etc., etc.
Do a simple online search and you’ll come up with a mountain of similar statistics that tout the importance of employee engagement, but the main takeaway is simple: You want employees who care about your company, who want to go that extra mile and who stick around.
Still not convinced? Here’s how the flow from engagement to profitability goes:
Engaged employees à higher service, quality and productivity à higher customer satisfaction à increased sales through repeat business and referrals à high profit levels and shareholder returns.
So how does a placement agency fit in?
When you partner with the right staffing firm – the one dedicated to getting the best people on board for your company – it’s much easier and much more cost-effective to find those engaged employees.
1. Their staffing experts dig deep and show respect.
Finding that perfect candidate demands a more personalized effort than flipping through a stack of resumes or clicking through LinkedIn profiles. Personality, productivity style, workplace environment, company culture and co-worker chemistry all play their own crucial roles in determining a candidate’s fit for your company.
A professional staffing firm knows this and makes it a point to put the right employee in the right position (every time) by dedicating themselves to the following staffing standards:
- Getting to know your company: its team, its culture, what makes it tick
- Listening to, observing and breaking down the challenges that your organization faces
- Customizing their staffing solutions around your specific needs
- Treating both candidates and employees with fairness and respect
- Working their hardest to provide opportunities for safe and stable employment
- Finding that perfect fit that satisfies tangible needs, fulfills personal goals and paves a path to his or her long-term success for job seekers
2. Their staffing experts screen for performance.
If you don’t put the time in to do things right, you’ll end up paying to fix it later. This is why it (literally) pays to take background checks so seriously. A professional staffing firm carries out all the appropriate pre-screening practices, catered to your company’s hiring criteria and compliance needs.
3. Their staffing experts are well immersed in a robust candidate pool.
A premium staffing agency builds its reputation on the integrity of its professional staffing strategists, the efficiency of its recruitment process and methodologies and the quality of its staffing services. This commitment to excellence allows them to tap into and retain a remarkable reservoir of the most qualified and respected candidates for your company.
- They get constant (and authentic!) referrals from current and previous employees who have utilized their services to make headway in their professional lives.
- Their team members are active and ingrained in their communities, opening up an organic network for uncovering top talent and generating an expansive candidate pool of high-performance applicants.
4. Their staffing experts save you time and money.
All this talk about employee engagement gets “soft and squishy” after a while. But by targeting those engaged candidates with that professional placement agency, you’re making tangible boosts to your bottom line.
- You’re provided with dependable employees who reduce those costs from tireless turnover and training.
- You’re freed from the burdens of recruitment – which involves significant time and attention to detail – to pursue more profitable and growth-driving projects.
- HR outsourcing takes the administrative costs of onboarding, payroll, project management and consultative services off your company’s balance sheet.
- They equip you with comprehensive employee safety training and awareness to minimize risk and workers’ comp liability.
Ready to shut the revolving door of tireless temp turnover, put a cap on recruitment costs and, most importantly, get the best people on board for your company? Click the button below to learn more about high-performance staffing solutions with The Performance Group.