Grow Your Business Without Killing Your Company
How to Use a Staffing Service to Grow Your Business
When companies grow, they tend to expand in a number of different directions all at once. For example, if a manufacturing firm takes on just two new customers in a relatively short amount of time, many different areas within the company from accounting to customer service are likely to feel some growing pains.
New staff members are often needed to meet the demands of increased business or production and ensure that existing customers continue to receive the same level of quality service. With this new found growth, company managers suddenly find themselves in the market for new personnel in several departments from shipping to purchasing.
Using Staffing Services for Current Growth Management
Staffing agencies are specially equipped to help companies fulfill personnel needs without diverting managers’ time and resources away from other essential duties, relieving them from all of these additional HR responsibilities:
- Searching and advertising: Staffing agencies maintain large databases of potential employees all year long and never have to start from scratch to build a talent pool, saving time and money on job advertising and personnel searches.
- Resume screening: Recruitment pros are resume experts who can weed out unqualified candidates in no time. By accessing specific parameters within their extensive database, they can prepare a relatively short list of only the most qualified candidates whose salary requirements fit within the company’s predetermined range.
- Interviewing: Scheduling and conducting interviews is a days-long process that can be complicated by legal issues. Staffing services know precisely what can and cannot be asked of job candidates.
- Skills testing: A number of different skills and personality tests can be conducted by a recruiter to find the candidate who is the best fit for the job opening.
- Negotiating: Recruiters can also manage all aspects of salary and benefit negotiations based on an individual’s company’s policies.
- Background screening: Staffing agencies have the resources available to conduct background checks, examine driving records, and verify past employment for job candidates.
- Drug testing: Staff recruitment agencies are able to help companies limit risk and liability by conducting drug testing services for clients including saliva tests, urinalysis, and hair analysis.
- New hire processing: Last but not least, the right staffing agency will be equipped to process all insurance and tax forms once a hiring decision has been made.
Using Staffing Services to Spark New Growth
Not all hiring should be reactionary, however. By anticipating and planning for growth in new areas, business owners can recruit new team members whose role within the company is to bring in new business and help foster and nurture new client relationships. Inevitably new clients will generate increased profits which can then be fed back into the company for further growth. To limit financial risks of taking on new staff, the recruiter can help managers determine whether contract employees, temporary employees, or direct hire employees will make the most suitable match.
It is fairly plain to see how staffing agencies can help companies large and small manage growth as well as work as a catalyst for new growth.
