How to Select a Staffing Firm
In today's rapidly changing business climate, efficiency and effectiveness are crucial to your organization's survival. This means you must have the right person for the job—any job—whether that job is temporary or permanent. America's staffing companies can help you find the best talent—for any job—when you need it.
Today's staffing employee might be a highly trained nurse at one of our nation's finest hospitals, or a lawyer researching a big case. He could be a skilled technician, engineer, project manager, or scientist. She could be a truck driver, administrative assistant, medical technician, accountant, or architect. And he or she could be an interim CEO or CFO for a company in transition.
Staffing firms nationwide collectively employ an average of 2.9 million workers daily across all industries, providing work force flexibility and access to talent to businesses like yours. They also offer competitive wages and benefits to attract the best talent, and provide free training to millions of temporary, contract, and permanent employees each year.
How do you, as a business owner or executive, stand to gain? According to a major survey conducted for the American Staffing Association, companies use staffing employees for two principal reasons: flexibility and access to talent.
You'll Profit From Work Force Flexibility
Nine out of 10 business customers rated flexibility as an important reason to use staffing companies, saying it keeps them fully staffed during busy times. Whether it's a temporary job lasting a few hours or several years—or a permanent job placement—America's staffing companies allow businesses to adjust their work forces to meet their ever-changing needs.
There are three main types of job placements in the staffing industry:
- Temporary or contract, where you add a staffing employee on an interim basis
- Temp-to-perm or temp-to-hire, where you add a staffing employee until you're sure a spike in business will sustain itself or you want to make sure you have the right candidate for the job—if so, he or she becomes your employee
- Direct hire or permanent, where you tell the staffing firm what you're looking for, it selects candidates for interviews, and you hire the best one