The five major benefits of hiring an Engineering Staffing Agency

Staffing agencies often play a critical role in any organization. Many companies will hire a recruitment agency so that they do not have to deal with hundreds of applications. 

More and more candidates specialised in engineering are applying for the same role, and this isn’t likely to change anytime soon. Companies simply don’t have the time to sift through a high volume of applications. This is where engineering staffing firms come in. 

Staffing agencies should provide companies with a recruitment process that suits clients’ needs, with the goal of reducing the time needed to source, interview, and hire the perfect candidates. 

As an engineering hiring agency, TRS Staffing Solutions specialises in the sourcing of professionals, engineers, and technical personnel. As the recruitment industry continues to grow and evolve, the importance of staffing agencies remains paramount. Staffing agencies have a deeper relationship and understanding with the talent community that clients are targeting. That’s not the only benefit of working with engineering staffing firms, however. We’ve put together 5 benefits for you to keep in mind when selecting a staffing agency.

Working with engineering staffing firms: the 5 major benefits

1) Experienced Recruitment Consultants

Hiring managers, internal employment specialists, or recruitment managers may require a lengthy recruiting period to find qualified employees. Staffing agencies provide services that significantly reduce the time an internal team would take and at a lower comparable cost. 

Staffing agency consultants generally have a high level of expertise relating to job knowledge, employment trends, and recruitment practices by virtue of dealing with a diverse range of customer requirements. 

The best consultants will have their finger on the pulse of the industry and can give the hiring team insight into what is currently happening in the market. They should know the best available talent, how to reach out to them, salary rates, career expectations, available skill sets, and current hiring complexities. 

Additionally, many consultants are highly productive as their remuneration is linked to their ability to meet customer requirements in the shortest possible timeframe.

2) Budget

The long-term benefits of hiring a staffing agency can significantly improve time management and budgets in your company.

Calculating how valuable the employee is to your business can put the cost of hiring a candidate through the recruitment agency into perspective. As staffing agencies manage the entire employment process, they also relieve employers of costs related to pre-employment testing, background investigations, and drug screening. In addition, employers save money in areas such as payroll processing and benefits administration. Smaller employers find that they can rely on staffing agencies to provide them with qualified employees at remarkable savings.

A staffing agency can offer an employer a lower cost base when recruiting a volume of temporary and/or contingent employees. The employer’s HR department often expands as their business grows, requiring additional employees; internal labour cost rises as a result. However, the cost of using a staffing agency to find temporary or permanent staff will not rise as fast because temporary rates or permanent fees (for each candidate hired) will be less than the cost of taking on one or more internal recruiters. 

Furthermore, when an employer’s business contract is due to fall in demand, the employer will still be paying for their internal recruitment department. It may be difficult for them to reduce headcount and they may incur high redundancy costs.

3) Network

Staffing agencies have a larger network of candidates than employers do; sometimes, this network extends worldwide. 

Employers looking to hire seasonal workers, for example, would need to advertise job openings, interview candidates, and process new hire documentation for a relatively short period of employment. Staffing agencies, on the other hand, will have established relationships with workers they’ve already identified as dependable, reliable, and conscientious and who can fill a vacancy in a matter of days— in short, they know how to get results. 

The network that staffing agencies maintain is a broad one from which they can tap potential employees who can fill any position an employer might have or anticipate. Agencies have many networks. Each consultant and their network of contacts provide a potential to leverage them, helping the employer connect to a large number of diverse people with a range of skills and experiences (many of whom would not be visible to the internal team).

4) Candidate sourcing

Employers that engage the services of staffing agencies for temporary employees receive an opportunity to observe employee performance, qualifications, and work habits over a trial period. 

This process reduces ‘new hire’ turnover as the temporary trial period is used to evaluate performance. Using staffing agencies in this way can result in significant savings in employment costs, for example investment in time, training and supporting needs.

5) Time

Simply put, using a recruitment agency saves time. 

The hiring process can be very time-consuming, especially in the initial stages of sorting through applications. With so many people applying for the same position, it is understandable for an employer to want to avoid this part of the process. Agencies often have an already defined set of candidates to approach.

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