12 Reasons To Use an Employment Agency to Help With Hiring

What is one reason to use an employment agency to help with hiring?

To help businesses discover the benefits of using employment agencies, we asked hiring managers and recruiters this question for their best insights. From scaling up to focusing your time where it matters, there are several reasons why employers should use an employment agency to assist with the hiring process.

Here are 12 reasons to use an employment agency to help with hiring:

Scale Up Quickly and Find Niche Skills
Cost and Time Efficiencies
Access to Valuable Insights
Leverage Marketing to Attract Quality Candidates
Expansive Candidate Pool
Finding Quality Short Term Employees
Thorough Background Checks
No More Poor Hiring Decisions
Reduce Hiring Risks
Fast Access to New Talent Sources
Dedicated to Finding the Top-quality Candidates
Focus Your Time Where It Matters, Outsource the Rest

Scale Up Quickly and Find Niche Skills

Employment agencies can help organizations scale up quickly by adding a significant volume of qualified candidates compared to in-house resources. There are only so many hours in a day and postings jobs, reviewing resumes, pre-screening candidates, conducting second and third-round interviews, and recruiting all take valuable chunks of time. Employment agencies can help alleviate these bottlenecks by quickly bringing forward candidates they know will be a match.

Similarly, it can be difficult to find niche skills and expertise with specific tools or processes. Professionals with specialized skill sets are often highly sought after and may not respond to regular hiring practices due to demand. An employment agency maintains relationships with hard-to-hire talent allowing for quick introductions.

Colton De Vos, Resolute Technology Solutions

Cost and Time Efficiencies

The hiring process can take up significant amounts of time, energy, and money. However, if you use an employment agency, you can focus on running your business while others handle the time-consuming task of finding and screening candidates. They will work with your goals and company culture in mind, ensuring the candidates are a good fit for your organization.

Jon Schneider, Recruiterie

Access to Valuable Insights

Working with an employment agency to expand your team can grant you access to valuable insights about particular candidates or even the job market at large. This is because recruiters can do a deeper dive into the backgrounds, experience, and cultural alignment of candidates than you could on your own. This information ultimately enables you to make smarter hiring decisions and can help over the course of the entire employee lifecycle.

Ryan Nouis, TruPath

Leverage Marketing to Attract Quality Candidates

Employment agencies apply digital marketing strategies, such as SEO and advertisement, to the talent acquisition process. Targeted advertising generates a pipeline of quality candidates and helps HR departments to manage their time and resources appropriately. Furthermore, the agencies will help the company build an engaging employment brand and provide a good candidate experience.

Rebeca Sena, GetSpace.digital

Expansive Candidate Pool

Using an employment agency significantly expands the talent pool you can tap into. With an employment agency like ours, you’re not limited to candidates in just one city, one state, or even one country. An outsourcing agency like C9 can help you find the right people wherever they happen to be, and can handle the administrative work, too. An employment agency is a strong ally in building a more diverse, flexible team.

Stephanie Tanhueco, C9 Staff

Finding Quality Short-Term Employees

Due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19, many companies are experiencing a need to fill vacant roles quickly. Whether it be due to maternity leave, illness, or leaves of absences, there are many staffing agencies that provide access to quality short-term applicants that can fit quickly within your company culture.

Brandon Brown, Grin

Thorough Background Checks

The need for background checks is quite important when it comes to onboarding members since it’s the credibility of your organization that’s on the line. Luckily for you, this is something that employment agencies take very seriously, saving you precious time in the bargain. By evaluating potential candidates, an employment agency can not only give you a good idea of a candidate’s skills and experience but can also highlight their criminal background, bad credit, a questionable online reputation, etc.

Riley Beam, Douglas R. Beam, P.A.

No More Poor Hiring Decisions

We all know the situation when we spent a lot of time and hired someone we thought was perfect for the role, and after all, it turned out completely opposite. Hiring agencies are full of industry specialists in their markets and have regular insight into what is happening. These recruiters will know: how to reach out to the best available talent, salary rates, career expectations, current hiring complexities, available skill-sets, and shortages. Plus, they know where to look for the best. With all that being said, it won’t surprise you if I tell you there are way better chances to find an appropriate candidate with an agency than on your own.

Natalia Brzezinska, PhotoAiD

Reduce Hiring Risks

When you hire personnel through an employment agency, you know the details have been reviewed, analyzed, and double-checked. From initial interviews and job background checks to negotiations on possible pay scales and severance packages, an employment agency deals with all these essential questions in advance, leaving you with the option of either escalating or renegotiating any of these queries or simply signing off on the new recruitments. This process gives employers complete peace of mind because they know that the professional partnership they are paying for is enough to lay to rest any hiring risks that may have been a possibility before.

Krista Haws, Dripped Coffee

Fast Access to New Talent Sources

Employment agencies have experience working with a variety of talent pools that individual companies may not be aware of, or may not be able to use to the same effect. This makes employment agencies and recruiters particularly useful in tight hiring markets like the one we’re seeing currently because they can find talent and candidates you may not have known existed otherwise.

Jon Hill, The Energists

Dedicated to Finding the Top-quality Candidates

Professional recruiters have the bandwidth and specialist- knowledge to secure top-quality source candidates in a short space of time.

It’s no secret that the job market has become more competitive than ever before, and it’s a race against time if you want to secure the ideal candidate before a competitor snaps them up. Employment agencies have the edge in that they have access to a diverse talent pool that they can leverage quickly and efficiently.

Combined with their specialist knowledge, insight, and dedicated time, recruiters are in an ideal position to find a suitable candidate. Companies with HR departments do not have the knowledge, time, or resources to search for candidates and will inevitably miss out on securing top talent.

Archie Payne, Caltek Staffing

Focus Your Time Where It Matters, Outsource the Rest

In today’s climate of the great reorganization, Talent Acquisition teams are being stressed to unseen levels. It is not uncommon to have our teams working on more jobs than ever seen in the past.

You should look at employment agencies and 3rd party recruiters as strategic augmentations to your team. Send work to them that allows your teams to focus on work that makes an impact. For example, I would have a 3rd party doing all of my sourcing work while my internal TA representatives work with the hiring manager to understand how the open roles impact the business

Eric Torigian, CHRO Solutions

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