When you’re continually struggling to find talented, well-aligned candidates for your job, it can be difficult to know what to do to correct the problem. It’s never easy to know whether the issue lies with candidates in your market, skill gaps in your industry, your own internal hiring process, or something else.
That’s where a staffing and recruiting services partnership comes into play. If you’ve never used a staffing and recruiting partner, you may wonder just what value these services bring to the table or how they can benefit you. Toss out your preconceived notions about what a job placement agency can do and consider these six reasons why you not only need a staffing partner, but you need Dunhill Staffing as your partner for 2021.
1. Inside Recruiter Expertise
When you choose the right staffing and recruiting services partner, it’s important to choose a company that has expertise in your industry or in the roles for which you need to staff. This becomes even more crucial when you are recruiting for roles that require specific expertise or difficult-to-find skills.
Inside recruiter expertise is necessary because recruiters who focus on very specific niches have deep connections in the industries they serve. They know where to find talent, they know what that talent is looking for in a new opportunity, and they can tailor a search process designed to attract the caliber of candidate you are looking for.
At Dunhill Staffing, we are a recruiting and temp agency in Charleston that specializes in technical and engineering, office and clerical, aircraft, accounting and finance, sales, information technology and executive searches. Our specialized expertise helps employers in both the public and private sectors gain a competitive advantage through talent.
2. Streamline Your Hiring
A hiring process that is slow, complex, disjointed and suffers from poor communication will cost you high-quality candidates. If you are consistently finding that candidates drop out of the hiring process, if you have lots of abandoned applications, or if you feel like you’re not attracting the right candidates, your hiring process could be to blame. Take stock of your process to see if it could be impacting your ability to recruit top talent.
- What is your application process like? If your application is too long, complex or asks for highly personal information like SSN, candidates will opt out before they submit their information. Test the process yourself by applying for a job. Time yourself from the moment you click “apply” to the moment you click “send.” Notice areas that frustrate you. Does it ask for SSN? Other personal information? Can you save your application and return to it later? If you feel burdened by the application process, applicants probably feel the same.
- How quickly do you move from close date to screening? If it takes you weeks to move from closing the application process to begin screening, potential candidates will lose interest. Set a firm close date and shoot for making your first calls at least two days later.
- Do you stick to your timeline? If you have to push back decision-making at each round of the interview process, you will also lose candidates. It is crucial to stick to your timeline so that potential candidates don’t assume you haven’t chosen them.
- Communicate throughout: Reach out to candidates who are still in the running to keep them informed of changes in the timeline. Poor communication sends the message you do not value the candidate, so take a few minutes to keep them in the loop.
Streamlining your hiring process isn’t always easy. It can take a long time to revamp your application and get stakeholders on board with committing to timelines. That’s where a job search agency can help. Recruiting firms move swiftly because they are focused on filling your roles. They keep in touch with their candidates throughout the process to ensure not only efficiency, but also to keep candidates engaged and interested in your jobs.
Dunhill Staffing can help you streamline your hiring process. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, we serve clients across the country, helping them expedite the hiring process without ever sacrificing quality.
3. Access to Top Talent
Does it ever seem like there just isn’t enough strong talent in your niche or local area? For internal hiring teams, it can take weeks, if not months or even longer to find the right people for your open roles. This is another area where an experienced recruiting and temp agency can help. The right partner can actually transform your talent acquisition strategy, making you a magnet for exceptional employees.
When you work with an expert staffing and recruiting firm, you get immediate access to that team’s robust network of highly qualified and vetted candidates. Many of the people in that network are the coveted passive candidates – people who are employed and not actively looking for a job but who would make a move if the right opportunity came along. A solid staffing partner should bring to the table:
- A robust network of qualified active and passive candidates
- A proven methodology to expedite the hiring process
- A reputation for providing exceptional service and results
- Comprehensive service options customizable to your needs
- A documentable track record for placing skilled people
If you are ready to expand your talent pool and access the top talent in your industry, work with Dunhill. We have a robust network of screened, vetted and verified talent ready for new challenges, and if we don’t already know the right person, we will quickly go and find them.
4. Flexible Hiring Solutions
Recruiting and hiring is not a one-size-fits-all function. Your business is unique and has its own sets of goals, strengths and challenges. What you need in terms of staffing today may not be what you need next year or even next month.
Recruiting services firms and temp agencies provide you with flexible options that can be tailored to your unique needs. They should never try to pigeonhole you into a single solution. They should assess your needs and challenges and design a solution that speaks to your specific business.
Flexible hiring solutions can include things like:
- Temporary and contract staffing: Your workflow changes. Temporary and contract staffing solutions let you stay fully staffed and productive, matching your workforce to your workload on demand. You can ramp up quickly to meet high demand and scale back down and control costs when demand slows back down.
- Temp-to-hire or contract-to-hire staffing: Hiring always comes with some level of risk, but temporary-to-hire and contract-to-hire services allow you to assess a potential new employee in your working environment before committing to a full-time job offer
- Recruiting: When you need a full-time employee, manager or leader, a staffing and recruiting partner can conduct extensive candidate searches, in-depth interviews, conduct assessments and present qualified and well-aligned candidates poised to make an impact on your organization.
- Recruitment process outsourcing: This service meets the needs of growing companies that do not have an existing formal or scalable recruiting process. The recruiting firm works with you to determine the skillsets you need and take ownership of the talent acquisition pipeline, managing it from sourcing through their new hire onboarding process.
As a Dunhill Staffing partner, you don’t pay us unless you hire a candidate we refer. Our 24-step recruiting process has been tested and proven to deliver results. We only present candidates that meet or exceed your expectations and requirements because our goal isn’t to send you the most resumes, it’s to find you the right fit.
5. Optimize Revenue Per Employee
You know how costly a bad hire can be. But do you know how costly it can be to hire someone when you don’t need to? Or, conversely, how costly it can be not to hire when your core team is stretched thin and overworked?
If you are unsure whether you should or should not hire, it’s necessary to look at revenue per employee (RPE). This metric allows you to measure employee productivity, and you calculate it by:
- 12-month revenue/ # of full-time employees (FTEs) = RPE
So if you have 50 full-time employees and your 12-month revenue is $5 million, you’d calculate:
- $5 million / 50 = $100,000
So, your business would be producing $100,000 in sales per employee. Once you have that number, you can begin to use it as a tool to help you plan staffing needs.
First, research what the optimal RPE is for a company of your size in your industry. You can do this research at your local small business development center or online. Then, you can begin to adjust your targets.
If you should be producing $150,000 RPE, set a range at which you staff up or down. If you fall below $125,000 RPE, you may have to think about reducing staff. If you go above $175,000, you need to add staff. It is important to revisit RPE every single quarter. The first year, you should get a baseline for any seasonal, short-term fluctuations, but if you see a trend, you can take action.
Working with RPE to help you determine staffing needs allows you to make business-driven hiring decisions rather than relying on your gut to tell you it’s time to hire. This metric also makes it easier to get buy-in from leaders because it is a solid metric that is easy to understand and communicate.
If you are unsure how to leverage RPE effectively for staffing, or if you want to use other metrics to make business-driven hiring decisions, the experts at Dunhill Staffing will help. Our team works with businesses to strategically plan staffing, recruiting, and hiring to proactively keep up with demand, ensuring maximum productivity and profitability.
6. Reduce Employee Turnover Rates
High turnover has a real impact on an organization. As previously noted, it can cost anywhere from $4,000 to four times an employee’s salary to replace them, depending on what type of role you are filling. Unfortunately, turnover impacts businesses of all sizes and in all industries. You could be the best-run and most employee-focused company in Charleston, but you will still be impacted by turnover. Managing it and reducing it requires hiring and nurturing employees who are well-aligned with the company culture, who are engaged in their work and who feel a sense of loyalty to the organization.
One of the most effective ways to manage turnover is to partner with an expert recruiting services and temp agency in Charleston. A professional staffing partner can help you reduce costly turnover rates and keep productivity high, even if you lose someone now and then. The right staffing partner can help by:
- Filling vacancies quickly: Finding the right person for a role takes a great deal of time, especially if you do not have a database of active and passive candidates you can draw from. A temp agency can help in two ways. First, they can fill a role with a contract or temporary employee while you search for a permanent replacement. Or they can conduct the direct hire search for you. They have a database of pre-screened and vetted candidates who are ready and waiting for the right opportunity. The agency takes time to understand your culture, skill needs and goals and matches you to the best candidates for the job, and they can fill those roles often in a matter of days or weeks, as opposed to months.
- Conducting thorough searches: Don’t mistake speed for cutting corners. A skilled job search agency will ensure that every box is checked on your list of needs and wants. They can identify the attributes of potential candidates to ensure they are only recommending those who are right for your company.
- Reduces hiring risk: Working with a staffing agency significantly reduces hiring risk. Most companies offer guarantees or replacement services that allow you to end the relationship with an employee quickly if they are not working out. Many also offer temporary-to-hire or contract-to–hire services that let you test an employee on the job before committing to a full-time hire.
- Hiring for total alignment: The most skilled employee in the world will not last if they do not thrive in your company culture or buy into your company mission and vision. A recruitment services firm hires with total fit in mind because they know that in order to do their best work, employees must align with the culture of the organization.
- Providing onboarding and preparation: A staffing company has no reason to mislead candidates about what it will be like to work with your company. If the employee isn’t a fit, it reflects poorly on the staffing firm, so they take time to prepare candidates for what they can expect. While they will sell your opportunity, they will be honest and upfront. Some job search agencies also provide a bit of onboarding prior to day one, so employees are even more prepared.
Because Dunhill staffing is focused on total fit, we can help you boost retention. Whether it’s staffing up with temporary or contract employees to reduce the burden on your core team or helping you find the right person for a full-time role, we can help ensure your business never becomes a revolving door of talent.
Partner with Dunhill Staffing Today!
You don’t need to struggle with staffing and recruiting. With Dunhill, you can always have access to the right talent at the right time. To learn more about the ways we can help you gain a competitive edge through talent, contact the expert team at Dunhill Staffing today.
