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A common idea is to assume that only big multinational companies outsource their recruitment process to professional staffing agencies. This is not true, as thousands of small and medium-sized businesses, employ the services of staffing agencies in the recruitment of their staff. Regardless of the size of your company, there is a lot to gain from using a staffing agency, whether you are looking for full-time staff or temporary workers. Below are five major benefits of leveraging the services of a professional staffing agency.

1. Expertise:

When you employ the services of a professional staffing agency, you get expertise in your recruitment. You are successful in your business because you know it like the back of your hand, you are experienced at what you do. You deliver quality products and services to your clients. Now, transfer this idea into a staffing agency. The business of a staffing agency is recruitment. They know it like the back of their hand, they know the ins and outs and the rules of the game.

A professional staffing agency knows your market, they know where to find the best staff for your establishment. They are well aware of recruitment best practices and laws guiding hiring, some of which you may not even know.

2. Saves time:

This is one of the key purposes of any form of outsourcing, to save time. Time is essential, every hour that passes without you doing what directly profits your business is time lost. Rather than spend valuable time searching for and interviewing hundreds of potential candidates for a position, you can spend that time doing something else, having transferred that burden to a professional. What you would be left with is to make a final decision from the pool of screened candidates.

3. Saves money:

Every business owner always looks for ways to cut down on cost. Employing the services of a staffing agency can be one of the avenues for cutting down on cost and saving money. When you use a professional staffing agency, you can be assured of getting the best of workers, this would mean that you would spend less on staff development and training as well as turnover.

4. Reduces risk:

Hiring is an art, there are risks involved if done incorrectly. Hiring the wrong candidate can cost you and your business a lot of money. Then you will have to go all out again to find a replacement, increasing cost. Using a professional staffing agency tremendously reduces the risk of hiring a wrong candidate. The agencies’ reputation is on the line, so they would do their utmost best to verify and screen all candidates, before arriving at any conclusion.

5. Focus:

Using in-house human resources staff for your hiring process typically overburdens this staff and burns them out too quickly. Because they typically will have more than one area of responsibility. Whereas, a hiring agency is focused on nothing but delivering quality candidates for your workforce.