Uncertainty in the US economy over the last several years has created growth in staffing industry –and with good reason. Staffing provides businesses with access to flexible, skilled talent with none of the risk of adding permanent headcount.

Increasingly, businesses look to staffing for the following benefits:

• Flexibility. Staffing firms provide workers for short or long term assignments. Need clerical help to cover the front desk because your receptionist has the flu? Entering your seasonal crunch time and need a  large number of reliable workers fast? Planning a software rollout and need technical specialists for six months or a year to manage the transition? Your staffing agency is there to help.
• Access to talent. The best staffing agencies have a large talent network. For specialized or tough-to-fill positions, your staffing partner can tap a network of prescreened talent or proactively recruit experts who may not be currently looking for a job. You can’t recruit people away from your competitor, but your staffing agency can.
• Time savings. In a stagnant economy, the long-term unemployed may apply for just about any position, leaving businesses with stacks of resumes from unqualified candidates. Don’t waste your time sifting through resumes looking for just the right candidate –let your staffing partner take care of that for you.
• Prescreened talent. Interviewing  candidates for open positions takes time and resources that can be better spent elsewhere. Don’t interview unvetted candidates. Your staffing partner can  run background checks, conduct initial interviews and provide you with just a select few people to interview for any role you need to fill.
• Reduced administration. Temporary employees remain on the payroll of the staffing firm. Your HR team won’t have to set up payroll or provide benefits for the new hires, as it all runs through the staffing firm. Many firms even offer services that include onboarding new hires and managing contingent workers on-site.
• Less risk. Opt for temporary-to hire solutions.  You’ll have the change to evaluate an employee on the job before extending an offer and reduce the risk of making costly hiring mistakes.

Staffing offer businesses the opportunity to hire and pay for only the help they need. It’s a cost effective method to get skilled, talent flexible talent to help you reach your business goals.

For more information on how a staffing can benefit your organization, contact ExactStaff today!