The U.S. job market is still a volatile mess for most employers. Every employment sector faces challenges finding talent, from big tech to marine and industrial. Fortunately, many companies now understand that their best chances of hiring rest with their partnerships with direct hire recruiting service companies. What can a direct hire staffing agency do for your business? If you’ve been sitting on the fence about partnering with direct hire staffing agencies, read on as the recruiters from CTR share their insight.
How Does a Direct Hire Staffing Agency Work?
If you consider a staffing agency, you probably assume they handle job placement for temporary workers. Many of them do. But a uniquely critical part of almost every company’s employment model is direct hires, those full- or part-time workers that serve as the backbone of your production line. Staffing agencies also provide this permanent workforce for clients, making them an even more indispensable part of your hiring strategy. The industry calls it direct hire recruiting services. How does it work?
First, understand that most recruiting firms can find talent for several types of employment models, from temporary to permanent. However, a unique subset within the staffing field is called direct hire recruiters. Direct hire staffing agencies source, make connections and hire top talent for permanent placement at your company. These skills make direct hire firms an important part of your core business strategy, whether you have retention issues or if you are trying to scale.
Direct hire recruiting services is also called direct placement. How does it work? Say your company needs to hire a permanent worker but can’t find who you need. Finding talent is a full-time job now, so you may not have the resources to proactively search for talent. The job market also makes the need for partnering with an outside agency very common; there are more than 11 million open roles as we write this. NBC News points out this is the highest volume of job openings that we have ever seen in this country.
These are two of the most common reasons companies turn to a direct hire staffing agency. But what can direct hire recruiters do for you, and perhaps more importantly, can you afford them? The answer to that last question is: Can you afford not to partner with a company that can:
- Proactively look for specialized talent.
- Build your brand by creating a better candidate experience.
- Handoff several pre-vetted, qualified, and engaged candidates to your hiring team.
- Negotiate and close the hiring process.
The idea of direct hire recruiting services is that companies like CTR Group partner with your internal teams to find good talent fast. Their efforts can lower your time to hire and alleviate some of the pressure you’re feeling to bring on talent. The cost to you is a finder’s fee that is either a flat rate or a percentage of the candidate’s salary. Even better—we’re so confident of our results that we put our fee at risk—you only pay if you’re satisfied with our work.
How can direct hire recruiters help your company?
Benefits of Direct Hire Staffing
Direct hire staffing agencies are wildly popular across industry sectors. Each year, these firms log more than 16 million successful hires. That’s an amazing statistic for any company struggling to find talent. How can direct hire recruiters like CTR Group help your business?
#1 Increase Employee Retention
The longer a job goes unfilled, the more stress it places on the teams waiting for you to fill the staffing gap. This overwork and stress can wreak havoc on your company in the form of current employees that quit. It happens all the time. But what if you could improve the time it takes to find and hire talent? Getting someone on board and trained will lessen the stress felt by your existing teams. That’s how direct hire recruiting services can impact employee retention.
#2 Attract More Experienced Candidates
Today, the best candidates don’t apply because they’re employed elsewhere. The more experienced they are. the more they’re in demand. Direct hire recruiters start conversations with these passive candidates to engage them in considering your company. Being proactive opens the door to a higher level of candidates. Too, direct hire staffing agencies work hard to understand the opportunities and culture at your company. Firms like CTR Group learn what advancement potential and other perks your company has to offer, so we can engage very experienced candidates—and entice them away from your competitors.
#3 Direct Hires Can Grow with Your Company
You can transform your company with direct hire recruiting services. Contract workers are great for solving an immediate need, but direct hires are there for the long haul, making them not only your employees but also your culture, history, and family. Permanent employees have “skin in the game,” meaning they are investing in growing with your company. Don’t trust finding this type of long-term worker to just any direct hire staffing agency. CTR Group has a track record of finding unique hires that fit our clients beyond the job requirement. We look for both soft and hard skills as well as the right fit candidate to build your business.
Whether building your business or replacing existing positions, CTR Group works hard to find the candidates you need when you need them the most. How does this help you achieve a competitive advantage in a field crowded with job openings?
Advantages of Using Direct Hire Recruiting Services
Top companies leverage direct hire recruiters because there are unique advantages to partnering with these firms. Here are three of them.
#1 Fill Permanent Positions Faster
If you’re like most companies, you have many jobs to fill. Time is of the essence. Job openings affect production. Open jobs put more pressure on existing teams. The faster you fill an opening, the better it is for everyone. But it’s a high stakes process that you don’t want to rush because it’s also detrimental to hire the wrong person to a team. At the same time, if you’re relying on HR to fill open roles, it creates more challenges. How many tasks do your HR teams handle? Many times, hiring is a function of your HR department who is already tasked with everything from onboarding to termination, payroll, training, and so much more. One advantage of using direct hire recruiting is that they are singularly focused on one thing—finding talent. This singular focus means that the staffing service you partner with will have more success finding talent faster than your HR team can. There is, however, a secret that makes these firms far more effective than your HR team.
#2 Access a Network of Top Talent
Direct hire recruiting services proactively engage in searching for top quality, highly skilled resources. This is a long-term process that, over years, can build robust pipelines of skilled talent. The secret recruiting technique that direct hire staffing agencies use to find your talent quickly is their daily focus on networking with talent. These networks are active, meaning, direct hire recruiters engage with these job candidates every day. These deep relationships yield industry experts to fill your open job. The advantage for your company is the immediate access to these networks which often connect you to candidates immediately
#3 Direct Hire Agencies are Cost Effective
Direct hire recruiters like CTR Group are highly efficient in their approach to maximizing the dollars you spend on finding talent. Our teams work within a highly driven production environment, where we carefully track the efforts of our teams to ensure you get your money’s worth. But ours is a turnkey operation where we handle all of the technology costs to find candidates (one LinkedIn Recruiter seat costs around $10,000). We handle posting to job boards (expensive!) and all of the overhead associated with the employment of a full cycle recruiting team. By partnering with our team, you have the immediate benefits of our networks, our proven processes, and our technologies to help you source and hire talent. Our work, literally, pays for itself.
Many clients that partner with direct hire recruiting services do not have the resources to devote 100% of their time to finding talent. These days, that’s exactly the kind of effort it takes to fill all of your open jobs. There are too many competing jobs and companies trying to draw from the same talent pools. You need a competitive edge. That’s the number one advantage to hiring a qualified, experienced direct hire staffing firm like CTR Group.
Partner with the Nation’s Top Direct Hire Staffing Agency – CTR Group
We know you have dozens of choices when partnering with direct hire recruiters. CTR Group is the nation’s leading full-service staffing firm, with niche experience in some of the most challenging hiring areas in the Virginia market:
Why would you trust your search for high-quality direct hires to any other agency? Find out why our clients keep coming back to us year after year—some of them for decades! Contact us today to find the help you need tomorrow.