subject: Solutions Offered Through Direct Hire Services [print this page] Direct hire involves recruitment of staff for long-term needs of the client organizations. There is no dearth of talent in the employment market with numerous candidates with good qualifications and expertise/experience looking for various job positions. Nevertheless, the problem arises about how to choose or discover these talents that fits well with the work culture and ethics of the concerned organization. The staffing agencies are here to help organizations in finding the right talent through their direct hire services. There are different recruitment solutions being offered by staffing agencies, as each recruitment technique is different for hiring traditional temporary and contract staffing.
The staffing agencies make easier for companies to sail through the labor and time intensive activities related to the hiring process by acting as an extension of their own recruiting and hiring efforts. The main objective of these staffing agencies is to find the right person for the right position and work culture of the concerned client organization. The following solutions are usually offered under direct hire services by a staffing agency:
---Searching and Placement Solutions: Majority of staffing agencies indulges in searching and placing the right talent at the right time through their highly refined search expertise or techniques. They target for an elite set of talent in case of professional placements for senior level positions such as Vice President, CEO, CFO, CIOs etc. in various sectors like engineering, finance, accounting, information technology, manufacturing. Some of the staffing agencies enter into a variety of flexible partnership arrangements or options with their client organizations that are based on numerous factors to ensure mutual benefits. Some of the partnership options include:
--Retained Search,
--Contingent Search,
--Engaged search that is based on a hybrid search arrangement combining the best features of contingent and retained search.
--- Value search solutions: Some of the staffing agencies provide staffing solutions at the entry level and support positions in response to their client organizations demand for an economical approach. In this arrangement, the staffing agency would take time to know the clients culture and needs and will do the hard work of sourcing from a broad range of sources and then qualify, screen and interview all the candidates prior to the presentation. One of the staff recruiters of the concerned staffing agency performs the whole process.
---Consultative partner solutions: In addition to the normal direct hire solutions offered, there are staffing agencies that go beyond than just as a transactional talent supplier. They act as a consultative partner, are not satisfied until, and unless the new hires fully merge into their new roles. In the role of consultative partner, these agencies value their client organization as an individual irrespective of the size of their (client organization) business. These are some of the direct hire solutions offered by staffing agencies.
