5 Benefits of Hiring an Engineering Staffing Firm

If you are running a large-sized engineering services operation, you will most likely have to recruit an engineering staffing firm.

An engineering staffing firm typically simplifies the process of recruiting and onboarding talent by:

• Having access to a quality talent pool.
• Reducing the time and resources required to sift through a maze of applications or conduct a search in a crowded job market.
• Helping cut recruitment costs.

5 Key advantages

1. Identifying talent that is the right fit

Usually, companies have clearly defined job descriptions for each role that they are trying to fill. But recruitment goes beyond matching qualifications and skill sets with job descriptions. What is the cultural fit of the candidate? Engineers may most likely excel with technical skills. But what is their attitude like? Will they align with the organization’s values? And what interpersonal skills do these candidates have?

A good engineering staffing firm will go that extra mile to help you find the people that are the right fit for your organization.

2. Connect you with talent that you can’t always find immediately

HR managers often hire from a candidate pool that has been created by advertising on job portals and through social media. But good engineers are not actively looking out for opportunities in the job market. They are probably content with being where they are. So, engineering staffing firms go beyond the traditional job market and help you identify and recruit candidates whose resumes are not floating around.

Astute engineering staffing firms are well-networked. They know where talent is sitting. And so they look in places where you would be unable to look or normally not look. This results in quality recruitment.

3. They add value by embellishing your job descriptions

Agility, sharpness of skill, and problem-solving. These are key traits of versatility that engineers must possess today. Often, job descriptions of positions for engineers misspell these qualities. Your engineering staffing firm will likely guide you to embellish and upgrade your job descriptions and connect you with candidates who bring these valuable qualities to the table. Sometimes, through your engineering staffing firm, you may find high-end freelancers who will be ready to work for your organization on a part-time basis.

4. Making hiring seamless and swift

When you are recruiting people in droves, particularly engineers, you may just end up getting stuck at various stages of the process. Either finding the right person is taking time, or making an offer to them is, or they are taking time making up their mind. A robust recruitment process must be seamless and swift. A good engineering staffing firm as a partner will help you here. They understand the need for speed. And they value your satisfaction; so they will not compromise on the quality of recruitment.

5. Partner in progress

When you outsource engineer recruitment to an engineering staffing firm, don’t think of them as a vendor. Make them your partners in progress. When you empower them with clarity of thought and share your organization’s vision with them, a good firm often creates great value as your partner.

Most importantly, treat them as your extended hiring arm. So, choose a firm whose values align with your organization’s. When the values align, the two companies end up working very well together. To use cricketing parlance, there is then good running between the wickets.

Also, choose a small firm that has an aggressive growth-oriented leader heading it. That way, your company will be a trophy client for such a firm. Then the firm’s leader will personally invest time in understanding your company’s needs. Because when your staffing needs are met and your business grows, so too does the engineering staffing firm.

The most intangible, and often invisible, cost an organization incurs is in the form of managerial stress. When managers are stretched and are working overtime to meet recruitment targets, there is huge stress on the processes and systems. The quality of work begins to be impacted. And, in this case, it impacts the quality of manpower being recruited. Bad recruitment can prove costly in more than a few ways. This is why it is imperative that organizations outsource engineering staffing recruitment.

When you decide to engage an engineering staffing firm, invest time and opportunity in entrepreneurs that have a sense of purpose. When a partner firm works purposefully, they deliver high-quality work. Having such a partner is better than having an in-house team of recruiters and hiring managers. It saves costs and frees up quality time from having to manage people on your payroll. And, undoubtedly, it saves your organization considerable stress.

Conclusion

When you make an engineering staffing firm responsible and accountable for fulfilling your recruitment strategy, you are insulating your organization on several fronts. You are managing for results fundamentally; and not just people and processes. Second, a slowing economy will not affect your cost structure and profitability in case you decide to slow down recruitment plans. Third, if speed is what you need, a good partner firm can rev up quickly and rise to the challenge. And finally, if quality talent is what you need to bring on board, a well-networked engineering staffing firm knows exactly where to go find them.