5 Types of Staffing Services and How Staffing Agencies Work

Companies may not get the perfect hire when they need it most, when they are falling short of key members in the management or when so many of their trusted team members have left suddenly. What if they do not want to hire for those positions permanently now, but on a temporary or contract basis. Here’s where an HR consulting company makes so much sense.

A company like Alp Consulting can provide the staffing services they need. Before we go any further, let us first define staffing services.

What are Staffing Services?

Staffing services are meant to satisfy the temporary need of a company, without placing the hire on the company’s payroll. The payroll and other employee benefits will be managed by the HR consulting company that is doing the staffing service on behalf of the company.

Different Types of Staffing Services Offered by Staffing Agency

A staffing agency offers several types of staffing services, many of which became immensely popular after the pandemic. There are 5 types of staffing services, and they differ from each other based on how the hires are managed, how long they work and where they work from etc.

Contract Staffing

In contract staffing, candidates are hired to satisfy job roles based on a contract that may be for the short-term or long-term. In contract staffing, generally the hiring happens for an entire team and the team is managed by the staffing agency.

Staff Augmentation

In staff augmentation, the hiring happens just for key position(s) that need people most often for a particular project where there is a skill gap that needs to be addressed. It is most often for a short duration and hires are added to the particular project on a need-to-work basis. The individual members that are hired by the staffing agency will be managed by the outsourcing organization.

Speciality Staffing

In speciality staffing, candidates with really distinguished skills are hired to fill roles that demand this. An example of speciality staffing is legal staffing, which requires that the candidate be well-versed in law and the provisions of the constitution.

Patient Support Program

Patients do not only need treatment; they need support too. Pharmaceutical companies are well aware of this. For this reason, they have instituted patient support programs that need care-givers and therapy administrators to provide quality care to the patients, monitoring them for chronic debilitating conditions. They will also inform them how to take the medicine and manage their condition from the comfort of their homes, how frequently to visit the doctor etc.

Virtual Staffing

Virtual staffing allows companies to outsource the work to hundreds of remote workers, successfully bringing a project to completion in a highly reduced time. As with other kinds of staffing, these workers need not be given employee benefits or compensations. They can be absorbed into the company too on completion of the project if the company is happy with their work.

What are the Responsibilities of a Staffing Agency?

1. Request the company to share the candidate requirements
2. Shortlist the candidates based on demands from the company
3. Contact the candidates and conduct tests and interviews
4. Vetting the candidates by performing background checks
5. Forward the list of selected candidates to the company
6. Looking at legal issues that need to be addressed and preparing a contract
7. Imparting training to the selected candidates
8. Addressing skill gaps by providing the right training through experienced mentors

Why you need a Staffing Agency?

A staffing agency can greatly streamline the whole process of hiring candidates. Sometimes the company may have a requirement, but it is not clearly able to articulate it. An HR consulting company can help define the hiring requirement more accurately by enquiring about the talent scarcity it is facing and then suggesting techniques to tide over it.

A staffing agency can then suggest the right service that needs to be used for the given scenario and even inform the organization of the challenges that will be faced when hiring the talent. Sometimes you may not have the time for recruitment or are not sure how to manage the attrition that you are facing. In such cases too, a staffing partner can be of great assistance.

They will connect you with experts and will take much less time because of their vast network. These are just some of the benefits of opting for a staffing agency such as Alp Consulting.

Alp Consulting’s 30 years of expertise in recruitment and staffing, payroll and compliance services will put your talent search in turbo mode and give you the results you want. Talk to us today to know how we can reshape your organizational map with talent that will drive your business to higher ROI.

FAQs

What is a staffing agency?

A staffing agency provides staffing services to other companies to address their skill gaps and talent shortages and help match to the right candidates.

How do staffing agencies work?

Staffing agencies work by gathering requirements, interviewing potential candidates, performing background verifications, sharing list of selected candidates with the company and then onboarding and training them to meet the demands of the job.

What is the difference between recruitment and staffing?

In recruitment, a person comes on board with specific benefits and compensations and is a permanent employee. In staffing, the person is hired on a contract or an on-demand basis. Staffing allows the original organization also to save costs on onboarding and training the hires for the job.

What is the difference between a staffing agency and a temp agency?

A staffing agency and a temp agency offer nearly the same services and, in few cases, these services overlap. A temp agency generally offers jobs that need seasonal workers, such as restaurants short staffed during the holidays etc. A staffing agency also offers temporary staffing solutions like a temp agency does, but it also offers other long-term contract-based jobs, remote and non-remote.