Many Reasons to Use a Staffing Agency

A Better Process

More Speed and Efficiency …

Thanks to specialization, a staffing firm can find the right professionals more quickly and efficiently than a client can on its own. “Staffing is all Queen does,” says Kathleen, “and we can do it significantly faster than a client’s human resource department can, with all their other responsibilities. We do one thing and we do it well—and that is: find the best candidate for the job.”

“When clients need staffing resources, they need them right away, especially in healthcare and pharma/biotech—two of Queen’s specialties. Our technical recruiters understand the market, and they know what skills are out there and who’s available.”

Kathleen continues, “Our recruiters have lots of contacts in the industry, and we reach out in every direction to find the right match. We are always asking our current consultants for referrals to other talented IT professionals who may not be actively looking for a new opportunity and wouldn’t respond to a traditional job posting. Many employees simply don’t know what’s available out there and don’t know how valuable their skills are. So our recruiters actively seek out and find people that fit a particular job.”

… with Less Overhead

Queen offers our consultants a competitive benefits package, thus reducing the administrative time and cost associated with hiring and employing directly. Because we handle all the tasks associated with payroll, including processing timesheets, our clients receive one bundled invoice that covers every consultant they have on contract.

Another important task we handle is vetting candidates. Kathleen says, “Whereas a client’s HR staff may do this task infrequently and find it time-consuming, Queen is very experienced in vetting and we partner with experts to get employees processed faster. Not only do we vet the candidate’s educational and employment background, but we also do the criminal background check, drug testing, and vaccine verification, which is especially critical to get done quickly for healthcare IT positions.”

Better Results

The Right Skills …

One of the biggest positives of using a staffing agency is the way we target the specific skillset that you need, at the time you need it—and only at that time. Rather than hiring permanent staff during the temporary surge of system development and implementation, you can contract with technical experts who you employ only while the design work is underway. Once the project ends, so does the contract.

Once a new system is up and running, the specialized temporary IT consultants can train your permanent staff on the new technology, thereby helping you transition to ongoing system operation and maintenance while you grow your in-house expertise for the long term.

Another way a staffing agency helps clients is by homing in on the type of employee they may be seeking. “Our clients don’t always know exactly what they want until we present some resumes,” explains Kathleen. “We find that our input often helps hiring managers zero in on the precise skillset that will best fit their need.”

… at the Right Time

Using highly skilled temporary IT consultants is an ideal solution for the development and implementation of a new system. Kathleen says, “We see this a lot in healthcare IT, especially on Epic implementation projects. This is not a surge you want to hire for because you might only need these people for your two-year planning and implementation. These high-end tech consultants are the types of people you need for designing, developing, planning, and deploying, but they don’t maintain or support systems. Once the project is completed, the contract ends.”

Another great aspect of working with an agency to staff up is the option to hire temporary consultants as permanent employees. A six- or twelve-month contract allows both the client and the consultant to evaluate one another to see not only if the skillset and project work is a good match, but also if the candidate and employer are good cultural fits—typically a much more difficult thing to judge during a traditional interview process.

Working with Queen Consulting Group: Ten Easy Steps

So, what’s it like to hire Queen as a staffing agency? We’ve worked to make it an easy process that yields great results!

Here’s what clients can expect:

1.  Begin the partnership: we meet to understand what your company and department does, your company and team’s mission and culture, the hiring manager’s likes and dislikes, specifications of the role, and desired skills (must-haves and nice-to-haves) in terms of education, certification, experience, and soft skills.

2.  Describe the job: we help define the contract timeframe, rate, and other parameters.

3. List the job: within a couple of hours, your job will be in our system and sent out to our recruiters.

4.Submit candidates: within one to two days, we will send you our top candidates—prescreened and evaluated—for consideration.

5.Set up interviews: once you select the candidates you wish to speak with, we will set up onsite or video interviews.

6.Interview candidates: you interview the candidates and provide feedback to us; we repeat the process, if necessary, with new candidates.

7. Select a candidate: we work with you and the new consultant to nail down details, such as start date.

8.Onboarding: we handle all the administrative set-up tasks, including all necessary vetting.

9. Invested & Involved: we communicate regularly with both the hiring manager and the consultant at the start of the contract, then check in at least once a month to ensure your project's success!

10.Determine next steps: once the contract has been fulfilled, we work with you to either conclude the contract, extend it or begin a new contract with a new consultant.

Needless to say, we look forward to working with new clients on new projects! Contact Queen Consulting today to explore how we can help you put the right IT experts to work for you!