Hiring for your vacant positions is easy when you choose the right recruitment agency to help you. If you’re wondering why it’s best to use the resources of an agency to find crew members, here are some of the reasons why other companies do it. By the time you finish the list, you should also have a better idea of what an agency does and how it helps your team.
Extended Reach
A maritime staffing agency that’s been in the business for years has a deep talent pool. It knows where to find the best talents. It knows where to find them or get access to them. Many of the talents—at least at the level and quality you want—may not be actively pursuing recruitment. By hiring an experienced recruiter who knows where and how they can reach out to these assets, you won’t have to wait long before the agency gets you the right people.
Saves Time
Time is money. It’s smart to hire an agency to do a job that would have taken you weeks, if not months. If you can’t afford to have those vacancies run for months, then working together with an agency is the best solution for you. An experienced team can get the job done so much faster, so you save a lot of time. With a quicker turnaround in filling vacancies, your team should be back up track in no time.
Additional Assistance
Agencies offer a whole host of other services that you can hire them for. They can perform background checks on the applicants. They can conduct the preliminary interviews for you. They can use psychometric tests, do an executive search and even provide project support. Depending on the services that the agency offers, you can ask the same team to take on a lot of other recruitment-related work for you. Just make sure you ask about the additional costs of those services, so you won’t be surprised when the bill comes.
Market Knowledge
The best agencies know the latest recruitment legislation. They know the legalities as well as requirements involve. By using the services of an agency, you won’t have to worry that you may be committing illegal hiring practices that could land your company in hot water. Also, by choosing an agency that you can work with for years, hiring for future vacancies will be far easier. The recruitment team can easily filter through options because they already know what your hiring standards are. That means the next time you send your batch of vacancies, they may have even already scouted the field and will know where to start looking. An agency that you’ve worked with for years becomes your eyes and ears in the market. That kind of partnership can help your business immensely.
Save on Costs
You can eliminate unnecessary costs. And with expert assistance, you have more chances of hiring people that are the right fit for the job. That saves you a lot of recruitment, rehiring, and retraining fees.