Hiring new employees is a hassle! First you need to write some kind of a job description and make it attractive enough to advertise or give to the search firms. In either case, you need to sift through potentially hundreds of resumes, conduct phone screens and personal interviews, check references, construct a formal offer, secure acceptance, and get your new candidate on board. On the other hand, recruiting the right people and avoiding hiring mistakes is as important as any other role you have as a manager. Larger companies have a personnel or human resources department to help perform this background and screening work, but for many smaller companies without such departments, this work is a distraction and often not done as well as it should be.
One option you have is to use a professional recruiting or staffing firm. While this may help with you find candidates, most managers still need to exercise caution in the screening process, since the recruiting firm is typically paid based upon your hiring someone. Whether you choose to work with one or more firms or advertise your position on your own, XBC can help by taking on the work a larger company would delegate to its personnel department. We can do everything from helping you define your needs and write job descriptions through doing the initial screening and background checks. That way, the candidates you spend time with are indeed viable and well qualified. Your process becomes one of selecting from the best instead of screening the worst. XBC will bill you on an hourly fee basis for this work rather than basing a fee on the starting salary. If you are in a hiring mode, talk to us about just how reasonable our candidate screening service can be.