Running a business comes with many challenges, and maintaining the right staffing levels while keeping productivity steady can be a significant hurdle. Hiring hurdles can include talent availability, budget restrictions, time to hire, and more. When facing these challenges, a staffing expert like Express Employment Professionals can offer much-needed support.
As hiring demands shift, employers may hesitate to partner with a staffing company for several reasons. Here are a few common concerns, and how Express helps address them.
Common Concern: Temporary staffing costs too much.
Fluctuations in business volume are a common challenge for most businesses. Temporary staffing offers the benefit of expanding staff when you need it and minimizing it when you don’t. Rather than hiring a full-time employee and paying a salary and benefits, you can hire temp workers on an hourly basis and for a set amount of time.
The most significant value may be freeing up valuable HR resources spent managing workers’ compensation, payroll, benefits, unemployment insurance, and many other employee management-related tasks.
Using Express to bring temp workers to your company is a streamlined way to support your existing workforce without growing headcount or expanding overhead. The price tag comes with workers who meet your requirements, and Express’ expertise and support for changing employment laws, development resources, and updates on the latest workforce trends.
Cost Benefits of Partnering with Express
- Minimize training expenses
- Express takes on every step of the recruiting process
- Express executes employee-management-related tasks like benefits and payroll
- Mitigate risk because Express maintains comprehensive insurance coverage for Express associates working at your company
Common Concern: All staffing companies are the same and pull from the same pool of candidates.
What sets Express apart is our commitment to quality, local ownership, and community connections that give us talent pools, market knowledge, and relationships that national competitors may not have.
Hiring the right person for your team is just as important to us as it is to you. Our comprehensive selection process helps identify qualified candidates with the skills and culture fit your company requires. Unlike staffing companies that rely on broader approaches, Express focuses on quality and fit.
Our multi-step, ISO-certified employee selection process helps us identify strong candidates, so you meet people who align with your business needs.
Express’ Recruiting Process Covers
- Application Verification
- Interviews
- Skills Evaluation and Testing—From computer and office skills to technical proficiencies and behavioral assessments
- Employment Verification—Confirms job experiences and references
- Safety Training—Introduction to worksite, tools, and equipment used on a job including job safety instruction and proper use
Common Concern: Corporate handles hiring.
There are benefits to a centralized team handling hiring. As a national staffing supplier, franchised organization, and one of the largest staffing firms in North America, Express knows how to handle large hiring demands across locations. Even if your team doesn’t handle hiring, Express supports larger, corporate-managed staffing relationships. Connect us with the decision-makers at your company and we’ll show them the benefits of partnering.
Express’ enterprise-level solutions can save time and money across the organization. If your company prefers using a vendor management system, Express is a VMS MSP supplier of choice with more than 25 years of experience as a supplier.
Top Challenges Our Solutions Solve
- Timekeeping
- Job Requisitions
- Managing Multiple Suppliers
- Reporting
- Turnover
- Invoicing
Common Concern: We don’t use staffing companies.
Staffing companies support recruiting, interviewing, evaluating, and hiring with your specific business needs in mind. Hiring on your own may work, but it may also increase costs, extend time to hire, and limit access to services Express offers, including training, development resources, and insights on workforce trends.
Value of Using a Staffing Company
- Maintain productivity by focusing on the business instead of hiring
- Reduce costs associated with recruiting, hiring, and training
- Save time by not needing to post job ads, review resumes, check references, or interview candidates
- Mitigate risk with workers who are covered by Express’ comprehensive insurance coverage
- Increase flexibility by scaling your workforce up or down as needed
- Stay up-to-date on changing employment laws and solutions to address them
- Access top talent from our extensive pool of active and passive candidates
Common Concern: We don’t have any staffing needs.
Even when staffing needs aren’t immediate, workforce planning helps you stay ahead of future changes in demand, turnover, employee absences, or unexpected growth. Building a relationship with Express now means you’ll already have a trusted local resource in place if a need comes up later.
Many businesses don’t realize they need staffing support until they’re facing tight deadlines, increased workloads, or hard-to-fill roles. By connecting with Express before there is an urgent opening, you gain insight into local labor market trends, available talent, and flexible workforce solutions to support long-term business goals.
Service Beyond Staffing
- Local job market insights in the U.S. and Canada
- Up-to-date information on employment trends
- Extensive human resources expertise
- Employer resources that address common workplace challenges
- A comprehensive business review process
A Staffing Partner for Every Stage of Business
No matter where your staffing needs stand today, the right partner can help your business stay prepared. Express offers flexible solutions, local insight, and recruiting expertise to support workforce goals as they change over time.
About Express Employment Professionals
At Express Employment Professionals, we’re in the business of people. From job seekers to client companies, Express helps people thrive and businesses grow. Our international network of franchises offers localized staffing solutions to the communities they serve across the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, employing more than 11 million since its inception. For more information, visit ExpressPros.com/Employers or ExpressPros.ca/Employers.
