In a time when the economy still isn’t quite where everyone would want to be, companies who are still hiring may wonder why they should incur the potential additional expense of working with a recruitment firm rather than going it alone on the hiring front.  However, whatever the state of affairs in the world there are still a number of excellent reasons that a company should certainly consider enlisting outside help when trying to fill vacancies:

Lack of Time – Much of the time a company has to hire quickly, to fill a void that has been unexpectedly opened up in the company, leaving others to fill in and perhaps even important tasks neglected. When hiring in a situation like this employers tend to “settle”, hiring someone who has most of the attributes they were looking for but not all.

Recruitment firms have a pool of prescreened talent and will usually only send candidates to be interviewed by their clients if they really are a match for the job requirements, increasing the chances that an employer will find talent that is truly capable of getting the job done.

Lack of Experience – As an employer you may know what you are looking for but that is rarely enough. Some people will say anything to get the job, especially in times like these. They will pad their resumes, make up degrees even have friends pose as references. Recruitment agency personnel are used to weeding these people out – they come across them all the time – and have the time to conduct the kind of in-depth background check that really needs to be performed, but the employer probably does not have time for.

Hiring from the Heart – In many companies, big and small, if there is a vacancy that desperately needs to be filled the boss will consider hiring a current employees mother, brother, sister , boyfriend, anyone if they seem to match most of the criteria. This however is rarely a good idea, how are you going to face Mars Jones, who has been with you for years, when young Wayne turns out not to be the man for job and has to be let go? Letting someone else locate and screen candidates for you takes much of the emotion out of the situation.