Direct Employers

What is the Difference Between A Direct Employer and A Staffing Firm

A Direct Employer is a company that is looking to fill internal positions. These jobs are posted directly by the companies that are hiring. The job seeker sends a resume directly to the company.

A Staffing Firm is a company of professional recruiters dedicated to filling available positions at corporations. They work on behalf of the client company to recruit, interview, and assess the available talent. This includes headhunters, temporary staffing agencies, and executive recruiters.

One expert recruiter’s opinion of direct employers:

“Candidates who submit their resumes online to job boards, or what they believe to be direct to hiring authorities, run the risk of three common problems. These include:

Number One: Who reviews resumes submitted from the internet? Usually, it’s not an executive or the immediate hiring authority. Many times, screeners have no industry expertise in the key attributes they’re screening for. Many companies hire part-time or temporary employees to screen (and discard) potential candidates. Qualified, established recruiters use industry expertise and a phone call to screen qualified candidates. Good recruiters take the time to speak with many qualified candidates before setting the parameters on who to move forward with.

Number Two: The internet does not screen qualified candidates. Matching candidate needs with corporate hiring requirements is hit or miss through the internet, depending on which side of the screen one sits. A candidate becomes only as good as the corporate screener reads and understands the resume – nothing more.

Number Three: Once submitted through the internet, recruiters add no value to any candidacy. If recruiters try, their efforts are viewed as self-serving or as a desperate move on the part of the candidate or as a trick to “smooth” over a perceived shortcoming of the candidate’s credentials. None of these achieve the desired result of screening qualified candidates, interviewing potential employees and matching hiring needs with candidate needs.”, Brett Stevens, http://www.searchlogixgroup.com.

One advantage for Employers to use a Staffing Firm:

Why hire a staffing services firm? Because IT and communications systems automate and streamline processes and operations so that less people, less time, and less effort are required.

Before that, when you are designing and installing the systems, or migrating from one technology to another, it requires a tremendous amount of work and time and expertise. As a result, your company's IT or communications staffing requirements will surge during special projects, deployments, or whatever your needs may be.

You can either pay to staff a large IT or communications department that can meet surging demands, and let highly paid experts sit idle during the down time, or you can keep a smaller staff and pay the difference in overtime and longer, even more stressful, deployments, and project timelines.

Or you can use a staffing services firm and experience world class technology expertise for your IT and communications projects and deployments.