Why do businesses increasingly rely on staffing firms to help them match the best talent for their vacant positions?

• Quick access to top talent.  Staffing companies have already done all of the recruiting, screening, and interviewing.
• Enables you to react quickly to fluctuating business dynamics by supplementing your permanent workforce.
• Allows you the flexibility to meet demand and respond to opportunities.
• Saves time and money over recruiting your own employees.
• Improves the efficiency of matching workers to jobs.
• Eight out of 10 clients say that staffing companies offer a good way to find people who can become permanent employees.  Most staffing firms offer temporary, contract, temporary-to-permanent, and permanent placement services.
• About half of clients say that the use of temporary and contract employees is an important part of their company's business model and many businesses view their staffing suppliers as "partners."
• Three-quarters of business clients say the quality of employees recruited from staffing firms is the same as or better than the quality of their regular employees.

Source: American Staffing Association, Fact Sheet, The U.S. Staffing Industry: Offering America's Businesses Work Force Flexibility and Access to Talent.