The people that you hire keep your organization thriving. When a valued team member leaves, they leave a hole in your chain of production, putting pressure on your hiring teams to replace them with someone who can patch up that hole.
Finding job candidates who meet your expectations is a challenge in industries across the board — especially in specialty trades like industrial manufacturing where there’s a shortage of talent.
However working with a trusted, industry-focused industrial recruiting search firm can help streamline the hiring process. Discover the top benefits of industrial recruiters and learn how they can help reach more qualified candidates in less time.
Common Misconceptions About Hiring Agencies
To understand the benefits of hiring employees with industrial recruiters, let’s start by breaking down some common misconceptions. Here are 5 myths about industrial recruiters debunked.
Misconception #1: Lower-quality candidates work with recruiters.
The job market is tough and the hiring process is so nuanced. A 2023 report suggests that only 30% of the hiring pool is actively looking for a new job.
Truth: The benefit of industrial recruiters is their network of active and passive candidates. Some of the best candidates might currently be employed and don’t want to bring attention to their current employers that they’re looking for a new job.
Your recruiter might have that knowledge and can connect you with a passive candidate you might never have been able to reach.
Misconception #2: Recruiters only care about the quantity of placements, not the quality of candidates.
Padding success rates might be a priority for some recruiters in the business, but most are truly dedicated to finding and presenting the best fit for your organization. And just because they’re finding talent faster doesn’t mean that talent isn’t good.
Fact: Faster results do not equate to poor candidates. Recruiters — especially industry-specific ones — have a network of hundreds to thousands of qualified professionals. When a new opportunity presents itself, there’s usually someone in that network who they can pinpoint with the required experience or skills.
Misconception #3: Hiring agencies cost more than hiring on our own.
The hiring process is expensive. The average cost per hire across all industries can range from $4,000 to $20,000 — and that’s without factoring in salary and benefits.
Truth: Hiring agencies are proven to find candidates faster than in-house efforts, so working with a professional recruiter could actually help save you some money.
Industry-specific hiring agencies, especially those with multiple team members like ours, can help streamline the hiring process significantly. Leveraging their network of contacts, you can reach better candidates faster, limiting advertising and lost output costs associated with the vacant position.
Misconception #4: Recruiters don’t understand the industry like our internal hiring team does.
Recruiters must understand the trade to find the best candidates to fill your open position. A top misconception is that hiring agencies are too far removed from the intricacies of your company, the job, or the industry to find leading candidates.
Truth: One of the benefits of industrial recruiters is that they’re equipped with niche industry knowledge. They’re researching trends and making connections with individuals in the trade each day, strengthening their knowledge of changing demands and trends.
Additionally, industry-specific experts talk to other professionals in the sector daily. Through these conversations, they can gain a much deeper understanding of what skills and requirements are needed to fill your specialized roles.
Misconception #5: Our team will have less control.
Hiring an industrial recruiting job firm can reduce the burden on your internal teams, which can sometimes feel like a loss of control in the process.
Truth: One of the great benefits of working with industrial headhunters is that they can do the heavy lifting for you. This takes some pressure off of your internal teams to rush into hiring someone new, and instead, allows them to make up for the losses your company might be experiencing with the open position.
If you feel like you’re losing control by working with an industrial recruiting firm, you might be in partnership with the wrong agency.
Benefits of Working With AllSearch’s Team of Industrial Manufacturing Recruiters
AllSearch’s manufacturing recruitment team is made up of 6 passionate, thorough, and creative headhunters. Using their expertise and experience, your company can benefit from a larger candidate pool, reduced hiring timelines, and even build long-term relationships to set yourself up for future success.
Benefit #1: AllSearch Offers a Larger Network of Qualified Candidates
With over 20+ years of recruiting experience, our manufacturing team has a strong network of hundreds to thousands of industry specialists. When working with a new client, we start the search using our comprehensive internal database.
From there, our recruiters expand the search within their personal networks to seek out unique candidates. With six members on the team, you can expand your search up to six times the size of potential recruits that you’d be able to find on your own.
Benefit #2: AllSearch Reduces Hiring Timelines
The benefits of our industrial recruiters? We are truly a team. If you come to us with 6 manufacturing positions that need to be filled, our team can share the responsibility of the search by each taking control of a position to fill.
Our recruiters are well-versed in the industrial industry and know what to ask, what to look for, and how to screen for quality candidates. Our goal is to place the best-suited and most qualified candidates promptly but with care.
Not only can this dramatically reduce hiring timelines, but it can also reduce costs. The sooner the position is filled, the more money your company will save.
Benefit #3: AllSearch Builds Long-Term Relationships
At AllSearch, we are results-driven, but we prioritize people first. Our recruiters are transparent and check in with you and/or your hiring managers at least once a week to keep you in the loop on progress and share any necessary updates.
If there’s ever a concern that our timelines won’t be met, we’ll communicate openly with your team to discuss a new approach. Because we value your time like it’s our own.
If you’re ready to streamline the hiring process and work with a recruiter who’s committed to your success, AllSearch’s industrial recruiting team is ready to work with you. Contact us to start the conversation.
Kelly Garner, Sr. Industrial Sales &Management Recruiter