Global Mobility Staffing: Why Outsource?

To build the best global mobility staff, it makes sense to use an independent firm that specializes in identifying and supplying quality talent for their clients.

Recruiting top talent is a combination of art and science, and notoriously time consuming. Many Human Resource professionals are generalists, and their departments lack the staff and time it takes to identify qualified candidates. Nor are they experts in the ever-changing and complex world of international mobility. Many organizations would rather turn this critical function over to a company, such as Signature Source, that are leaders in recruiting talent in the global mobility industry.

Some additional reasons companies outsource to recruit top talent include:

The commitment: A professional external firm gets to know the culture in their clients’ firms, the type and style of their successful employees, and acts as an extension of internal human resource departments. Contingency search firms get paid when the placement occurs, which means they are dedicated to providing only top talent to fill every position.

Not a headhunter: It’s important to distinguish between a professional outsourcing recruiting firm and a headhunter, whose job it is to simply pass resumes. While a recruiting firm does search for candidates for specific jobs, additionally they are proactively sourcing for top talent to create a robust population of opportunities. They are consistently building a robust network of global relationships with both passive and active job seekers to meet any client need, in addition to evaluating personal attributes to ensure a comfortable cultural fit. The job doesn’t stop until clients receive the finest pool of talented candidates.

Reputations: Outsourcing gives companies the pulse of what is happening within the industry, able to supply marketplace information to their clients that is not common knowledge. In small industries such as global relocation, a recruiting company will know a candidate’s reputation and will only advance qualified candidates with stellar backgrounds.

Friends: It is often easier and faster for companies to hire friends or colleagues to fill a job. Unfortunately, if the person fails in the job, it can spell the end of the friendship if the person is fired, or it might mean the person remains employed because it’s hard to fire a friend. Outsourcing removes this obstacle, since the recruiter is independent.

The benefits: If a company makes a bad hire – or hires someone who decides to quit within a short time after the candidate’s hire date – they are back to ground zero in the hiring process, wasting time and money. With outsourcing comes a guarantee that if the hire is not a good fit, or a person quits within an established time frame, the job is filled for free or at a reduced cost. The guarantee’s length of time is usually dependent on the level of the position within the company.

For more information on how Signature Source can help you in global mobility staffing, call 888-613-4179.