Updates on Direct hire services

Author: Sam Tavis

Direct hire services is the perfect solution for the corporate as well as the job seekers who are looking to fulfill their respective needs of filling up job positions and getting placed in their dream jobs. The direct hire services involve the finding candidates to help filling the job positions of the client organizations. The main objective of staffing agencies is to constantly recruit talented, skilled professionals across multiple industries. The other part of these recruitment agencies is to develop and maintain relationships with their candidates and encourage them to refer any skilled associates to their recruiters.

The staffing agencies have at their disposal a well built database of professionals who are ready to take on the career transitions and to locate experienced candidates who are waiting on wings to get recruited as per the needs of the client organization. As per the latest survey, the temporary staffing revenue of the staffing firms has rose by over 17% over a year in April-2012 and the revenue growth in temporary staffing is on upsurge since the beginning of 2011. According to the Pulse Survey for staffing firms conducted in April, the revenue from direct hire has rose to 18 percent on a year on year basis. The temp to hire revenue rose by 19 percent in April-2012.

The latest survey carried on also revealed the list of the largest direct hire firm and this listed named Robert Half International Inc. as the largest U.S. provider of direct hire with 2011 U.S. revenue of $206 million in this segment. Randstad came second with the $84 million in the U.S. direct hire revenue in 2011. The direct hire revenue of seven firms in United States stood about $25 million respectively. It can be well seen from the data that direct hire service firms are contributing their worth towards employment generation in United States.

The direct hire service option is considered to be a better option than a contract to hire as per the recent survey carried on by the global consultancy Blessing White that surveyed more than 3500 employed professionals across North America between March and June 2012 that revealed that about 56% of the employees planned to stay with the organization for the next twelve months, 33% said that may probably stay with their organization and only 11% respondents replied that they would leave their parent organizations as soon as possible. Direct hire services is the best method in finding the best of the talents thereby helping the organizations in their business growth.

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