Recruitment & Screening
An Employer of Record provides HR support services, including the recruitment and screening of potential new hires. The executive team at Strategic Contracting Services possesses years of recruitment and screening experience and will make your company's success and safety a top priority.
At the same time, we vet the top candidates for a position, doing our best to make sure that the candidate is a perfect fit for your company. This includes screening your candidates with background checks and drug screenings.
By teaming with an Employer of Record, you access the benefits of a staffing agency and so much more for a lower cost. We also screen, classify and manage independent contractors to ensure we are meeting compliance standards.
What is Recruitment and Screening?
Recruitment and screening are integral processes in the hiring cycle, aimed at identifying, evaluating, and selecting qualified candidates for employment opportunities within an organization.
Recruitment involves actively sourcing and attracting potential candidates through various channels, such as job postings, career fairs, networking events, and referrals. This process aims to create a pool of diverse candidates with the skills, experience, and qualifications necessary to fulfill job roles effectively.
Screening helps employers evaluate candidates' qualifications, personalities, work ethics, and cultural fit to make informed hiring decisions.
What does SCS do for your Company?
Strategic Contracting Services {SCS) can assist as needed with your recruiting needs in the following ways:
1. Placing position opening listing- We will create a position posting from the information you provide or assist in creating the job ad based on the position needed. We then post open positions to various websites and publications and collect and review resumes.
2. Interviews - Once the application collection process is complete, SCS will share with you the applicants who most closely meet the minimum requirements of the position. Once you select the candidates you would like to interview, SCS can arrange for onsite interviews.
3. Offer of Position - We can assist with drafting an offer letter to the candidate you choose. With that letter, we enclose a background check consent form. Our background check process includes a criminal background check, a social security number match and a driver's license check. The offer of employment will be contingent upon the results of the background check. Our background check consent form also provides a space for the candidate to share any professional license numbers. We can use the information provided in this section to verify professional licenses. The candidate is to return the signed letter and background check consent form by the date specified in the letter.
4. Pre-Employment Screenings - SCS can provide a multitude of pre-employment screening tools. These include background checks, credit checks, physicals and drug screenings. As a client, you can decide what level of pre-employment screening you would like to utilize. Please note, once you have decided on pre-employment screenings, they will need to be administered consistently for all new hires.
SCS Tools for Recruitment and Screening
As a general rule, state and federal equal opportunity laws prohibit pre-employment inquiries that screen out members based on protected status. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the majority of the state agencies demand that information obtained through pre-employment inquiries is focused solely on determining qualifications. In the hiring process, business owners need to ignore criteria based on non-job-related factors. It can be challenging without guidance.
Moreover, recruitment and screening is not done in a vacuum. Thus, the selection process of hiring decisions needs to be documented. SCS provides the tools required for this documentation. Following EEOC guidelines, such documentation focuses solely on a candidate's qualifications for a specific job.
By properly designing and implementing employment screening programs for our client companies, SCS reduces future risk while improving hiring results. An online application as part of the hiring process can include behavioral assessment tools that improve the screening of new hires.
If certain questions cannot be asked, the goal is to find answers with a different approach. Ultimately, we want your company to be protected from potential bad hires.
The Risks of Hiring a New Employee
The risks of a bad hire are significant. It doesn’t make sense for business owners to rely on gut instinct.
For small to mid-size businesses where every new hire is significant, employment screening promotes a safer work environment. Such an approach to recruitment and screening leads to a higher quality candidate pool by deterring questionable candidates. Moreover, drug testing fosters a drug free workplace, reducing the negative impact of employee substance abuse.
As an Employer of Record, SCS ensures a low probability of such business nightmares happening. We do the work to remove the risk. At the same time, we also take on the liability and the legal risk as an Employer of Record. Thus, we protect your company while also protecting ourselves. Indeed, we become invested in each new hire outcome.
Recruitment and Screening with an EOR
By outsourcing recruitment and screening to an EOR, companies can streamline their hiring processes, reduce time-to-fill positions, and minimize hiring risks, ultimately driving efficiency and productivity within the organization.
SCS manages the recruitment and screening process with the precision and expertise needed to fill your vacancies with the best employees in the industry.
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