Split up recruiting and employment to level up your contingent program.
If you work at a large organization, chances are your business relies on the contingent workforce to remain competitive and reach its goals. That workforce has transformed in recent years—it’s larger, more strategic, and brings more specialized expertise than ever before. Contingent talent also expect more from contingent roles, no longer willing to trade benefits, professional development, or employee engagement for flexibility.
You’re likely still using lots of different staffing suppliers to both recruit and employ your talent, wrangling them all through a managed service or a similar in-house program. That model may have worked in the past, but today it creates many serious issues.
Contingent programs restrict their pool of staffing vendors and specialized recruiters in order to manage them all. Doing so also restricts your access to specialized talent.
Your staffing vendors are responsible for both recruiting and employment, even when they aren’t good at both. Most staffing companies fail as an employer on things like benefits, professional development, and employee experience, leading to problems with morale, turnover, and co-employment risk.
The longer an assignment, the more you pay for recruiting. That’s because bill rates cover both recruiting and employment. You can’t tell what you’re actually paying for each service or whether it’s a fair price.
Working with multiple employers of record prevents you from getting the economies of scale you would achieve by using just one great employer.
With companies more reliant on the contingent workforce than ever before, leaders need to think differently about how they recruit, manage, and develop this workforce to its full potential. We believe this requires a fundamentally different approach to contingent staffing—one that separates the functions of recruiting and employment to achieve the best results for each. Our solutions do just that.
Hiring more specialized talent requires access to more specialized recruiters, not fewer. Aquent Scout combines a vast marketplace of proven, specialty recruiters with leading-edge technology to perform better than traditional solutions.
Being a great employer for your contingent workforce requires expertise, consistency, and scale. This is best achieved by consolidating your talent with one employer of record. Aquent Square Deal helps you create a uniformly high-quality experience for contingent talent while providing unique opportunities to save money on your contingent labor spend.
Wanting to address benefits inequality among contingent workers, Facebook turned to us to help develop and implement a solution. Five years later, talent at Facebook applaud their generous benefits program and the sense of fairness it has created.
Leading the charge in benefits equality, Google set higher standards for contingent worker benefits to be implemented by 2022. Building on decades of experience offering industry-leading benefits, we were first to meet the standards, two years early.
When Microsoft wanted its staffing vendors to offer generous time off and leave benefits, we delivered customized benefits while fostering a culture where talent are encouraged to use them. Since implementing, turnover has dropped dramatically.