Employment Services

Professional Direct Hire Placements

IHS works with clients on a specific search for professional positions and finds the talent, then the client hires the employee.  A candidate offered a direct hire position is not an employee of the employment service, but goes directly on the client company payroll.  The client pays for any fees accrued during the screening process.

 

Contract Placements

Contract to hire work will look good on your resume. It is generally better to stay working – even in a contract to hire scenario, rather than a direct hire position – than to not work at all. It is good to be selective; but not to the point that you stay unemployed.

Contract to hire positions can pay more. Since you are taking a calculated risk pursuing a contract to hire position and benefits are normally more costly while on contract, you may be able to ask for a higher hourly rate

 

For Employees

Many companies do not post all of their open positions – for confidentiality/replacement reasons, or because they do not have the resources to properly recruit for specific candidates.
The benefit to working with a recruiter is that, as the recruiter gets to know your specific skillset, she/he can consider you for multiple positions with several different clients, all of which you may never have found on your own.

 

Reasons Clients use employment services for hiring:

  • They want a trial period before committing to a candidate. They want to make sure that a candidate has the necessary skills and is a good culture fit before employing them directly. Employee turnover is expensive – and if a contractor is terminated, the staffing agency is responsible for the unemployment costs.
  • They are unsure of their hiring budgets. The additional position fits into the short term budget; but funding may not be allocated for next year’s budget if business conditions change.
  • Workload is variable. With newer positions, a company may not be sure if a resource is truly needed, or if the rest of the team can pick up the slack. Or, if a position depends on winning a key account, a company may want to use contract to hire in case the business is not won.