Geoff Eckert, Principal-Sales and RecruitingA full-service recruitment and search firm, Enhanced Staffing excels in providing employers with the best candidates in the industry on a contract, contract-to-hire, or direct basis. Partnering with exceptional organizations, it creates opportunities for job seekers, as well as flexible projects for those candidates who would like to work as freelance professionals.
In an interview with Manage HR, Geoff Eckert, principal of sales and recruiting at Enhanced Staffing Inc., discusses how they cater to their client by providing a reliable single source for their staffing needs.
A Foundation Built on Deep Experience
Enhanced Staffing’s founders bring over 25 years of experience in providing technical, engineering, and professional personnel on a contingent basis. We have the expertise and knowledge to source and recruit top talent within engineering and technical/ professional positions. This distinguishes us from many of our competitors who primarily focus on providing contingent workers within warehouse, manufacturing, and administrative environments.
It’s a breath of fresh air for our client’s HR and technical management teams when we understand the technical requirements for specialized roles, such as full-stack software engineers, data engineers, project controls/schedulers, SCADA engineers, and CAD detailers. We focus on sourcing talent for defense, construction, electronics, utilities, manufacturing, medical device, and energy companies.
Enhanced Staffing is a DSA-Certified Small Business, California Public Utilities Commission Certified Woman Owned Enterprise (WBE), and SBA WOSB company that provides a solution for organizations that see value in partnering with a diverse staffing supplier.
An Asset to Our Partners
We focus on locating and working with firms that view our service as a partnership versus just a commodity. Our principle is to collaborate with organizations that can give us the information we need to fill positions, provide timely feedback on candidate submittals, have an efficient hiring process, provide competitive wages, and offer a great culture for the people we place.
By inculcating a partnership mentality, we can better learn our client’s culture and what to look for in a candidate who will have a better chance of being successful at the company.
Overcoming the Challenges Together
The Enhanced Staffing team works closely with client’s managers to help assess their wages, hiring process, and keep them abreast of the current market trends, so they can craft the best strategy to ensure they hit their hiring goals.
We prefer to meet with the client’s HR team and hiring managers and put together a screening questionnaire depending on the core skill sets they are looking for to determine if a person has a high chance of being hired and successful.
We have multiple versions of the questionnaire based on the varied skill sets clients seek, which streamlines the screening process and reduces hiring time and attrition.
Upon placing the candidates, we do weekly, monthly, and quarterly check-in to ensure that they are happy and to address any concerns they may have so we can bring them to our client’s attention.
Working with great companies that value our people, in turn, benefits the candidates we work with and ensures that they thrive in a positive environment. Through our vetting process with a candidate, we quickly determine if the opportunity is right for them or if we may want to present another that better aligns with their career aspirations.
On the Lookout for Top Talent
Apart from contingent work, contract-to-hire, and direct placement, we deliver a payroll service if a client identifies a promising candidate on their own and wants to bring them on board through us for either long-term or short-term assignments.
Through our efforts, we locate companies where employee morale may be low due to factors like the Great Resignation. This gives us good intel that we can provide our clients to make sure that they are able to compete in the war for talent.
Once we begin working with a client, we learn their culture and skill sets and start an ongoing recruiting campaign through the questionnaire we develop for the screening process. When the HR team approaches us, they know that we are always on the lookout for top talent, which helps them focus on their other responsibilities, and not just the hiring procedure.
Enhanced Staffing’s founders bring over 25 years of experience in providing technical, engineering, and professional personnel on a contingent basis
Proactive Hiring Across Sectors
At the beginning of COVID-19 in 2020, a renewable energy client reached out to us, requiring ten specialized engineers to fulfill a pipeline of projects. Due to the uncertainty of the market, they wanted to bring them on a contract basis to start. The client’s HR team was new and did not have a clear understanding of the skill sets their managers required from the candidates.
With our deep industry knowledge and network of candidates, we could place all ten engineers on a contract basis. As the pandemic eased, all the engineers went on to work on a direct basis with the client and they were able to complete their projects with success and continue to grow as a company. We still work with the organization.
Standing Apart from the Rest of the Crowd
We have the knowledge and technical understanding to deliver on our client’s needs and have experience in recruiting and managing a workforce of over 200 contingent workers.
We can provide on-premise solutions for high-volume accounts that need a higher level of management and service, along with worker’s compensation, general liability, and professional liability insurance policies. We provide our workers weekly pay via direct deposit and an online based timekeeping system that the client’s managers can review and approve remotely.
Being a smaller company, we are more flexible and create a custom solution that creates a win-win-win situation for us, our contractors, and our clients.
