Staffing and recruiting
Placing people with employers, either on contingency fees or as a pass-through employer of temporary staff.
Six short steps. No email or account.
Family
Professional services and agencies
You sell expertise and time, delivered as engagements or retainers.
- Priority decisions
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Foundation — what that means here
Operating reality
What makes this different
The realities that change which tools can actually work for you.
If you employ temps, you carry the payroll, the workers' compensation and the compliance exposure for them.
Cash flow is brutal on temp staffing: you pay weekly and get paid in thirty to sixty days.
Candidate data is personal data, with real obligations attached.
Where to start
The decisions that matter here, in order
You do not have to take them in this order, and you do not have to take all of them. This is where most businesses like yours start.
- 1Customer records and follow-up
One place for every customer, conversation and next step.
- 2Cash flow and budgeting
See what is coming in and going out before the account gets tight.
- 3Payroll
Pay employees and handle the tax filings that come with it.
- 4Invoicing
Send the bill, and let people pay it without writing a cheque.
- 5Accounting software
Track income and expenses so tax time is a report, not an archaeology dig.
- 6Business insurance
Cover the things that could end the business in one bad afternoon.
- 7HR and benefits
Employee records, handbooks, benefits and staying compliant as you grow.
- 8Hiring
Post a role, sort applicants and get someone started properly.
Your next step
Answer six short questions about your staffing and recruiting business: your team, where the work happens and what you want to fix first. You get an operating plan in the order to tackle it, with the must-haves and comparison points for each area.
Answers
Common questions
- What software does a staffing and recruiting business need?
- Placing people with employers, either on contingency fees or as a pass-through employer of temporary staff. The decisions that matter most are 8 areas, starting with the ones tied to how the work actually gets done and paid for.
- What makes running a staffing and recruiting business different?
- If you employ temps, you carry the payroll, the workers' compensation and the compliance exposure for them. Cash flow is brutal on temp staffing: you pay weekly and get paid in thirty to sixty days. Candidate data is personal data, with real obligations attached.