Local Staffing Firm Raises Compensation Stakes: Paying Overtime

Elite IT Services, an IT staffing firm, just raised the bar in the search for local recruiting talent. In an announcement on their blog, Elite IT says they are now paying full-time employees overtime for their work, above and beyond the required amounts by law.

They're also announcing therir medical package, life insurance, and the paid holiday schedule.

Why is this important?  Because it's information that job-seekers crave.  Trying to determine if a three paragraph job description is a good fit it a poor way to find a job.  The more information you have, the more likely you are to follow up on the job posting.

I'd like to see more of this from recruiters - especially those who have concrete information about what they can pay, and what the benefits are.  Candidates crave information and fear lack of detail.

But EliteIT has something else in their arsenal.  In addition to a blog, I noticed from their site stats that a large number of theri vistiors go directly to the Elite IT Services blog from the Indeed.com vertical search engine.  What that means is that without paying for job posting, EliteIT is tapping into a new candidate pool.  As knowledge of vertical search increases, they will have less need for large, generic search boards with high fees and a swarm of unqualified resumes.

What are you doing to make your staffing firm more competitive?