Why is candidate compliance management important for staffing agencies?

If you're new to the temporary recruitment industry or perhaps just starting out on your own after working as a consultant, you may be asking yourself why candidate compliance management is important and wondering how to prioritise it against other tasks.

TempAlly showing the compliance status of a number of candidates

Regulatory Requirements

Temporary recruitment agencies are required to ensure that all candidates meet certain legal and regulatory requirements before they can be placed in a position. This includes verifying documents, ensuring the candidate has the right to work in the UK, checking professional references, and ensuring that candidates have the necessary qualifications and experience for the role. Compliance management software helps agencies to meet these requirements and avoid any legal or regulatory issues.

Enhanced Candidate Quality

Ensuring that candidates meet all necessary requirements helps to ensure that they are qualified and capable of performing the job. Not only this, but it can give you a renewed confidence in the excellence of the workforce that you are supplying to your clients. This helps to improve the overall quality of candidates placed by your agency, which is important for maintaining a good reputation and attracting new clients which we'll talk about in the next section.

Improved Client Satisfaction

Proper candidate compliance management is essential for maintaining good relationships with clients. By ensuring that all candidates meet necessary requirements, agencies can demonstrate their commitment to finding qualified and reliable candidates, which can lead to increased client satisfaction and loyalty. By tracking candidates' compliance, your agency is able to express to your clients your ongoing dedication to their business and ensuring that you are actively working to reduce their liabilities also with the staff you provide.

Risk Management

Failing to properly manage candidate compliance can result in legal or regulatory issues, as well as damage to the agency's reputation, or even worse, damage to your clients' businesses. Proper candidate compliance management helps to mitigate these risks by ensuring that all candidates meet necessary requirements and have all the required training before they are placed in a position.

Conclusion

Overall, candidate compliance management is important to temporary recruitment agencies as it helps to ensure that they are meeting legal and regulatory requirements, placing high-quality candidates, maintaining good relationships with clients, and managing risks.

If you're looking for a system that manages all of this for you, with automatic updates and reminders, as well as clear compliance statuses when booking candidates for your vacancies consider TempAlly - an all-in-one solution for all of your staffing agency requirements starting at £60/month!