Why Pay A Fee For A Service You Can Perform Yourself

The answer is simple: to use the expertise of someone else to save you time and effort.

For example, in our personal lives we use lawn services to mow our lawns, pool services to clean our pools, take-out food from grocery stores or restaurants to spare us from the chore of cooking, housekeepers to help keep our homes clean, etc.  The list goes on and on.

In the business world, it works the same way.  Retailers know how to market and sell their products to consumers, that is why we go to specific stores for specific items.  Wholesalers and distributors know how to get product from a manufacturer to a retailer.  That is why businesses use middlemen to help them get their goods.  Accountants, lawyers and other professionals know how to help companies organize and manage their business affairs.  That is why businesses employ their services.  All of these professionals provide an expertise and convenience that many businesses do not possess or have the time to handle.

So why wouldn’t you handle your business hiring and staffing activities in the same manner?  You wouldn’t try to balance your accounting books by yourself?  Or draw up or sign a legal agreement without the advice of your attorney?  Or create and print your own business catalogs or other print advertising without the assistance of an expert?  You give these tasks to an individual who will provide you with the expertise in that area.

Okay, assuming this all makes sense so far, there is the matter of fees (sorry like yourself, we have to make a living providing our services).  Companies faced with the prospect of paying a fee for help in hiring employees will sometimes instinctively say no.  Why?  Because they say they can do it themselves for free – so why would they pay a fee.  This gets back to our earlier premise – you can mow your own lawn or clean your own pool.  You can also try to balance your businesses’ books or draw up your own contract agreements.  But you don’t – you leave it to the experts who will save you from having to do that task, thus allowing you to spend your time on other endeavors.

And just what are the time elements involved in hiring a new employee.  Writing advertisement copy, reviewing resumes, answering and returning phone calls, phone interviewing, in-person interviewing, reference checking – these tasks can take upwards of twenty hours or more of your time just to hire a single individual.  And you do that each time you hire an employee.  And that is time you or your employees could be spending on making your business more profitable.  You could be using that time to make another sale, or for several marketing trips to prospective clients or purchasers, or for working on existing clients accounts and projects.  All of these are activities with payoffs that could easily exceed the cost of hiring the expertise of Lederman & Associates, Inc.

Now, we are not saying that using the services of Lederman & Associates, Inc. will make the time you need to put into the hiring process go to zero.  You still need to be involved, especially in the in-person interview process and a few other areas, but to a much lesser extent than you are now.  You will likely reduce the time you spend on the hiring process by about 60-80%.   This “found” time is time for you to spend on more profitable business activities.

The bottom line (which is obviously most important to any business) is Lederman & Associates, Inc. expertise in hiring and staffing offers you the opportunity to concentrate more of your time on running and increasing your business.  And increased business means more money for you and your firm.

So take the next step and give us a call at 877-594-4261.  We will be glad to talk with and meet with you to further discuss our services and the benefits and expertise you will garner from partnering with Lederman & Associates, Inc.   This is one phone call that is guaranteed to bring you a return on your investment.  A return in the form of additional time to work on making your business more profitable and a return in the form of your hiring the best and most appropriate employees for your organization.