By Aclaimant

Nov 15, 2023

Bullhorn’s integration with the Aclaimant risk management platform powers the next generation of staffing risk managers.   Our unique integration provides a comprehensive toolset for staffing companies to get a better handle on their largest cost-drivers, all while working in lock-step with Bullhorn’s applicant tracking capabilities.  Below you can learn more about how these two systems play seamlessly together!

In the fast-paced staffing industry, organizations face a unique set of risks on both the client and employee sides of the business. On the one hand, you’re responsible for ensuring the employees you place are qualified for the potential risks they can face in the work environments where they are placed. But you also need to partner with clients who provide safe working conditions and fair wages.

Insurance can help protect your business from lawsuits and associated costs, but only to an extent. This is why you need a strong risk management strategy in place. With the right mix of strategy and technology, you can actively mitigate risk and avoid much larger legal and financial repercussions.

What does risk in the staffing industry look like?

As a staffing firm, your organization is liable for an employee’s mistakes on the job and the misrepresentation of their credentials. You’re also responsible for ensuring the clients you work with won’t pose a threat to your employees, not to mention ensuring your own business operations are compliant and fair.

In the staffing industry, there are four particularly notable categories of risk — fraud, credit, financial, and, liability risks:

  • Fraud risk refers to employee theft from a client company, e.g., a temporary employee who inflates their hours for payroll purposes.
  • Credit risk includes any potential risk involving a party’s ability to pay another party on time, e.g., a customer’s refusal to pay an invoice would cause the firm to have to pay the employee instead.
  • Financial risk occurs when you are not adequately managing your business, e.g., choosing unprofitable bill rates.
  • Liability risk refers to hazards that could impact the safety or well-being of your employees, e.g., an agency paying unfair wages or unsafe working conditions.

Each type of risk opens up the door to legal, reputational, and financial repercussions that can impact your bottom line. And with the countless number of moving parts in a staffing agency, it’s important to proactively identify, understand, and mitigate these threats to keep your business operations running smoothly.

The importance of employee and client risk assessments

To stay ahead of the myriad risks in the staffing industry, it’s critical to conduct employee and client risk assessments. With a thorough screening process in place, including background checks and past employment verification, you can minimize risks before it’s too late.

  • Employee screening: It’s important to screen potential employees to verify their identity, education, past employment, and skill set. You can’t send an employee to a job they don’t have the correct skill set for without increasing their likelihood of being injured and the chances of making a costly error. Additionally, it’s critical to your business reputation that you provide top-notch, qualified candidates to your clients.
  • Client risk assessment: Before signing a contract with a customer, request specific job descriptions (including safety requirements, potential hazards, past OSHA reports, etc.) and an overview of their business operations. This will provide a better understanding of the company’s risk landscape to see if they are the right fit for your agency.

While screening employees and clients may incur a higher cost upfront, it reduces the likelihood of risk occurring. The legal and reputational damage that can stem from staffing agency risks rack up a much higher bill than any screening costs will.

As the scope of staffing risk management continues to increase, outdated tools and spreadsheets are no longer adequate to help effectively manage risk, especially with so many employees in the field. This is why many companies turn to a risk management platform to take their mitigation strategies to the next level.

Level up your risk strategy with the Bullhorn-to-Aclaimant integration

As risk management needs in the staffing industry continue to grow more complex, consider integrating a risk management platform into your existing strategy. With a risk management platform, you can access digitized safety reporting, claims management, and incident intake — all in a centralized repository.

The integration of Aclaimant and Bullhorn offers a comprehensive solution to the evolving challenges of risk management in staffing, equipping agencies with a forward-looking strategy, and they stay ahead of the risks inherent to their business.

To learn more about Aclaimant and the platform integration with Bullhorn, feel free to schedule a demo with one of our experts.

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