GDH’s Secret to Sustained Success: Lessons from the Best of Staffing Awards

Key takeaways: 

• GDH has received the Clearly Rated 15 Year Diamond Award for Staffing, which less than 4% of staffing companies are able to do.
• GDH is committed to excellence in staffing, especially building relationships with its clients and candidates alike.
• Using technological advances allows GDH to remain competitive and deliver even better results.

There are not many IT staffing agencies that can do what GDH has done for the last decade-plus in its industry. This year, GDH earned a Best of Staffing 15 Year Diamond Award for Client and a Best of Staffing Talent 10 Year Diamond Award from Clearly Rated for their service to clients, candidates, and employees. 

Fewer than two percent of all staffing agencies in the U.S. and Canada earn the Best of Staffing designation for Client and Talent Satisfaction. Fewer than 1% earn Best of Staffing for Employee Satisfaction.

Furthermore, only 3.6% of staffing companies have won the 15-year Diamond Award, which establishes GDH’s remarkable accomplishment in this area. These awards require companies to let all the clients and candidates they have worked with during the year rate them. 

What has kept GDH among the best IT staffing agencies for so many years, and how can other staffing firms learn to do the same? 

Commitment to Quality Service

Above all else, GDH has committed itself to providing high-quality IT recruiting services to clients, candidates and employees. This commitment has been a cornerstone of their success in the Best of Staffing awards and it permeates everything they do as an IT staffing agency.

Without this commitment, it is not possible to get high satisfaction ratings on a consistent basis. GDH has shown that it can get the job done when it comes to recruiting and staffing, quickly finding top IT talent companies need. But what has GDH done specifically to get these awards and distinguish themselves from other staffing providers? 

Building Strong Relationships

GDH realizes that the most important part of its recruiting and staffing role is building and maintaining strong relationships with both clients and candidates. That’s clearly stated in the company culture statement – “We care about people”. When those relationships exist, the framework is laid for meeting both the needs companies have for staffing and candidates have for jobs in a satisfying way.

One example of GDH’s approach is its work with a major regional bank, where the recruiter has had a 10-year relationship with the hiring manager and looks to GDH for help in staffing many of its major projects. 

According to GDH senior account executive Bill Lovelace, the long-term relationships built by GDH with the bank have led to the completion of dozens of projects over that time period and an ongoing desire by the bank to work with GDH when staffing needs arise. Lovelace and others at GDH have built trust with the bank by finding quality candidates when they are needed, knowing that GDH can deliver what they need.

Investing in Employee Satisfaction

When GDH helps place a candidate at a particular company, they aren’t just trying to make a commission or solve a problem for today. GDH is well aware that employee engagement leads to job satisfaction, and job satisfaction leads to better retention that will save companies significant time and money as time goes on. 

Without this focus, companies find themselves constantly recruiting new workers, only to lose many of them and need to start all over in their recruiting efforts. GDH recognizes that this costs companies time and money, both key parts of their business that will make it harder to meet their goals if they need to replace key workers often.

While some turnover is inevitable in any business, GDH works to find and place IT talent in places it can grow and flourish, rather than burn out and recycle to another opportunity. 

GDH is interested in both the best short-term and long-term outcomes for companies as they seek to hire the best talent they can get. It’s part of why so many companies have formed long-term relationships with GDH and value the services they can provide.

Leveraging Technology and Innovation

Technology has helped make the process of recruiting and staffing faster and more effective. Automation gives hiring teams greater ability to identify, screen and build relationships with top talent. 

GDH is always looking for new and better ways to achieve desired results in recruiting and staffing. Being on the cutting edge of technology in staffing has made it possible to increase both client and candidate satisfaction at the same time, making GDH rise to the top in performance and reliability. 

Continuous Improvement and Adaptability

Like all industries, staffing is constantly changing and evolving to adapt to different economic conditions and technological advances. GDH has shown the ability to continuously improve its methods and adapt to these changing conditions.

Proactively embracing change leads to long-term success, and GDH has placed a high level of importance on adapting to change as circumstances lead them to do so.

Conclusion

The reason GDH has been able to win so many IT staffing agency awards for so many years is its consistent commitment to excellence, which starts and ends with people-centered relationship building. In the middle are best practices in recruiting and the ability to adapt to new technologies that have brought many changes to recruiting during their years in the industry. 

If your company is searching for the premier staffing agency for your recruiting needs,look no further than award-winning GDH.