Dollars and Sense:
I can't afford to use an agency!
Are you open to a surprise?
It's natural to focus on the fees an agency like BOLT charges for our services and compare them to the cost of putting an ad on Craigslist and a few other job sites and conclude it's cheaper to go it alone. That is the conventional wisdom. As is so often the case, the reasoning might be conventional, but it wise it's not! In fact it can just be wrong.
Using an agency like BOLT to find employees does seem more expensive to find a new employee, and if you live in a perfect world it could be. However, what's surprising is that if you use an agency's skills properly, you actually save money. Sound crazy? Follow me and see where we go.
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