A surefire way to find the best of anything in a new area is to go where the locals go. They know the best places: The restaurants that have the best food but are hidden gems, the best hiking trails that aren’t too crowded yet, and the best place to get that oh-so-important first cup of coffee in the morning.

If you’re a company looking to hire local talent in Hawaii, the best place to start finding the most qualified candidates is with a staffing agency that knows the islands inside and out: Bishop & Company!

For nearly 40 years, Bishop & Company has been an award-winning, woman-owned, locally based and focused staffing company based in downtown Honolulu, making us exceptionally positioned to help companies like yours find all the talented job candidates our beautiful islands have to offer. We understand and can help your company navigate the dynamics and sensitivities inherent in our multicultural community, where finding jobs — or finding the right candidates for your job — can be tricky and competitive.

Here’s how we can help you find your next rising star employee:

We know what employees are looking for.

We’ve worked with hundreds of companies and job candidates since 1986 and have seen the evolution in what employees are looking for in a job opportunity. We work closely with the people who are looking for jobs and can help you understand their goals, interests, what sets some job offers and opportunities apart from others. Each candidate has their own priorities, of course, but we know the trends and shifts in expectations and what candidates are looking for not just in a job but in the company they work for — we can help you understand all this to make your company even more attractive, especially to younger employees and more seasoned ones alike!

We can help prioritize items that will resonate the most to candidates.

Our Hawaiian roots mean we understand this community deeply and on a personal level. If you’re having trouble attracting talented candidates, it might be something you don’t even realize you’re doing or say that is keeping them away. We can help rewrite your job descriptions and improve your internal company culture to make it attractive to candidates. It might be a simple matter of changing some phrases to make things start to really catch on!

We can reach candidates right away and bring you resumes faster.

By doing things on your own, you have to extend your timeline as you draft a job posting, start to sort through resumes, conduct interviews and finally make an offer. By partnering with Bishop & Company, we can speed up the whole process. When you let us know of a new open position, we’ll first go through our database of candidates and see who we’re already working with who might be a great fit. You’ll get those resumes right away, and because we’ve worked with these candidates, we’ll know that they meet your needs and expectations. Next, we’ll work with our recruiters to help extend the reach of your job posting by presenting it in all the places where we have connections to help get the word out to the broadest possible range of candidates to help you get more eyes on your job opportunity. Furthermore, we can even conduct the first round of interviews for you, vetting candidates to see whether they’ll have the background and skills you’re looking for, so you don’t have to worry about sorting resumes that wouldn’t measure up to your expectations. All of this saves you, and your company, time and money and allows you to focus on other important responsibilities.

We can see beyond the resume and job description.

As professional recruiters and staffing experts, we’re well-versed in how skills used in one line of work might apply to your position, even if it’s not a perfectly phrased match. Someone who has worked in an office setting before has great time management, organizational and communication skills; if you’re looking for a project manager, most of their previous experience can make them a perfect fit. By talking with you and learning your company’s priorities and industry, we can get a real sense of how you operate and what kinds of people, and what kinds of skills and training, are likely to be the best fit for your company. We’re great at reading between the lines to find creative solutions that not only helps fill the vacant spot on your team, but brings in someone with skills that compliment your current employees.

Discover Top Talent in Hawaii Today

At Bishop & Company, we’re poised to help companies based in Hawaii find talented new employees that will enhance your team, and we’re ready to get to work right away to bring new candidates to your attention. All you need to do is give us a call! Learn a little more about us and, when the time is right, contact Bishop & Company — we’re ready to get started!