How to Secure More Staffing Contracts: A Guide for Agencies

The staffing industry has become more competitive than ever. While some agencies struggle to win contracts, others are thriving. What sets them apart? Agencies that secure more staffing contracts focus on predictable pricing, global compliance, and seamless talent management.

Clients expect more than just access to skilled talent—they want a staffing partner that ensures risk-free hiring, compliant payroll, and a streamlined onboarding process. To stand out and win more contracts, agencies must go beyond traditional staffing and become full-service Managed Service Providers (MSP).

That’s where strategic partnerships come in. By partnering with Deel, staffing agencies can eliminate pain points like compliance risks, payroll complexities, and hiring delays and offer clients the full range of staffing support.

This article explores 7 ways Deel, with its track record of success, helps you secure more contracts, win bigger clients, and future-proof your agency.

1. Give clients a competitive edge with an endless global talent pool

One of the most effective ways to secure more staffing contracts is to provide a continuous stream of exceptional talent. To achieve this, you must develop your global hiring practices. By using Deel’s Employer of Record (EOR) global hiring model, you can eliminate geographic limitations for your clients and quickly fill roles across diverse fields, often within just a few days.

Half of staffing agencies say they’re struggling to find candidates due to the tight labor market. The only way to overcome these local talent shortages and keep meeting client needs is to hire abroad.

However, speed is everything in the staffing industry. If you wait until your company is set up in a foreign market to hire, you’ll keep losing talent to competitors. You risk wasting resources and damaging trust with clients in the process.

Deel EOR lets you hire employees from anywhere without the need to establish a legal entity. Deel becomes the de facto employer while you retain control over the worker’s day-to-day responsibilities. Deel handles all HR, payroll, and compliance.

Deel’s EOR helps agencies meet both short-term hiring needs and long-term workforce strategies. If your client decides to formally hire one of your workers, you can initiate the process in just a few minutes.

Here’s a list of the types of employees you can hire through Deel EOR:

• Full-time employees (FTEs)
• Part-time employees
• Fixed-term contract employees
• Temporary employees

Discover how FEMSA hires employees in over 9 countries with Deel.

See also: Pros and Cons of Hiring with an Employer of Record (EOR)

2. Earn client trust with seamless compliance in every country

To secure staffing contracts, agencies must demonstrate their commitment to maintaining compliance across all jurisdictions and industries they serve. This is why Deel integrates compliance management directly into its platform.

Compliance issues can lead to significant consequences for your agency and jeopardize your relationships with potential clients. Violations such as invalid work permits and worker misclassification can result in hefty fines. Although your agency may bear most of the legal and compliance risks, the repercussions often extend to clients and workers as well, making them hesitant to collaborate with you in the future.

Deel’s Compliance Hub comprises a suite of tools designed to keep you updated on changing laws, regulations, and guidelines specific to your workforce and ensure that these rules are applied consistently throughout your organization.

Some of the tools include:

• Worker Classifier: An AI-powered tool that assesses the classification of your workers worldwide so you can fend off misclassification risks
• Compliance Monitor: Provides real-time compliance monitoring to keep track of the ever-evolving regulatory landscape across 150 countries. This includes updates to areas such as wages, pensions, private insurance, leave policies, tax obligations, and more
• Workforce Insights: Through the analysis of your worker data and the latest compliance developments, we proactively send you insights about your workforce and alert you to expiring visas, misclassification risks, and other non-compliance with elements such as minimum wage, benefits, and more—all tailored to the unique concerns of your business
• Contract generation: When you hire through Deel, the platform generates compliant contracts based on each candidate’s role, industry, and location, which are regularly reviewed and updated by our in-house team of local legal experts
• Background checks: Automate candidate screening to thoroughly check they’re suitable for client companies
• Compliance consulting: Deel’s team of localized legal and accounting experts is on hand to assist you. If you encounter any unique or complex challenges, they can guide you through them

Discover how Cake saved +$3k per hire in compliance costs with Deel.

See also: Get Global HR Compliance Consulting with the AI Assistant.

3. Free clients from payroll hassles with effortless global payments & tax reporting

Partnering with Deel simplifies compensation management across multiple countries, enabling staffing agencies to offer their clients seamless, compliant global payments without administrative complexity.

One of the top concerns is tax compliance. Most jurisdictions set their own withholding rates, reporting schedules, and payment deadlines for employers to follow. Sometimes these even vary according to worker status, job type, and industry.

Another consideration is local payroll laws. Countries often require you to pay workers at a set frequency and use certain methods. For example, you must run payroll at least twice a month for California-based employees.

Deel Global Payroll calculates all these payments and sends them as per local compliance. It also generates all the relevant tax forms and documentation. HR teams just have to review the information in the system and make any last-minute adjustments if desired.

Discover how Outreach centralizes HR and payroll across 5+ countries with Deel.

See also: Decentralized vs Centralized Payroll: Pros and Cons

4. Delight clients and workers with world-class benefits for diverse teams

With Deel, staffing agencies can enhance their client relationships by offering workers outstanding, competitive, and compliant benefits. By providing top-tier benefits, staffing services can distinguish themselves from competitors and secure more contracts by promising improved employee attraction and retention.

Arranging benefits for a fluid workforce can be challenging. Requirements are likely to vary if you serve companies across different industries and locations. As workers change placements, you must review and potentially adjust their benefits. A small change in role could mean they qualify for different plans. All this adds to the complexity of the task and increases the risk of compliance issues.

Deel partners with leading local providers to offer staffing agency workers access to comprehensive, compliant, and competitive benefits packages. By negotiating with benefit suppliers, Deel ensures that even smaller organizations can compete effectively with larger brands.

To simplify the benefits administration process, Deel filters workers based on eligibility and agency requirements. This enables workers to self-enroll through the platform, where they can easily review their options and select their preferred benefits. As a result, employees enjoy seamless access to high-quality, localized offerings, including healthcare, retirement plans, and more, no matter where they are located.

See also: Guide to a Competitive Global Employee Benefits Plan

5. Boost client’s talent retention efforts with a frictionless worker experience

Partnering with Deel can transform the employee and contractor experience, significantly impacting talent attraction and retention and giving your clients a happy and productive workforce.

Research shows that some of the main reasons for leaving staff agencies are slow, unclear, and complicated processes. These processes can frustrate workers, resulting in a poor worker experience that ultimately results in high staff turnover and disappointed clients.

Here are several ways a tech-enabled solution like Deel can ease the complexities of managing global teams:

• Streamlined hiring and onboarding: Create customized onboarding workflows that automate repetitive tasks and enhance communication within your organization. For instance, you can send new hires essential onboarding emails, branded swag, equipment, and coworking space memberships to ensure they have a positive experience right from day one
• Self-service platform: Empower employees to manage their salaries, benefits, and personal information independently, eliminating the need to reach out to HR. This approach minimizes unnecessary communication delays, allowing team members — regardless of their time zones or flexible schedules — to efficiently complete these tasks
• Tailored employee training and development: With Deel Engage, offer AI-driven training courses, robust performance management tools, clearly defined career development frameworks, and engagement surveys to support employee growth and retention
• Timely and flexible payments: Guarantee that employees are paid on time, no matter where they are located. With a wide range of payment methods in over 120 currencies, extended payroll cut-off dates, and on-demand payroll options, you gain the flexibility to adjust payroll as needed, providing exceptional financial support to your team
• Work visa and immigration support: Today’s workforce values location flexibility. With Deel immigration, you can support relocation requests, offering visa sponsorship and discounts on relocation services to make transitions smoother
• Team collaboration and engagement plugins: Enhance team connections and reduce context-switching with seamless integrations, such as Slack HR plugins. These tools facilitate features like PTO tracking, recognition programs, referrals, and org charts, fostering a more engaged and collaborative work environment

Discover how Zip Co champions worker mobility saving time and money with Deel.

See also: Employee Experience: How Staffing Agencies Thrive with an EOR

6. Impress clients with seamless, scalable HR processes and automations

Partnering with Deel equips staffing firms with a robust ecosystem to effectively manage globally distributed teams throughout their entire lifecycle.

Many staffing agencies struggle with outdated, decentralized systems and legacy providers that complicate the management of their complex, dispersed workforces. This inefficiency often results in increased operating costs, which can be passed on to clients.

Deel’s platform significantly reduces manual tasks and optimizes operations through features such as automation, AI-driven insights, and customizable workflows tailored to each client’s unique needs. From onboarding to offboarding, our platform accommodates various legal and industry standards, streamlining the entire process.

Additionally, Deel enables agencies to consolidate their entire workforce—from permanent hires to temporary staffing—into a single, unified HR information system (HRIS). This increased efficiency not only reduces overhead costs but also allows agencies to offer clients more competitive rates while preserving healthy profit margins.

Just a few processes you can automate on Deel include:

• Onboarding and orientation
• Contract generation
• Background checks
• Equipment management
• Payroll and tax calculations
• Benefits enrollment and administration
• Compliance audits
• Workforce reporting
• Terminations and offboarding
• Performance reviews and training

Discover how Sellit9 streamlined HR operations with Deel.

See also: Best Staffing Agency Software for 2025: Centralize Operations and Cost Reporting

7. Help clients make smarter moves with real-time reporting and a single source of truth

Deel offers staffing agencies a centralized platform to manage all workers, regardless of their classification or location. This capability allows us to store a wealth of data that you can use for insightful analysis and reporting.

Today, companies seek more than just staffing solutions — they require strategic insights and reporting features to navigate the complexities of contingent workforces. As a result, being able to provide clients with these insights is essential for securing and expanding client contracts.

With Deel’s robust data analytics, you can transcend traditional talent matching. Our tools empower you to identify workforce trends, evaluate successful strategies, and recognize opportunities for improvement. These insights enable you to make informed, timely decisions that benefit your agency and enhance client satisfaction.

A prime example is the ability to forecast client needs. You can proactively recruit additional candidates to address anticipated vacancies by analyzing turnover rates in specific regions.

Deel’s HR analytics provides comprehensive insights, including:

• Growth rates
• Turnover statistics
• Average employee tenure
• New hires and departures
• Compensation data
• Paid and unpaid time off

Our platform simplifies the process of filtering these metrics to generate customized reports, allowing you to delve deeper into workforce trends. For example, you can segment data by gender, role, job type, or country for more tailored insights.

Discover how The Landbanking Group impressed investors and enhanced innovation with Deel.

See also: Strategic Workforce Planning: The Complete Guide for Future-Proofing Your Talent Strategy

Win more contracts and elevate your agency to a full-service MSP with Deel

As the industry heats and cools, staffing agencies must become agile to capitalize on opportunities before they disappear. They can’t afford to have operational inefficiencies, data siloes, or outdated systems.

Only global solutions like Deel give you the flexibility and oversight you need to become a full-service Managed Service Provider and secure more staffing contracts.

Are you interested in how Deel can support your staffing agency’s growth? Check out more of our case studies and success stories, or book a 30-minute call to learn more and have your questions answered.