When faced with a daunting challenge, it’s generally good advice to consider broad solutions. Yet when it comes to filling highly specialized workforce gaps, narrowing your scope has multiple benefits.

Consider these scenarios: A Fortune 500 company needs inclusive design strategists to assist with their new cutting-edge technology; an insurance company requires accessibility-credentialed software developers to ensure all platforms are accessibility compliant; a global retailer seeks a team of 20 UI/UX designers to build its first enterprise-user experience team.

In each of these cases, and hundreds more like them, a specialized staffing team is likely better equipped to find and engage the most qualified candidates — quickly.

“If you are struggling with your staffing partner understanding the right deep technical skills, level of experience and extraordinary length of time for submittals, these might be signs you need more specialized support,” says Tracey Klein, president of Synergis, a provider of IT and marketing/creative staffing services.

Here are just some of the opportunities a specialized team can offer.

Reduced time to hire. If your niche positions are taking a long time to fill — or not being filled at all — it may be time to work with a firm that concentrates in specific industries or fields. If, for example, user experience specialists are in high demand, the recruiter will be prepared with a strong pipeline of candidates with whom they’ve established relationships based on mutual respect.

The result? Time to hire is often faster for positions requiring hard-to-find skills. Synergis, for example, is able to present candidates for machine learning engineers or a cloud architect because its recruiters have ongoing relationships with a strong bench of candidates. Not only that, but the recruiters are also often experts in the skills required for each position, Klein says.

A smoother, more efficient process. If a client is spending significant time explaining the competencies needed for a role to the recruiter or to a candidate whom the recruiter presented, this suggests a more specialized team will be a better fit.

A niche firm’s depth of knowledge not only speeds the hiring process but also makes the relationships involved in contingent worker placement function more efficient.

“The client can spend less time with the account executive or the recruiter because they’re not trying to educate them,” Klein says.

Relationships with candidates, too, will likely be smoother. When they connect with a recruiter at a staffing firm that specializes in their skill sets, they have access to a steadier stream of job openings. They’ll also be working with a recruiter who understands what they do — and what they don’t do — halting inquiries about irrelevant opportunities.

Better, more cost-effective results. In the end, results are what matter. Is the recruiter sending qualified candidates in a cost effective and timely way? And once hired, do those candidates succeed — and stay — in their positions?

When you ask a specialized recruiter these questions, you’re likely to get more positive responses. Synergis, for example, has a retention rate of 97%.

A recruiter who understands the job requirements as well as the client — and who has access to a pool of candidates who have been deployed and redeployed by the firm — will find the process can yield better results.

The bottom line. Niche staffing firms have an array of benefits: Their recruiters have a depth of knowledge in specific areas or skills, they’re passionate about building expertise, they are close advisors to their clients and they have deep connections in the marketplace.

“Because of our in-depth knowledge, candidates and clients alike may find a more sophisticated interview experience, asking deeper questions, which is going to provide a better candidate experience,” Klein says. “We don’t have to spend the extra time educating ourselves — we already have the expertise.”

To learn more about how specialization can take your program to the next level, please visit Synergis.