Getting the right people in the right seats can be a massive hassle for employers. If you don’t want to dedicate the time or resources to finding full-time employees, you can opt for a staffing solution that will bring in contingent or temporary workers to fill your personnel requirements. In this week’s RPOA Weekly, we take a look at best practices and suggestions on how to make your staffing program a success.
When Managing Your Staffing Suppliers Feels More Like Herding Cats – Yoh - @YohCorporate
You know cats – they tend to go their own ways, make up their own minds, and can’t be persuaded to do anything. Sound familiar? This article introduces the idea that managing your staffing suppliers can sometimes feel like a feline nightmare, and more the staffing suppliers you work with, the more difficult it can be. Thankfully, the article also suggests six tips to effectively manage staffing providers, based on implementing comprehensive communication plans that include supplier forums, status update calls, scorecarding, auditing, and building trust with your suppliers.
Managing Temporary Labor with MSP and VMS – RPOA - @RPOAssociation
Full-time hiring is expensive, complicated, and can take a very long time to see results. Because of this, temporary staffing has skyrocketed, easing hiring issues but presenting a whole new set of problems – how do you manage temporary workers? How do you ensure that you’ll be able to get new workers when you need them? This article proposes two solutions to these issues in Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Vendor Management Systems (VMS). It takes readers through an overview of the benefits of utilizing Managed Service Providers and Vendor Management Systems, and how the two can be used together to solve your temporary staffing needs.
Understanding the Voice of Your Talent Supply Chain – Yoh - @YohCorporate
If your staffing problems are getting bigger than your headache can handle, it may be time to engage with a Managed Service Program (MSP). This article suggests that MSPs can take staffing supplier management off your plate, investigate any issues, smooth out operational hurdles, and focus your staffing program where it will be the most effective. However, it emphasizes that only the MSPs who have the experience and knowledge to really understand your talent supply chain will be able to return great results, and suggests four tips that you can implement to improve your supply chain management. These include balancing the number of suppliers, giving recruiters feedback on their candidate submissions, streamlining supplier responsibilities, and making sure that your suppliers stay happy with your relationship.
Driving Improvement in Established MSP Programs – Staffing Industry Analysts - @execforum
If you want your organization’s MSP program to be the best there is, you need to build the right program infrastructure. This is the message of this article, which emphasizes the importance of universal stakeholder participation in establishing a best-in-class MSP program. It looks at four areas where an organization can influence the success of its MSP program, including stakeholder participation, proprietary rights management, establishing an MSP culture within the organization, and attracting and leveraging top talent by engaging providers who are connected to top talent pools.
A staffing supplier relationship needs to be mutually beneficial. If the relationship is starting to unbalance or you start to wonder if there are greener pastures, it may be time to pull the plug. This article looks at three signs that you need to end your relationship with your staffing supplier and find a new one that will better suit your needs, including that they are not willing to evolve or adapt, they overpromise or under deliver, or on a more ephemeral note, if you just know that it’s time.
