4 Staffing Models for Hiring Talent for Tech Jobs
Six months. That’s how long your new software development project will last. How do you meet this particular staffing requirement?
Below are four types of staffing solutions that are available to businesses, with a focus on hiring talent for tech jobs. Learn about each one so you can decide on a staffing model appropriate for your needs.
Temporary Staffing
Amir, a full-stack engineer, has to have surgery. He requires complete bed rest for four weeks post-op. All in all, he’ll be out of commission for five weeks.
Unfortunately, your company cannot be without one full-stack dev at the moment. Amir is working on an interface program that will seamlessly link smart home technologies with the city’s smart infrastructure and services. It’s all hands on deck because the deadline is fast approaching.
What do you do? You hire a temp—a temporary full-stack engineer who will do Amir’s work while Amir is incapacitated.
What Is Temporary Staffing?
Temporary staffing means hiring somebody to replace someone temporarily. It’s done to meet a sudden (could be unexpected) vacancy or surge in resource demand. Typical use cases would be hiring temporary staff to cover for someone on vacation, medical leave, or something else.
You may need temporary staff for only several days or longer, typically between one and 12 weeks. Temporary staff may work onsite or remotely in your city, in the same country, nearshore, or offshore.
Contract Staffing
You have landed a big government contract. Suppose it’s the project referenced above: You’re creating a system that will allow smart home systems to seamlessly liaise with the city’s intelligent public service infrastructure.
The project is worth millions of dirhams. The municipal government has given you only six months from ideation to operationalisation.
Good project, not-so-good timeline. An extensive analysis of your work plan and critical path method (CPM) chart reveals that six months do not allow for contingencies.
You need to earn your project some slack or float by crashing it. To accomplish this, you must hire more front-end developers, back-end developers, DevOps engineers, software architects, and other software engineers.
In this case—and this is the answer to the question posed at the beginning of this article—you hire more people on a contract basis.
What Is Contract Staffing?
The contract staffing model refers to hiring people who will work for you for a fixed period (say, one year) or until the project they’ve been recruited to work on is completed.
Is a developer going on a six-month sabbatical? You can hire someone on contract to replace them.
Did you land a big project? You can hire staff on contract to work on that project. This prevents the need to reallocate your permanent staff. Existing employees do not have to work overtime or divide their attention between ongoing and new projects.
Note that you can also use contract staffing to try out potential permanent hires. Hire someone on a contract first, then ask them to join as a permanent employee at the end of their contract period.
Permanent Hiring
Your growth blueprint sees you doubling client capacity by the next quarter. It’s an ambitious endeavour. It’s possible, but only if you have the right human resources.
The solution is to open up new roles and find people to fill them.
What Is Permanent Hiring?
In permanent hiring, the goal is to build a long-term team. This is the most demanding staffing model because permanent employees have the most impact on any company’s culture and growth.
Screening permanent employee hires, therefore, requires much effort. They must have more than the knowledge and skills to acquit themselves well in their roles. They must also share your company’s core values and culture.
This is why some companies test out would-be permanent employees through contract staffing.
Remote Staffing
You’re a service as a software (SaaS) provider with clients in Europe, Asia and North America. One of your customer commitments is 24/7 technical support.
To make good on this promise, you need tech support teams that work in shifts to provide round-the-clock availability. Instead of hiring local tech support agents, you create a globally distributed tech support team through remote staffing.
What Is Remote Staffing?
Remote staffing is hiring people from various parts of the world. Remote employees won’t join you in your office in London, New York, or Dubai. They’ll work wherever they are currently located.
It’s a particularly excellent staffing model if you need 24/7 customer or tech support. The time zone differences across the globe can work in your favour. While your team in New York sleeps, your team in Asia can take over.
Remote staffing is also a good solution if you can’t find the talent you need locally. Hiring remotely means you can expand your search to other cities and countries.
There are cost-effectiveness considerations, too. Depending on your remote workers’ location, hiring remote means enjoying cost savings in salaries, rent and equipment, among others.
Quick and Efficient Staffing
If you have vacant roles, fill them quickly. Every day a role is unoccupied means opportunities missed and important work not getting done. If the positions involve crucial jobs in cybersecurity, you also risk data and privacy breaches, which equate to legal action and hefty fines.
Depending on your circumstances, you may need temporary, contract, permanent, and remote staff. For the quickest hiring turnaround on tech roles, work with a company that specialises in tech staffing.
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