If you’ve tried to hire IT staff lately, you know the struggle is real. It takes a lot of time to sift through potential applicants and deal with recruiting websites, and then hope you’ve made the right decision. If you have recruiting burnout, then maybe it’s time to consider a professional IT staff augmentation service.
An IT staffing service is precious when you need resources fast. Also, your talent is vetted by the staffing company first, so you don’t have to waste time on bad interviews with unqualified applicants. You get to go right to the good part, picking a new qualified staff member who is carefully preselected with your specific criteria in mind. These are just some of the apparent benefits. Let’s explore IT staff augmentation in detail to find out if it’s a good fit for your situational needs.
Why Your Company Needs IT Staff Augmentation
- Flexibility is Key
Flexibility is critical in the tech world. For example, you’re taking care of business, and your customers are delighted until one day, you get a new customer that wants to integrate AI into every aspect of their latest custom web application that you’re building for them, and you don’t currently have a single AI guru on your team. You can quickly call your IT staffing company and, in a few short days, have choices of AI geniuses to augment your staff. This flexibility allows you to grow or shrink your staff based on the demands of your customers.
- Save Some Money
The cost savings associated with IT staff augmentation are also something to consider. The most significant benefit is that you don’t have to deal with any overhead associated with hiring a full-time employee, such as salary, benefits, and equipment. The staffing company takes care of all of that. You just pay for the skills that you need for only as long as you need those skills.
- Dive Into the Talent Pool
A world of talent is out there that you can easily choose from based on the specific skills you need. Also, if you’re open to remote work, you aren’t restricted to the experience that people close to your location may or may not have. That opens up the talent pool even further. If you need a Tableau specialist and don’t mind them living on the other side of the country, then you’re in luck.
- Get Up and Running Fast
Onboarding a new FTE can take a lot of time and pull your already valuable resources away to train someone new. When you obtain new resources through an IT staffing company, the talent already comes with the necessary skills. You just need to spend minimal time getting them up to speed on how you do things.
- Stay Focused on What Really Matters
If you’re not constantly tied up with recruiting, interviewing, and managing new IT staff, you can focus on your core business, which is what really matters. You offload that job to the staffing company. Also, if the resource isn’t working out, you don’t have to go through the awful task of managing a separation. You simply let the staffing company know and within days are presented with options to fit your business better.
That Sounds Great! How Does It Happen?
Now that we’re familiar with all of the benefits IT staff augmentation can provide, let’s discuss what we can offer.
Contract
You can set the contract length if you only need resources for a certain amount of time. You don’t have to manage full-time employees if you don’t need them, and you can reduce that cost when the project is over.
Contract-to-Hire
You have the ability to take things slow. If you find a great resource you want to lock down, you can enter into a contract-to-hire agreement. It’s a try-before-you-buy situation.
Direct Hire
You can enter into a direct hire agreement if you know you will need skillful resources in the long term. The direct hire agreement will reduce your initial investment of time and resources by pre-vetting your new IT staff member.
Pass-Through Services
Let us manage the admin, payroll, and benefits for your contracted workers. You just pay for their skills. If or when those skills are no longer needed, you can move on and recoup that cost, which you could possibly use on new staff for other projects.
Get Started with Staff Augmentation Today
We’re flipping the script in the world of IT staff augmentation, where technical skills often take center stage. We deliver top-notch talent fast, but that’s just the beginning. We’re obsessed with crafting experiences that’ll make you forget you’re dealing with a staffing service. We want to build solid relationships built on trust, deliver tailored services that fit your business, and provide client care that’ll make you feel like the VIP you are.Email us directly to learn more about our solution process at info@goprominent.com
