Author: Solutions Staffing

We’ve already written about the fact that this age of accelerating, disruptive change has wreaked havoc on traditional shift schedules. So much so, in fact, that we have written a post explaining how we explain these changes to the temporary candidates we place with our clients. These changes have required that our temporary employees rearrange their lives outside of work to accommodate the new shifts required of businesses in a 24/7/365 world. 

Fast Company recently posted a blog titled, The War for Talent Is Over, And Everyone Lost. The gist of the article can be summed up with a few quotes. First, there is this: 

One of the primary reasons unemployment is low even though there are millions of jobs available is the skills gap. Many of the employees that are available for work lack the necessary skills for the available positions.

In every market we serve, we see companies struggling to generate the results they need when it comes to staffing—be it full time or temporary help. When we look at these companies, we  find that they have made two assumptions that are the root cause of many of their challenges. 

It’s important to have full visibility into the orders you have placed with your staffing providers, consolidated billing, and uniform control of the process of bringing new people into your organization from outside firms. Those are all good and important goals. But those goals shouldn’t override your more important goals: getting the right people into your company and onto the right team.