Why Staffing Agency Needs a Strategic Planning?

Planning driven by foresight produces optimum results. Even a mundane deed of preparing a cup of coffee calls for a linear and systematic approach. Else,the resultant may not be of the deserved taste. It assumes even more significance in case of more vital functions a staffing agency does. Don’t they need a strategic planning, which is very significant and vital in the development of staffing agency? Staffing agencies always require strategic planning to prove their efficacy, diligence, reliability and trustworthiness to their clients.

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Reasons for Hiring Temporary Employees

Business organizations of this decade are facing tough competition not only from their local competitors but also global ones. With the online technologies growing rapidly, the whole world has become a global village with a huge number of entrepreneurs competing for a market pie to move their businesses forward. In the dog eats dog business world, enterprises are working hard to attract new business, reduce costs and become a market leader. The small and medium sized business enterprises are feeling the heat of competition and to beat the heat they require talented employees or workers who can help them in carrying out their day to day business activities.

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The role of staffing agencies for oil and gas industries

The oil and gas industry is an important sector of the U.S. economy with United States being the third largest petroleum producer with more than 500,000 producing wells and approximately 4,000 oil and natural gas platforms operating in the U.S. waters. In totality, the oil and gas supply is about 65% of U.S. energy. The nation has about 144 refineries processing more than 17 million barrels of crude oil every day. The industries in oil and gas extraction industry operate and develop oil and gas field properties that require a huge work force. The oil and gas employers or companies do recruit construction talent and candidates as their employees for higher wages.

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The need of hiring the services of staffing agencies

The recruitment industry that includes the staffing is quite larger than it seems. Staffing companies and recruitment agencies are offering a wide range of employment related services. Staffing companies in the United States are hiring more than 11 million temporary and contract employees during a course of a year and these temporary employees work in virtually all occupations in across all sectors. According to the American Staffing Association, percentage of temporary workers or employees during the year – 2013, consisted of 37% in industrial positions, 28% in office/administrative positions, 13% in professional/managerial positions, 13% in technical (including information technology, scientific positions), and 9% in health care position.

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Understanding the distinction between types of staffing

Staffing as such has emerged as one of the most important placement or employment providers in the United States with the total number of employees in the U.S. employed through staffing firms reaching nearly to three million weekly. The year over year temporary staffing growth remains high at 8.61% and the job growth in temporary services is usually considered as a growth of the current state of employment. The Employment Trends Index or ETI witnessed an upward trend in July that now stands at 120.31, which is up from previous years 119.92 in June.

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Survival of Staffing agencies in the new job market

Staffing agencies or staffing firms, as other businesses should take into account the mantra of survival of the fittest to keep up with the demand of the companies they are serving. The job or employment market out there is essentially a job seekers market with the majority of staffing agencies or firms having a positive attitude towards the job market. The hiring activities are in full gear in the field of financial services, legal, oil, gas, education and Information Technology. There is exists a growing gap when it comes to employment and the staffing agencies must learn to address these issues.

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The role of contingent work force in staffing

The staffing industry is positive about the contingent work with reports showing that the number of temporary workers in the workforce having increased by 29% during 2009 to 2012 and this is a rapidly growing work force. With the contingent work force segment continuing to grow, organizations are in a frenzy trying to keep up with the management and alignment of these workers alongside their current full time or permanent work force. The role of contingent work force has become important with the changing economy and recovery from Global Recession.

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The positive emerging picture of staffing trends

The staffing companies or firms as of now are on the high growth trajectory as they were during 2013. The staffing firms are enjoying the higher demand for temporary labor and there is a demand for record number of temporary jobs that is expected to continue for the next successive years and beyond. The actual high growth trends in staffing industry started back in 2000’s with companies after getting weary of fighting Great Recession were searching ways for balancing increasing product demand with uncertainty about the workforce or prospective employees. Even though, recession is quite over, but the demand for temporary labor still exists.

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Survival tips for staffing firms in the new job market

With the job market going gung-ho with the emerging job seekers the time has come for majority of staffing firms or agencies to be bullish in the market.  The hiring levels are up with services such as finance, legal, oil and gas, education and IT and there exists the growing gap between the demand and supply. When it comes to employment these gaps should be filled up or addressed to by the staffing firms. With the U.S. economy recouping from recession and related job cuts, still there are after effects that has caused many people to disengage from the workforce after months or years of unemployment.

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Recruiting and retaining competitive work force

Organizations as of now, amidst the global competition are looking to increase their market share and to improve their market competitiveness through expanding their portfolios. Business enterprises are facing challenges of launching new products and services every other day and therefore one can see a direct impact on demand for talent across a number of key disciplines. Especially for small and medium sized businesses recruiting and retaining top employees is a major cause of concern for these organizations. According to the Arthur J. Gallagher & Company Survey, the second largest challenge that employer participants reported was attracting and retaining a competitive workforce.

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