Definition:
The process of hiring a smaller team of permanent employees and using contingent employees for other, more specialized positions. Lack of resources in specific job categories can lead to reduced performance on the company level, and to avoid these kinds of situations HR directors and process managers will plan to meet future staffing needs. It is a process that defines and addresses the staffing implications of strategic and operational plans.
Benefits of strategic staffing:
* It improves resource utilization
* It addresses critical HR concerns in a systematized and integrated way
* It recruits, develops, and places the talents required to meet future company needs
How Strategic Staffing Works?
The efficiency of strategic staffing depends on how well the business leaders have planned and executed. Decision-makers have to prepare a road map for the future months and years about the number of resources needed and the skills to reach the goal set thus the growth of the company can be achieved.
Before finding the new talents, the recruitment team’s job to find the gap in the resources. They have to map all the information about the employees and their skills so that they will have a clear plan for the upcoming hiring process to meet the demand and to fill the gap. They should also look into reviewing the existing employees and their skill sets and plan on how many permanent employees are needed and how many freelancers, contact/contingent employees are required. And also they can even think of retraining and upskilling the current employees rather than employing the new ones and if still, a gap exists then they can look into hiring the new employees.
