Vikash Thakur
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

How Staffing Consultancies Deals with Their Own Recruitment Challenge!

Changes need to be accepted as early as possible! When it comes embracing transformation in the recruitment industry, HR fraternity welcomed the technological changes with open arms. It has transformed the way human resources consultancy used to operate through different manual channels and super physical involvement. Technology has automated multiple HR processes where SaaS based HR tools are proving to be the best resources for human resource department.

Challenges

Internal Management

Running a human resources consultancy is itself a challenge. Considering the current huge individual sizes of HR consultancy setups in India like Adecco India, Kelly Services, ABC Consultants etc. which have minimum 500+ of internal employee base at multiple locations, it’s crucial for them to first manage their own recruitment processes.

As staffing agencies have such a larger setup, posting job ads, allowing candidates post their resumes, locating best candidates, shortlisting, interviewing, onboarding and finally managing payroll are the challenging recruitment activities which they have to perform.

For recruitment companies, building a robust internal pre & post hiring system is important. SaaS tools facilitates them synchronize the data on a cloud based server which the allowed individual can access at different locations. System-installed software doesn’t allow them do so. There are multiple restrictions associated with in-house software.

External Management

External management is completely different from the internal management because the scope of managing different HR activities suddenly increase here. The companies for which human resources consultancies provide workforce have greater influence in order to have best employees either permanent or temporary. The workload increase when they hire for third party companies. It doubles the tasks. Now, they have to deal with two clients — the workforce and the companies for which they are hiring temporary and permanent employees.

There are two obvious task for hiring agencies — one is to deal with their own staffing needs so that they can be able to provide professional recruitment services to other companies. And, the second task is to take care of companies which have approached them for hiring talent for them.

Vikash Thakur

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