How to be the Preferred Employer for Contingent Workers

Finding suitable candidates for temporary roles can be challenging, prompting many organizations to turn to staffing agencies for help. These agencies can link your business with skilled, experienced, and talented contingent workers. This article examines 4 talent acquisition strategies for making your organization more appealing to skilled temporary workers.

Even staffing agencies might find it difficult to fill temporary roles for your company if you haven't made efforts to establish your business as a preferred employer for non-employee workers.

This is due to a global shortage of skilled workers, which is a major concern for business and HR leaders.

Utilizing temporary workers is an excellent strategy to address this skills shortage for many companies. However, as more businesses are developing a non-employee workforce than ever before, it's essential for your organization to think creatively and enhance its attractiveness to temporary workers.

How to be the Preferred Employer for Contingent Workers

Here are four strategies to help your business become a preferred employer for temporary workers, tap into previously overlooked temp talent, and make informed staffing agency choices using a vendor management system (VMS).

1 - Focus on the candidate experience to improve re-engagement

Not every temporary worker you hire has to be completely new to your organization. In fact, businesses can navigate the skills shortage successfully and improve their access to talented workers by re-engaging temporary workers that have previously worked at the organization.

To ensure non-employee workers not only want to work with your business again, but also give great word-of-mouth recommendations to other temp workers, make sure their entire experience with your business runs seamlessly. To do this, your company needs to focus on the ‘candidate experience’.

That means improving how you treat resources once you receive their resume, improving their experience during the interview, developing a world-class onboarding process, paying them on time, giving them feedback during their time at your company, all the way to closing the process seamlessly.

2 - Be as flexible as possible

As highlighted earlier, temporary workers often opt for temp positions due to the flexibility and enhanced lifestyle they provide. If your business enforces strict hours and inflexible schedules, it is likely hindering its ability to attract highly-skilled and experienced temp workers.

To enhance the quality of your non-employee workforce, ensure you find the right balance between a schedule that aligns with your business goals and the preferences of temporary workers in your area. The more adaptable your business is, the greater the talent pool you can access.

3 - Make sure your job postings are clear

Whether your business or your staffing agency handles the creation of job postings and advertisements, it's essential that they are clear, concise, and that the application requirements are explicitly outlined for potential candidates.

An effective job posting will clearly specify the experience your business seeks, the skills needed for the temporary role, and the certifications you expect candidates to possess. Your job postings should filter out unqualified candidates, leaving only those who can help you meet your objectives.

4 - Consolidate your staffing agencies in a VMS to improve your decision-making

As your organization collaborates with staffing agencies to source, engage, and hire temporary workers, it's crucial for your business to have full visibility into vendor performance.

Implementing a VMS to centralize your staffing vendors in one location will ensure your business makes informed vendor choices and can effectively track, measure, and manage their performance.

Final Thoughts

Being able to evaluate your vendors' performance enables your business to conduct real-time assessments of their effectiveness, allowing your company to quickly make adjustments if they are not meeting expectations.

The enhanced visibility into vendor performance provided by a vendor management system will assist your business in achieving non-employee workforce goals such as time-to-fill, time-to-submit, and turnover, while also ensuring you pay competitive rates for top-quality temporary workers.

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