Your organization has no time to waste when filling contingent worker positions. The faster you can fill temporary positions with high-quality externally-sourced workers, the more competitive your business will be. Many organizations are now building Direct Sourcing strategies - so let's look at what Direct Sourcing is, and how it can benefit your organization.
Typically, organizations turn to staffing agencies to fill these requirements and rightfully so. Especially as it becomes increasingly more difficult to fill open positions due to the workforce shortage. Now, businesses are also looking for new innovative ways they can acquire talent.
To quickly bring in qualified candidates from existing talent pools, some companies are building direct sourcing strategies to augment their current contingent workforce staffing hiring processes.
Direct sourcing, in a nutshell, is essentially a strategy in which businesses internally identify and hire suitable contingent candidates by building their own pool of freelance, consultants and temporary workers.
It’s a contingent hiring process that augments the traditional use of staffing agencies for contingent talent.
Direct sourcing is a method of hiring contingent talent with your own in-house hiring team. However, to minimize the risk of worker misclassification or co-employment in a direct sourcing program, workers should be payrolled through a third-party employer or record employer instead of directly on the organizations books.
Here are some of the key benefits of implementing a Direct Sourcing Strategy:
Direct sourcing relies on your organization building a talent pool of workers that can be engaged in the future. These workers generally include referrals, past contingent workers, “silver medal candidates” (those who almost got a position with your company and just missed out) and retirees.
Since these workers already know your business, are engaged with your hiring managers and like your company culture, they can be hired into positions much faster than typical contingent workers. Direct sourcing helps you drive faster hiring cycles.
While staffing agencies bring a range of advantages to your contingent workforce program, direct sourcing, when done right, is both cheaper and faster than traditional staffing agency services.
With a pool of already-engaged workers at your organization’s disposal, your business will be able to shorten the time it takes to fill temporary positions and reduce the costs associated with hiring contingent workers through a staffing agency. This can be an effective strategy when combined with your existing staffing agency processes.
The ability to attract and retain permanent employees has long been a workforce management goal, so why hasn’t that translated to the contingent workforce in recent years? With direct sourcing, your business can make that happen.
The ability to attract and repeatedly engage contingent talent through your own internal program can help you nurture stronger relationships with the top talent in your industry and beat your competitors to those workers. Become an “employer of choice” for contingent workers!
Onboarding is time-consuming and complex. Externally-sourced workers need to be up-to-speed with your business, but spending too long doing this can seriously impact the ROI you receive from those workers.
Direct sourcing results in a far more seamless onboarding process than other types of contingent workforce hiring. That’s because these workers are already familiar with your company, they’ve probably worked with you in the past and you already know everything you need to know about them. It won’t take long to onboard them in their positions and get them up to scratch for immediate results.
There’s no one that knows your workforce requirements better than you. Staffing agencies are great when you partner with the right provider, but, as with any outsourced vendor, you are closer to what your needs are.
With a direct sourcing strategy, you can gain greater control of a portion of your company’s contingent workforce program. This could potentially help your business bring in the candidates that fit your exact needs at any specific time.
Check out our Direct Sourcing Guide to learn more about Direct Sourcing, its benefits and how a Vendor Management System strengthens a Direct Sourcing Strategy: View Direct Sourcing Guide
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