There are often tell-tale signs that help guide when the right time is to seek assistance with talent acquisition from an expert tech staffing partner. With two-thirds of surveyed IT leaders in North America citing a tech skills shortage as a primary challenge and tech unemployment remaining low, juxtapose the industry showing slower growth over the last few months, you might need help just to make it all make sense!
Optimistically, we are breaking through for 2025. Hiring hesitancy is starting to settle, and when that happens, contingent tech staffing experts will be the go-to solution to ramp up production and advance innovation.
Here are some tell-tale signs it’s time to reach out to a tech staffing partner for your contingent tech staffing needs:
We’ve conserved as much as possible, and projects have been on hold, but we need to move forward, still keeping cost management top of mind.
When hiring contingent talent at competitive rates, consider that overall expenses are lower because costs associated with sourcing and recruitment are included, and overhead is less than typical full-time employees. When you have to hire quickly and perhaps in bulk to get a project done, it wil be more cost-effective in the long-run.
When your time-to-hire using your current approach is simply taking too long.
There is a litany of calculations available to determine how long it takes to fill positions. Not to mention the burden on your HR team and department managers who are spending time and energy on the hiring process (which is time and energy that can be better spent on core business functions).
The average time-to-hire globally is running at about 44 days across all industries. For the tech industry, that average can vary from software engineers averaging 36 days and web developers shorter than that. You will see the true impact of hiring times taking too long in your own budgets. If you are pulling resources from other areas to focus on the hiring process and if the time to hire is consistently exceeding the averages, working with a tech staffing partner that has all the processes in place to perform these actions will save time and get professionals working on your business faster.
When you can’t easily find specialized skillsets.
In this hypothetical scenario, you are in financial services with a looming project deadline for a mobile app. This deliverable would benefit from the Kotlin programming language…does your team know a skilled professional they can reach out to with this experience? In many instances, a tech staffing and recruiting expert does, simply by the sheer volume and reach of their network, as well as the processes they have refined to source, recruit and secure specialized talent.
When you consider how quickly skillsets are evolving with advancements in AI and machine learning, leaning on experts who work closely with technical professionals is an advantage, because they can also identify those cross-over skills that can help you in the interim and find the talent you need.
Probably the most important sign is the perceived health of your team.
Are they stressed, and possibly falling behind because they are unable to meet the work demands? InformationWeek shared that more than half of IT workers surveyed, while satisfied with their jobs, “rated their stress as a 6 or higher on a ten-point scale” with 42% reporting that “feeling overworked impacted their mental health.” The incidence of burnout grows as AI is introduced, as AI-skilled professionals are under mounting pressure to deliver the next-best AI innovation.
These are sure signs to consider the role of contingent staff to augment productivity, bring a new skill to the work environment and be a support to your valuable team. Plus, if contingent professionals are introduced with your teams’ needs in mind and with their feedback taken into consideration, you can effectively blend your workforce with little disruption and maximum output.
Adapting your hiring strategy often boil down to a simple list of pros and cons of the best way to approach it. Talk to a team of IT staffing experts to get started.
