7 ways to transform your staffing agency
Time and time again leaders in the staffing industry talk about the same problems. Some transform themselves using technology, others battle on. I’m still surprised by the number of staffing firms not leveraging the right technology. Some are stuck on the hamster wheel and they face a world where:
- Recruitment teams are spending too much time on compliance and onboarding
- Growth in sales translates to difficulty recruiting and growth in back office support
- Sales teams are trying to remain competitive and need to be precise on real margins. Mistakes can be costly.
- Finance teams are spending too much time entering data, sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes thrice – which leads inevitably to errors on invoices and the need for adjustments; exacerbating cash flow issues with delays in payment.
- Silos of systems and data make collaboration difficult and reporting and analysis of data to support better decision making almost impossible.
- Setting a vision for business transformation
- With laborious tasks eliminated
- If root causes of problems were identified and intercepted early
- When experiencing growth
- Challenge your status quo
- Tasks completed by each of your teams. Separate the tasks into those which need human intervention like relationship building, decision making, recruiting, from those which are arduous, and prone to error. With the arduous and prone to error tasks, find out why they are that way. What if once data was captured, it could automatically be fed into your system and it didn’t need to be handled after that point? After all, we live in the information age. Surely, there are ways to increase efficiency?
- Where and why problems have occurred in the past. Find the root cause and follow the repercussions. This will help you understand gaps in communication and processes.
- The business benefits of automating tasks and eliminating errors and business problems.
- Streamline processes
- Improve collaboration
- Everybody in your business knowing they are working together towards a common goal and vision, and each of them form very important parts of the business.
- Team leaders working together and modeling collaboration
- Celebrating successes in your business due to collaboration
- Increase visibility
- Do not invest in rigid technology
- Ensure you manage change from the beginning
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