In-House Or Augment: Which Is Right For Your Business?
Identifying, qualifying and ultimately recruiting highly-sought after IT professionals for your business can be burdensome, to say the least. So how should you proceed? It depends on the specific needs of a given business/organization. Generally speaking, businesses face a number of challenges in recruiting qualified IT professionals – especially for roles and projects that require niche-expertise or have unique job requirements. Aspects such as required experience with specialized technologies, onboarding processes and timeframes, and associated costs and expenses make it difficult to use traditional in-house recruitment methods effectively.
With an average time of nearly 44 days to hire a qualified IT professional, it’s quite the undertaking to onboard new resources. While time and fiscal resources accrue in the search for the desired technical professionals, another more efficient option should be considered: IT Staff Augmentation.
What is IT Staff Augmentation?
Staff augmentation allows businesses to onboard needed talent without tying up their own recruiting and HR teams, leveraging the capabilities of a third-party vendor instead. For example, here at Seneca Resources it takes an average of 4 days to identify and submit a qualified consultant to any given client. Our deep experience with IT Staff Augmentation means we’re adept at connecting IT professionals with countless public and private sector organizations for specific roles, projects and initiatives.
In lieu of direct W2 hiring, Staff Augmentation proves to be a preferred alternative for many companies in need of both part- and full-time workers to help them complete ongoing tasks under their direction.
While Staff Augmentation resources are supplied by external third-party vendors such as Seneca Resources, they are typically under the direction of the client. This grants organizations the ability to leverage the technical skillsets and expertise of qualified professionals as needed, without having to fulfill tedious internal hiring processes.
With Staff Augmentation, you also avoid paying for benefits such as vacation and sick time, which are required for W2 employees. Organizations frequently exercise the option to renew or extend consultant contracts after their assignments end, sometimes even converting those consultants to full-time employees. Choosing to work with an IT Staff Augmentation provider offers confidence, versatility, and cost-effectiveness to help organizations achieve their important objectives and goals.
What about In-House Recruitment?
In-house recruitment is when an organization identifies and onboards desired resources directly as their own W2 employees. Most larger organizations have recruiting and human resources departments responsible for identifying and onboarding workers for internal roles and needs. This includes recruiting talent for new and existing roles, and managing all aspects of qualifying and onboarding resources. In-House Recruitment might be the better option if your organization is comfortable with:
- Waiting for internal processes to complete before fulfilling your specific need/role
- Regularly evaluating unqualified resources/resumes
- Redirecting human capital from other tasks in search of highly specialized professionals
Is IT Staff Augmentation Right for You?
As stated earlier, the main benefits of IT Staff Augmentation are versatility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Essentially, all industries use staff augmentation! Staff augmentation is extremely common in large organizations such as the Fortune 500 or within Government. But it benefits all organizations across the healthcare, education, transportation, power/utilities, and manufacturing industries. So how do you know if IT Staff Augmentation is the right choice for your organization? Some reasons to consider IT Staff Augmentation for your organization include the following:
- Business/Organization Growth – to meet the increased demands of a growing organization, additional resources are needed. Staff augmentation can quickly supplement your workforce to balance workloads and scale operations on a part or full-time basis.
- Temporary Projects – if you need help executing temporary projects and initiatives, perhaps including skillsets not otherwise needed by your organization, Staff Augmentation is a great option. Consultants are flexible, adaptable, readily available and accustomed to working on short-term contracts.
- Work Overload – if your organization is too busy and ultimately undermanned to effectively complete work assignments, Staff Augmentation removes the burden by enabling the growth of your team quickly and efficiently.
“With staff augmentation, the time spent obtaining qualified resources is cut minimally by 75%,” says Jessica Gary, Seneca’s Recruiting Operations Manager, “because, we’re not starting from scratch – we’ve built a network and pipeline of specialized resources across all types of IT roles, who are pre-vetted and ready to work.”
Why hire Seneca Resources for your IT Staff Augmentation needs?
Seneca can efficiently supplement your team with valuable resources with which you can pursue a continued work relationship. Our customers regularly refer to us as a trusted partner, which is why 98% of organization’s work with us more than once. Our proven method of identifying, screening, and presenting IT professionals has garnered Seneca a reputation for delivering the highest quality IT staffing services in the industry.
Contact Us
If you’re interested in learning more about IT Staff Augmentation services, please contact us at (703) 390-9099 or info@senecahq.com.