Talent Acquisition: How Staffing Comes Into The Picture!

Talent tapping across diverse spectrum of the society is what bolsters a staffing company’s success in the cut throat competitive market. Marketing partnership is essential with external collaborations and communities online on the social media platforms, and even with individuals or promising professionals. The network can be spread across niche groups or associations prevailing in the society and by initiating relevant groups on social media for online community formation. Staffing is in part a marketing campaign to attract bright minds and this runs parallel to core functions.

All companies should have a talent acquisition strategy in place. Why? Well in a complex niche, hi-tech manufacturing, technical programming, engineering, medicine, research, finance management and legal consultancy for example exceptional skill sets are required. These positions are difficult to fill for bright employees are rare finds or already taken or have attained a high status salary. While recruitment is like filling a vacancy, talent acquisition is a search for specialized skill sets that go much deeper than just fulfilling a task. People with exceptional skills in any niche are those with talent or accumulated knowledge or capability beyond the horizon of standard training imparted by a set curriculum. These people or professionals literally speaking have mastered the game and can turn tables favorably for any venture anytime. A talent search is thus seeking promising candidates that will emerge as performers.

Acquisition should be an ongoing process besides recruitment in order to fortify a company work force and bolster productivity. A team full of talents stands out. It is the people behind an enterprise that matter besides the infrastructure; both complement each other to reach the pinnacle of success. Hence acquisition in this case is a virtual perception and not a regular task to fulfill vacant positions. The latter is recruitment. The search for excellence, commendable leadership, leading executives and professionals with special abilities is always ongoing. This does not mean there is no need to search for potential within but still that cannot be promising especially in startups and small business about to shoot off or quadruple their sales.

This is not a HR job alone, staffing is a mirror image of HR development it practically does the same tasks but retains and supplies human resource on partner demands. Staffing businesses are getting more and more complex as demand from partner companies intensify and varied niche develop. Talent acquisition should be a long term strategy and constant, while recruitment can act like a land filling, it is the search for talent that is a greater challenge. If a partner company lands up with a new project which has to be delivered ASAP the agency should have a solution in hand.

Staffing is comprehensive exercise. This is for talent search, recruitment, in house training, providing field experience and fulfilling financial goals of the prospective candidates. For partners seeking the right workforce the expectations are high and the agency should fulfill. Of this a talent search makes a real difference it separates wheat from chaff. The goal of every firm should be to provide the best in any niche, and in time. Quality and quantity are attributes that partner companies look for in their business endeavors.

Search, screening and selection process differentiate staffing solutions from regular job search. Setting standards of excellence and broad spectrum placements in all niches is a winning proposition for staffing managers anywhere in the World.

Uday writes often on Indian wildlife especially about the tigers. He works as a naturalist and is fond of travel. Uday also provides search engine optimization service and website contents in English.