Short On Workforce? Try These Five Recommendations – part 2
The German Labour Market After the Pandemic. What Measures Should Employers Take
Short On Workforce? Try These Five Recommendations – part 1
Looking for workforce for your organization is already hard enough, but what happens when your business needs the workforce as soon as possible and there is a shortage of applications. In fact, that is the challenge most organizations throughout the European Union are experiencing today. In the first part of this blog entry, we will discuss proposals to address this challenge.
Some businesses are struggling to find workers with the right skillsets, according to our recruitment consultants. In addition, media outlets like CNN report that companies are going to face significant shortages in qualified and unqualified workforce.
The concern with a workforce shortage is something that is worrying businesses all over the world, and for good reasons. Companies who are not able to fill positions with workers will be left with stretched resources that result in damaging implications for both the short-term and long-term outlook of the business. However, our consultants have identified five ways to address this challenge to help our partners meet their targets even when there’s a shortage.
- Recommendations from existing employees
In order to make up for a shortage in workers, many companies offer some bonuses and benefits to their existing employees, who recommended other potential candidates and if the recruitment process has been successful for the company. Also, companies lacking skilled workforce in industries such as railway infrastructure development can train existing workers. This can mean training offered in-house, where a knowledgeable employee shares with others their valuable expertise. This form of recruitment based on recommendation is a great way to increase value without expending too much time and money.
- Co-sharing workforce
Interestingly, sharing workforce might be more useful than many managers want to think. This is indeed a new trend which started in other industries but seems to take off in more heavy sectors as well. Basically, companies have discovered that their projects might need different sets of skills and people and cannot afford to keep the whole workforce, if they do not have I high demand for their services. But companies can take a partner such a leasing personnel agency or sign a partnership with other companies who are active in the same field as they are and split the bills and benefits by using leasing personnel or share personnel for a determined period of time. And lately, our consultants have started to notice that companies active in the railway infrastructure development sector are more interested in leasing unskilled workforce, splitting costs and benefits as projects stopped being pitched to a single company and several companies can work in developing a train route. It is important to keep an open mind when looking at available skill sets, paying close attention to those professionals that could be transferable, from one company to another.
Read the rest in the second part of this blog entry.
