Strategic Staffing in the UAE with iTalent(4 min read)

Strategic staffing is a recruitment strategy designed to ensure an organisation has the people with the requisite skills it needs to ensure it meets both present and future commercial business objectives and targets. In a nut shell, our strategic staffing services ensure that you have the right number of full-time and temporary, or contract employees for your organisation to operate efficiently.

Strategic Staffing Steps:

1. Identification

The first step in strategic staffing is to identify the positions needed to meet current and future business objectives. Considering the company’s financial capabilities, decisions should be made on whether a position should be added, removed, or combined with another position.

2. Recruiting

Once key positions have been identified, the HR team must scout and recruit the right people to fill these positions. If the budget allows, highly qualified candidates can be hired to take on these roles. Where the budget is limited, it may be possible to hire underdeveloped candidates that can be trained on the job.

3. Development and training

Once an employee is hired, they need to undergo development training. Even highly qualified candidates must undergo some form of training to fully understand the requirements of the position and to align themselves with the vision of the company.

4. Employee retention

A key part of strategic staffing is taking care of the talent that has been recruited and developed. Employee Retention plays a big role in making a company successful. If there is a high staff turnover, resources are wasted on training and development.

How strategic staffing with iTalent works:

Once business leaders have mapped out the planned growth for the coming months and years, they can determine the number of employees and skills needed to complete their objectives. The planned expansion and organic growth of a business rely on the efficiency of strategic staffing.

At iTalent we help you map this information out against your current staff profiles and help you to identify skills gaps so that when the time comes and you are faced with expansion, there is enough appropriately skilled people in your organisation to meet the rising demands of the newly minted business opportunities you will face. This often means we will be reviewing and adjusting the mix of permanent, freelance, and contract employees, as well as retraining and upskilling current employees on your behalf. Notable gaps can then be filled with the recruitment of new employees which we are more than happy to help you with.

The Benefits of Strategic Staffing:

Easily address HR concerns.

Strategic staffing creates a more organized company structure. This, in turn, makes it easier for the human resources department to identify and resolve any problems that may occur.

Maximize staff utilization.

Companies that do not apply strategic staffing strategies tend to over hire job candidates to fill positions that are not really required. This often results in wasted resources and redundancy in job functions. With strategic staffing, a company can maximise employee efficiency, creating more specialised roles to cover your Middle East expansion plans.

Plan for future staffing needs.

With a strategic staffing plan in place, internal Human Resource teams can proactively hire and train new employees to meet the future needs of the growing business. And when your production increases, skilled staff are already available to meet the new demands.

Discover more about iTalent and our recruitment offerings for the UAE, Saudi Arabia and broader Middle Eastern markets.

italent was founded in 2012 in the United Arab Emirates born in a challenging market, one key reason for our success is we have unparalleled commitment and determination to deliver the highest levels of recruitment and executive search.

These fundamentals allowed us to build a reputation and gain the trust and respect of some of the biggest clients and most Senior candidates in the Region. Our team is all seasoned professionals, and with over 100 years of recruitment experience in our office, we are a key part of our clients’ Talent Acquisition Strategies.

You can contact us by using our contact form or call us on +971 (0)4 421 3490 or email us at info@italent-me.com and we will be happy to help.

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