But here’s the dilemma: you don’t need to expand your tech team on a long-term basis, so new hires aren’t the solution. And temporary staff can be very hit-or-miss in terms of their skill level, productivity and overall effectiveness. You could outsource the project, but you’ve had some bad experiences with this in the past, so you’re very hesitant to do so again.

Another option: hire a team of temporary on-site software developers through Temporary staffing. It’s an alternative to outsourcing or recruiting and hiring a new permanent employee. This solution can be a viable option for companies that need help on a short-term, per-project basis.

What Are the Primary Benefits of Temporary Staffing?

Hiring temporary on-site tech staff is essentially the opposite of outsourcing. Rather than sending a project to a third-party firm, you call in a team to work in-house, right alongside your staff. This arrangement brings numerous benefits to companies, including the following.

Cost Savings: This is a rather obvious benefit, but it’s a significant one that’s worth highlighting. You save money because you don’t need to invest in recruiting or candidate screening. Productivity also tends to be higher than what you’d see with alternative staffing solutions like outsourcing, resulting in greater cost-effectiveness.

Time Savings: You’ll save time since your company won’t need to oversee recruiting, vetting, hiring and integration. In fact, you’ll have greater peace of mind knowing that your team has been assembled by a team of staffing professionals.

More Qualified & Experienced Talent: Although every large company has an HR department, not every HR team has what it takes to accurately and effectively evaluate tech candidates. This is where you can benefit from working with a software developer staffing firm like iTech, since staffing is our specialty. We’re experts in the art of finding tech professionals who have more than just the ability to complete your project; our goal is to assemble a team that will mesh with your company culture and your current staff.

Greater Control and Project Oversight: When you send a project to an outsourcing firm, you lose the ability to control and oversee the project like you would if it was performed in-house. This increases the chances that the project will go off-course, resulting in setbacks. Conversely, if the project remains within your company, you’ll have the ability to closely monitor the development project. If your team begins going down the wrong path, you can intervene promptly and set the project back on the proper course. If the project is outsourced, you may not realize the problem until much further down the road.

A Higher Level of Confidentiality: Some projects include sensitive information and the prospect of sending this info to another company can present a high degree of risk. For these situations, it’s best to keep the project in-house and call in staff to assist with the project. This gives you the ability to maintain tight control over the information in question, in addition to controlling precisely who accesses that data.

Improved Productivity: Unlike a single new employee, who can take several weeks to mesh with colleagues and achieve maximum productivity, this tech staffing strategy brings in an experienced team of programmers and developers. Each insourcing group has well-refined dynamics, along with extensive experience with team integration. This allows them to quickly mesh with your work environment, ensuring maximum productivity right out of the gate.

More Effective Use of Resources: When outsourcing a project, you may not be leveraging your resources in an effective way. For instance, let’s say your team has the time and skills required to complete a portion of the project, but many outsourcing service providers won’t pick up a project mid-stream (or, they charge a premium to do so) Instead of using your available in-house resources, you would have to send the entire project to a third party. That’s wasteful.

Temporary on-site staffing resources aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution, but they can be a wonderful option for companies that require in-house assistance on a short-term, per-project basis. If you’re seeking assistance with IT and tech staff augmentation and want to learn whether this option may be suitable for your unique situation, that’s precisely where iTech can assist. Contact us today to discuss your staffing needs.

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Well, this is a surprisingly common dilemma, particularly in the tech and IT industry, where experience, skills, and qualifications are just one piece of a very complex puzzle. The reality is that an individual’s abilities should be just one of several points for consideration. You should be hiring for cultural fit, for company-wide skill redundancy, and for your immediate needs.

Hire for Cultural Fit Within Your Company

Cultural fit is extremely important when making a hiring decision, as cultural conflicts are one of the most common deal-breakers that prompt a company and talent to part ways. The cultural environment within your organization will affect many aspects of the worker’s experience, including, but not limited to:

• The overall atmosphere within the company;
• How an individual interacts with and relates to her coworkers;
• How talent perceives her working environment and colleagues; and
• How the person views her role within the company as a whole.

In fact, an April 2017 study by the Kapor Center found that “unfairness or mistreatment was the most common reason cited by American tech workers who decided to quit. This is significant when you consider that an individual’s expectations and perceptions are largely affected by the company culture (and how well-suited the person is for that culture.)

For instance, if you’re accustomed to a liberal company culture with lots of freedoms, such as the ability to bring your pet to work, then you may view it as unfair if you’re forced to leave your dog at home. Similarly, you could feel as though you’re being mistreated if your employer requires you to spend 40 hours per week in the office, particularly if your last company had a very liberal policy on telecommuting. Conversely, an employee who is accustomed to a more conservative company culture may not see any problem with prohibitions surrounding pets in the office or telecommuting; in fact, they may actually prefer a pet-free workplace where most colleagues are within earshot.

Another company culture-related consideration surrounds interpersonal dynamics. If an individual is accustomed to working alone or in small groups, he may feel overwhelmed if he’s suddenly placed in an environment where he’s required to work in a large group. On the other hand, an individual who has worked in medium and large-sized groups may find small group dynamics to be stifling and uncomfortable. Therefore, when hiring for cultural fit, it’s important to evaluate prospective employees relative to the local working environment and the company culture as a whole.

Hire to Create Redundancy Amongst Employee Skill Sets

It’s dangerous for a company to rely heavily upon a single individual, as this could result in a situation where operations grind to a halt if that person is removed from the equation. Even dedicated, loyal employees can encounter an unexpected twist of fate, like a serious auto accident or a sudden illness.

The most successful companies prepare for the unexpected by hiring with skill set redundancy in mind. It’s important that you have at least a couple people who can perform a specific task or fulfill a particular role.

Company leaders should ensure that each department or division head performs a complete evaluation to identify key skills, identify individuals who possess each skill, and finally, identify which skills should be sought-after in new talent.

Hire With an Emphasis on Your Immediate Needs

While it’s always wise to consider how your company, your clients, and your mission will evolve in the coming months and years, it’s important to remember how rapidly and how profoundly the tech industry evolves and shifts. What’s more, the typical tenure in the tech industry is quite short, with the average developer changing jobs every two to three years.

Really, it’s impractical to plan years in advance when it comes to your staffing, as it can be difficult to predict which skill sets will be in demand years in the future. So while you certainly do not want to be short-sighted, it’s important to place greater emphasis on your immediate needs. For example, let’s say you’re choosing between two individuals. Candidate A could stay with your company indefinitely, but his skill level is just average. Candidate B is extremely talented, with a broad skill set, but she plans to move to California after her husband finishes med school in just under two years. Most companies would be better served by Candidate B, as life plans are not written in stone and she can serve your company well, even if she only stays on board for a couple years.

Meeting Your Company’s Needs With a Creative Tech and IT Staffing Solution

Hiring for cultural fit and skill redundancy in a way that meets your company’s immediate needs isn’t a simple proposition. Some companies consider less traditional staffing solutions, like outsourcing, to find great talent, as this allows you to bypass some of the time, cost and hassle associated with the recruiting and hiring process. Insourcing is the precise opposite of outsourcing: Instead of sending your project out to a third-party service provider, you bring a team in to help your company meet its objective. iTech is one of the industry’s leading insourcing tech staffing providers.

This unique staffing strategy helps you avoid the time, hassle, and expense associated with the recruiting process. Plus, the talent will be ready to hit the ground running, as iTech’s development teams are carefully assembled so that individual work styles and personality types complement each other. What’s more, you keep a great deal of control over the project since it’s all in-house.

If you want to learn more about this alternative to new hires, iTech can assist. Based in Texas, we work with clients locally in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, nationally, and even internationally. Contact iTech to learn more.

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