How to Deal with Resource Shortages: The Value of Professional Temporary Help
Posted August 9th, 2010
Business cycles ebb and flow, yet keeping a highly-paid professional employee on your payroll when things are slow may not be the best use of your company’s payroll dollars.
Instead, consider using professional temporary professionals — think attorneys, financial analysts, marketing directors, even CEOs — to help you when the good times roll, but you’re concerned they may last just a few weeks.
The use of high-level professional temporaries is showing considerable growth. An article on MSNBC.com in January reported that a large international staffing services firm placed “placed more than 100 people — including lawyers and scientists — in interim stints that paid more than $250,000 a year.” The article reported that a large executive staffing firm that its “roster of 1,000 executives has done jobs at companies like mobile-phone content provider Fox Mobile, health care company Healthways, and private equity firm Carlyle Group.” The executive staffing firm said that “client demand rose 50 percent in 2009,” the MSNBC.com article stated.
So when you have a critical member of your executive or management team absent from your company due to resignation, maternity leave or illness — or even if you need an experienced project manager to get you through that bid you just won that requires completion in just three months, contact Real Street Staffing for just-in-time executive, scientific, technical, project management, and other professional-level workers.
You don’t want to wait — leaving such critical positions to remain empty can leave your company vulnerable, especially during crunch times.
Bringing a high-level temporary CEO, manager, scientist, project manager, UNIX administrator, etc. will help you stay the course while you search for a replacement for a departing executive. Some high-level temporaries also are looking for a regular position, so you both could try “each other out” while you work to fill the position. Other executive contract workers enjoy “temping” too much to go back to a regular position, but having one there in the interim can keep your company on an even keel while you search.
You’ll also be able to avoid costly mistakes. Too many companies take a nosedive in productivity, sales and profits when an important executive or management position is left empty. Workers begin to take it easy, projects get put on the backburner, and so on. Yet having someone around to lead a company, even if it’s only for a little while, can help keep your company moving in the right direction — forward.
Look to Bayside Solutions when you need help sourcing critical members of your executive or management teams. As one of San Francisco’s premier staffing agencies, we know how to source and screen top employees for your firm. Contact us today; we look forward to serving you.
