This article is based on our recent ebook ‘4 Benefits of Incorporating the Extended Workforce in Your Vendor Management System’. This article focuses on efficiencies, saving time, and reducing staff turnover in your contingent and extended workforce.
Two of the key benefits of incorporating your extended workforce into your VMS are the reduction of time to productivity, and turnover. These benefits arrive with the removal of a whole bunch of administrative delays that would come when sourcing your talent separately. We can look at the examples from our previous article about increasing candidate submissions (and other sources of talent) to help explain this.
Alumni Talent and Trusted Referrals
Working with alumni talent allows you to cut down on screening time and hire someone for your vacancy who is already familiar with your organization, needs, and tasks. With a reduced requirement for onboarding and any necessary training or security clearances required for a first-time candidate, alumni talent allows you to drastically reduce time to productivity. Additionally, working with the same people time and again means lower turnover, which in turn reduces admin time in a variety of ways.
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Experienced Staffing Suppliers
Combining your extended workforce management with your current VMS practices also allows you to work with experienced staffing suppliers. Experienced staffing suppliers will be better suited to finding the appropriate candidates for your needs. Also, if you are consistently working with the same staffing suppliers, they will be able to fine-tune their candidate search which will, in turn, reduce turnover. This especially helps if you are hiring for a particular niche and need someone with experience hiring in that specific field.
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Using Your Brand
Using direct sourcing can go a long way to both increasing your talent pool and reducing onboarding times. You can use your brand as a competitive advantage so the worker knows when they apply exactly who they could be working for. This can clear up a lot of confusion, help you to access talent within your particular niche, and comes with cost- and time-saving benefits too.
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Competitive Rates
By using direct sourcing, freelance management systems, and other extended workforce tools alongside your VMS can also help you to create more competitive rates. By reducing admin times, time to productivity, and turnover, you can up the pay rate at no greater overall cost to your organization. You can also eliminate or reduce finders fees. All of this allows you to know that your bill rate will be lower with a payroll rate than with a full mark-up on your candidate. It’s a win-win situation.
This article has been adapted from our recent ebook ‘4 Benefits of Incorporating the Extended Workforce in Your Vendor Management System’. Download your copy now.
Meet the Expert
Taylor Ramchandani – VP of Strategy
Taylor Ramchandani is responsible for the management and strategic planning of the VectorVMS vendor management system. Taylor is committed to client satisfaction and to ensuring VectorVMS technology meets the current and future needs of clients and managed service providers (MSPs). She uses market research and in-depth industry experience to create products and services that make extended workforce management efficient and intuitive. Taylor oversees product development, marketing, and business partnerships for VectorVMS and is responsible for driving innovation for contingent workforce management. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
