There is more to Staffing than just your recruiting process.

When you first started handling the staffing process for your current employer did you have an idea of what you were getting in to? Did anyone tell you that you´d be covering everything from the initial writing of job descriptions through to the actual on boarding process? Did you realize just how many activities take place in between the beginning  and end of the spectrum?

If you answered no to every single question don´t feel bad, you´re not alone. In the last few years the importance of hiring the right people at the right time for the right price has gone beyond the simple of art of being able to read someone´s body language during an interview and asking a few pointed questions.

Here is a graphical representation of the entire lifecycle that you may very well have to deal with when it comes to staffing.

As you can see the evolution of the Staffing Lifecycle is now beyond just the basics of recruitment. Now there are so many more disciplines that become integral factors that have to be dealt with every time you accept a new hire in to your organization.

If you haven´t already started educating yourself in some of these areas be forewarned. It´s not as simple as it sounds. In fact when you start to explore areas such as performance management and succession planning you begin to realize just how important it is to have specific disciplines as part of your overall staff that are key to the central function of recruiting. In some instances this is the single largest reason most organizations start to consider the outsourcing option.

However, there are other options. There are a great many companies who have started to specialize in some of the specific areas of discipline described in the graphic above.

Based on the activities we´ve seen recently the general availability of these skill sets will decrease before they increase. If you haven´t started sourcing specific resources for these activities, now is just as good a time as any to start.