Needs & Opportunities - Staffing Industry
There have been astounding changes and developments during the evolution of the staffing agency in its 50-plus years of existence. The staffing industry has evolved from its early years where temporaries were provided in emergency situations to replace absent workers to become strategic partners for its clients by providing wide range of employment services and solutions.
There has been a huge shift towards recruiting professionals in Finance, Sales, Engineering, Information Technology, and Management. Hence the growth opportunities has also brought up few challenges for the industry as a whole that mainly includes Customer retention & serving new industries, Applicant loyalty, high operation cost due to disintegrated systems in usage, high percentage of manual effort involved in the process of matching the right people with the right job there by prohibiting a quick response to the customer for an order & integration of the business processes across geographies.
These challenges needs to be addressed by a Go-To-Market solution that provides a real- time visibility into opportunities and resources, finding, bringing and retaining the best talent across the globe, managing clients, applicants & orders from a single source, fully integrated to manage both the front office and back offices seamlessly and inculcates the best industry practices so as to deliver the high quality service thereby adding more value to the customers while reducing the costs and maximizing profitability
Explore more on this at OOW'09 - http://www.infosys.com/oracle/oracle-openworld-california09/default.asp
-Sachin Kumar Jain
Sachin has over 10 Years of IT Consulting experience and leads Energy vertical within Oracle EBS Technology space at Infosys
