Stop Losing Talent: How to Streamline Hiring Amid ‘Contract Award’ Uncertainty
With all the effort that may go into creating and editing a resume, writing a cover letter, and organizing additional documentation to prove they are sufficiently trained, qualified and licensed to operate, many potential candidates for possible vacancies may be put off applying for a role that is “contingent upon contract award“, knowing that the opportunity doesn’t actually exist at that time.
It adds another level of chance to the process already degraded by several lays of friction, not to mention opportunity cost. So, why bother applying?
On the other hand, from a business perspective, if you have had to write a contract proposal, you’ll be very aware that companies cannot hope to win without “Key Resumes”. If they don’t / cannot find anyone they don’t / cannot bid. If they do go through the process of finding, screening and submitting key resumes, and then win the bid, they may be faced with the contract start date slipping significantly to the right. The original applicant, keen to secure a new role to pay the mortgage, cannot wait for the contract start date, and must accept a different position with a different company. You have just lost your “Key Resumes”, and must go out to the market again, at additional time and cost.
How do you mitigate two sides of this productivity and resource drain?
Imagine, instead, a remote-access talent pool system that enables the company to source the “Key Resumes” they need, when they need them, as well as all the role-specific qualifications, certifications, licenses, DBS checks, training records, medical records, insurances and more… WITHOUT needing to keep this data on company systems, an keep the Talent Pool constantly up to date
This means it is the APPLICANT that needs to keep their detail current, and you simply need to tell them what you need to see and access, to help in your bid submission.
How does the applicant keep you informed with ready-access data?
By being able to store, manage and share all their data, continuously, with hundreds of companies simultaneously. When they need to swap a document out for update, they can do so once, through a central system, so that all their connected companies have access to the very latest information. Doing so helps mitigate the administrative burden (on both sides) and the applicant can allocate their time to something more valuable – such as updating skills rather than informing individual companies, one at a time, about their documentation and deployment-readiness status.
The company has pre-screened the individual and have permission to access and use the details for bids, and keep the applicant updated on the progress of the bid submission and contract award.
If successful, the mobilisation process can begin.
If successful – but contract award slips – the company has an immediate pool of people to run a quick search and contact to see who is available for the new dates (whilst always running recruitment marketing to attract new prospective employees or contractors).
Don’t just imagine…
This is what Marshal can do you for you. It makes the process of seeking resumes, on the one hand, and being kept informed about opportunities “subject to contract award”, on the other, an order of magnitude easier to manage.
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