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What is Strategic Staffing?

Organizations achieve successes that are determined by different factors that contribute towards growth and reputation. The most important characteristics in maintaining success and growth are the people’s efforts, skills, knowledge and talents.  Many successful organizations like TATA group of Companies, GE, Google, etc. have realized this fact and mostly they implement strategies to utilize this invaluable human resource of fostering talent and effectiveness among their staff. An effective and motivated staff contributes towards overall growth, achievement and continuously sustains the business company in the current competition.  For example, in Google many new technologies are conceptualized, developed and used by people who develop it. Looking at this closely the company’s employees create, improve and instigate the company’s competitive advantage. Implementing strategies for effective staffing is the key towards successful human resource management as this sets the stage for the organization’s performance, value, strategic execution of future plans and survival.

Many successful organizations have understood the criticality in hiring and retaining talented and high performing staff. Senior management regularly monitor the strategies and activities under HR mainly in staff talent retention and skill development in the same way that is similar to other core functions namely finance, operations and marketing, etc. Strategic staffing managers are experts in workforce planning and staffing processes. They formulate strategies that are feasible, effective and workable in workforce planning to ensure a person’s skills are utilized in the most appropriate job to fulfill staffing requirements.

Effective handling of talent in an organization by executing a number of actions include,

• Collaboration between hiring managers and staffing professionals in HR department
• Understanding job requirements, inventory of the current processes
• Identifying skills, competencies for the job profile. Other attributes include, personality, aptitude, expertise, etc for effective performance on the job
• Identifying the right talent, competencies from a pool of applicants for long term/short term business plans
• Demonstrating knowledge and expertise on various job roles in the organization
• Leading the hiring process by providing input at all stages
• Directing the final hiring decision

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