For some businesses though the radical change to the industry landscape at the peak of the global pandemic, identified opportunities to diversify and strategically target emerging markets to reposition their organisation – moving away perhaps from sectors that had traditionally provided a core revenue stream for their business.

As organisations begin to regroup and review their future plans, it provides a great opportunity to consider how well positioned their supply chain is to support their changing needs.

“When reviewing your recruitment supply chain, it’s crucial that you’re choosing suppliers that are flexible in the short-term, but also responsive to the bigger picture.”

– Richard Hanson, Linx Client Services Director

As organisations begin to consider where they see their business in the next five years, they may identify that their recruitment requirements will also change.

The role of a centrally outsourced workforce management partner should be to work strategically to map out the future talent acquisition requirements and ensure suppliers are able to meet these challenges face on.

Factors such as potential skill shortages and legislation changes will also need to be considered – ensuring solutions are available to build talent pools and react to any changes in the market.

Crucially though, organisations need to know that their recruitment supply chain is responsive enough to continue to deliver a consistent supply of suitably qualified and skilled candidates to a level required to meet their future plans.

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As we began to climb to the peak of the virus the Government encouraged businesses to send their colleagues to work from home wherever possible – resulting in pictures across the media of deserted cities and near-empty trains.

It’s certainly factually correct to say that without technology, businesses would not have been able to remain so agile during this global pandemic. With the Office for National Statistics identifying that 86% of those who worked from home in April reporting COVID-19 as the reason, technology’s role in keeping businesses moving became all too clear.

As Teams calls and catch ups over Zoom became the new way of life, businesses also began to put their technology systems and processes to the ultimate test. For businesses managing their recruitment resourcing through an applicant tracking system (ATS) or vendor management system (VMS) this temporary relocation from a shared office space was achieved somewhat autonomously. Provided clear processes had been built into the workforce management system, the geographical location of colleagues bared little impact on ensuring the process could continue without complications.

The wide-scale adoption of video calling also supported the hiring process remotely – with businesses choosing to hold interviews virtually. By utilising technology, they could reduce any potential delay in selecting suitable applicants – ensuring that time-to-hire did not increase, which could incur additional resource costs. For businesses managing a large volume of temporary contractors, technology helped ensure that the sudden increase in demand for critical projects could still be met with the correct level of resourcing.

The massive disruption COVID-19 has had on businesses, certainly highlights the need to ensure that systems and processes can remain uninterrupted even when a global pandemic is at its peak. For businesses who had to play catch up to attempt to quickly implement the technology they needed to ensure their business remained able to deliver services to their clients, COVID-19 delivered a clear message – business processes must be led by the right technology, running streamlined processes.

Reference: Office for National Statistics April 2020

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