What’s the Difference Between Work-Ready and Available?

When you’re interviewing people for a job, you need to know the difference between work-ready and available.

Work-Ready Means Vetting…

Work-ready means the candidate has been vetted. They have undergone background checks, reference checks, and any other required screening.

Vetting is important because sometimes job applicants who seem qualified on paper may not turn out to be good employee material.

Applicants may have misrepresented their qualifications, shown a spotty or poor work ethic, or even have criminal convictions. Any of these make them a poor candidate for your company. Unfortunately, you may have to terminate them later on if you don’t vet them first.

…and Training

Work-ready also means the applicants have been trained to do the available job. They may have been trained at another company, or they may have gone specific training on equipment or tools before they begin the job.

Work-Ready Employees Can Begin Right Away

Ultimately, hiring a work-ready employee means that the new hire can actually begin work right away. If you make a hiring decision on a Friday morning, the new worker can show up Monday morning, ready and able to work.

An available worker, on the other hand, may not be able to show up Monday morning. “Available” means they are not currently working and have applied to work for your company. But they have not been vetted or trained.

Vetting can take two weeks or more.

Training a new worker to be fully up to speed can take anywhere from several days to several months, depending on the job.

As a result, available for a job means so much less than being work-ready. A work-ready candidate can start to be productive for your company right away.

Stride Can Ensure that Applicants Are Work-Ready

If you want work-ready people, let a staffing agency help. Staffing agencies are experienced at vetting applicants. They have contacts and systems in place to perform vetting and can do it quickly.

It’s a good idea to vet top candidates at the same time as the interview.

Staffing agencies can also find trained employees for hire.

Stride Staffing’s goal is to build stronger connections between employers and individuals by doing staffing differently. Really. Contact us today for hiring and recruitment help in Richardson, Texas and other locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Why a Deep-Dive Hiring Strategy Is Essential

A deep-dive hiring strategy is essential for human resources professionals. You need to know the company’s strengths and opportunities, but also what they perceive as their challenges. Why? Because once you know them, you can help them optimize strengths and opportunities, and rise to meet challenges.

Help Proactively by Knowing Trends

A deep-dive hiring strategy will ensure that you can help them with their challenges proactively, not just fill requests. Surface level strategy may fill a role, but not solve a problem or help a company grow.

You need to know what market forces and trends affect your company. Is there a shortage of talent to fill manufacturing jobs so the company can grow, for example? Are there challenges in finding people who are work-ready and can be trained?

Once you know the broader trneds and market forces, you can drill down to find out specific challenges. If your company having problems with employee retention and turnover, for example? Do you need a more flexible workforce? One with a stronger commitment to productivity?

Once you know their challenges, you can proactively work to come up with a solution.

If finding qualified manufacturing workers is a challenge, for example, are there ways to recruit these workers more effectively?

Could the company institute plans to attract the qualified people in their area? Some companies find referral programs from good existing employees effective. Are your company’s salaries, for instance, competitive with other companies also competing for these workers? Do the workers feel rewarded? Would a company appreciation policy work to increase employee retention?

Do you have periods when more workers are needed and periods when fewer workers are required? If so, they may benefit from the temporary employee market.

How a Staffing Agency Can Help

The human resources market is dynamic and constantly changing. It’s a good idea to have monthly or quarterly meetings with your staffing agency to discuss strengths and challenges, and how they can help you.

Stride Staffing’s goal is to build stronger connections between employers and individuals by doing staffing differently. Really.

Are you looking to develop a better, more strategic hiring plan?

Contact us today for hiring and recruitment help in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas.

How Do You Make Sure Your Hiring Is More Successful?

The success rate in hiring is important to any business. Briefly, the success rate is the number of people hired who are good employees: reliable and able to do their tasks well. How can you make your hiring more successful?

Reducing Hiring and Firing Costs 

When you add up the time and effort expended on hiring, it’s can be quite a lot. A job description has to be developed and posted. A decision has to be made about where it is posted. Resumes and applications have to be screened. People have to be interviewed.

Then, of course, there’s a training period when the new hire comes in. Even the best employees have a learning curve, when they won’t be at peak productivity.

If a new hire is a good employee, the company is ultimately rewarded with a good worker. But if the person is not a good hire, they may end up having to be let go.

This can be costly as well. There are procedures to letting someone go. A performance plan usually must be instituted. Even if you are working with a staffing agency and hiring temporary workers, a new temp must be brought in and learn the ropes when one is fired.

You want a high success rate to cut down on hiring and firing costs.

Better Overall Productivity

A good success rate – a high number of employees hired who turn out to be good, reliable workers – is great for productivity. They go through a training period, enter maximize productivity to you and produce well. Your team becomes productive.

Stride Staffing Can Help

A staffing agency can help increase your success rate. They can recruit so you find candidates with the experience and skills you need. They can supply you with temporary workers so that you can see the quality of work with no lengthy interview process, and choose only the best qualified without having to go through a firing process.

Stride Staffing’s goal is to build stronger connections between employers and individuals by doing staffing differently. Really. Contact us today for hiring and recruitment help in Arlington, Texas and other locations.