It’s safe to say that a lot of us are looking forward to retirement. Whether it’s to have access to a pension pot, or just a lot more free time to enjoy, it’s definitely something to keep in mind if you’re reaching the end of your time in work.
Some people are even offered early retirement; the opportunity to hang up their work hat a few years early. This can be great for the individual, but frustrating for the business owner that is letting them go.
Thankfully, there’s a solution. If you’re encouraging early retirement for a member of your team as part of some corporate reshuffling, temporary workers can help you to keep things running smoothly.
How Early Retirement Affects a Business
Your team is a machine, made up of individual parts that all work well together. If one of those parts is missing for any reason, productivity is affected no matter that their role was. They can be missing on a temporary basis, such as illness or maternity leave, or stepping away for good because they’re retiring.
Retirement is an easy thing to prepare for. But if you need to offer early retirement, things get a lot trickier for a business owner. Someone leaving permanently is a hole in your business that won’t patch itself up after a certain period of time.
This is true for any role. Whether it’s a receptionist, your social media manager, or one of the higher-ups like a manager or director, their work will be missed immediately.
You fix this by hiring someone. But you can’t afford to risk rushing the recruitment process and wasting time and money on someone who isn’t a good enough replacement. The traditional recruitment process also takes a long time, time you can’t afford to lose.
So what’s the solution? Well, while you find a permanent new hire, you can use temporary workers to bridge the gap.
The Advantages of using Temporary Workers to Cover Early Retirement
If you work with a temporary recruitment agency, you’ll have access to talented workers that will slot perfectly into any role within your business. This can be done instantly too, no need to mess around with job boards and interviews, it’ll either be handled by the agency or you can work together to speed things up.
This means that you can find someone to cover the retiree’s role while you take your time searching for a permanent replacement. With multiple contract options available, your temporary recruitment agency will always have what, and who, you need.
Temporary workers with some experience will hit the ground running, working well from day one. This is because they’re used to adapting to new work environments quickly, and can even join projects midway through and still perform well.
You can also hire temporary workers before your permanent staff member retires. This gives them the opportunity to shadow someone experienced in the role, and will be able to integrate into the team even faster.
Temporary Agency Workers for Early Retirement
If you run a temporary recruitment agency, you already understand the value that your workers can provide for any business with retiring employees.
But there’s also a lot of pressure to provide your clients with the best talent possible. There are a lot of agencies out there, what is the reason why clients choose you instead of your workers? To keep them loyal, you need to only have the best workers in your database.
Candidate selection is the most important part of the process. When you send a shortlist of candidates to your client, you want them to be impressed by how good they are. In a sense you want the final decision to be tough, just because it shows the quality of the options available.
But your team cannot spend the appropriate amount of time on candidate selection if they are inundated with admin tasks. To streamline your operation and keep clients happy, your agency needs our help.
How we Support Temporary Recruitment Agencies
A lot of agencies partner with third parties to help with various admin tasks. But if you have one partner for invoicing, another for recruitment funding, and then a third for credit control, the cost will be sky high.
You’ll also have to manage multiple companies, all of which could have dozens of representatives. All you want is a report, but your email is buried and your calls ignored.
If this sounds familiar, it’s time to partner with a company who will put you first. Our service is designed to give temporary recruitment agencies everything they need. This includes:
All for just one fee! You’ll be free to focus on running your agency while we handle the admin. And if you ever have a question or want to check in, we’ll be ready to answer emails or have a chat over the phone.
This is because our approach gives you more than just quality support.
Recruitment Funding with a More Personal Touch
When you partner with Back Office Support Services, you’ll be set up with just two points of contact.
First is your payroll account manager. They’ll be ensuring that your workers are always paid on time, and their voices are being heard. This is all possible because you’ll also have 100% recruitment funding – all the cash flow you need even when clients are slow to pay their invoices.
And then there’s your credit controller. Every client will be set a credit limit, and they will make sure that those limits aren’t exceeded and that clients’ financial issues never affect your agency.
Both will be in regular contact with you and your clients, creating a strong relationship. They’ll feel like an extension of your agency, not a third party, and the work they’ll do will always be top notch as they’re 100% dedicated to your agency.
If you’d like to find out more about how we support temporary recruitment agencies, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.