Creating a new business is tough, especially in today’s industry. This is especially true of a workforce management or labour-hire business. These businesses often need to be run 24/7, require a large quantity of staff to be truly profitable and have a massive turnover in terms of recruitment, by the nature of the casual business.

1. How to start a successful On-Hire Workforce Management Company
Creating a new business is tough, especially in today’s industry. This is especially true of a workforce
management or labour-hire business. These businesses often need to be run 24/7, require a large
quantity of staff to be truly profitable and have a massive turnover in terms of recruitment, by the
nature of the casual business. This huge turnover of staff means constant turnover of labour by your
internal admin people. Therefore to be successful in the labour hire industry you need to get serious
about getting organised! How do you do that? Well your first most important thing is to have set
systems for every process your new agency business will be doing. This includes your initial
marketing and pulling in talent of people and casual labourers. Facebook marketing is a great way to
start this and you need to have your marketing integrated straight into your recruitment and
onboarding system. It doesn’t matter what this system is, but the days where information fed
straight into an email inbox should be long gone. That is simply too inefficient for the workers of
today, and every second you are recreating and copy pasting data from an email is time your
competitors have automatically logged and created an interview for a potential new staff.
The next step is making sure your recruitment feeds properly into your rostering and management
system for clients and your casual personnel. This is the core component of the on-hire industry, and
the more efficient and more enjoyable you can make this for your staff and clients the better. This is
because word of mouth and referrals travel very fast in this industry, due to the incredibly fluid
nature of how the on-hire industry works with people always moving between different clients,
agencies and locations. Thusly if your staff love to work for you, they will tell their friends and the
best way to make them love you is both to pay them well and make finding jobs easy and simple for
them. People work casual for the convience and great pay. A great way to do this is to have an
awesome Apple or Android app like entireHR that allows your staff to manage their rosters,
documents, book themselves in for shifts they want to work and update when you can call and
speak to them. By making your personnel “be their own bosses” you create a whole group of very
happy staff who by word of mouth end up having more staff flock to your growing agency business.
Finally doing the same for your clients and empowering them to make online bookings means they
can suddenly give you more requests much quicker than they could before. Especially if you use an
all in one system like entireHR they can then book, track, accept and reject staff you want to send
them even faster than they can. Creating these business efficiencies will make your on-hire business
hugely successful.
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payroll, invoicing and finance. Get in touch with us for the best on-hire workforce management
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