5 reasons that make your staffing tool an ally of your profitability

The staffing tool may be the greatest asset of service businesses. But be careful: you still have to know how to draw out its full potential... 🤔 Performance, commitment, but also profitability are largely impacted by the use you make of them. Can't you see how? We invite you to discover the 5 reasons What makes your staffing tool the best ally of your profitability.

Good optimization of staffing at the start = less budget overruns!

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Optimize project planningOK, but how ? As with a cooking recipe, you need to gather the right ingredients for success.

To get into practice, optimizing project planning and staffing means above all taking into account a certain amount of information when creating project teams. Among them, we find in particular:

• Les availability of employees 
• Their skills
• Their interests
• Their Development wishes
• Les budgets and deadlines
• Les CJM and TJM of your teams

And that's where your staffing tool comes in: it allows you to cross-reference all this data (objectives vs constraints) in order to build the Better project team on the first try. And when you sell a project with a fixed billing method, the CJM of your employees is a key metric to take into account. Indeed, the staffing tool not only allows you to compare the skills between all your employees, but also to help you compose a team that can carry out the mission in as little time as possible. And above all, who guarantees the best margin!

By creating devices that are both adapted to the complexity of the mission and to the budget, you reduce the possibility of project slippage, modification during the mission and therefore, loss of margin.

Don't underestimate the power of a staffing tool in maintaining your budgets!

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Better management of resource allocation = fewer resources lost

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As we have just seen, the organization of your staffing is based on the management of resources: budget, collaborator, deadline, TJM/CJM, skills, etc. The staffing tool uses this information to:

• Target consultants on assignment so as not to mobilize them at more than 100% of their occupancy rate
• Targeting consultants during an intercontract period, i.e. without a mission
• Target consultants at the beginning or end of the contract period.

Three essential data to identify future availability and availability at the moment T.

Because you know it: a collaborator without a mission is a loss of profit. It is essential to be able to identify who is or will be left without a mission in order to anticipate and be able to:

• Optimize their skills through training,
• Position them on internal projects or in support of ongoing missions,
• Position them on pro-bono missions,
• Suggest that they carry out accounting sponsorship.

A win-win process because if employees are trained and committed by and in your company, and you, you maximize your profitability by reducing the cost of availability. You thus ensure more commitment, more performance and above all, more profitability!

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Better staffing for each mission = more successful projects!

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Previously, we discussed the question of the allocation of resources, especially that of employees. Your staffing software helps you build the teams that will be most likely to lead to the success of your project and the satisfaction of your customers. But how?

The staffing software is based on a algorithm that sorts with relevance. Thus, you can build your project team according to the very specific criteria of each mission, with profiles that are perfectly adapted to the needs and expectations of your client. So:

➡️ You limit the risks of positioning an employee under or over qualified for the mission.

➡️ Staffing managers No longer interchange employees from one day to the next, because the skills are clearly established early in the project.

➡️ You limit the expenditure of useful resources While maximizing the chances to meet deadlines on time.

You gain in profitability because employees and customers are 100% satisfied. Since employees are trained, you have less need to recruit. And you Build loyalty your customers in parallel. At the end: a respected margin and renewed missions, for even more profitability.

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