How Remote Professionals Could Boost Your Business

24 Jul 2023

Published in: Member News

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Finding the right skilled talent in the UK is becoming a very real problem for a lot of businesses. At Resource Worldwide, we think we’ve found a solution. We’re on a mission to ensure that all businesses have access to the talent they need.

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Finding the right skilled talent in the UK is becoming a very real problem for a lot of businesses. This issue covers a broad range of industries, and not having all the necessary skills in-house is potentially costing a great deal. But at Resource Worldwide, we think we’ve found a solution. We’re on a mission to ensure that all businesses have access to the talent they need.

Before we look at the solution, let’s dig deeper into the problem. The skills gap is not just a frustration, it’s actually costing businesses a lot of money. And even if they can find talent, they then face the increasing problem of staff retention rates. It is currently a candidate led market and many staff members are only staying in jobs for a short time. This again costs a lot of money in recruitment, training and logistics.

What’s the Solution?

Training is a must if we’re going to tackle this issue long term. We need people from a young age learning technical and digital skills. But that is a very long term solution. That doesn’t help businesses who are short of skills right now and are struggling to achieve all they want to because of it.

This is where it becomes necessary to take a broader view. There is talent out there, it’s just not on our doorstep in the way it used to be.

That’s why we work with remote professionals. These are highly trained people with degrees, experience and a wealth of talent. They have the skills to do many of the jobs that UK businesses seem to be struggling to fill.

We work with people in the Philippines. We realised that there is a huge amount of talent in this country and many of them want to work for companies across the world, using their skills elsewhere. It benefits them as they get great career opportunities, and it benefits businesses as they get access to the right skills they need, and in a very cost effective way.

To explain cost effective: we don’t mean cheap. These are talented individuals who have worked extremely hard to get the skills they’ve got. But a very good salary to them is a cost effective salary comparably in the UK.

We believe in paying a very good wage to these people. Value is so important. But when you compare the exchange rate, it makes it good value.

How does it work?

In our highly connected world, working with a remote professional is easier than you think. And the barriers most people seem to believe exist, simply don’t.

• We only work with very skilled and qualified people, and we make sure they have the right credentials for the job you’re looking to fill

• Our recruiters are trained psychologists, and we match candidates on skills, experience, personality and culture, ensuring they’re a good fit in your organisation

• We provide full candidate management and support

• There is normally a short turnaround time, so you could have your new talented team member in place in a matter of weeks

Finding the Skills You Need

If you’re struggling to find skilled talent for your organisation, we’re offering all Chamber members a free 30 minute consultation where we can explore how a remote worker might benefit you.

We always adopt a consultative approach. That means we won’t just try to give you people we think might be right. We’ll find out what you need and what you’re trying to achieve, and we’ll work hard to find you the perfect match in terms of skill set and personality.

Finding the right person who gels with your team as well as offers expertise is the only way to secure long term success. We make both things a priority in our candidate searches.

The choice is always yours. If you’d be interested to see how we might be able to help, please get in touch. We can share with you how we’ve helped other businesses and how we think we might be able to help you.