Human Resources Solutions

A company's success is directly proportional to the quality of its staff and their ability to work as a cohesive and functional team. A key objective for Human Resources (HR) departments is to find, recruit and retain quality staff. Typical objectives of any HR strategy are:

• To providing assistance in the definition of an organisational structure to ensure effective teamwork
• To ensure role profiles are well-defined with clarity of purpose and prerequisite skills and experience
• To locate the most appropriate staff for a particular role within the company
• To attract the target staff with an interesting role with suitable challenges to stretch them
• To objectively quantify the fit of potential staff within a role by assessing technical and business skills
• To ensure that staff have appropriate training to fill any skills gaps

For any company the investment in ICT staff is considerable. Good performance and capacity management staff are difficult to find and expensive to recruit. This significant investment can be wasted if the wrong candidate is chosen. It is vital for the recruiting company to understand the long-term cost implications of the wrong choice of permanent staff.

Capacitas can provide recruitment consultancy services to assist a company with recruitment of performance and capacity staff. Some examples where Capacitas can assist are:

• For companies reviewing ICT organisation structure:
  • Analysis and definition of existing structure, staff and team effectiveness
  • Recommendation of most effective structures based on the Capacitas Framework
  • Definition of role profiles for capacity and performance staff
  • Identification of resource and skills gaps where they exist

• For companies recruiting ICT performance and capacity staff:
  • Consultancy including definition of appropriate job description for advertisement
  • Access to a database of available Capacitas assessed staff
  • Access to the Capacitas Analyst Resource Pool (C-ARPool) for temporary assignments
  • Provision of independent interviews and assessments

• For companies wanting to retain ICT performance and capacity staff:
  • Identification of skills gaps and provision of appropriate training services
  • One-on-one mentoring services customised for each staff member in their role
  • Improvement of staff morale and job satisfaction by process improvement

Key Benefits

• Minimising cost of recruitment by identifying only the most appropriate staff
• Independent assessment of staff minimises any internal biases
• Improved job satisfaction and staff morale of capacity and performance teams
• Reduction in staff churn and associated reduced operating costs
• Appropriate training ensures effective and efficient staff

Using the Capacitas Human Resources Service enables the client to reduce the cost of recruitment, reduce staff churn and increase the efficiency of their staff.

If you wish to find out more about the Capacitas Human Resources Service please contact enquire@capacitas.co.uk.