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Staffing solutions for digital startups

Startups nowadays face a lot of challenges, starting from whitelabeling, funding, marketing finishing with finding companies or specialists, who are actually ready to innovate in technical field and not afraid to get their hands dirty. Acquiring the right talents, who are able to solve complicated technical problems, cost-effectively and in a timely manner becomes harder and harder. Let’s discover different ways, how talents can be acquired in a modern crowded IT market.  

Sourcing

We can see a modern trend among software developers, where competition is growing with negative dynamic for competence. As being a developer has become prestigious occupation, more and more people have chosen programming as their career path, meanwhile devaluation of talent slowly becomes a serious problem.

Outsourcing

Lot of companies are increasing effectiveness, improve processes in a pursuit of covering all the existing market fields. Outsourcing model can guarantee serious hard cost reduction, especially if talent acquisition is outsourced. This approach enables strategic advantages achieving business goals, while stimulating organizational changes. 

In-house vs Outsourcing  

Both outsourcing and in-house development models provide efficient and flexible options for working by contract. Outsourcing model can help to reduce costs, but the downside is that all the development will happen abroad, in not fully controlled environments. Problems associated with outsourcing are usually management, working conditions, and quality assurance.

Outsourcing has a lot of advantages compared to in-house devops. One of the points is that using outsourcing your company can hire a professional to solve specific task for one project. And if the skills of specific developer are no longer needed, there will be no problem letting him go. From this we can learn financial benefits, as specialists are hired on a per project basis.

Also when a digital startup is thinking about outsourcing a lot of costs can be saved on investing into software products for developers, hardware, new working space. Hiring contractors means that they have already included software and hardware costs into their estimate or hourly rate. 

Adding value

There are many more benefits outsourcing software development:

Different outsourcing companies, usually have a handful of skills or technologies that they have mastered over the years. So startups have a wide variety of companies to choose from, looking at their case studies, articles and videos. 

  • Quick response

The hiring process usually takes a lot of time. A specialized software development company can provide you with a high-quality software development team much faster.

  • Flexibility

Outsourcing empowers you to procure an expert temporarily, as indicated by the necessities of your undertaking or explicit business tasks.

  • Scalability

Every project is explicit and needs a group formed by the particular prerequisites. By re-appropriating, you can scale up the group of experts concentrated precisely for that particular project.

  • Short term commitment

While you need a specialist in a field for a particular undertaking, there is no need to bother with hiring problems. Re-appropriating IT specialists on an undertaking premise empowers you to get the best just when you need it the most.

  • Reduced costs

Top level developers can’t be beneficial all the time. Outsourcing can get you an abnormal state of profitability at decreased expenses. For instance, statistics demonstrate that with outsourcing the savings on overhead costs can be up to 60%.

Selecting the right company

Price of in-house development services varies by location, so as outsourcing price. Try to consider as many factors as possible selecting development partner, like reputation, location, portfolio and case studies, general professionalism. At the end of the day working with outsourcing company is almost always a compromise, so you need to decide what risks are you willing to handle to reduce costs and gain strategic advantage from your direct competitors, who use help of  in-house development.