¿Merece la pena ahorrar en la contratación?

Tengo un vecino que lleva cinco años construyendo su casa. Todo el mundo le dijo que tal vez debería contratar a un contratista para construir la casa de inmediato. Pero él dijo que prefería ahorrarse el dinero y que la construiría él mismo. Hoy en día, intenta vender la casa aunque aún no esté terminada. Ha invertido mucho dinero en ella durante años. Su precio de venta sólo cubre la mitad de las inversiones. Pero sigue sin haber compradores. Si se calcula el coste total de la obra, la gasolina, los materiales y el tiempo perdido, se puede ver que el vecino podría simplemente pedir prestado el dinero necesario para la construcción adecuada, contratar un equipo de constructores y vivir en la mansión construida durante 5 años, teniendo la oportunidad de pagar todos los préstamos hace tiempo. Viendo esta historia, surge la pregunta: ¿merece la pena ahorrar e intentar hacerlo todo uno mismo, si como resultado, el gasto total resulta ser mucho más significativo?

No matter how much a company wishes to hire employees without spending it still has to pay in the end. To begin with, you will have to pay for sites about work, spend time on interviews, and hire a recruiter (HR manager) or a recruitment agency. The plan of recruitment, training, and adaptation of employees is the cornerstone of any company and unreasonable economy on it can pose serious problems for such frugal companies in the future. It's bad when the company does not have a “time to hire” standard. It is even worse if there are two stages of hiring: when an employee is needed "yesterday", and when "an employee is no longer needed".

While the top managers might know perfectly well what losses the company will suffer in the absence of sales managers, experienced warehouse manager or a service manager, they can be completely unaware of the losses due to the lack of a secretary, a purchasing manager, or an accountant. "Well, why should I hire another accountant? I will just distribute the work among other employees!"

Muchas personas pasan por alto el hecho de que, con el tiempo, la falta de un empleado se hará evidente. Es posible que otros empleados no tengan tiempo suficiente para realizar todas las tareas, y las nuevas responsabilidades pueden dar lugar a horarios de trabajo irregulares, errores e incluso dimisiones. Y entonces la organización sufrirá muchas más pérdidas que el salario de un contable.

Trying to save on essentials almost always has an adverse affect on a company: for example, if the company is trying to find personnel using a website with vacancies without having a recruiter in the state or resorts to employing a recruitment agency then such an organization risks to miss all deadlines for hiring which in turn can affect business processes. Reasonable economy implies the choice: in general, companies (who want to save money) have an HR manager on staff and additionally they employ a recruitment agency. The benefits of such savings are obvious: a reduction time to hire, as well as the ability to keep track of the process of hiring. The HR managers, as a rule, have some "workload", other tasks, in addition to the hiring process, which does not prevent them from meeting deadlines and conduct interviews.

In conclusion, it should be noted that recruitment is a key element of any organization, and if the organization is large enough then it becomes a separate business process. Saving on essentials can "go sideways" and lead to serious losses for the company in the future. Savings can only be reasonable.