With the upcoming festivities, you might be looking to hire more manpower to meet the seasonal increase in demand for your products or services.

Though this offers its own unique challenges compared to recruiting permanent staff, there are ways to navigate through this period smoothly.

Like any talent management strategy, draw up a plan that looks at your manpower needs for the whole season. In an ideal world, the people you hire for that 3-month festive period will work for its entirety.

However, more likely than not, some of your temporary hires will grow tired of the job or have other opportunities crop up in place of yours. Without a plan, you will be left scrambling for new temps to hire and train halfway through. Keeping a list of back-up candidates on hand could be the difference between filling any gaps quickly or leaving you and your permanent staff to make up the numbers.

Offer completion bonuses to incentivise their full commitment for the entire period. Such rewards can also help you curate a pool of former temp staff that you can reach out to again for the next season, such as first year polytechnic or university students who wish to work during each of their vacation or study breaks.

The additional cost incurred from these incentives could be offset by the reduction in training required for former staff, as they would already be familiar with this seasonal job.

Aside from students looking to make extra cash, other demographics within the workforce should be considered for temporary gigs as well, such as older workers and stay-home mothers looking for flexible, short-term work to supplement their household income.

Not only do they bring with them a wealth of experience and people skills that students may not possess, they might even be fitter and stronger than the younger ones, which would work out better for a physically intensive gig.

If you would like for someone to do it all this festive season, from drawing up a list of temp candidates to administrating their pay, why not engage us?

Our expertise will help you focus on meeting your seasonal demand during such a crucial period.

With a rich heritage in temporary staffing, we will select only the most suitable staff for your seasonal business needs. We will screen candidates from our extensive databases, and even manage their payments with our expertise in payroll administration.

With this, breeze through the upcoming festivities with the assurance that your temporary staffing needs are well taken care of.