Engage A Recruitment Partner To Scale Up Your Operations

Engage a recruitment partner to scale up your operations

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Engage a recruitment partner to scale up your operations

  • Publish Date: Posted about 16 hours ago
  • Author: Rebecca Graves

In today's competitive marketplace, businesses are constantly challenged with scaling operations to meet client demands. This particularly resonates in the engineering sector, where the pace of project milestones needs to remain agile – NRL Director Rebecca Graves tells in-Cumbria business magazine In-Cumbria business magazine.


Technical recruitment experts NRL support energy and engineering businesses across Cumbria, the UK and internationally, and are all too familiar with this rate of change when it comes to delivering projects. Understanding that businesses across the engineering supply chain need to be able flex and upscale staffing resources to ensure they’re able to deliver a busy portfolio of projects.

NRL’s Director Rebecca Graves explains why clients choose to work with a recruitment partner to ensure they have the right solutions in place to scale up production capacity and project delivery.

"The value temporary contractors can bring to a business shouldn’t be underestimated. They bring a wealth of experience and skills, often with a fresh perspective that can significantly boost a project's innovation and delivery speed.

Working with our clients we’re able to provide them with the flexibility needed to rapidly scale up operations, bridge knowledge and skills gaps, and meet their client's project demands more efficiently. Our recruiters capture the skills and experience they need, before drawing up a shortlist of suitable candidates who are well experienced to step in and hit the ground running."

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Scaling up operations

Temporary contractors offer a unique advantage when it comes to scaling operations. They can inject specialised skills into a business, complementing the existing workforce’s capabilities whilst allowing businesses to deliver additional service expertise. This is invaluable when a company undertakes projects that require niche knowledge or a higher level of expertise than their current employee base can provide.

Engaging contractors also allows businesses to meet short-term staffing challenges, without committing to permanent contracts if their order book may not provide enough stability to offer direct employment positions.

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Navigating contractor hiring

Many businesses prefer to work with a recruitment partner to manage the resourcing and engagement of contractors on their behalf for several sound business reasons.

  • Provides businesses with the flexibility to bring in temporary contractors when needed, without the administrative overheads

  • Gives businesses access to a range of additional skills and expertise without needing to undertake their own recruitment campaign

  • Provides a partner to manage the legal and regulatory compliance around engaging contractors, such as Agency Worker Regulations, IR35 off-payroll working and Working Rule Agreements

  • Ensures a recruitment expert manages the contractual agreements, including contract extensions and offboarding following project completion

  • Access to tried and tested processes to assess each candidate’s skills and technical knowledge prior offering them a contract

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If you’re looking for support to understand how you can scale up your operations, then reach out to Rebecca at rgraves@nrl.co.uk

You can read the full April issue of In-Cumbria business magazine online.

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