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Salesforce Staff Augmentation Helps You Stay within Hiring Budget Constraints
Salesforce staff augmentation can save the day when you have a tight budget to work with and little time to bring someone up to speed on the specific, technical duties of a Salesforce professional. CLOUDSTREET covers the administrative costs of each contract worker so you don’t have the added expenses of employee overhead mentioned above. Don’t forget that you can also choose to work virtually with our offshore development team to help control costs.
Whether your contractor works onsite or offsite, choosing this option over hiring new employees reduces the risk of overstaffing. While both understaffing and overstaffing present problems, the latter is especially frustrating because you end up paying people for a full day even when they don’t always have enough work to keep them busy. Understaffing, on the other hand, often results in costly overtime hours for your in-house staff as well as stress and burnout. Our services provide an essential balance that allow you to avoid either extreme.
What is Salesforce Staff Augmentation?
The term staff augmentation refers to the ability of a business to extend the capacity of its staff by accessing an outside team that offers dedicated technical services. When you sign up for staff augmentation services with CLOUDSTREET, we act as an extension of your human resources department by finding just the right professionals to work with Salesforce software on a contract basis.
Another way to think of staff augmentation is talent on demand. We send you a Salesforce expert who can then train your team to take over once his or her contract ends. The pool of information technology (IT) resources changes each year in response to market demand. Many Salesforce certified experts who choose to work as contractors have lowered their rates to remain competitive with others in the market. The lowered rates save your company money as does the fact you do not need to pay expensive benefits and overhead when you bring in an independent contractor.
Why Choose CLOUDSTREET Over the Competition?
While many staffing agencies offer Salesforce staff augmentation, CLOUDSTREET takes client services a step further with offshore developers to help with flexible staffing needs. Despite working outside the United States, our offshore developers are employees of CLOUDSTREET. We do not outsource this work. The offshore developers for Salesforce staff augmentation are on our payroll, and managers at several levels oversee the work they do for our clients.
With offshore developers working to solve your flexible staffing needs, you retain the value of our services without having to sacrifice on the quality of contractors. Our offshore employees treat clients in the same professional manner and have the willingness to go beyond to meet their needs just as our stateside employees do. Based in Pune, India, the offshore development team employed by CLOUDSTREET all speak fluent English. They work from a fully equipped office with fiber Internet that includes backup capabilities.
At CLOUDSTREET, we have removed any barriers to working with an offshore development team by first anticipating any challenge. Once identified, we quickly intervene to remove a potential challenge to prevent it from causing any issues for our clients. Hiring employees who speak English fluently and equipping them with a modern office are just two examples of how we have nearly eliminated common challenges of working with an offshore team.
The news about CLOUDSTREET’s offshore development team gets even better. When they secure a Salesforce professional for your organization, you can expect to pay approximately half the rate that you would pay for someone with the same experience level in the United States. More options and better prices are just the CLOUDSTREET way.
What Are Some Roles a Salesforce Certified Contractor Can Fulfill?
The Salesforce experts CLOUDSTREET sends your way are ready to start working right away. You will not need to invest time and resources into training because our experts have their certification already. Some specific positions we can help fulfill through a contractor role include:
- Administrators or a whole team
- Advanced developers
- Business Analysts
- Developers
- Solution Architects
- Technical Architects
Our Salesforce experts come to us with a wide range of expertise. Here are some typical skills you can expect from our contractors:
- Apex coding
- Architecture design
- dot.com App Development
- Data Modeling
- Integration solutions
- Salesforce Lighting
- Visualforce coding
Whether you prefer your Salesforce professional to work onsite, from home, or another virtual location, CLOUDSTREET can accommodate your needs. Some of our top requests include marketing, sales, and service cloud in addition to application development via AppExchange and Salesforce Communities. CLOUDSTREET works closely with your business to help determine your specific Salesforce needs and then finds the right highly skilled professional to meet them.
Salesforce Staff Augmentation Helps You Stay within Hiring Budget Constraints
Salesforce staff augmentation can save the day when you have a tight budget to work with and little time to bring someone up to speed on the specific, technical duties of a Salesforce professional. CLOUDSTREET covers the administrative costs of each contract worker so you don’t have the added expenses of employee overhead mentioned above. Don’t forget that you can also choose to work virtually with our offshore development team to help control costs.
Whether your contractor works onsite or offsite, choosing this option over hiring new employees reduces the risk of overstaffing. While both understaffing and overstaffing present problems, the latter is especially frustrating because you end up paying people for a full day even when they don’t always have enough work to keep them busy. Understaffing, on the other hand, often results in costly overtime hours for your in-house staff as well as stress and burnout. Our services provide an essential balance that allow you to avoid either extreme.
Salesforce Staff Augmentation Ensures Project Continuity
Working with CLOUDSTREET for your Salesforce contracting needs allows your administrators or managers to continue a project through to completion without interruption. They won’t have to deal with issues like coordinating employment agreements and administrative tasks as the size of the team grows and shrinks according to established project needs. You can expect higher productivity from the entire team with these burdens lifted.
You’re the One in Charge with Salesforce Staff Augmentation
While CLOUDSTREET will recommend several qualified candidates with Salesforce expertise, the choice of whom you want to contract for your company is entirely up to you. We understand that you have many factors to consider, including criteria you need the contractor to have, specific business needs, and the timeframe in which you need to complete them. There is no need to manage an IT contractor from CLOUDSTREET any differently than you do your own employees, despite the fact he or she remains on our payroll.
Once a Salesforce expert finishes a contract, you can both move on with no awkwardness or hard feelings because it was part of the contract all along. Should you need a new contractor with a different set of Salesforce skills, we will help locate one for you promptly. That person can continue working on the project the previous contractor assisted with or be there from the beginning as you launch a new project. You can even switch to working with our offshore development team once your stateside contractors have completed their work.
We Can Also Help with Long-Term IT Staffing Needs
Most of the time, clients contact CLOUDSTREET because they have short-term needs for a Salesforce expert to help them complete a project in a timely manner. Requests typically come into us due to limitations on hiring, budget restrictions, and lack of current resources to bring in a new team member.
However, this pattern has evolved considerably over the years. We now see clients ask for multiple extensions on a contract with our Salesforce specialists. CLOUDSTREET contractors become especially valuable to our clients when they have been with the company for several months, know the processes and technology, and work well with the existing team.
Allowing the contract of a proven Salesforce specialist to expire in favor of hiring a full-time employee or a new contractor who might not have the same level of expertise may not seem like a wise business decision. Your company may even want to consider negotiating with CLOUDSTREET to hire the contractor on as a permanent employee when it makes sense to do so.
Does Working with Offshore Developers Make Sense for Your Company? We Can Help You Decide
If you’re not sure whether to use stateside or offshore Salesforce professionals to meet your staffing needs, we are happy to help you run an analysis to decide. Beyond cost, some factors to consider include whether you need contractors to work onsite, time zone differences and whether your company has the technology to conduct virtual meetings with Salesforce professionals outside the country. Fortunately, any challenges to working with an offshore development team are minimal and easy to overcome.
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Are you ready to add one or more fully vetted IT professionals to your team? We invite you to learn more about our talent management services by requesting a consultation with CLOUDSTREET today.
