skills2market

skills2market is a business-to-business trading system designed to enable OSPs to market their spare resources into the UK employment market on a temporary / interim basis. Conceptually, skills2market is a brokerage service that puts supply and demand together in a secure and “private” way.

Conceptually, skills2market is a brokerage service that puts supply and demand together in a secure and “private” way. The core USP for skills2market is the provision of resources with IT skills and experience, who currently work in large IT services organizations, but are “available for hire” at the present time. 

For those looking for temporary resources, using skills2market will ensure that the search results presented are for resources who can start “immediately”.

For OSPs skills2market is both a utilisation tool and a channel to market. It can be used  to:

1. generate cost recovery against currently “benched” resources,
2. assist and support employees who are in phase-out from company employment or,
3. to generate additional revenue utilising skills currently not in high demand within the business, but never-the-less strategic in nature.

The skills2market.com application set creates a business development opportunity between the OSP and the wider market for IT related skills, effectively reversing the recruitment work-flow into a channel to market process.  It is also a key resource in the redeployment of staff in the ELSS offering.

For every OSP the requirement to maximize current resource utilisation and efficiency is the focus of relentless attention. In recent years, with the emergence of delivery capability in low cost offshore locations, the focus has also included the cost of the resources employed and where the provision of services takes place from.

In the Western European economies, access to suitably qualified resources with the right mix of IT skills is a substantial challenge for the largest organisations and can be even more difficult for smaller, less well known companies.

Historically, the utilisation requirement has been an operational responsibility and the resourcing challenge very much the preserve of HR. The latest challenge for outsourcing HR professionals is how to release substantial numbers of the current resource base cost effectively and without impacting the ongoing operational resource requirement.

The resource management challenge is compounded by the constraints of European Employment Legislation and the uncertainty over the ongoing or forecasted resource requirement.

skills2market offers OSPs the opportunity to redeploy their available excess resource capacity on a temporary or interim basis, into market segments that they themselves would be unlikely to target.

For recruiters, skills2market provides a consolidated source of qualified resources with confirmed availability and supply rates, that historically would have been unavailable to the market.

The skills2market service provides discrete benefits to OSPs; the individual OSP employees; temporary placement agencies and (through Atlas-GOSS) individuals with IT Service experience currently outwith OSPs.

The core service offering for OSPs is:

1. Secure brokerage of the skills made available for marketing as available skills
2. Consolidated contract administration and revenue collection service for all skills in use
3. Ongoing performance management administration of all skills in use for the duration of deployment

For recruiters / contractor agencies:

1. Secure access to a consolidated repository  of otherwise inaccessible skills
2. Highly searchable repository only populated with available skills (and soon to be available)
3. Ability to place enquiries and requests for skills required, into the outsourcing community.

For employees with skills deemed available to be marketed:

1. Access to work assignments that are otherwise inaccessible through your current employer
2. Opportunities to develop your base of skills and experience in varied working environments
3. Ongoing security of tenure with your current employer whilst delivering a positive contribution

For individuals available, but outwith the outsourcing community:

1. A route to market for your skills through a trusted intermediary brand
2. Potential to join us as an associate, contractor or permanent employee
3. Prompt payment and access to business administration support services

The team at Atlas-GOSS has a broad range of outsourcing and support services experience and substantive functional and operational management expertise. The combination of these skills, experiences and expertise is enabling skills2market to offer unique service benefits to OSPs, a new source of revenue for both OSPs & temporary placement agencies and most importantly a whole new career opportunity for the OSP employees with available skills.