When Should I Consider an MSP?
Here are some situations when an MSP can guide your business through the challenges of securing essential non-employee talent:
- When workforce efficiency is lacking: If outdated technology or a lack of automation is slowing you down, and your teams are struggling to focus on the key hiring needs that will determine the success of your enterprise.
- When agency engagement is inconsistent, and stakeholders are dissatisfied: If you have too many agencies and vendors without a clear process for managing them across regions or countries, your program requires a new level of staffing optimisation.
- When site access isn’t well-managed: If you don’t have visibility over who is on-site or what access they have, an MSP can provide clarity and control, and, most importantly, mitigate risks.
- When market rates are unclear: If you don’t know how much you’re paying compared to market standards, you’re missing out on potential savings opportunities.
- When liability risks aren’t addressed: If you lack proper controls to mitigate risks and liabilities pertaining to legislative and employment regulations, as well as business operational risks.
Why Choose Airswift Resourcing As Your MSP provider?
- Streamlined talent acquisition and sourcing processes: We enhance staffing efficiency by centralising processes and eliminating the complexity of juggling agencies, job boards, and internal workflows. This ensures every candidate is evaluated consistently, helping you hire top-quality STEM talent every time.
- Sustainable cost optimisation: We help you identify opportunities to enhance workforce management, drive performance, and reduce costs. According to Ardent Partners research, businesses leveraging MSPs drive 65% higher cost savings year-over-year.
- Trusted expertise from seasoned professionals: You'll have a dedicated, hands-on team of experts with deep knowledge of your industry working closely with you to navigate complex workforce planning - from forecasting staffing needs to ensuring full compliance with local regulations. Our team is engrained in your industry and well-versed in the latest industry trends, further augmenting how our solutions find, engage, and source the best-fit talent for your enterprise’s unique needs.
- Flexible solutions tailored to you: Our MSP is designed to meet your needs, whether you're entering new markets or managing changing project demands. We help your business scale up or down as it evolves, no matter where you're located. Our services include talent sourcing, EOR, payroll, permanent talent acquisition, and mobilising talent to where they need to be.
What Sets Us Apart From Other MSPs?
Industry Expertise
With a proven track record and deep expertise, we deliver tailored solutions for energy, oil and gas, process and infrastructure projects. Our trusted industry heritage and talent-focused strategies make us a reliable partner for clients and a preferred choice for talent in volatile industries that require best-in-class skillsets.
Human-centric Approach
Airswift Resourcing balances technology with a human touch, focusing on relationships and industry-specific expertise. Our people-first culture positions us as a trusted partner for talent sustainability, not just cost optimisation.
Comprehensive Services
We offer end-to-end contingent workforce management (CWM) solutions, including staffing, Employer of Record (EOR), Statement of Work (SOW), sourcing and management, and MSP services. Our high-touch MSP offering integrates seamlessly with advanced technology ecosystems, optimising costs and boosting workforce visibility.
Global Scale
With on-the-ground support in nearly 70 countries, our programs cover complex geographies and seamless talent mobility for multi-location projects.
Access to STEM talent
Our program teams are designed to address specific needs and talent shortages by knowing our clients' businesses inside and out. Our expertise in STEM recruitment and deep talent technology proficiencies ensure clients secure the right talent for their most critical projects.
Testimonials
The professionalism of Airswift's staff has earned our high trust. Their strict compliance with procedures gives us confidence that they will consistently do the right thing.
Worley has built up a strong relationship with Airswift and they have proved themselves as a company who always provide a first-class service.
EnQuest have worked with Airswift since 2011. Our confidence and trust in Airswift resulted in transferring all our contractors to work them as our sole provider of contract personnel...This has made our ways of working more efficient as we now have a one-stop shop for the recruitment of our contractors. We continue to be impressed with the level of service and attention to detail provided by Airswift.
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Optimised workforce management for global engineering company
An international engineering firm partnered with us to tackle their challenges in managing their contingent workforce. Faced with overloaded talent acquisition teams, inefficient supplier management, lengthy hiring times, and limited visibility into workforce metrics, they needed a tailored solution.
Our MSP services stepped in to streamline processes, revise fee structures, rationalise suppliers, and enhance performance management. This partnership delivered improved workforce visibility, a streamlined supplier list, faster hiring times, optimised operations, and reduced costs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between an MSP and RPO?
MSP (Managed Service Provider) focuses on providing contingent workforce solutions. It oversees vendor management, compliance, and optimisation of temporary staffing programs.
RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing), on the other hand, manages permanent hiring processes. It acts as an extension of your HR team to source, recruit, and onboard full-time employees.
What are contingent workers?
Contingent workers are non-permanent employees such as freelancers, contractors, and temporary staff. They are hired for specific projects, seasonal demands, or specialised tasks and are not on the company’s payroll but often engaged through a staffing agency or MSP.
How is pricing structured?
Although we’re seeing an evolution in MSP funding models, there are two prevalent models across the broad contingent workforce space:
- Supplier-funded: In this approach, a portion of the suppliers’ invoices is retained to fund the program. While this model eliminates upfront costs for the client, it may discourage supplier participation, particularly if the supplier pool has already been streamlined.
- Client-funded: In this model, the client pays a fee to the MSP to manage the program. The fee structure can be fixed, variable, or hybrid. Although this option involves an upfront cost, it often encourages suppliers to deliver top talent quickly, offering greater benefits over time.
What cost savings can I make?
Airswift Resourcing's MSP can save you an average of 6% annually, with up to 8%-10% in year one. These savings go beyond reducing internal headcount costs or reducing rates and focus on sustainable cost optimisation.
At what stage of hiring contingent workers should I consider an MSP?
If your organisation has 50 or more contingent workers or is spending a significant amount annually on temporary staffing, it’s time to consider an MSP. MSPs bring value when there is a need for better compliance, cost control, or streamlining of the contingent workforce program.
What happens to my current temporary workforce?
Your existing temporary workforce will remain on assignment. An MSP will evaluate the supplier and worker base and assess aspects such as compliance, rates and classification while creating an enhanced experience for workers, hiring managers and suppliers to effectively augment your total workforce.
What is a vendor management system (VMS)?
A Vendor Management System (VMS) is a software platform that simplifies the management of your contingent workforce program.
It provides visibility into your external workforce, automates and tracks the sourcing process and provides data and reporting for reliable decision making.
A VMS allows for a technology-based user experience and benefits that tracking your workforce on a spreadsheet cannot provide.
What should I do if I don't have a VMS?
If you don’t have a VMS and want to move away from manually tracking contingent workers, we will advise you on the best solution that can integrate with your systems and help optimise your processes.
What if I don't have visibility over our contingent workers?
We will help you tackle this step by working with your business stakeholders and understanding your current processes to gain the necessary insight into your workers, suppliers and spending.
Our Services
Talent Acquisition
Few issues are as critical to project delivery as the identification, on-boarding and management of productive workforces. Our highly experienced team behind our talent acquisition services work directly with clients to identify their hiring needs.
Employer of Record
Airswift can act as a fully integrated Employer of Record, working side-by-side with clients, taking the burden from in-house teams and managing the entire process on their behalf.
RPO & Managed Solutions
From recruiting and mobilising entire multi discipline teams, to integrating a technology focused approach and supply-chain management, our support teams take on as much of our clients’ workforce organisation burden as possible.
Workforce Consulting
Airswift has experience navigating the challenges of global expansion, managing international HR, tax and payroll challenges, finding niche and specialist talent, and restructuring and transforming organisations.
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