Organizations may focus on allocating resources and funds toward marketing or product design rather than staffing and employee recruitment. This may be because they don’t want to spend additional time and money to find and eventually compensate the right people for the position. Companies may justify this focus by assuming that “anyone could sell a good enough product,” leading them to invest more in product design and advertising rather than in hiring and training staff, so they instead choose to focus on product costs like research and development and advertising rather than on the staff. Overall, the business might be more focused on advertising and pushing the product itself than creating marketing efforts just to entice enough qualified applicants to hire the best people. Overall focusing highly on recruiting efforts takes lots od tine and money that can otherwise be spent on a more direct part of the business.
Strengths of choosing to abandon staffing and recruitment include the ability to focus on other areas of the business like expansion, savings from less amount of time spent interviewing and selecting a candidate, and savings from averagely compensated employees rather than highly valued staff. Weaknesses of an organization that doesn’t prioritize staffing may include overworked or poorly placed employees who are responsible for more than they are capable of, this may be a result of the skills gap, which may result in employee burnout and further future staffing problems.
