staffings
Filling position vacancies
Staffings is the plural of staffing, referring to multiple instances of providing personnel or workers for positions.
In business contexts, staffings often describes separate hiring events, workforce allocations, or personnel assignments across different departments or projects: The company completed three staffings this quarter for its new regional offices.
The term appears frequently in human resources and healthcare settings, where adequate staffings are essential to operations.
Paid staff members
- personnelWorkers at an organization
- crewWorking team aboard
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- manpowerAvailable labor force
human resources · contractors · temps · full-time · part-time · seasonal workers · headcount · labor pool
Giving someone work
- candidatesThose seeking selection
- interviewsFormal evaluative conversations
- talent acquisitionSourcing and hiring employees
- headhuntingRecruiting talent from competitors
screening · shortlisting · onboarding · job postings · vacancies · applications · resumes · background checks
Overseeing people or processes
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
assignments · direction · structure · scheduling · logistics · team leads · shift managers · performance
Assigning times to events
- allocationDistribution of shares
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- projectionsEstimates extending forward
capacity · resource management · contingency · overtime · understaffing · overstaffing · ratios · deployment
Formal celebratory meal
- conferenceOrganized meeting for discussion
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- galaFestive formal occasion
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
catering · festival · trade show · concert · reception · summit · exhibition · venue
employees
Paid staff members
manpower · human resources · contractors · temps · full-time · part-time · seasonal workers · headcount · labor pool · skilled workers
hiring
Giving someone work
- candidatesThose seeking selection
- interviewsFormal evaluative conversations
- talent acquisitionSourcing and hiring employees
headhunting · screening · shortlisting · onboarding · job postings · vacancies · applications · resumes · background checks · selection
supervision
Overseeing people or processes
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
administration · assignments · direction · structure · scheduling · logistics · team leads · shift managers · performance · accountability
scheduling
Assigning times to events
- allocationDistribution of shares
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
projections · capacity · resource management · contingency · overtime · understaffing · overstaffing · ratios · deployment · rostering
banquet
Formal celebratory meal
- conferenceOrganized meeting for discussion
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- galaFestive formal occasion
wedding · catering · festival · trade show · concert · reception · summit · exhibition · venue · front-of-house
staffingslayoffs
Mass job eliminations
firings · terminations · dismissals · redundancies · downsizings
staffingsunderstaffings
Insufficient workforce levels
vacancies · shortages · skeleton crews · depletions · hollowing out
- staffing agenciesFirms placing workers elsewhere
- staffing agencyBusiness matching workers to jobs
- staffing upIncreasing employee numbers
- staffing shortageInsufficient workforce for needs
- staffing levelsEmployee quantity at organization
- staffing firmsCompanies matching workers to jobs