The Key To Your Successful Business: People By Tim Walstead No matter what business you are in, no matter what product or service you provide, and no matter how unique or technically sophisticated you may be; one of the key ingredients for success or failure in any business boils down to one thing…"People" - Hiring the right "People". -Tim Walstead "Our Place or Yours" More than ever before, companies today are looking for choices, or quality-related options. When it comes to inspection choices and options, we employ what we like to call an "Our Place or Yours" theme throughout. Our Place: Projects can be sent to our Accredited Dimensional Inspection Laboratory to perform first article inspection, CMM programming, surface plate dimensional layout, validation and reporting of data, PPAP, capability studies, and other dimensional verification requests. Or… Your Place: Our staffing professionals can assist you by providing the right "People" to perform the required variable or attribute inspections (and other quality and manufacturing related roles) at your facility, at your customer's or supplier's location, or in the field, depending on the project. In recent months, containment sorts and/or source inspection service requirements have been in high demand. As more and more companies become leaner and meaner (doing more with less), the Quality department unfortunately is one department that is targeted for cost-cutting measures and is often simply viewed as overhead. However, this does not mean that the company is doing away with quality altogether. Instead, the quality function is often being divided up into different areas including the following: (1) Maintaining their quality systems with a limited number of personnel; (2) Pushing quality upstream to their suppliers, thus requiring their suppliers to be more involved with and responsible for incoming and outgoing quality; and (3) Outsourcing various quality functions to staffing/personnel services (i.e. QCIS' Staffing Services Division -- "People") and/or dimensional inspection service options (i.e. QCIS' accredited laboratory). People: Flexibility, options, choices, expertise (QA/QC/RA/MFG), best methods, hiring efficiencies, cost savings, teamwork, working with the supplier or services company, etc. That is the name of the game. These are just a few ways manufacturing companies are benefiting from this philosophy and approach to quality. As the manufacturing world continues to change, some of the staffing options continue to change as well. An ever increasing number of companies are finding that source inspection or containment sorting projects, supplier quality assurance functions, quality system documentation and control, quality engineering and management, dimensional inspection, and even reverse engineering are all options on the table poised as possible outsourcing solutions to get the job done. The qualifications of each person ("People") placed through QC's Staffing Services Division is the direct result of our search process. We can assist you with the clarification of your staffing needs by structuring job descriptions, developing recruiting strategies, screening, testing and presenting qualified candidates, coordinating interviews, assisting with job offers and acceptance and placement follow-through. You, the client, choose from a group of qualified candidates ("People"), whom we present to you, corresponding to your specific qualifications. Then you hire the individual via the staffing solution of your choice (contract or otherwise) through our Staffing Services Division. I encourage you to keep these things in mind as an option when you are looking to hire "People" for your next quality assurance, quality control, and regulatory affairs or manufacturing professional openings. Whether they are entry level to executive, direct hire, option-to-hire, long-term contract or short-term temporary requirements, "Our Place or Yours," we are here for you. It is worth noting that both direct hire and option-to-hire choices lead to full-time regular employment (a.k.a. "permanent placements"). QC Inspection Services, Inc. with its three specialized divisions including quality and manufacturing related staffing ("People"), dimensional inspection and reverse engineering, and training and consulting -- all offered through one company -- truly makes QC Inspection Services, Inc. a unique option in the manufacturing services industry. Once again, the key to your successful business is the "People" you employ. The bottom line is our Staffing Services Division is able to "come alongside" and compliment your quality group, human resources team and manufacturing hiring managers' efforts with our expertise as we work with you to attract the finest and best qualified "People" to help make your business a success. Please click here for more information on our staffing division. Tim Walstead Vice President of Staffing QC Inspection Services, Inc. About the Author Tim Walstead is the Vice President of QC’s Staffing Services Division and has been serving the manufacturing community for over fifteen years -- ten of which at QC’s Headquarters in located Burnsville, MN. Tim has been with QCIS since 1993 and oversees staffing operations nationally with current representation in Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas, Arizona, and Florida markets (and surrounding states). Tim is a member of and has actively participated in the following associations: ASQ (American Society for Quality); SAM (Staffing Association of Minnesota); ASA (American Staffing Association); MPMA (Minnesota Precision Manufacturing Association); and has over twenty years of sales, marketing and management experience in the computer and computer peripheral industry, electronics and electronic component packaging industry, manufacturing and related service industries, and the quality profession. Comment on this article