Can You Hear Me Now?
Why Senior IT Hiring Managers Should Consider Speech Recognition Contractors
One of the biggest challenges that technology companies face is the ability to attract and retain skilled employees. This problem is even more challenging for tech companies that provide niche services, such as speech recognition.
One of the biggest reasons why speech recognition companies struggle to find the right employees is because the technology itself requires a unique set of skills that most IT professionals don’t possess.
For example, in order to work with speech recognition, an IT professional must be able to write tight, succinct code for an embedded device that operates in real-time in the cloud. In most cases, an IT professional might only have experience working with cloud technology or writing embedded code but doesn’t have the skills and experience to do it all.
Voice Recognition Expertise: Montreal and Toronto
In addition to this challenge, Montreal and Toronto are the leading cities in Canada with a strong AI sector, which limits the pool of potential employees nationwide to draw from. Compounding matters, the pandemic has slowed the steady stream of new immigrants to Canada, hindering the tech industry’s ability to attract highly skilled workers from overseas. This has created a red-hot labour market that is extremely competitive; making it difficult for companies to deliver projects on time and on budget because of the lack of available talent with development skills in voice recognition.
In order to navigate these challenges, many speech recognition companies have been turning to contractors to meet their labour needs. One of the biggest advantages of hiring a contractor is that it is often a much faster process than the usual recruitment process, which can take months to complete and may result in a candidate not accepting your full-time offer of employment. By hiring a contractor you don’t have to go through the cumbersome hiring process and won’t need to provide skill-specific training once they are hired. A contractor can be hired quickly and can get started within days. This can help ensure your project is delivered on time and on budget.
Voice Recognition Contractors
Hiring a contractor is also helpful because it allows speech recognition companies to find talent from anywhere in the world. This not only creates a larger pool to hire from, but it also allows companies to diversify their workforce, which fosters more innovation and creativity. Contractors also come to the job with years of experience and are exposed to many different projects. This means they can often provide unique insight and solutions that they’ve learned from previous projects and companies they’ve worked for. This can be invaluable when working on a challenging job.
Another advantage of hiring a speech recognition contractor is that you can hire a contractor to complete a specific job or project rather than adding a permanent employee to your payroll. This can save you a significant amount of money over the long term.
If you are a speech recognition company that is struggling to attract and retain talented employees, it might be time to consider hiring a contractor to do the work. Not only do they have the right experience, skills and knowledge to get the job done, but hiring a contractor is substantially faster and will ensure the project has a much better chance of getting done on time and on budget.
We’ve built up decades of expertise in the software contractor space and have processes and systems in place to aid our clients with hiring and keeping the best contractor talent. Contact us today to see how we can share our many years of experience and roster of client success stories with you and help your next AI project succeed.
Lara Autio loves nothing more than putting strategy into action. With over 20 years of experience as an IT staffing project management specialist, Lara’s expertise lies in mentoring recruitment teams, strengthening regional offices, solution centres, and managing outsourcing. Looking to see how Experience AI Solutions can help your next AI/Cloud Security and/or Machine Learning project, reach out to set up your discovery call today.