What is staff augmentation?
Staff augmentation increases your engineering team’s capacity through an external vendor. Yes, when you are shorthanded.
With it, you can have instant access to a wider talent pool and decrease the risk and extra cost of internal hire.
This process removes the overheads associated with sourcing, recruiting, training, and retaining talent. Using this service, you can meet your engineering goals.
Benefits
Staff augmentation VS Outsourcing / Dedicated team VS Product Development Services
Outstaffing / Staff augmentation | Dedicated team | Outsourcing product development | |
Purpose | Team Extension | Business Function | Technological Partner |
Management | Client | Client/Vendor | Vendor |
Existing teams integration | Yes | No | No |
Minimize in-house team involvement | No | Yes | Yes |
Quality Ownership | Client | Client/Vendor | Vendor |
Price | Low | Low-Medium | Medium-High |
Value | Workforce | Operational Excellence | Intellectual Product |
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See how we can helpWHEN TO USE TEAM EXTENSION SERVICES?
- You are managing engineering roadmap. Targets are aggressive, but you are shorthanded.
- You want to cut operational cost but still get things done.
- You want to extend your current team with some missing technology.
- You want to have an easy way to scale up or down the team size
- You don’t want to wait 5-8 weeks with traditional hire
- You don’t want administrative burden
Staff augmentation plays a transformative role across various sectors. This approach isn’t just about filling seats; it’s about empowering your business with the flexibility and diversity of talent you need to innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing market.
Innovation usually doesn’t come from just working harder. Instead, it often comes from looking at problems in a new way. And this is the moment when extra staff can help.
Even Google hires extra help when they need it. They bring in
people who work for a short time, like freelancers and also use staff augmentation services, to do all sorts of jobs, from data labeling to complex AI engineering.
Staff augmentation helps companies like Google to ramp up or down quickly when they want. They can team up with people who are experts without promising to keep them for a long time.
HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY INTEGRATE AN EXTENDED TEAM
- DEFINING WHAT SPECIALISTS YOU REQUIRE
- SETTING REQUIREMENTS AND GOALS
- SCREENING CANDIDATES
- INTEGRATING THE TEAM
WHY CHOOSE THE APP SOLUTIONS FOR EXTENDING YOUR TEAM?
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Extend your team with us. Receive first CVs within 2 weeks
Contact UsOur process. Simple, seamless, streamlined
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We start working. You don’t start paying.We collect all data relevant to your hiring strategy.
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We source, pre-screen andinterview the candidates.Only the best will be greenlighted.
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Meet your candidates.Interview and test your future teammates however you like.
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Celebrate your hire.We’ll take care of all the boring stuff while you onboard your newest team member.
FAQ
Staff augmentation boosts your team instantly, accessing top talent at a fraction of the cost, solving capacity issues, and slashing internal hiring risks.
Skip delays with expert teams onboarded in record time. Rigorous testing guarantees the best-matched candidates, tested for soft skills and background checks.
For those handling aggressive engineering roadmaps, cutting operational costs, filling tech gaps, and needing quick team scalability without the traditional hiring wait.
Staff augmentation extends your team, outsourcing involves vendors, and dedicated teams lie in between. Choose based on integration needs, in-house involvement, quality ownership, and cost.
Absolutely! Google’s 3-month project evolved into a 3-year collaboration, showcasing how staff augmentation seamlessly scales to meet the dynamic needs of industry leaders.
Read more: Staff Augmentation service page
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