Most of the small businesses and startups today are either bootstrapped initially or have limited funding. While they can afford to hire a team for their core operations, hiring a team for other functions becomes difficult for them. This is especially true when it comes to hiring a team for designing.
All types of businesses today require some kind of design work. While some businesses have ongoing design work, others require it intermittently. Either Way, the company has to hire a team of designers or outsource their work to a design agency. These are the only options they have.
While hiring a team of in-house designers sounds like a good option, it carries some cons with it. Outsourcing the design work might seem expensive, but in reality, it is the most affordable options businesses have today. When deciding between hiring in-house designers or outsourcing to a design agency, it is important for a company to look at all the major factors before taking any decision.
Hiring Process
If you want to hire an in-house design team, you must have the skill and experience required to hire the right talent, which is quite a long and tiring process. You have to post a job, go through all the resumes to shortlist the ones that look most appropriate, go through the interview and test process and then finally deciding on the right candidate. Even after that long process, there is still a chance that the designer you have hired is a bluff.
If you want to outsource to an agency, the process is neither that long not that difficult. You can Google for the top design agencies or go to websites, like Clutch, to shortlist the right ones. Review their portfolios to judge their quality of work and read their customer’s review to judge their quality of service and reliability. After that, you can outreach the agency, get the quote and get started.
Scalability
In case if your design work requires you to scale your team, you will have to go through the lengthy process of hiring more designers if you go with in-house design team option. On the hand, if you go with an agency, there is no need to repeat the process of hiring. The agency will be responsible to scale the team.
Cost
There is another problem with hiring an in-house design team. If you want to develop and grow their skills, you will have to bear the cost of their training and development. However, with the agency, the cost of training their team is for them to bear.