Side by Side: 2021 Best Staffing Firms to Work For
From great perks to open-door policies with the C-suite to robust training and career development, employee engagement is off the charts and teams are pumped to be working. It’s not a formula, but these traits are what we have consistently seen among the Best Staffing Firms to Work For winners the
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The Travel Nurse
Courageous. Compassionate. Resilient. Empathetic. Selfless. Travel nurses have been at the forefront of the Covid-19 crisis. For all these reasons and more, Staffing Industry Analysts chose the travel nurse as Person of the Year for 2021. These healthcare professionals have put their ...
2021 Staffing 100
Placing people in jobs is hard in any economy. But 2020 threw the employment rulebook out of the window. Our ecosystem — staffing companies, MSPs, VMSs, RPO providers, human cloud platforms — cratered. Staffing Industry Analysts revised its forecast to […]
Staffing 100 Hall of Fame
The Staffing 100 was launched in 2011, and in 2017, we introduced the Staffing 100 Hall of Fame. For their pursuit of excellence, empowerment of others, perseverance, integrity and strength, these 51 executives have since been enshrined into the hall. […]
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Temporaries in the Movies
Many movie and TV characters lack any visible means of support and seem to never eat, sleep, seek medical care, pay bills, do laundry, or perform the other mundane chores that burden the rest of us. However, some movie characters […]
Answering the Call
SIA named the travel nurse as its first-ever person of the year for a number of reasons. Travel nurses are among those on the front lines fighting Covid-19 and they have proven crucial in helping people during the pandemic. For […]
Filling a Vital Need
Demand for certain types of nurses and other healthcare professionals is rising across the US as the Covid-19 pandemic surges in the country. Bill rates are up, with some providers seeing increases of 30% to 40% — some hospitals are paying nurses as much as $8,000 to $10,000 per week, Kaiser [...]
Recent Columns
Benefit of Counsel: Enabling Business
A staffing firm’s legal department is in a unique position to be a strategic, value-add essential with the power to have a direct, positive impact on the bottom line. Unfortunately, often our perception is not that.
If you’ve ever spent any time working within an in-house legal team, you’ll have heard the internal rhetoric that the legal department’s role is to say no — a lot. Worse still than a reputation for standing in the way of progress is the outdated […]
Research Report: A New Direction
2020 was certainly one for the ages, and unfortunately, the changing of the calendar to […]
View from the Boardroom: The ettain Approach
In 1996, three college friends started a company from a spare room of a house […]
Buyer Reality: Be a Peg That Fits
A common misconception of many suppliers is that partnership means meeting for coffee every month […]
The New Customer: In or Out
A beautiful thing happens when you allow potential recruits to self-qualify in or out. They […]
The Talent’s Voice: Improve Your Rep
As SIA President Barry Asin says, “The highest service we can perform is finding a […]
The Staffing Stream
- Staffing Leaders Take on Work Challenges Post-Covidby Susan Avery on April 14, 2021 at 2:45 pm
Staffing industry leaders successfully navigating their businesses through the pandemic agree: Going forward they need to continue to pay close attention to employees. Not micromanage. That’s […]
- How to Start a Tech Staffing Companyby John Jeltema on April 13, 2021 at 3:07 pm
Breaking through a highly competitive industry that involves competition between thousands of other recruiting companies can seem daunting. But there are a few lessons for new entrepreneurs to heed […]
- How Blind Hiring Can Promote Diversity in the Workplaceby Christine Huegel on April 12, 2021 at 3:25 pm
Promoting representation and diversity in the workplace is an essential part of running a successful business. Companies that fail to do so experience lower company engagement and morale, and studies […]
- Innovative Ways to Use Content Marketing to Recruit Top Talentby Frank Hamilton on April 9, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Content marketing deals not only with the attraction of customers for purchasing a certain product. It is one of the powerful tools used by staffing suppliers for getting the brightest minds to their […]
Latest Research
- The Contingent Workforce Regulatory Environment in Canada
Key Points: Canada ranks 10th globally in SIA’s Most Attractive Staffing Markets Globally 2020 report and is the most attractive English-speaking staffing market followed by the United […]
- US Staffing Industry Forecast: April 2021 Update
Key FindingsWe forecast 12% growth in the US staffing industry this year, for a market size of $152.1 billion. Our forecast assumes strong GDP growth as vaccines take effect, the economy re-opens, […]
- Internal Employee Compensation Estimator
About: The US Internal Employee Compensation Estimator is an interactive tool which allows staffing firms to benchmark the pay of their internal workers based on different employee criteria, such as […]
- SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator - April 8, 2021
Indicator points to robust growth in professional staffing and recovery in commercial staffing hours worked Week ending Apr 3, 2021 Indexed Value Y/Y W/W US Staffing 101 […]