One in three US workers is a freelancer. Seven of 10 executives and HR leaders recognize that integrating and leveraging the part-time and contingent workforce is important to their business, and only 11% have complete management processes for the contingent part of their workforce. Meanwhile, 52% of leaders agree that a competitive workforce of the […]
You do a lot for your temporary workers. You find them jobs, you pay them and provide them benefits. Why should you do anything more? Isn’t that enough? If I were your competition, I would repress a sly smile and say: yes, you’ve done plenty, relax.
But since I’m not, I’ll share one of the best-kept […]
Staffing has long been an excellent industry for women to build rewarding careers. For a number of years now, gender balance (and even a skewing toward women) has been apparent in the employee and mid-level management ranks, but much less so at the C-level. We have made some strides. Just recently, Act-1 founder and CEO […]
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent with recruiters and staffing firms each year by companies trying to attract top talent to empty positions. A natural question posed by the people holding the purse strings for recruiting spend is: Are we getting our money’s worth?
The best-in-class or most engaged organizations (regularly defined as the top […]
Every day, millions of professionals use LinkedIn to find people. And in today’s market, candidates hold the power in the relationship with their recruiters. In order to manage expectations, recruiters need to change strategies, tools and approaches, to adapt to the power that candidates now hold.
That’s why it’s critical to maintain complete and optimized profiles […]
Placing recruiters into specialties creates a successful hiring strategy
Here at Digital Intelligence Systems LLC (DISYS), we recently shifted our recruiting strategy. Whereas our recruiters had been regionally focused, we now follow a CORE model that has proven to be advantageous not only to clients utilizing our services, but to recruiters working within our organization.
With more […]
Companies view risk differently when it comes to their contingent workforce. The risks CW programmes seem prepared to take can be country-specific, with many of them being risk-averse in more developed countries or they can also be industry specific with banking and finance being more risk-averse than the IT and telecommunications industry amongst others. As […]
How to recognize and realize the value in big data
We tend to use data analytics to identify and target customers, to yield information that influences everything from product development to sales and customer service. Yet data analytics can be used for so much more. Data analytics reaches beyond the transactional aspects of assessing market cost, […]
Five common mistakes business leaders make in statistical analysis
H.G. Wells was ahead of his time in 1903 when he wrote, “Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!” And he was right. Today, some basic statistical knowledge is essential to running a staffing business.
With a […]
What makes any recruiter successful? What gives you the edge to become part of the elite? Or looking at this question from a different angle: What are you missing that is holding you back?
While recruiters must find talent, that’s not the most critical dimension of the job. The real skill is in getting talent to […]
