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
- Using MSP Direct Sourcing Part 2: Impact on costs and your talent pipelineby Michael Smith on May 12, 2021 at 3:36 pm
As more organizations increasingly turn to contingent talent to remain agile, and ensure flexibility while market conditions are uncertain, many businesses are exploring the option of sourcing talent […]
- DE&I Within the Ecosystem: Reasons to hopeby Sharon Thomas on May 12, 2021 at 2:50 pm
I am cautiously optimistic about the future of the ecosystem. When the SIA editorial team reviewed nominations for our inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Influencers list recently, I found […]
- Driving Deeper Client and Candidate Relationships Through Automationby Sean Chou on May 11, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Staffing companies are in the business of relationships. In order to be successful, clients and candidates alike need to trust them. They need to connect personally to the team, know that […]
- Mexico’s Legislation Leaves Staffing Industry Scramblingby Craig Johnson on May 11, 2021 at 5:15 pm
Mexico government’s old-fashioned notions about work are causing challenges both for the staffing industry and workers. The underlying issue: unfair treatment of workers. As a result, […]
Latest Research
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center
Curated by SIA, the resources below represent a collection of articles, data tools, and websites that offer actionable insights related to the coronavirus and COVID-19 outbreak. The section at the […]
- SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator - May 7, 2021
Indicator shows demand for professional and commercial staffing continues to edge upwards Week ending May 1, 2021 Indexed Value Y/Y W/W US Staffing 102 +30% +2.6% […]
- May 2021 US Jobs Report
Event: In today’s monthly jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total nonfarm employment rose by 266,000 in April on a seasonally adjusted basis; temporary help […]
- Introducing Programmatic Job Advertising
Within SIA’s Talent Acquisition Technology Ecosystem, programmatic job advertising is a part of the Candidate Discovery sector and a category within the Online Job Advertising sub-segment. […]