An important revelation: I’m not particularly fond of salespeople.
Perhaps this sounds odd considering I’ve spent years in a selling role and leading sales teams, but being sold to isn’t appealing to me. I much prefer receiving specific, compelling information that will help drive me toward an informed decision.
Sales organizations where salespeople are expected to sell […]
My experience working with a nurse staffing agency has been bittersweet. Coming into this job, I was required to have at least six months to a year of clinical experience with patients, but I did not. I had volunteered at a hospital and worked for a short time in a memory care/assistedliving facility. However, employers […]
What do bees, cleaner fish and Staffing Industry Analysts have in common? All are examples of “organisms” that mutually benefit a broader competitive ecological or business ecosystem — a phenomenon defined in ecology as “mutualism.” Flowers need bees to help them pollinate, fish use cleaner fish to remove dead skin and bacteria from their bodies, […]
2015 Staffing Company Survey: “Taking into account both spend and effort, what was the single highest-return investment of any kind — (technology, formal training, acquisition, etc.) your firm ever made?”
How often do temporary workers go to state or federal exchanges to get healthcare insurance?
Answer:
The percentage of temporary workers who obtained healthcare coverage through a government exchange is fairly high. A survey found that 55% of commercial temporary workers received coverage through an exchange, and 44% of professional-level temporary workers obtained coverage by using a government exchange. The survey […]
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Please Don’t Go
Auto plant avoids temp worker strike.
Auto parts manufacturer Detroit Chassis agreed to let about 60 temporary workers at its plant in Avon, Ohio, join a union less than one […]
Email. We live and die by it. We receive hundreds a day and have to prioritize where to spend our time.
We don’t mean to ignore you, but sometimes you give us no choice. We receive countless uncustomized template sales emails and Inmails. The worst kind fall into the categories below:
Fake Vague Relationship. “Hey! It’s been too long! Remember that long convo we had that […]
In October 2016, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1506, which amended California’s Private Attorney General Act (PAGA), mostly in response to increased litigation over technical violations to wage statements.
Earlier this year, more changes to PAGA were proposed.
PAGA. Enacted in 2003, PAGA essentially deputizes the employee as an attorney general, giving him or her the right to seek civil penalties — not only for […]
The combination of low interest rates and historically high levels of cash on corporate balance sheets has helped whet the appetites for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity on the part of both strategic (i.e., corporate) and financial (i.e., private equity) buyers. According to data from Bloomberg, global M&A activity reached $ 3. 8 trillion in 2015 , surpassing the previous record from 2007 prior to the onset of the Great Recession.
Echoing […]
Some of the most stressful decisions facing a business owner when considering selling are whom to seek out as a buyer and, of course, how to prepare for such an endeavor. What are investors looking for? Questions such as who would be the right choice to keep the business going once sold or how does […]
