Graduating from college doesn’t always ensure that you have a job waiting for you. I was one of those who went to a staffing firm hoping that my lack of experience would be something agencies could help me with. I struggled with finding one that was willing to find me a job due my lack […]
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 […]
Low unemployment is a good thing, but when it comes to recruiting it can create complexity and challenges. This month’s column focuses on a staffing firm located in an area with one of the lowest employment rates in the country. The firm, Prince, Perelson & Associates, is based in the Salt Lake City area — […]
Bill rate and mark-up. Increasing presence of VMS. Compressed margins. These are concerns we hear about as we travel the country meeting with staffing companies. When buyers of staffing services try to commoditize our clients with bill rate and mark-up, we teach them to state the following:
“Well I can certainly appreciate the fact that you are […]
The current presidential campaign is significant for the future of the staffing industry. As I see it, the overriding theme of the race is the struggle between progressive and conservative philosophies of business and government, which are roughly aligned, respectively, with the Democratic and Republican parties. Here is how that conflict arises in employment in my […]
In the 21st-century world of social media, it seems many of us are willing to share our most intimate experiences. That’s fine — it’s our choice — but when someone else holds your personal data, you are no longer in control of what happens to that data. Within Europe, it is reasonable to assume that […]
Across the United States, approximately 100 cities and counties have adopted “ban the box” laws, making it illegal for an employer to request an applicant’s conviction history at an early stage in the hiring process. There are currently 19 states that have adopted ban the box policies for public employees: California (2013, 2010), Colorado (2012), […]
Successful client relationships take knowledge and respect
I am always excited to talk about contingent labor and, especially, contingent labor at Waste Management.
The three things that are always on my mind when thinking about our staffing supplier partners are order fulfillment, program compliance and co-employment management. Partners that share the burden of managing these areas find […]
We include developments from the Staffing Industry Daily News and The Staffing Stream to help you focus on emerging movements that could shape your business for the better.
These workers have finite time to prove themselves.
The majority of Canadian CFOs, 92%, said new hires have less than six months to prove themselves, […]
QUESTION: To what degree do staffing firms use outside vendors for social media and marketing?
Answer:
A majority of staffing firms, 62%, don’t use outsourcing at all when it comes to marketing and social media, according to a survey by Staffing Industry Analysts. For the 38% that do use outsourcing for this purpose, 29% use it as an occasional supplement to internal […]
