Small staffing companies are a challenge for insurance underwriters. When a company is small to midsize, the insurance risks they experience are far less predictable than those of larger companies. This is when the concept of buying power comes into play. Joining forces with several staffing companies to partner in purchasing health insurance is a […]
As an account executive for a marketing workforce solutions provider, I have seen how marketing as well as the process of selling contingent workforce solutions are constantly evolving.
Just as our workforce of professionals have embraced disruptive technologies like mobile devices and social media to market more effectively, our salesforce has changed its strategies to sell […]
SourceCon (a subsidiary of HR firm ERE Media) recently hosted its annual competition to crown the best sourcer in the world. In the competition, sourcers and recruiters received three separate job descriptions and titles along with thousands of actual résumés.
Armed only with that information, recruiters around the world had to determine […]
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.
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Non-ACA compliant plans may continue another year.
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The US manufacturing sector continues to be an important pillar of the US economy, as well as a large buyer of staffing services — to the tune of more than $20 billion dollars each year. This article examines the latest government data to identify growth trends in the sector as a whole, as well as […]
If companies could bottle and sell what makes their employees happy and productive, they’d make a fortune. However, there are some staffing firms who may not have done exactly that but have created cultures that make their employees feel valued. That approach has consistently boosted the bottom line.
And this is not a new phenomenon. Workforce […]
How can staffing firms be different when forced to deliver candidates anonymously through technology that whitewashes their differentiators? The industry has been debating this issue since vendor management systems became widely adopted in enterprise organizations.
However, the winner in the anonymous submissions of candidates for requisitions — at least from a client perspective — is the […]
From its headquarters in San Francisco, it might be tempting to categorize Samasource alongside all the other online staffing platforms that have been established to take advantage of the growth in the gig economy over the past few years.
But Samasource has a very different corporate mission from the other entrepreneurial businesses that […]
