Is Contract Work Leading the Economic Recovery?
In light of recent comments from the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the U.S. markets have been particularly unstable. Bernanke warned Congress that the public sector is hemorrhaging ...
Helping Employees Get and Stay Healthy
In June, the American Medical Association took a position on what seems like the most innocuous of human activities: sitting.
According to Dr. Patrice Harris, a member of the AMA ...
Direct Hire Agency Spend: The $8 Billion Leaky Faucet
Recruiting departments in corporate America, from the smallest start-up to the largest Fortune 500 brand, will spend $8 billion next year to hire some of their most critical employees ...
Mobile Phone Usage is Forcing Staffing and Recruiting Firms to Adapt
Not very long ago, you could unplug your landline phone, attach the cord to your modem and wait a few minutes for a webpage to load. Boy how times have changed! Today, you carry ...
Program Office: Your Hiring Manager’s Concierge
An improved hiring manager experience commonly is a top objective when organizations implement a VMS. Among many reasons, they implement a technology to achieve compliance, cost savings, ...
More on Making Your Business Stand Out
A recent post here discussed ways to make your company stand out in a crowded market and appeal to companies and potential candidates seeking staffing services. I would like to expand ...
Attack of The Fake Cloud Zombies
zom·bie (zom-bee): Noun: the body of a dead person given the semblance of life.
There’s a zombie uprising in the software industry. Two years ago, client/server software was dead ...
SEO 101 For Staffing Firms, Part One Of Two
Say the term SEO and people cringe. For some, search engine optimization connotes a mystical, thus surely outrageously expensive, set of ingredients. It brings frightening thoughts ...
Keys to Talent Attraction, Retention and Engagement: Recognition, Part 2
Last week, I discussed how workers respond well when their efforts are recognized by management, and shared five best practices in establishing and running a recognition program for ...
Can You — or Your CFO — Identify the Contingent Workers on this Team?
What does a contingent worker look like? This was a question I posed during CFO magazine’s webcast, “The CFO Playbook on Human Capital – The War for Talent: How to Better Recruit ...
