Squirrels

Looking for Purple Squirrels? Try a “MOOC.”


If your recruiting team is like most today, you have countless job orders going unfilled. Why? One reason is that more and more employers are looking for that perfect “Purple Squirrel” ...
skills development

Not Enough Talent to Go Around


As far as real talent is concerned, demand will always exceed supply. Our global Talent Shortage Survey reports thousands of employers have difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available ...
big data

Big Candidate Data Helps Your Staffing Company Win


What exactly does big data mean to staffing companies? Simply put, the ability to manipulate big data — big candidate data, that is — helps you find, manage and reach out to more ...
puzzle piece

A Better Way to Handle Early End-of-Assignment Requests


During a recent supplier meeting, our supplier thanked us for how we handle early end-of-assignment requests for our temporary employees. In that same meeting, one of my new staff members ...
multi-generational workers

Contract Staffing Across the Generations


There has been a lot of talk over the past several years about the four existing generations in the workforce and how the differences among them are challenging to employers. But as ...
job search

Planning and Executing Your Job Search


Whether you are employed or between jobs, it is important to thoroughly plan and execute your job search to create your desired success. A lot of people do not know where to begin in ...
pendulum

Are Candidates Now Calling the Shots? Take Back Control with Better Talent Management


The good news? Unemployment levels are declining. The bad news? Well, unfortunately, that’s manifold: Baby boomers are retiring at an unprecedented rate. A smaller population ...
empty cubicle

Maximizing Contingents with Effective Onboarding


Finding employees who can not only perform the job, but also are engaged and interested in your organization’s corporate culture and goals can be tough, even more so when they are ...
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What’s Good for the Goose…


It is a pretty safe generalization that most every staffing company uses some sort of testing to evaluate candidates. Computer-based testing started in the late ’80s and continues ...
technical frustration

3 Easy Steps to Start Improving the Data Quality in Your ATS


A new report by Experian QAS revealed that 94 percent of respondents in the U.K., U.S. and France suffer from common database errors. Your reaction to this statistic might have been ...
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