Improving Employee Morale Starts with Communication

According to a survey by Accountemps, human resources professionals cite poor communication as the greatest cause of low employee morale. The majority of the survey’s respondents ...

How Staffing Firms Can Help Tackle the Growing Drug Abuse Problem

Have you found that perfect light industrial employee after marketing, screening, interviewing, and vetting only to find out they failed the drug test? If you have been in the staffing ...

What to Expect Next Year

This year in staffing and the economy as a whole has been full of surprises.  For instance, we’ve experienced healthcare reform, the Sequestrian Act and a government shutdown ...

How Social Media Affects the Staffing Industry – Part 2

In this two-part series on the effect of social media on the staffing industry, I’ve discussed its role in job seekers and companies finding each other as well as the rise of project-based ...

Partnering with Your Vendors — You’re in this Together

Are you just starting a business or do you have a well-established organization? Either way, employees are one of your most valuable assets and hold the key to your success. Employees ...

Your Candidates Are on Facebook. Why Aren’t You?

If you have haven’t yet established your social careers page on Facebook, I have one question for you: why not? With more than 1 billion people who are already logging on to the network ...

What do Tech Giants and Investors/Buyers/Sellers Consider the Key to Success?

If you guessed technology, you would be wrong. As witnessed by the ongoing raids among the tech giants in Silicon Valley, skilled and dedicated people are considered the key to success. ...

Interviewing the Downshifting Candidate

Downshifting, the trend of accomplished professionals looking for balance in their lives by applying for jobs for which they are seemingly over-qualified, is becoming more and more ...

The Power of PR: What Strategic Public Relations Can Do For a Staffing Firm

Let’s face it. There are a lot of staffing firms out there. With so many, how are you making yours stand apart? Using your website, sales tools and advertising are certainly a significant ...

But Wait! There’s More!

“Act now, this offer won’t last” “Limited time only” “You get what you pay for” “Quantities are limited” Slick lines like these are met with derision, as they should ...

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