How Facebook Is Changing the Way Staffing Firms Source Candidates

Staffing can sometimes seem like an active candidate waiting game. Sure, you can try to connect with passive candidates through professional social networks, but not everyone for whom ...

The Skinny on Skinny Plans: Part 2

Last week, I gave a brief overview of the concept of “skinny” healthcare plans, a middle-of-the-road option for staffing firms to offer their temps. This week I address the risks ...

The Skinny on Skinny Plans

The Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate may have been delayed by a year, but come 2015, staffing firms will have had to decide whether to offer insurance or pay the penalties. ...

The Staffing Industry’s Increasing Role in Driving the Economic Recovery

“In the three years since the end of the Great Recession, the U.S. staffing and recruiting industry has created more jobs than any other single industry in America.” —(source: ...

How Do Job Seekers Find Work?

Many in the human resource community recognize the need to optimize recruitment websites for mobile devices. Virtual recruitment continues to evolve, shifting from job boards to social ...

It’s All About the Candidate

Some would say we are currently in a candidate-driven market. While true, it’s always a candidate driven market. The perceived shift from a buyers’ market to a job seekers’ market ...

How Employees’ Relationships and Effective Work-Life Balance Impact Engagement

More and more professionals are seeking a greater degree of balance between life and work. Nurturing personal relationships is a large part of achieving this. Research has shown that ...

Problem Policies for the HR Community

BLR recently released its “2013 Policies Survey,” which surveyed 1,532 organizations about their human resources policies. Among the information was a list of policies ...

The New Staffing Reality: Workforce-as-a-Service

Let’s face it. The dynamics of the workforce have radically changed over the past few years. Unemployment is holding steady at 7.4 percent. Unsteady economic growth is prompting employers ...

What Workers Really Want: A Glimpse of the Perfect Job

According to Spherion’s latest Emerging Workforce Study, 64 percent of employers say that finding and recruiting qualified, skilled workers is a top HR concern; yet less than one-third ...

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