There is no question that the contingent workforce continues to grow. And, why wouldn’t it? A contingent workforce offers organizations a litany of benefits. If you want to help reduce liability, manage costs and simplify the tracking and accounting of your workforce you have traveled down the right path. So, as a conscientious corporate executive…
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When it comes to recruiting Millennials, it’s a whole different ball game. Also known as Generation Y, Millennials were born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. This new generation of workers is already starting to reshape the workplace. They have grown up with more information at their fingertips than any other generation and…
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The greatest predictor of profitability for businesses is customer loyalty and the greatest predictor of customer loyalty is employee engagement. Thought leader and author of The Culture Cycle, James Heskett, demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same industry. Today the intangible…
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It’s no secret; it’s a candidate’s market. The more competition there is for a group of candidates, the more recruiting effort is required to attract and hire them. Here are the top 5 tips for recruiting candidates in high demand: 1. Know your product The first step in the recruiting process is getting to know…
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Today, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics released the Employment Situation Summary for May 2014. Overall, the unemployment numbers have held at 6.3 percent, but there are increases in employment industry wide. Here’s a quick summary: 1. Employment in temporary help services continued to trend up (+14,000) and has grown by 224,000 over the past year. This…
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The necessity to utilize, understand and engage the contingent workforce is an issue that is becoming more and more pertinent to the success of staffing agencies and organizations. Temporary and contract labor makes up 26% of the American workforce (Aberdeen Group, 2012). Furthermore, according to the U.S Department of Labor, the contingent workforce is among…
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In order for your IT staffing strategy to be effective, mobile recruitment has to play a huge role. The growth of mobile usage in the past 3 years has gone from 35% to 56% and will only continue to grow. What’s more, a mobile presence is even more important when staffing tech savvy IT professionals. The…
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In the article, Four Facts About the Emerging Contingent Workforce, McKay gives advice detailing how workers today should be ahead of the learning curve in order to stay relevant. McKay discusses how staffing changes in the global workforce will continue to happen more rapidly due to technology. While I agree with the points made in…
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In engineering professions industry wide, a well managed onboarding program can have a measurable impact on employee retention, productivity, employment brand, product/service quality and future hiring success. For these new and highly sought after engineers, a well designed onboarding program addresses the specific information that will help them understand the company and how they fit…
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It’s no secret that engineers are some of the most sought after professionals today, and the marketing to attract and retain their talent is incredibly important. In the words of Pete Soderling, software engineer and founder of Hakka Group, “Engineers are in massive, disproportionate and obscenely high demand. In other words, they’ve become the hottest girls…
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