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Managing Unemployment Claims

Have you been using your staffing software to document and manage unemployment claims? Utilizing your software tools to the fullest extent to handle this issue can save you quite a bit of time and money. It all starts with documentation of applicants that have filed for unemployment. Most staffing systems will allow you to set … Continued

How To Manage Large Amounts of Unemployment Claims through your Software

Our firm has the largest number of unemployment claims that it has ever had. Is there an automated way to manage these? Absolutely. First make sure you indicate which of your applicants are on unemployment. This needs to be directly documented in your staffing software and must be quickly and easily retrievable. Next, offer jobs … Continued

Business Tips from the Wealthy

This is a guest post is by Sera Filson, entrepreneur and professional student:  Whilst it might sound like a strange concept, there is the potential to garner numerous business lessons through studying Switzerland as a nation state. Perhaps the most intriguing feature of Switzerland is its ability to remain neutral under a whole range of differing … Continued

What Recruiters Should Be Doing Now to Prepare for the Future Hiring Surge

As I write this blog article, I am beginning my 9th week of working at home, which is very rare for our company. Usually a work at home day would be warranted by one of our infamous Chicago snow blizzards.  Other than that, we are used to going into the office and seeing each other … Continued

Where are the Women in Tech?

According to the National Center for Women Information Technology (NCWIT), the U.S. Department of Labor estimated that 1.4 million computer related jobs would be available in the U.S. between 2010-2020. At current graduation rates for Information Technology, we can expect to fill only 32% of those jobs with U.S. Information Technology graduates. The NCWIT further … Continued

Strategies to Make You a Staffing Industry Leader!

Now that it’s well into 2015 I hope most of you are still sticking with your resolutions whatever they may be. I am sure many of you have read that the staffing industry is going through some changes. These changes will either make or break staffing firms. It is no longer an employer driven market, … Continued

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Did you ever notice how people seem to be a little more cheerful around the holidays?  It could be because this year the staffing industry did exceptionally well and the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%, according to the American Staffing Association. With this great news, the staffing industry has plenty of reason to celebrate — … Continued

How to Solve the Biggest Challenges with Recruiting…

As many of you know the staffing and recruiting industry has grown rapidly. According to the American Staffing Association (ASA), staffing firms have created 19,700 new positions in September alone and the unemployment rate has dropped to 5.9%.

Staffing Planning…Got Your Numbers?

Oops – that time of year again! It’s time to start planning for “the year ahead”. Is there something the company should have done differently? Were business goals met? What is the plan for 2013? None of this can be answered unless “you got your numbers”. What are Your Company’s Numbers? Numbers are never really … Continued

Should Staffing Firms Prepare for a Double Dip Recession? Hardly.

We are half way through 2012, and we have witnessed a turbulent market that is a far cry from conventional. The Euro Crisis, Middle East tensions and high oil prices, a possibility of the EU breaking up, soaring U.S. deficits: the economy is looking less than optimistic. You would think with all this chaos, it … Continued