Better Staffing Results
Every job is different. Every employee is different, too. What you might believe is the perfect assignment might be a nightmare assignment for someone else. But it’s likely that you have some assignment you believe is the best job for you. It’s your dream job. Maybe you even chose to register with the staffing firm [...]
So far, there are more unanswered questions than there are answers when it comes to temporary staffing and PPACA. But we are diligently working to understand Obamacare and PPACA. We’ll share with you what we discover as decisions are made, as guidelines are released, and as more information becomes available. Here is what we know: [...]
We believe that there is a job for everyone. Somewhere, there is a job where the employee can do her very best work and an employer who needs that employee and will value their contribution. As deeply as we hold this belief, we don’t think that it’s very easy for employees to find their dream [...]
So one of your employees has a missed a few Mondays. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything, does it? They’ve also been pretty vocal about being unhappy. That can happen to long-term employees, can’t it? Maybe he’s just letting off steam. Everybody’s been under a lot of pressure. Individually, these problems like these don’t seem like [...]
When you begin to recruit for a position, it’s easy to fall into the trap of screening resumes based on the person’s experience. One of the shortcuts we want to take is to identify candidates that have held the job for which we are hiring. We screen resumes, building our stack of “A” candidates based [...]
You need to fill your open position. You can’t afford to leave it open, and neither can the business. Now, you have a reasonably promising applicant sitting in front of you, and you can’t stop yourself from giving her the full court press and giving her a sales pitch on why she should take your [...]
Interviewing takes a lot of time, time that you don’t likely have while you are busy with your other job duties and responsibilities. It’s easy to make the mistake of doing as little interviewing as possible and spending too little time in interviews. It’s also a mistake to believe that you can learn all you need to [...]
It’s easy to make hiring mistakes, and hiring less than you really need is one of the easiest mistakes to make. It’s easy to look at the job description, the job duties, and the position’s roles and responsibilities and hire to that template. But much of what allows an employee to succeed isn’t captured on [...]
This is the first in a series of posts about the most common hiring mistakes we commonly see (and a few of which we ourselves have been guilty). We’re also going to offer some advice to those that who want to avoid these common mistakes. How mistakes are made The employee that just ended their [...]
Our clients use our flexible staffing model to ensure that they have the employees they need, when they need them, where they need them, and with the skills that they need to succeed in their roles. They adopt this model in part because it makes such great financial sense. (You can request information about our [...]
