Streamlining Success: The Staffing Agency Onboarding Process
If you’ve never worked with a staffing agency, you may ask “What is the staffing agency onboarding process?”. From the moment you engage with an agency to candidate placement, the onboarding process is designed to keep you informed of every step. Whether your business requires temporary staffing for short-term projects or permanent staff for key […]
Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: How a Staffing Agency Can Help
Many companies are turning to AI to streamline the hiring process. AI can analyze resumes, automate interviews, and provide data-driven insights to improve decision-making. However, while AI offers many benefits, it’s not without its limitations, particularly when it comes to delivering the human touch and overcoming common challenges such as bias or fraudulent resumes. This […]
Steering Success: The Benefits of Partnering with a Truck Driver Recruiting Agency
Finding reliable and skilled truck drivers is harder now than it ever has been. Whether you’re dealing with seasonal demand spikes or looking for long-term hires, partnering with a truck driver recruiting agency can significantly streamline the process and ensure you get the right fit for your team. Here’s how a truck driver recruiting agency […]
Lowering Employee Turnover Rates & Cost
“Treat employees like they make a difference and they will,” a word of advice from Jim Goodnight, a co-founder, and CEO of SAS Institute Inc. Goodnight is known for the positive work culture he has created at SAS and his commitment to a work-life balance. As a result, SAS has peaked at number one on […]
Cost of Keeping the Wrong Employees
The wrong employees. We have all hired them (and unfortunately fired them). The loss in production, extra stress, unhappy employees, and endless excuses… wrong hires are costly. Even worse, those costs will not be compensated. What are the qualities of the wrong employees and what are they costing you? Qualities of a Wrong Hire Common […]
3 Tips to Help Conduct Yourself in a Professional Manner
First impressions still matter. There are all kinds of scientific studies that show how humans sum up their opinions of people in the first 10-minutes of meeting them. It has to do with the way humans are hard-wired for fight or flight; our unconscious minds just naturally judge people quickly to determine if they are […]
It’s Time to Dust the Old Skeletons Off Your Resume
Here’s the truth of the job seeker world; hiring managers judge you by your resume. That makes this one or two page summary of your skills very important if you stand any chance at all of getting the first interview. While your current job may be working out fine, it’s never a bad idea to […]
The Top 3 Lessons I Wish I Knew My First Day As A Recruiter
What is a recruiter? The dictionary defines a recruiter as “a person whose job is to enlist or enroll people as employees.” Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? Little do you know on your first day at a staffing agency that the expectations of a recruiter are much more than that. You are part researcher, part […]
Where Did All the Workers Go? And How Do We Get Them Back… The Three S’s of Skilled Trade Employee Retention
Nowadays, it seems you can’t find quality workers anywhere! Or so we hear… In recent years, the job market has notably improved for employees. As of April 2016, it reached its highest point in over a decade. The Minneapolis-St. Paul marketplace was at the top of that pile. Minnesota had 97,580 job openings in the […]