Staffing leaders feel like they’re being pulled in a million directions nowadays. With so many trends, challenges and priorities vying for your attention, it can be difficult to narrow in on what truly demands your focus.
Topics: staffing trends, technology, staffing technology
Picking Technology Partners, Not Vendors
HR technology is a hot investment right now. In fact, businesses are currently spending up to $550 billion on tech that is crafted for engagement of full-time employees. Yet as the contingent workforce continues to grow, worldwide spending on recruitment technology pales in comparison. Forward-thinking staffing firms recognize the need and opportunity for recruitment technology to help them reach, attract and engage freelancers and contractors.
Topics: technology, staffing technology, client satisfaction
The scariest thing for your staffing firm is the most important
Being a business owner can be scary sometimes. There are challenges and potential hurdles, seemingly around every corner. Sometimes they turn out to be less scary than you thought. Other times, they simply need to be addressed in order to demystify them.
Topics: staffing trends, technology, staffing technology, digital transformation
The super-secret trick to getting way more value from your tech investment
Data suggests businesses across the globe will be spending more than $3 trillion on tech. Now that includes all of IT and tech initiatives, but put simply, we’re spending a LOT of money on technology.
Topics: staffing and recruiting, technology, staffing technology, client satisfaction
Yes, candidates WANT you to text them. Here’s why.
Embracing technology can be nerve wracking, particularly for staffing firms. Some technology comes and goes, while other, more tried-and-true technologies remain. Jumping in on new tech too early can leave you high and dry when the tech (or the company) goes belly up. That’s why so many companies choose “legacy” technologies to play it safe.
Topics: contractor care, candidate engagement, technology, texting
Why verticalized SaaS is a game changer for staffing firms
Technology has been a critical component of staffing operations for years. From the olden days of fax machines and copiers to the advent of job boards and the ATS, as technology has evolved, the staffing industry has become more streamlined and efficient.
Topics: recruitment marketing strategies, Research, staffing and recruiting, candidate experience, candidate engagement, text messaging, staffing trends, technology
Are you worrying about the wrong things when it comes to candidate engagement?
Candidate engagement is certainly one of the most buzzworthy topics floating around the staffing industry at the moment. But while most buzzworthy terms are fleeting or hollow in their actual impact, candidate engagement is here to stay.
Topics: temporary workers, candidate engagement, staffing trends, technology
How to write candidate messages that don’t elicit groans or eye rolling
We talk about this a lot around here, but today’s candidates are smarter and more savvy than ever when it comes to recruiters and staffing firms. They hold you to the highest standards, and have specific expectations for your communications.
Topics: recruiting, staffing and recruiting, staffing firms, candidate engagement, text messaging, technology
These people tech trends will grab your attention in 2019
Now that the holiday season is behind us, we’re firmly in the “projections for the New Year” season. Seemingly every company and expert are clamoring to share their predictions for 2019.
Topics: talent, automation, candidate engagement, staffing trends, technology