Six Secrets to a Better Relationship With Your Recruiting Partner

If you want to ensure a high-quality hiring and recruiting experience when working with a staffing firm, you need to build a strong, strategic relationship with that partner. Here’s how to create a win-win partnership. For each hiring project you want your recruiting partner to fulfill, let them know right off the bat which of… Read more »

The Well-Rounded Benefits Package: It’s Not Just About Money

Money isn’t everything to your employees. They want a benefits package that proves you care about their well-being—their physical, financial and mental well-being. Research attests that employee engagement and satisfaction increase with better benefits, so if you want to retain and attract better people, make sure you’re giving them what they want. So what do… Read more »

Don’t Ignore These Great (Free) Staffing Resources!

As part of our partnership with our clients, we offer several great resources that will help them hire smarter, lead more effectively, and meet their goals. We offer similar services to every candidate who works for us—or hopes to someday! Have you checked them out recently? If you didn’t know about them, here’s a quick… Read more »

Best Practices for Using Temporary Staffing

Why do you use temporary employees? To fill in for absentee full-timers? To help you complete special projects? To handle peak seasons? More importantly, how do you use temps? Are you using them to best of their abilities and getting the most return for your investment? Answer that last question with a resounding “Yes!” by… Read more »

How to Gain Competitive Advantage Through Staffing

Especially if you’re in a competitive industry and looking for a way to gain an edge, remember this: a company is only as good as its people. Your employees are the root of any competitive advantage. They are the ones who you hope will come up with more efficient processes, develop innovative products, and deliver… Read more »

Helping Your Team Find Purpose in Their Positions

Why is it important for your team to see that their work has meaning? Because most people need to know that their job exists for a reason, and they want to know that their work helps others or makes the world a better place. And if they understand this purpose, they’ll be more engaged and… Read more »

Why Should You Work With a Staffing Firm?

If hiring the right people was easy — and not time-consuming and expensive — you wouldn’t need staffing firms. But recruiting and hiring does take a big chunk out of your work hours and your budget. Here are just five of the many benefits of using a staffing agency: 1. Cost Savings How can paying… Read more »

How to Achieve Long-term Success with Your Temporary Staffing Partner

Do you have a strong relationship with your staffing agency? If you answered “No,” or “Am I supposed to have one,” read on. Your staffing agency should be one of your business partners, working to better your results and improve your chances of success. And because they’re responsible for bringing new employees into your business,… Read more »

Four Steps to Proactive Spring Hiring

Does the phrase “proactive hiring” make you cringe? Does the whole concept just seem like too much work? In the current hiring environment, though, it truly pays off. To get the best talent, you need to work a little smarter than the competition. How? Proactive hiring simply means being aware of what jobs are most… Read more »

What Questions You Should Be Asking Job Candidates

When you interview a job candidate, don’t waste time with openers like “Tell me about yourself” or questions that can be answered by looking at the applicant’s resume. Ask questions that will help you see the person behind the resume and reveal the candidate’s personality, strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, skills and abilities. Here are seven questions… Read more »