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The healthcare staffing industry continues to be one of the fastest growing industries. According to the iCIMS Insights February 2025 Workforce Report , the application volume for healthcare roles increased by 24% month over month in January and is 9% higher than in January 2024. Healthcare job openings rose by 25% from last month and inched up 5% higher than January 2024.
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Episode Overview Host Bob Pettke welcomes Lance Duke Snider to discuss the upcoming Midwest Staffing Conference, a must-attend event for staffing professionals featuring keynote speakers, networking opportunities, and over 30 vendor partners. David Atkins, a retired NY State Police Captain and motivational speaker, shares his powerful life lessons from 9/11 and his mission to inspire others to make the most of every day.
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Marketing Your Value and Planning for 2025 The holiday season is in full swing! It’s the time of year for holiday shopping, cookie baking, singing carols, and embarking in your favorite holiday traditions. It’s also the time of year to watch some of your favorite holiday movies. One of my favorites is It’s a Wonderful Life , starring Jimmy Stewart. It’s a Wonderful Life follows the story of George Bailey, a struggling businessman, who has the opportunity to see what life would be like if he had
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Episode Overview Ultra- Staff EDGE welcomes Gabrielle Bosché, renowned author, speaker, and co-founder of The Purpose Company , to discuss the transformative impact of finding and living one’s purpose. Gabrielle dives into her unique, science-backed, four-step approach—developed with her husband, Brian—that helps individuals identify their purpose.
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Smartphone. Everyone has one. Think of your family members, co-workers, and friends. Do any of them not have a smartphone? When you are walking down the street, in an elevator, waiting in a line at a coffee shop, what are people doing? Everyone is on their phone. In this day and age, if someone doesn’t have a smartphone it is alarming! In fact, 9 in 10 Americans own a smartphone.
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Automated Business Designs is proud to announce that Ultra- Staff EDGE has been named a High Performer in Staffing, Applicant Tracking System, OnBoarding, CRM, and Candidate Relationship Management by G2 , the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. In addition to these accolades, Ultra- Staff EDGE earned 7 additional awards in the G2 Summer Reports, including High Performer of the Americas for CRM and Highest User Adoption for Candidate Relationship Management.
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In today’s fast-paced recruiting landscape, maximizing recruiting efficiency is essential. Customers want candidates placed faster, all while maintaining candidate quality. Having a quick time-to-hire, while maintaining quality candidates can be a game-changer in both retaining customers and gaining new business. So, how can recruiters maximize their efficiency to save time and focus on the best resources available to them?
We often hear discussions whereby the participants adamantly maintain that they “must have an “open API”. When asked how they plan on using it, those that are the most unwavering, have no specific reason in mind. They simply contend that they need it for future needs that may come up. “Open API” has become a buzzword of sorts that is echoed when stakeholders are assessing new technology for their firm.
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It’s officially spring and with spring comes spring cleaning! Whether that is cleaning your house, your office, or maybe just cleaning up your everyday practices, spring is an opportunity to start fresh. It can also be an opportunity to clean up your ATS data and processes. Once you onboard with an ATS provider, it’s rare to take the time to re-evaluate your processes and clean up the data in your system.
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CHICAGO, Illinois– Ultra- Staff EDGE Time Capture, developed by Automated Business Designs, has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award for Best Time and Expense Solution in the eighth annual Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize the world’s best employers and the human resources professionals, teams, achievements and HR-related products and suppliers who help to create and drive great places to work.
Automated Business Designs is proud to announce that Ultra- Staff EDGE Staffing and Recruiting Software has achieved High Performer in Applicant Tracking System and OnBoarding and High Performer of the Americas in Staffing and OnBoarding by G2 , the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. In addition to these accolades, Ultra- Staff EDGE earned 8 additional awards in the Fall G2 2023 Report.
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When you think about staffing and recruiting, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not data analytics. You might think of people, candidates, hiring, jobs, interviews, clients, and more. Data analytics though can play a critical part in your everyday staffing operations by helping identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvements needed in your staffing business.
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If you are a healthcare staffing company, you know your business has unique needs. The healthcare staffing industry is unlike any other industry, which makes finding software that meets those specific needs challenging. Using an ATS, CRM and payroll solution not specifically designed for the healthcare industry will work for some of your business needs, but it won’t provide some of the most essential features you need for your business to truly be streamlined and ultimately grow.
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