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Are You Still Hiring Like It's 2009??

Recruiter

Many small and mid-sized businesses are struggling to stay fully staffed. With unemployment under 4 percent, the talent market is as competitive as it has been in 50 years — but unfortunately, many small businesses haven't updated their hiring procedures in a decade.

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As Staffing Industry Grows, So Too Do Sourcing Woes

Recruitics

Staffing agencies have been on the rise since the official end of the Great Recession, near the end of 2009. In fact Staffing Industry Analysts, which annually surveys enterprises to gauge the size of their contingent workforces, found that 18 percent of large companies’ workforces were temporary in 2014, up from 12 percent in 2009.

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Talent As A Critical Resource

ExactHire Recruiting

Today, I’d like to talk about staffing our organizations to meet the demands of growth and turnover–or simply, talent management. Many organizations are growing, and so is their need for talent. The problem that many employers are beginning to face is in finding and retaining that talent. Did we fall asleep?

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Peoplebank “launch” in NZ. Should you be concerned?

The Whiteboard

Peoplebank were formed in Aussie in 1990, listed on the ASX in 2005, bought a load of IT recruitment firms, de-listed in 2009, tried to buy Julia Ross, but were outbid by Chandler Macleod, and were acquired by Recruit Holdings, themselves originating in Japan in 1960, in 2015. Well first, some history. Try and keep up.

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The Big Value-Add AI Staffing Holds For Recruiters

Ideal

There are two sides to most AI staffing discussions. The first side is the business productivity one: 70% of staffing firm executives, for example, believe that AI staffing will play a role in improving recruitment. There is legitimate potential for more recruiting productivity using AI staffing. A sheer “cost play”.

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Disrupting the Status Quo with Brand Differentiation — Important Then, Important Now

The Staffing Stream

And that’s an improvement from 2009 when women represented just 10%. But before 2009, female entrepreneurs were even more rare. My journey as a female founder of a staffing firm began in 1995. Unlike those before us, Atrium was not defined by staffing capabilities but by our flair for talent retention.

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Staffing Success Story: Stressing Placements Over Profits

Staffing Talk

Those owners started The Waters Organization in 2004, and Monaghan and a business partner purchased it in 2009. They faced a steep learning curve, but they were able to pay off the firm’s debt in one year, and they have grown 600% since 2009. Monaghan found that she liked being involved in all aspects of the business.