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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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3 Benefits Your Clients Need to Know About Seasonal Hiring and Staffing Agencies

Spark Hire

Crawford Thomas Recruiting , a full service staffing agency supporting multiple offices from the southeast to midwest United States, was seeking a better way to access and interview a talent pool of premium candidates for clients across geographical barriers. Staffing agencies are helpful even after the seasonal hiring influx.

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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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Episode 8: Keynote Speaker Lara Jones and WASS President, Clay Pautz, Discuss the Midwest Staffing Conference

Automated Business Designs

Episode Overview Bob Pettke interviews two guests about the Midwest Staffing Conference. Tune in to hear their insights, and then join them and other industry professionals at the Midwest Staffing Conference register today at issaworks.com ! Welcome to the Staffing Buzz Network with your host, Bob Pettke. Clay, nice to see you.

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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”.