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Delta’s Flexible Staffing: ‘Win-Win’ Or No Win?

Staffing Talk

Delta Air Lines is the only domestic airline to use a flexible staffing program. The airline calls it a “win-win,” saying it helps better manage staffing levels. The airline won’t make public the cost savings it derives from the program. This process can be stopped, but only with a union contract.”

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Seasonal Hiring Needn’t Be So Stressful

Eightfold

One airline cut the time scheduling and coordinating interviews by 48 percent. . Scott Wintrip is the author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant and named one of the “Staffing 100” by Staffing Industry Analysts. You can prepare for the waxing and waning need for staffing, expected or not. .

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Use the “2+1” Rule to Create Great Staffing Clients

Staffing Talk

He was the director of a France based airline cooperative, and he took me by the horns and set me straight when I was selling my airline software all wrong. He taught me something every great staffing sales person knows intuitively: to win a mega deal you need a champion inside the prospect’s organization.

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Strengthen Your Staffing Firm’s Brand with Social Advertising

SmartSearch

Think “Southwest Airlines,” and you might start dreaming about getting away for a quick vacation. But this is something that all staffing firms should include in their marketing, sales and customer engagement strategies each year. Think “Nike,” and you’ll probably imagine your next workout.

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Staffing News of the Day, April 8, 2013

Staffing Talk

BLS: Staffing job growth strong in March [Staffing Today]. Critical questions staffing firms are asking about Obamacare [Top Echelon Contracting]. Gag order placed on American Airlines employees prohibits them from complaining about excessive executive compensation [Forbes]. Dependable Health Services, Inc.

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The Revival of the Staffing Industry Executive Forum

Staffing Talk

I had the chance to have a beer with Staffing Industry Analyst’s Hugo Traeger a few weeks back. Virtual reality was going to take their place and put the gropers at the TSA and the airlines with their soaring airfares in their place. Instead, a desire for intimacy has resurged.

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Airline Demands Access to Fired Hostess’s Bank Records

Staffing Talk

Now she has been forced by her former employer – and the courts – to have her Facebook activity and bank account examined for proof that she cheated the airline and didn’t deserve to be compensated for her time off. The Huffington Post, for one, has a gallery of Facebook postings that got people canned.