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Browse thoughtful views and opinions about staffing and business topics from our perspective.
The Big Spend: Rethinking Hiring Costs
What’s the cost of attracting talent? It’s a common question among employers that seems to have endless answers. In my eighteen years of professional staffing, I have spoken to countless companies who were confident in their expertise on how they attract candidates –...
Contingent Vs. Retained
If you’re considering branching out to a third-party staffing agency to assist your in-house hiring efforts, you’ll likely be tasked with the question of “What type of search to use?”, and “A retained search or a contingent search?” But if you’ve never worked with a...
Job Search Advice for the Recent Graduate
As we celebrate another season of college graduations, employers are preparing for the influx of applications from recent graduates to reach their hiring managers. With the candidate pool saturated by fresh talent, employers are also planning to be more particular...
Economical Staffing
These days it seems like every other news article and LinkedIn post is concerning a possible recession. It’s not our place to comment on whether a recession will happen or not, but regardless of the possibility, it’s the savvy businessperson that acknowledges that the...
Counteroffers: 3 Important Things to Consider
You’ve done it. You’ve hunted, interviewed and now you’re considering accepting a new position with a new employer. Many employees, whether seeking new employment or not, are being contacted by corporate recruiters who are looking to fill open roles with high-quality...
Workforce Retention Simplified
Cultivating a high-performance team is the goal of every hiring manager, and there are a lot of components that factor into workforce retention once a team has been assembled. After spending time, money, and resources on developing and training a winning workforce,...
Where are the Women in Technology?
As we celebrate another graduation season, we are once again faced with the statistics that although more women are graduating college than men, the percentage of those with degrees in Technology is alarming. After 20+ years of “Women in Technology” focused...
Helpful Tips on How to Get an Offer Accepted
When I entered the staffing world in 2004, I had no prior experience in specialized recruiting, nor prior experience working through an offer phase. Fortunately, most of my career in recruiting has ended up on the positive side – offer out, offer accepted. However,...
Staying Focused: 6 Productivity Apps You Need in Your Arsenal
Ah, the dreaded word: productivity. It haunts you all day, even when you’re being as productive as you can be blasting off emails. We’re always feeling pressured as if we should be doing MORE. Even with everything we’ve been through since the beginning of 2020, we’re...