Workplace injuries happen every day. Luckily, many of these injuries can be avoided. While your employer is responsible to provide you with a safe work environment and to show you how to manage workplace safety risks, there is a lot you can do to reduce your chances of getting seriously hurt at work. Here are
Is your company focused on reducing costs and maximizing profits? Here are 5 ways a quality staffing agency can save your company money. 1. Reduced Screening and Hiring Expense Time is money, and screening and hiring new employees is time consuming: jobs must be posted, responses tracked, and candidates must be vetted and interviewed. A
Many employers today are looking for contract workers. Hiring temporary workers gives employers more flexibility in responding to sudden surges in their business; it also gives employers an opportunity to try out candidates before offering them full-time employment. While the benefits to employers are clear, how does temporary placement benefit you – the worker? Here
Finding the right employees when you need them is a challenge in today’s job market. Partnering with the right staffing company can be a timesaving and cost-effective way to maintain a skilled, productive workforce, particularly if your organization must respond to fluctuations in business volume. Here are five ways a quality staffing company can bring
If you have never interviewed with a staffing company before, you may be tempted to treat the experience with a bit more levity than a “real” job interview. Don’t do it. This is as real an opportunity to land a good job as any other interview directly with a company, maybe even more so! Follow
You have taken the time and devoted the efforts to finding and hiring the right candidates. Now, you need to retain them. One way to increase your employee retention is to establish an onboarding program. A few reasons to put effort into this program: New hires will immediately feel that they are a part of
Every time you endeavor to fill an open position with your company you have a new opportunity to fin just the right person for the job. Each time you enter into the process, you are seeking that candidate who will glide right in and dazzle everyone with their knowledge, skill, and engaging personality. That person
This term may be a new one to you, but a skills mismatch is something that many organizations are suffering from all across the US. By definition, a skills mismatch means that your workers do not possess the current skills to meet the demands of your new industry developments, or even worse, you don’t have
“Burn Out” may be a somewhat antiquated term, but it is alive and well, unfortunately, in today’s workforce. According to Jonathan Alpert, a NY psychotherapist and author, nearly everyone “is facing more pressure. With people laid off, people are taking on more responsibilities, working harder and having les support and that amounts to burnout. No
There may be nothing more deflating than finally finding your ideal candidate only to have them accept an offer other than yours. Sometimes you may have just lost out to a better offer. Other times, though, there may have been something you could have done differently along the way to sway their decision to select
