Category: EMPLOYER HOT TOPICS


Four Ways to Improve Your Glassdoor Reviews

Effectively managing your company’s employer brand is becoming more and more difficult. Social media and online review sites give job seekers and current employees powerful tools to very publicly praise or disparage your company. The most visible one? Glassdoor. This site holds millions of company reviews, CEO approval ratings, salary reports, interview questions, benefits reviews, company culture […]

Four Ways Staffing Agencies & Employers Can Work Better Together

Hiring managers everywhere know that the skills gap is real. Working with an employment agency to find the right talent is a smart move, but it doesn’t mean that your job is done. To capture the best candidates, hiring managers and staffing agencies must effectively communicate and work as a team. Here are four ways […]

10 Ways to Improve Employee Retention (and Save Some Major Cash)

So which end of the spectrum does your company lie on in terms of employee retention? Do your employees stay with you for long periods of time, or do you have to deal with a continuously revolving door as people start and then quit? If you have a staff of long-term employees…congratulations. You are one […]

3 Really Good Reasons for Background Checks

If you are considering using temporary workers to supplement your current workforce in 2017, you are not alone. It is predicted that by 2020, contingent workers will make up more than 40 percent of the entire U.S. workforce. So where is your competitive advantage, if everyone is doing it? Well, your competitive advantage is the staffing […]

Snelling Wins Best of Staffing Client Satisfaction Diamond Award

Snelling Staffing Services, a leading staffing agency in the Office, Administrative & Hospitality, Finance & Accounting and Healthcare industries, is pleased to announced they have earned Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client Diamond Award after winning the Best of Staffing Client Award at least five years in a row for providing superior service to their clients. […]

5 Workplace Predictions from 2016 That Actually Came True

Every year, numerous blogs predict what might happen in the new year – in terms of hiring, employee retention and workplace dynamics.  However, here at Snelling, we figured we would take a different tact and talk about 5 workplace predictions from 2016 that actually came true.  In addition, we will provide some advice on what […]

7 Reasons a Vendor on Premise (VOP) is a Winning Solution

A vendor on premise (VOP) relationship exists when a staffing firm (in this case Snelling) provides an on-site representative who will handle every detail regarding the sourcing, managing and tracking of your temporary (ie. contingent) workforce. In essence, this coordinator acts as an extension of your HR department to streamline your staffing function. This allows your […]

5 Ways Temporary Workers Support Continued Growth

Temporary workers are a growing part of American business. In fact, 90% of Fortune 500 companies utilize temporary and contract staff to strategically support their organization But many small businesses are much more hesitant to use temporary or contract staff. Compared to their larger counterparts, just 12% of small businesses (25-99 employees) utilize a contingent […]

The New Overtime Rules – Stay Ahead of the Changes

On Dec 1, 2016, the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) new Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) overtime regulations will go into effect. These new regulations double the minimum salary for employees to qualify for white collar overtime exemption from $23,660 annually ($455 weekly) to $47,476 annually ($913 weekly).  These changes are expected to directly affect 4.2 million […]

Keep Your Workplace Healthy This Winter

It is almost impossible to get through the winter months without some (if not most) of your employees getting sick or (believe it or not) injured.  Either way, you will have employees that are not working and others that are working overtime to pick up the slack. To keep this from happening, here are some […]