There are many benefits of leveraging temporary workers to augment your full-time, employed workforce. Utilizing a temporary workforce can: save money in the recruiting and hiring process offer protection against economic downturns increase profitability during seasonal upswings in demand eliminate the cost of bad hires offer resources for short term projects. The fundamental decision to […]
Horrible hiring decisions are made almost every day – out of fear, wishful thinking or simply the need to get the process completed. But sometimes, these bad choices are a mistake. Getting a true and accurate sense of how well a candidate will perform on the job is sometimes almost impossible to do during the […]
If you are the manager responsible for ensuring workplace safety, it’s up to you to minimize the risk of injury and illness to your workers. And this does include any / all temporary workers. Companies need to treat temporary workers just as they would existing employees. Temporary staffing agencies and host employers share control over […]
Administrative Professionals’ Day is rapidly approaching – April 22. Do you have a great administrative employee that you would like to acknowledge? If not, do you how to hire one? Do you what skills you need and how to ascertain that a particular candidate has those skills? The answers may be simpler than you suspect. […]
When using LinkedIn to search for job candidates, your goal should be to find the best people…those who are not actively looking for a job and who are still hidden from the competition. Most hiring managers understand the benefits of sourcing people via LinkedIn, but there is one avenue that many of them do not […]
The Oscars are Sunday. While Hollywood is getting excited for the biggest award ceremony of the year, here at Snelling, we are already celebrating. That’s because we have already won! In fact, it’s the 3rd consecutive year we’ve won Inavero’s Best of Staffing Awards for Client experience. This award is the only one in the nation that recognizes […]
LinkedIn is (in many cases) a company’s best friend in terms of recruiting and screening. But it is not the only social networking site that should be leveraged when looking to fill open jobs. More people have Facebook profiles than they have LinkedIn profiles; it has a large percentage of users over the age of […]
As the calendar flips over to a new year, 45% of us made a resolution to do something better – eat better, work out more, get more organized… But what about your business resolutions? Are there resolutions you should make that can improve the productivity of your company / department / work team? You bet, […]
Companies across the country have been trying “to more with less” for years now. But by attempting to “run lean”, many have overshot their goal and are now severely understaffed. When understaffed, you are running “too lean”. You are not creating value. You are creating holes that have to be filled with overtime and multi-tasking […]
Manufacturing is making a comeback in the United States. However, challenges remain, and a key challenge is the lack of skilled labor. According to recent reports, US manufacturers still cannot find enough skilled labor. There are two key reasons – technology and a lack of interest. Shop floor machinery no longer consists of cogs, gears, […]
