The question of where a company’s contingent workforce program should reside is one that continues to be asked – Procurement or HR? – Which is better? If there were an easy answer the question would not pop up so frequently, nor would companies like mine find themselves working with both groups depending on the client. […]
TechServe Alliance recently released the results of a survey of IT and Engineering clients, candidates, and staffing firms that it commissioned from the global firm Inavero. Since ATR International serves this industry I was clearly interested in the results and I wanted to share some of the thought provoking findings with the readers of Staffing […]
TechServe Alliance reports that IT employment hit another high-note in April, with 4.4+ million people working in the industry. Those numbers almost guarantee that the competition for top IT talent will continue to be heated and that finding the best workers with the most in-demand skills will remain challenging. The corollary to this is always […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the STEM industry and what companies can do to drive awareness and promote the career opportunities that exist (STEM Industries Can Learn from Professional Sports). It was just a few thoughts on how we can help close the current and predicted talent gap. As we all know though, […]
At Staffing 360, we try to do what we say we will in our tagline: “cover the world of IT consulting and enterprise-wide staffing from all angles.” At its most basic this simply means writing articles that appeal to all our readers: hiring companies and job seekers, employers and employees, clients and contractors. Some columns […]
The news is filled with stories about the shortage of trained workers and the trouble companies are having filling positions. This is especially true in the technology and engineering fields, where unemployment has remained lower and in many disciplines barely exists at all. It makes it challenging to find and retain people especially in the […]
I read a provocative article the other day, Why We Should Banish Job Descriptions and Resumes, on ere.net. This sounds like a crazy idea (particularly to someone in the staffing industry!) but the author, Lou Adler, makes some interesting points. He believes that the traditional description, what he refers to as a “skills-infested job description,” […]
The American Staffing Association (ASA) recently highlighted its 2013 Staffing Industry Employee of the Year, Kevin Miller, in the January/February issue of Staffing Success. I encourage you to read the full story but in short, Miller was a recent college graduate facing the same challenging employment landscape as so many other grads. He was interested […]
As I said in a column a few weeks ago (The Future of Staffing), the elimination of the recruiter and the demise of the staffing industry are frequently predicted, particularly when a new technology emerges. It seems not a day goes by when I don’t see something being touted as the greatest way to source […]