Recruiting Agencies Filling a Critical Role According to the American Staffing Association’s website there are at least 20,000 staffing agencies currently operating in the United States, with 39,000 offices country wide, and which contribute more than $136 billion dollars to the U.S. Economy every year. That is a stunning dollar amount and an impressive number [...]
Smaller Staffing Agencies can play in the Big Leagues What is the difference between a small staffing agency and a big staffing agency? Well, how much time do you have? Obviously the larger the company, the bigger the profits, the impact, and the notoriety. However, a the list of pros comes a list of cons. [...]
Recruiting Younger Tech Professionals Recruiting is just like any other business it is constantly changing, evolving, and improving. Right when you think you’ve figured it out, the rules change. When you specialize in the technology focused positions that our company does the recruiting process change, the technologies that companies are looking for are constantly changing. [...]
A Baby Shark is Still a Shark I’m sure my first job in recruiting was very different than most people. I started when I was 23 at a small family style company of about 10 people. Now just because we are small doesn’t mean we aren’t good at what we do, our 2:1 submittal to [...]
Keep Clear of IT Career Killers Want to have a long and relatively satisfying career in technology? Here’s a list of 7 things to definitely avoid doing! 1- Don’t stay current. There are lots of ways to fall into the comfort zone trap of allowing your skills to become dated. Simply taking your eye off the [...]
Learning the Ropes in Recruiting Getting Started as a Recruiter: I’ve been a recruiter for a little over a year at this point, and it would be an understatement to say that I have learned a lot. When I think back to what I knew of recruiting beforehand I simply laugh. I had NO idea [...]
Preparation and Research are key to Interviewing Interviewing 101: For many, interviewing is a stressful process, that is a requirement, but one we wish we could avoid. It throws us off our “normal game”, and we often stress even more afterwards. The secret not known by many is that interviewing is just as nerve racking [...]
Higher Education: What to Spend your Money on STEM Education: It is tough to generalize on this subject, as we each have unique gifts and passions. However, when choosing what to study at the University level, it may be helpful to think ‘S-T-E-M’. S-T-E-M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The ‘meatier’ degrees, if [...]
Understanding the Importance of a Strong Staffing Partner Let’s face it, recruiters have a tough reputation; it is unfortunately well deserved in many cases. We’ve heard the horror stories; all of them. Some ridiculous and laughable, some tragic. Too often prospective candidates are contacted by recruiters wholly ignorant of what they are actually seeking. The [...]
The Keys to Recruiting Agencies ROI Recruiting Agencies: We thought we would talk a little bit about recruitment ROI. “I have a ton of agencies at 15%, why pay full fee”, “We can’t afford fees”, “We have many applicants in our database” – Those are the reasons we hear about WHY NOT to use an [...]
