In my last post I asked “What If?” It questioned the potential for staffing firms to play a more active part in helping fill the gap between the skills that their clients are looking for today and the skills that many candidates lack. The point was that staffing and recruiting firms could actively partner with [...more]
September 29, 2011
The Future of Staffing, Part 2 – Profit Niches
September 27, 2011
Are “Bells and Whistles” as important as the basics?
Written by: 
Melissa Prentice
Melissa Prentice As we are going through the sales process we are often asked about “bells and whistles” of our software. I have been asked by some to start the presentation with our “bells and whistles”. Other prospects have asked me to save the “bells and whistles” until the end of the presentation. I always find it [...more]
September 22, 2011
StaffSuite Master Report Groups
Written by: Gerry Morgan
Gerry Morgan Our final installment in this series concerning StaffSuite invoicing covers “Master Report Groups”. This was covered in a brief over view by Ty Reaves in his post “Who has time for that?“. Our previous discussion presented the framework for the mechanics of applying report groups to the StaffSuite billing process(es), which can include Timesheet Billing, Sales [...more]
September 21, 2011
“I Can Do It MYSELF!”
Written by: Ty Reaves
Ty Reaves If you’ve ever spent any time with small kids, you’ve probably heard their declaration of independence: “I can do it myself”. In fact, that spirit often bleeds into areas that prove to be more of a challenge than they imagined. But the good news is, you have the ability to ‘do it yourself’ when it [...more]
September 20, 2011
Are you training your people?
Written by: Debra McDaniel
Debra McDaniel “How do I get my people to use the system so that we can properly track performance and metrics?” Have you ever heard the saying ”If it isn’t in the system, it didn’t get done.” That’s easy for someone to say if they know how to put it into the system. But how do you [...more]
September 15, 2011
Why do we do what we do?
Written by: Joe Barta
Joe Barta There’s an old story about a young girl watching her mother prepare a ham for a family reunion dinner. The mother cuts off a part of each end of the ham. When the girl sees this she asks her mother why she cut the ends of the ham. The mother replies that this is the [...more]
September 14, 2011
Are smart phones making us lazy?
Written by: Megan Walker
Megan Walker Anyone that knows me, knows I LOVE my Android Droid X Phone. After years of having a regular flip phone and then two years in a contract having a Blackberry (that was painful), I now have a Droid phone and it’s perfect. (iPhone owners, please don’t hate). I am superior in the knowledge that I can do anything I [...more]
September 13, 2011
Virtualization – Why Me?
Written by: John Bill
John Bill I’m not sure what the new buzz word is for today but recently it has been expressions like “The Cloud” or “I have an app for that”. But for the last few years the word that showed up on all the blog sites and in the technical magazines was “Virtualization”. It’s still a hot item [...more]
September 7, 2011
The Future of Staffing, Part 1 – What if?
Written by: Phil McCutchen
Phil McCutchen In June of 2009, the American Staffing Association Staffing Index bottomed out, after a loss of 1.14 million jobs – 37 percent of its workforce. Since then, the staffing and recruiting industry has seen month-over-month improvement in many segments and many geographic areas. That news analyzed and reported on a year later in 2010 by [...more]
September 6, 2011
The “Just do it” learner
Written by: Erica Ellis
Erica Ellis This week we will discuss the final learning style that we will cover in this series. This is the kinesthetic learner. The kinesthetic learner learns by doing. An employee may hear a concept and see a concept, but they will not fully understand it (and retain it) until the concept is put into practice. Fortunately, [...more]
