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Double submittals: who owns the candidate?

April 22, 2008 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

Double submittals. As a manager in charge of your CW program, you might ask what that question has to do with me. But if your goal is to get the best temporary help at a competitive... More


Think grey

February 28, 2008 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

I keep hearing some recurring themes. 1. The baby boomer population is retiring 2. There is a dip in the number of younger workers due to declining birth rates 3. Nineteen percent of... More


What's in a name?

January 24, 2008 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

In the course of my job, I sometimes have to call staffing firms to interview them.During the conversation, I refer to them as a staffing firm and a very common response is; oh, we... More


Contingent Workforce Manager - A Profession?

November 26, 2007 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

Maybe we haven't gotten to the point where people say, 'Oh I am a contingent workforce manager' much the same way as with lawyers or doctors ,but it's getting to be a profession. At... More


A Hybrid Model

October 26, 2007 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

At the Contingent Workforce Summit in Dallas last week, many staffing agencies spoke to me of what they think is a new development in contingent workforce management i.e. the 'hybrid... More


Working Together

September 24, 2007 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

There’s an emerging trend for working together. It’s coworking. Your remote contingent workers no longer have to plod away in the confines of their home with only the TV or dog... More


HR Wants In

August 22, 2007 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

Power centers are shifting! Procurement departments are playing a bigger and bigger role in supplier selection, increasingly taking over the overall responsibility for a corporation's... More


Talking About Your Temps

July 23, 2007 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

It’s the world’s worst-kept corporate secret: using temporary workers. Every company on the Fortune 1000 and 500 lists does it. Yet when I ask companies to talk about their temporary... More


Shock: Man at work for 12 years not an independent contractor

November 30, 2010 - from Jon Osborne's Blog

In October, an Illinois federal court found that a building maintenance worker employed for twelve years had been improperly classified as an independent contractor, and that his employer... More


Is it time for youtube?

October 29, 2010 - from Jon Osborne's Blog

I happened to search for "temporary staffing" on youtube.com and noted that one staffing firm in particular has made very good use of that venue. Frontline Source Group... More