Operational Metrics & Best Practices

Successful IT Recruiting Strategies

21 March 2017

  • IT professionals are in short supply in most developed economies, creating recruiting challenges
  • Sourcing methods for tech talent must be adapted to the current environment
  • People and processes in your recruiting function should be analyzed to drive efficiency and effectiveness

2016 Front Office Staffing Software Vendor Landscape

20 December 2016

  • Trends in front office software landscape
  • Technical survey of seven front office software providers
  • List of 3rd parties that provide front office staffing software

Staffing Executive Compensation Analysis: 2016 Update

18 October 2016

  • Total compensation fell by a median 3.04% in 2015 among the two highest-paid executives at a selection of 60 publicly traded staffing firms, search firms, job boards, PEOs and online staffing platforms. The firms were based in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa.
  • Median total compensation... More

Staffing Company Survey 2016: “Bench model” usage rates and best practices

24 September 2016

  • 34% of staffing firms use bench model to some degree
  • 53% expect to use it by 2026
  • Staffing execs offer advice about when/how to use it

Staffing Company Survey 2016: Best Practices in Managing At-Home Recruiters

23 September 2016

  • Top consideration in at-home recruiting: pick the right recruiters
  • Managing and measuring performance also important
  • Staffing executives suggest 7 additional best practices

Australia/NZ Staffing Company Survey: Requests for Proposal (RFPs)—Response rates, hours to complete, & percent successful

31 December 2015

  • Typical staffing firm respond to about a third of RFPs
  • About half of completed RFPs turn into business
  • Time-consuming, but responding typically worth it

Australia/NZ Staffing Company Survey: Staffing firm operational structures

28 December 2015

  • Staffing firms vary widely in combining/separating recruiting & sales, temp & perm businesses
  • Most firms highly satisfied with current structure
  • Fifty-one staffing firms provided data

Australia/NZ Staffing Company Survey: Temporary worker assignment lengths & tenure discounts

27 December 2015

  • Median assignment length: 13 weeks
  • 30% of staffing agencies offer a tenure discount
  • Discounts in 1%-5% range

Australia/NZ Staffing Company Survey: Social media use, metrics, & preferred venues

6 December 2015

  • Social media generally of just moderate value to staffing firms
  • One in four track no social media metrics at all
  • Staffing firms mostly use social media for recruiting, less so sales

Building a multi-country contingent workforce strategy for Asia Pacific

2 December 2015

  • Hear insights from experts about implementing a CW strategy across Asia
  • Watch the playback on demand, approx 1 hour
  • Download a copy of the presentation as a pdf