Surveys
Australia/NZ Staffing Company Survey: Distribution of temporary and direct hire sales, by skill segment and customer industry/sector served
26 March 2016
- 42 staffing firms reveal skill segments and customer markets
- Top temp skill segments: IT, office/clerical, finance/accounting
- Top temp customer markets: finance/insurance and government
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
Asia/Pacific Contingent Buyers Survey: 2015 Full Report
17 December 2015
- 169-page compilation of 2014-2015 buyer survey reports
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
Perceived Cost Savings from Using CW
4 December 2015
- Median perceived cost savings of 9% by using contingent workers
Why Some Buyers Don’t Use VMS and MSP
3 December 2015
- Most common reason for not using VMS was that it was already being explored
- Second most common reason was cost
- Reasons for not using MSP included cost and insufficient volume
How Buyers Gather Supplier Feedback
30 November 2015
- 73% collected supplier feedback
- Cadence was usually quarterly, semiannually or annually
- Most common form of feedback was surveys/questionnaires/emails
Buyers’ Staffing Supplier Sourcing Models
24 November 2015
- Most common vendor bidding model was primaries, at 68%
- Rate structures: Fixed rates per job title, max bill rates and pay range plus mark-up all selected by over 49%
- Only 22% reported using open bill rates