March/April 2018

The business of matching job hunters with employers continues to change rapidly. Technology is making it easier to connect, yet it can also overwhelm those on both sides of the job-hunting equation with information and choices. Indeed, the world's No.

Most organizations engage in some sort of activity in the name of inclusion. Quite simply, this is about ensuring nobody feels disadvantaged or left out due to their age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, or other factors such as social background.

It's an understatement to state that the Best Staffing Firms to Work For grand prize winners get engagement. These firms win praise not just from their internal workers and temps, but from the competition as well.

We include developments from the Staffing Industry Daily News and The Staffing Stream to help you focus on emerging movements that could shape your business for the better. Hard-Working Towns San Francisco named the hardest-working city in the US.

How can you be the best supplier in the MSP supplychain? That's a difficult question to answer. As a career procurement professional who now advises enterprise clients through SIA's Contingent Workforce Strategies Council, I have come to sympathize with the struggles many suppliers face in trying to succeed in these programs.

In 1991, the US Sentencing Commission published its Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, which set standards for creating corporate compliance programs that allow for more favorable treatment from the courts in the event of a compliance failure. And in today's highly regulated environment, compliance failures are highly likely.

The largest operating expense for staffing companies is the remuneration paid to their staff, as is this case for most professional services firms. Total personnel expense for US staffing firms ranges from 52% to 56% of gross profit dollars, according to recent rounds of Staffing Industry Analysts' SIBC benchmarking study.

Ask any staffing firm, big or small, what its top challenge is. Not surprisingly, the answers are identical: Finding people with the right skills given the scarcity of talent. Organizations - including staffing firms - are facing one of the largest talent shortages since 2007 with the US unemployment rate at 4.1% in February.

Imagine creating an unfailingly great experience for your workers. That's no easy feat. Now, consider doing so for workers who are placed elsewhere - your temporary workers. The levels of difficulty associated with this go up several notches.