Blog Category: Article, Hiring Resources, Recruiting
Posted: 03/27/2025
Screenings and Interviews: Staffing Agency Tips and Tricks Today’s job market presents an interesting duality. Unemployment is low, so the market for good candidates is tight. Yet, a 2024 survey by Indeed stated that 71-percent of workers are open to new opportunities and 60-percent are prepared to apply. What does…
Blog Category: Employers, Hiring Resources
Posted: 03/03/2025
From family leave to short term disability to well-deserved long vacations, the work of a full-time employee doesn’t go away when they go out on extended leave. Effectively managing the challenges created by an absence is essential to maintaining operations without overburdening the remaining staff – which is important, given…
Blog Category: Employers, Recruiting, Success Tips
Posted: 01/29/2025
Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, is shaping the modern workforce with a focus on work-life balance and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Known for their tech-savviness, Gen Z job candidates expect employers to both align with their values and integrate technology seamlessly into work processes. In response, staffing agencies…
Blog Category: Employers, Leadership
Posted: 01/13/2025
The U.S. economy demonstrated solid growth in 2024, with real GDP growth projected (in December) to be 2% or higher for the year. In November, the economy added +227,000 jobs and, across industries, temporary staff increased approximately 1.5%. This indicates solid job creation, which often correlates with increasing demand for…
Blog Category: Employee Policies, Employers, HR Practices, Leadership, Success Tips
Posted: 12/04/2024
Effective administrative work, whether it’s by an administrative assistant or a higher level administrator who’s charged with running a business unit, is mandatory if the business is going to do well. Administrative assistants are responsible for tasks like preparing and storing documents, organizing workspaces and scheduling meetings. More advanced duties,…
Blog Category: Employers, Hiring Resources, Success Tips, TriStarr Staffing
Posted: 11/11/2024
Acing the Test: Using Personality Tests for Temp-to-Hire Staffing Personality tests date back at least a century and run the gamut from the DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness) personality assessment to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) first published in the early 1960s. While the tests vary in their metrics and…