Category: Workforce

Where is your next employee hanging out?

by wpengine on March 26, 2014 in Staffing, Workforce

 

Where is your future employee? Your company’s future temporary professional is sitting somewhere, contemplating their next career move. What will s/he do first to let the world know that they are there and ready to be hired? Who will s/he turn to? Staffing Industry Analysts surveyed 3,300 temporary workers and discovered the answer to this […]

Why Your Employees Jump Ship

by wpengine on March 20, 2014 in Staffing, Workforce

 

Our last blog discussed how employee referrals are the top source of bringing new people into organizations… but what is it that drives employees to leave? Well, while giving cash bonuses for employee referrals is suggested for bringing people on board, money is not the top reason people leave. Surprised? Wondering what it could be? […]

Rethink Rewarding Referrals

by wpengine on March 10, 2014 in Staffing, Workforce

 

Does your company offer a referral bonus for employees that recommend friends from their network for internal postings? For those of you that answered Yes – how do your bonuses stack up? Did you say No? I have some numbers for you that may have you rethinking rewarding referrals. I’ll start with this – Employee […]

Affordable Care Act Frees Temps from Benefit Shackles

by wpengine on February 18, 2014 in Workforce

 

So much has been said and written about the impacts of the Affordable Care Act. If you’re in business, large or small, you’re trying hard to follow the act and have your company ready to comply. Just when we thought we were set on the employer side of things, the rules have now changed. Small […]

Temps, like Olympians, are Breaking Records in 2014

by wpengine on February 13, 2014 in Workforce

 

That’s right, just like record-breaking news in the 2014 Winter Olympics, temporary workers are also breaking records this year. Let’s start by pointing out that Sochi has laid claim to being the most expensive Olympics ever, with a price tag of more than $50 billion! And while there have only been two records broken so […]

When Does a Job Interview End?

by wpengine on February 5, 2014 in Job Search Tips, Workforce

 

Guest blog spot by Outside-In® Team Member Caitlin Olszewski After dotting a couple i’s (three to be exact), smiling, and shaking hands, I had accepted a job offer—my first real job offer. I was twenty-two years old. (I’m twenty-three now but it’s amazing what a measly year can do for experience, wisdom, and unfortunately, student […]

6 Lessons from Comics on Preparing for Interviews

by wpengine on January 16, 2014 in Job Search Tips, Workforce

 

Everybody makes mistakes, but a job interview is not the time when you want to make them. Each interview is a chance to make the best impression of yourself that you can, but if you don’t prepare well enough, you’re liable to make some common mistakes to cost you the offer you were hoping for. […]

Lifetime Employment Died Yesterday at 4:22 AM

by wpengine on January 14, 2014 in Workforce

 

Please note: This blog is meant to be a parody. Yesterday, Life Time Employment officially passed away. Last seen Life Time Employment, better known as an organization playing a parental role to employees from the start of their career to retirement, was on life support but resting comfortably at your local area hospital. But leading […]

What is payrolling?

by wpengine on January 2, 2014 in Staffing, Workforce

 

The Outside-In® companies get a lot of interesting questions and business challenges from its base of customers. Our Placers business often gets customers that identified talent to do a project or fill in for a role for a set period of time. The business reasons are many, a retiree coming back to fill in as […]

Should Santa hire Temporary Elves for his workshop?

by wpengine on December 23, 2013 in Staffing, Workforce

 

We have all seen the holiday movies that suggest that perhaps it is time for Santa to modernize the factory, get some of his lead elves certified in Six Sigma, or to employ lean manufacturing in his workshop. Gone should be the days of elves singing Christmas carols, eating cookies, and making toys from scratch. […]

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