A Day in the Life of a Recruiter
Recruiting can be a challenging job. It requires a lot of effort, patience, and dedication. Medical Solutions' latest article sheds light on what it's like to be a recruiter and provides some useful tips for job seekers who are looking to work with a recruiter. The...
LinkedIn Job Demand Report August 2020
2020 has been a wild ride of a year so far. Nearly every industry has experienced some sort of disruption or decrease/increase in demand. We see the side effects of this in the form of job demand (who's hiring for what positions). LinkedIn's monthly job demand report...
Telecommute Jobs Schema for Remote Opportunities on Google
We've covered how to get your jobs picked up organically by Google in previous articles. But did you know that there's a way to promote work-from-home remote positions as well? If you have a Google Ads or Search Console account you may have received an email from...
Actions Speak Louder than Words
Responding to social unrest In the past ering on the side of caution when voicing political opinion was the status quo. This day in age, the opposite holds true. Many companies are voicing support for the Black Lives Movement (BLM) as well as issues impacting the...
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Staffing Websites
Should You Consider Implementing AMP for your Staffing Business’ Website? It depends on what your goals are. If your business operated mostly offline, through word of mouth referrals, or gets most of your client and candidate leads from third-party sources, it may not...
What to do with COVID-19 Downtime
Formerly busy streets have been deserted, conference rooms remain empty, and workers all across America continue to adjust to a different kind of business day. There's absolutely no question that the novel coronavirus has changed the world as we once knew completely...
Writing Job Descriptions that Convert
When it comes to contract and direct hiring, recruiters have a unique set of obstacles in today’s day and age. Between the low unemployment rate, competitive job market, and ever-changing technologies, staffing professionals have their work out cut out for them as...
Best Job Boards for Staffing in 2020
The journey through the 2010s was a wild ride. We witnessed Steve Jobs reveal the world’s first iPad, saw the original WeWork open its doors in Soho, and watched the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal play out in real-time. Technology played a massive role in the...
Why You Should Treat Everyone Like You’re Told To Treat Millennials
Millennials. The internet is full of articles telling you how to treat them in order to get the most out of them in the workplace. I've read countless articles about how you should treat Millennials differently than individuals from other generations. I'm...
Bullhorn Releases Staffing Speaks Out
On September 5th, 2018 I received an email announcing the release of "Staffing Speaks Out", a conversation series with staffing & recruiting industry leaders by Bullhorn. The email quotes their intro video (seen below) and claims to be a place for learning, growth,...
Introducing WP Staffing by Staffing Nerd
An introduction to WP Staffing by Staffing Nerd. Tackling Issues Unique To Staffing If you’ve been working in staffing-related marketing or operations, you understand that much pain is caused by the technical aspect of staffing, specifically around dealing...
Executive Spotlight — Justin Allison, Director of Locum Tenens Recruitment and Marketing
For the latest executive spotlight, we spoke with Justin Allison about his time starting and growing a healthcare staffing company, why it’s important to create content to attract new candidates, and ERO's overall approach to gaining a competitive...
Recruitment Marketing Metrics: Which Are Most Important?
What Are Recruitment Metrics? Recruitment metrics and KPIs are a standard set of measurements used to manage and improve the process of hiring candidates into an organization. After you've found an agency to outsource...
What Buyers Look for in a Staffing Firm Acquisition
A merger or acquisition is a huge deal for any business, so you want your mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction to be a success from start to finish. Understanding the keys to M&A success helps you see the process through from step one to...
Find an Agency to Fill Gaps in Your Staff
Staffing companies considering a digital growth strategy must embrace the concept of outsourcing marketing operations to reduce complexity, overhead, and management. When done correctly, working with marketing agencies that focus on staffing will reduce...
How to Find Your ‘Why’ When Scaling Your Staffing Company
Staffing companies considering a digital growth strategy cannot go forward blindly with guesswork and speculation. That’s a recipe for disaster and will waste considerable time, money, and other resources. This blog post is the first in a series to help...
Tips To Separate Yourself From The Pack
With so many communication streams, it can feel like it’s increasingly difficult to get anyone's attention, and the traditional methods of calling and sending emails simply aren’t as effective as they once were. And, because we have so much more access to information...
How To Manage Recruiters On LinkedIn (As A Job Seeker)
There are two professions that dominate LinkedIn: Sales and Recruiting. How is one to handle the massive influx of invites, and what can you get out of it? As a member of the staffing and recruiting industry, I see LinkedIn as a network of peers. For those who work in...
3 Underrated Metrics Your Recruitment Agency Should Be Tracking
Are you sleeping on these valuable recruitment metrics? Check out these three underrated recruitment metrics and why they can help your agency. Every recruitment agency has a hidden hub of valuable information with the power to transform its business—recruitment data....
How Top Recruiters Help Candidates Prepare For The Future
How recruiters can help transform clients and candidates As recruiting best practices shift to become more applicant-centric, staffing agencies must be strategic in making sure all needs are met. For most recruiters, there are specific events that must happen in order...
Part-Time Jobs That Provide Lifetime Skills
What are some jobs a younger person could get to help build people skills? This is a great question, and the beauty is that most good relevant jobs can readily be obtained by younger people. But the long and short of it is any job dealing with the public will give you...
Recruiters: Use Cold Emailing To Your Advantage
Does cold emailing help people find jobs and get hired? The opportunity is there, as is cold calling. My post is going to revolve around a behavior and not the part it plays in a job search strategy. This is critical. To execute a successful cold email campaign, you...
Staffing & Recruiting Conferences 2018
We're almost halfway into 2018 and we have some of the best conferences ahead of us. With over two dozen sourcing and recruiting conferences with different focus areas ranging from social media recruiting, to nonprofit talent acquisition, to executive forums expanding...
Branding Recruiter Job Titles & The Application Process
Let's face it, the staffing industry has a negative reputation. Over the years so many organizations have used ineffective tactics to find talent. Whether they've bought candidate contact information, scraped emails from websites or cold called off lists of phone...
Medical Solutions Acquires PPR
In a press release published on February 09, 2018 Medical Solutions, an Omaha based medical staffing firm, announced they will be acquiring PPR Talent Management Group. PPR provides travel nurse staffing from their offices in Jacksonville, FL. PPR will...
How to Post Jobs on Google
A comprehensive guide for staffing agencies on getting your jobs on 'Google for Jobs' search results. How To Make Your Staffing Agencies Jobs Appear In Google Search Google now includes jobs in their search results which means you can have your jobs one...
MarTech 2018 Conference
MarTech West is a great conference for marketing professionals working in the staffing industry. In 2018 the conference will be held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. As one of the earlier conferences being held this year (April 23-25) we expect it to...
Marketing Trends for Staffing in 2018
Trends and predictions for digital marketing in the staffing & recruitment industry 1. Focus On The User Experience Improving user experience has been a focus for several years and will continue in 2018. Many aspects of digital marketing will involve a...
SEMPDX Engage Conference
SEMPDX's Engage Conference is not to be confused with the Bullhorn conference of the same name. While both are incredibly valuable for marketers working in the staffing industry, SEMPDX focuses exclusively on marketing while Bullhorns conference in Boston focuses...
TechServce Alliance Conference 2018
The TechServe Alliance is one of the best tech staffing conferences in North America. TechServe is known for delivering extremely engaging content designed to empower tech staffing agencies. Traditionally they've focused on delivering actionable marketing &...
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