With the sudden change to our world in early 2020 due to COVID-19, significant changes have occurred in the way you run your staffing firm. One of these changes involves your recruiting process. Not being able to personally meet with candidates has become a challenge. You need to know all you can before placing candidates…
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5 Ways to Provide the Ultimate Customer Experience for Job Seekers
The experience candidates have when applying with your staffing firm helps to determine your business success. If candidates have a bad experience, they typically share their experience through negative online reviews on Glassdoor or Indeed. In contrast, providing an excellent candidate experience can lead to lasting relationships that result in candidates returning for future work assignments. For…
3 Reasons Why Every Person at Your Staffing Company is A Customer Service Rep
These are good times for staffing firms. With demand for contract workers up in all sectors of staffing, it is of course imperative to find and match candidates as soon as possible. But in the rush to efficiency, you may take a short-cut on one of your biggest assets: Customer service. You neglect this service…
This Holiday, Go for the Green
The holidays are here, and staffing firms that supply retail, light manufacturing, and even boutique positions, are seeing demand for their services surge. Indeed, retailers are expected to hire more than 700,000 seasonal workers for the December holidays. That’s the most since 2015, according to a Challenger Gray Christmas analysis of federal jobs data, and…
Three Ways You Can Adapt and Change When Artificial Intelligence Steals the Jobs You Place
If you follow the news, A.I is perhaps the top trend going on right now. It’s vaulted from movies to real life, with everything from “smart homes” to, yes, self-driving cars. Of course, as far as your business is concerned, AI is also coming to the workplace. As a matter of fact, it’s already here.…
Ditch the “One Size Fits All” Model When Servicing Your Clients. Here’s Why.
If you’re a staffing firm owner or manager starting up, or considering new business, it’s important to differentiate yourself from the other competitors out there. A one-size fits-all model may work well if your business is a general one, such as manufacturing or light industrial with the result that your business may be perceived as…
Top Five Benefits for Outsourcing Payroll
Payroll is crucial to any business success, but as we’ve noted before, it’s particularly true when it comes to staffing. Payroll is literally the lifeblood of staffing. Whether you are a start-up or a growing company, looking to take your business to the next level, outsourcing payroll is something that you should consider. Here are…
Why You Should Consider Outside Operational Support As a Staffing Start-Up
As a staffing start-up owner, you’ve got your hands full….building a customer base, hiring a good team, and finding a way to focus on growth without letting little things slide. This is where you might consider outsourcing operational support, especially with experts that can take over the day-to-day billing, receiving, technology and provide a myriad…
Funding Habits Established Staffing Firms Get Right
At Madison Resources, we are perhaps best known for getting staffing start-ups ramp up into business. And, no question, that’s a great part of our business. But equally important to us is seeing these firms grow, and become established, and then helping them scale and continue to seek opportunities, growth, and profit. What follows is…
Ramping up to Meet Staffing Needs
As a staffing owner, you’ve got your regular, volume customers, or perhaps you’re a boutique firm with niche but valuable customers. That is great, and a fantastic sweet spot for your business. But how do you meet outsized demands? In essence, how can you adjust when there is suddenly a larger need, or the industry…