Posts Tagged: engineering staffing
How to Fill Hard-to-Fill Positions
If you work in human resources, you know that even in this depressed economy, you have open positions that are hard to fill. It’s no secret that these jobs are in technical areas, areas that demand a high degree of education and expertise – engineering, IT and healthcare. The fact is that for these areas Read more »
Business Philanthropy During Hard Times
With the recession — and layoffs – a company’s morale and reputation can suffer. Adverse public relations also can dampen morale. If a company’s reputation is being attacked, it makes it more difficult for employees to do their jobs and it makes it harder for companies to attract the best workers. During the recession, employee Read more »
When It’s Better to Talk Than to Send an E-mail
If you are in human resources, you probably use e-mail a lot, for all kinds of transactions. It is easy and fast, and it has been responsible for jumps in productivity. But we can rely on e-mail too much. It has drawbacks. Sometimes, it’s better to pick up the telephone, or have a face-to-face conversation, Read more »
Reasons to Hire the Unemployed
Although there may be issues involving discrimination, some companies still will not even consider hiring people who are unemployed. There is a bias against the unemployed because of the general assumption that during layoffs, it is usually those who are the least productive who go first. But as Jim Stroud, a corporate recruiting expert notes, Read more »
Maintaining a Great Relationship with Your Staffing Service
If you want to increase the chances of having a successful relationship with your staffing firm, here are a few things to keep in mind when your company makes a request for contingent employees. The first tip for making things go as smoothly as possible is to make sure you notify the staffing service as Read more »
Temporary Workers and Employer Liability
One of the regulatory traps that businesses sometimes fall into when they use staffing services is the employment classification of contingent workers. Many times a business that uses contingent workers from a staffing firm takes on certain responsibilities for the workers, responsibilities usually associated with “regular” employment. By doing this, the company allows itself to Read more »
The Changing Status of Employment
The makeup of the American workforce is undergoing a sea change, fueled in part by the current weak economy Companies and workers need to adapt. According to Doug Berg, a workforce expert, the United States is in the middle of a big shift in the workforce, especially in the technology area. The way things have Read more »
How Business Leadership Must Change
In the business world today, the way a firm’s leaders exercise their authority has to change radically from the way they have done so in the past if companies are to survive in fast-paced, global economies. That’s the message of Barry Salzberg, soon to be the global chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. Read more »
U.S. Firms Lag in Assisting Employees with Work/Life Balance
Companies in the United States do well in handling problems of discrimination in the workplace, but they don’t rate quite as well in aiding employees’ family life. That was the result of a recent study that compared U.S. companies with other firms in 173 countries on their guidelines for working families. The study used information Read more »