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Financing Solutions for Staffing Agencies Just Getting Started

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Daniel Crick. Daniel manages all client engagement for Headcount Management. Besides being an NPA vendor and speaker, Headcount currently services multiple NPA clients. Headcount is a leader in back-office solutions designed specifically for staffing agencies.

Headcount services include Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR), IC compliance, payroll funding/processing, workforce deployment, global expansion, administrative outsourcing, workers’ compensation, GL insurance, HR support, risk management, and more. Payroll Plus, their newest initiative, is the industry’s easiest way for agencies to produce weekly payroll, invoices, and profit reporting. Since 2008, Headcount has helped staffing firms across all 50 states mitigate liability, reduce costs, and maintain full hiring compliance.

It’s not always enough for recruiting firms to work with the most qualified applicants and sought-after clients. Staffing agencies also need to consider seamless delivery of their services and the customer’s perception of that delivery, which in turn means more business. Unfortunately, before your clients pay an invoice, your firm will incur almost all of the costs associated with paying employees (their payroll, taxes, insurance), possibly causing a strain on finances. Having the right financing structure in place will relieve those pressures and allow you to service even more clients and pay more candidates. Read the rest of this entry »

Legal Issues That Impact Recruitment Clients

by Dave Nerz

If you are working with smaller recruitment clients that do not have formal training on best practices and the laws around hiring and firing, you can be a valuable resource. Here’s one your clients likely do not even think about… Read the rest of this entry »

Accepting a COVID Way of Life and Work

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Gloria Oliveras-Bravo of Barbachano International in San Diego, California (USA). Barbachano International is the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm in the Americas with a focus on diversity and multicultural target markets. The firm is a longtime NPAworldwide member, having joined in 2007. Gloria writes about changes to employment resulting from COVID that are likely to be permanent.

Social distancing, masking, and self-quarantine seemed like temporary measures to help reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. Unfortunately, the virus spread has affected more than 860,000 people in the U.S., and total deaths tolls are over 4 million worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Evaluating Prospective Recruitment Clients

by Veronica Blatt

If you haven’t read the latest post from Greg Savage, it’s worth your time. In a nutshell, he posits that candidates are both scarce *and* have wildly different priorities than they did pre-pandemic. And that big companies, which have been fertile ground for third-party recruiters, are perhaps not the best recruitment clients that they may have been previously. Read the rest of this entry »

Must-Have ATS Features in 2022

by Veronica Blatt

Over the past 12-18 months, we have been engaged in a rigorous search for a new technology partner that can deliver a new recruitment marketplace for our members. After reviewing multiple providers, products and platforms, there are ATS features that offer value to recruitment firms of all shapes and sizes. Here are a few features that we think are “must-haves”: Read the rest of this entry »

How to Get a Thorough Job Req

by Liz Carey

As we embark on a new year, new jobs and hirings that were placed on hold at the end of 2021 are being resuscitated by employers and hiring managers. New positions need a job description, so recruiters can find the suitable talent and the candidate understands the responsibilities. But when obtaining a job req from a client, it’s important to get more than just a cut and paste job description.

A trading partner will not want to work with you if they do not understand the full picture, and it behooves you to give them as much information as possible so they can target the right candidate for the position and your client. You need certain information to be able to “sell” the position to a candidate.

Here’s an example of what one member of NPAworldwide uses to dial in the conversation about a position and get all the info they need to recruit:

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The Risks of a Job-Specific Contract

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Wilson Cole. He is the CEO of BackdoorHires.com and Adams, Evens & Ross, the nation’s largest credit and collections agency designed exclusively for the staffing and recruiting industry. In 2008 he was inducted into INC Magazine’s, “INC 500” for being the CEO of Adams, Evens & Ross, the 307th fastest-growing privately held company in America. Adams, Evens, & Ross has helped more than 3,000 staffing and recruiting firms recover more than $1 billion in past-due debt and is an NPAworldwide Endorsed Program.

In the staffing and recruiting industry, a written and signed agreement is your safeguard against the uncertainties of the future. It lays out the agreed-upon terms, sets the expectations for all the involved parties, and is used to avoid confusion. Read the rest of this entry »

Top Recruitment Blogs of 2021

by Veronica Blatt

top recruitment blogsWe are officially on hiatus until January 2022! During this brief break, here is a list of our five top recruitment blogs (most-read) this year. We hope you enjoy them, and look forward to bringing you new content in early January. Read the rest of this entry »

Finding Relevant Experience in a Candidate-Scarce World

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Jason Starr, CEO of Dillistone Group PLC, a leading global provider of software and services that enable recruitment firms and in-house recruiters to better manage their selection process and address the training needs of individuals. Their new platform, Talentis, takes advantage of big data and AI to help recruiters find candidates with the relevant experience for their searches.

“I need a candidate with experience in fintech. She’ll ideally have a background in banking and will have worked in payments.”

Candidate specifications come in all shapes and sizes, but it’s increasingly common for a hiring manager to require specific industry experience. Historically, this is where specialist recruiters come into their own – being able to mine a database with extensive data about professionals in a niche sector can certainly help find candidates with relevant experience. Read the rest of this entry »

New AI Tool for Recruitment Marketing

by Veronica Blatt

Seems like artificial intelligence, or AI, is the latest tool that is going to kill the recruitment industry. I don’t think AI is going to kill this business any more than fax machines, the internet, or job boards did. In fact at the moment, I might even venture as far as saying that AI in its current iteration is “not quite ready for prime time” in many ways. For recruitment especially, I think there are good ways of using it to streamline or automate certain business processes but it’s got a long way to go before it’s ready to replace the personal element of skilled recruiters. We have recently come across an AI tool, though, that we think is worth your attention. If recruitment marketing is important to you, or you’d like to be doing more with it, please take a look at Jasper. (Disclaimer: NPAworldwide is a Jasper affiliate partner.) Read the rest of this entry »

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