The biggest, most ambitious State of Staffing report is now live from Staffing Hub! The staffing industry has been on a wild ride. After record growth in 2021, employers made cost-cutting hiring freezes in 2023, leading to a slowdown in revenue for staffing agencies. More than 40% of respondents in our latest survey reported that their business didn’t grow at all last … Read More
What is Recruiting Acceleration? Definition, Best Practices, and How to Embrace the Power of AI to Revolutionize Your Staffing Firm [eBook]
The world of staffing and recruiting has changed in recent years, with candidates now in the driver’s seat and expectations of instant communication and responsiveness becoming the norm. In order to compete for top talent, it’s vital that your staffing firm stays ahead of the curve, leveraging the latest technology to enhance the recruiting experience. And the latest tech today … Read More
The Evolution of Sales and Recruiting Acceleration: How to Boost Your Staffing Firms Productivity in 2023
The primary way to make each individual recruiter and sales rep more productive is to empower them with software to accelerate their workflow. But many staffing firms are stuck using their old playbooks of cold-calling and relying primarily on email automation to help accelerate their manual processes. As technology – and on-demand consumer expectations – are changing rapidly, we wanted … Read More
2022 State of Staffing Benchmarking Report from Staffing Hub
Our friends over at Staffing Hub just launched the 2022 State of Staffing Benchmarking Report. Each year they go out and survey staffing professionals and also members of the workforce to understand the current state of the industry and how the most successful staffing firms are connecting with candidates and clients. We were incredibly excited to see that fast-growth agencies … Read More
How to Meet Candidates Where They Are to Accelerate Recruiting [Webinar]
In the past, businesses were able to force customers to operate on their terms. There were fewer options and more power was in the hands of the business, but things have changed. Staffing Firms also used to have more leverage with candidates when there was a shortage of jobs and a surplus of talent, but that has changed dramatically over … Read More
Staffing Engine Co-Founder Andrew Kimmell on the You Own The Experience Podcast
This post originally appeared on Able’s blog. On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones RAP about how AI and automation can improve your speed to market and overall candidate experience. Later they are joined by Andrew Kimmell, a serial staffing entrepreneur responsible for the likes of TextUs and Staffing Engine. In a career that … Read More
The Cycle of Sales Acceleration: From The Phone to Real-Time Messaging
Below is the transcript from the video, please excuse the errors. ? The second cycle of sales acceleration. So I was having a conversation with a friend the other day, and we were talking about how the notion of sales acceleration as a category, was started around, using the phone and, insidesales.com. You know, I remember that’s when I really … Read More
Do You Know Who’s Responding?
Below is the transcript from the video, please excuse the errors. ? Do you know who’s responding? So getting a new company off the ground is exciting and fun. You get your website set up your phone numbers and emails set up and your social profiles and you’re ready to connect with customers and grow. You know but people today … Read More
The 3 Levels of On-Demand: From Apps to Messaging to Bots
Below is the transcript from the video, please excuse the errors. ? All right back in the day when the iPhone first came out, I was obsessed. I was already playing around with my Palm trio and hacking apps onto it, mainly to watch snowboard videos. I just was obsessed with the idea that it would change the way businesses … Read More
2020 Changed Everything: 4 Keys to Growth for Staffing Firms in 2021
This post originally appeared on StaffingHub by Jay Cutler, Co-founder and VP of Partnerships at Staffing Engine. Whether we like it or not, 2020 pushed the staffing industry into the 21st century. Firms that prioritized digital transformation before the pandemic were able to migrate far more successfully to the new remote-work world we’re now living in. However, if your agency … Read More