In 2015, staffing firms were introduced to email and marketing automation. Those who stuck to manual emails or relied on the old-school smile-and-dial technique quickly fell behind their competitors. In 2018, staffing firms were introduced to business text messaging, and while some firms were struggling to break through the noise of overcrowded email inboxes and leaving voicemails that prospects ignored, … Read More
Navigating an Uncertain Economy: Why Investing in Staffing Tech is a Smart Move in a Downturn
Have you spoken with any CEOs recently? If you have, you know they are preparing for the worst, trying to “do more with less,” and working with their executive teams to scrutinize every expense that comes across their desk. Even Marc Benioff, perhaps the most trusted CEO in tech, just laid off 8,000 employees (with more expected to come). This … Read More
100 Ways to Accelerate Your Company with Conversational AI
Conversational AI is changing the nature of every job at every company. This periodic table of 100 conversational AI use cases from our partner and investor Onereach.ai is meant to serve as inspiration for the possibilities to hyper-automate every department within a company. Every employee can be made more productive with the help of intelligent digital workers able to make … Read More
Introducing Engine Alerts: Recruit Faster with Real-Time Bullhorn Notifications
If you’ve ever worked in staffing then the phrase “Time kills all deals” is very familiar to you. Minutes can be the difference between a lost opportunity and a placement. This might sound like an exaggeration, but how many times have you talked to a candidate about a job and they reluctantly tell you that another firm just submitted them? … 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
Introducing Staffing Engine QR Codes: Create Custom QR Codes for Your Staffing Firm
The use of QR codes is exploding. We now scan them for everything from the menu at the restaurant, to commercials on TV, or to download an app. The pandemic has been a big factor in increasing their use, but QR codes have been around since the 90s. So what’s the bigger trend driving the new revived use and how … Read More
Our Big Takeaways from Bullhorn EngageX 2021
The Keynote from Bullhorn CEO, Art Papas In Art’s keynote, we learned that platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, and Workrise are attempting to disrupt the staffing industry by replacing the traditional model of employer of record and a heavy compliance focus with a digital-first experience. Both models will have challenges in the next decade where they fight to move into each … Read More
5 Questions to Think About When Considering a Chatbot
The time has finally come. You’ve decided to add a chatbot to your website. Chatbots have been used successfully in other industries for years, but it’s a newer concept to staffing, so I wanted to create a quick cheat sheet for those companies thinking about adding bots to their tech stack. Here are some important questions to think about. Does … 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