January 19, 2012
As 2012 gets underway the industry is abuzz with predictions about the top trends for the year.
Here are five that seem to be at the center of it all.
1. Contract employment will continue to climb as the economic outlook increases confidence and encourages companies to open up their tightly sealed wallets to allow for growth. If you’re in the staffing industry but only provide permanent staffing services it’s time to rethink your strategy and open up another revenue stream of business. If you’re not able to meet your client’s need for contingent staff someone else will and you can guarantee that they’ll ask for the perm business as well.
January 19, 2012
As seen in the Staffing Industry Analysts Daily Online News.
The information technology staffing outlook for 2012 in Canada is decidedly
mixed, according to a survey of Canadian business decision-makers commissioned
by Randstad Technologies and IBM Canada.
Forty-nine percent of chief information officers and vice presidents surveyed
plan to grow their current staffing levels, and 41 percent plan to keep IT
staffing levels constant. Only 10 percent of those surveyed expected to decrease
levels.
January 12, 2012
Those of us in the staffing industry know that we rely on our client to properly train and supervise temporary workers at their site. Many times in the past the agency has been held fully responsible when a temp worker is injured regardless of the circumstances surrounding training and supervision or lack there of. It seems however, that perceptions are changing after the client, not the agency, was fined after a temporary worker was injured.