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| October 2008 |
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Sara Moss presents "The Non-Technical Buyer's Guide to Staffing Software" and moderates a follow-on panel discussion at ASA's 2008 Staffing World in San Diego |
| October 2008 |
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Neal Bhmare and Sean Shannon present "How and When to Get on the Facebook Train" at the 2008 HR-XML Global Partnering & Integration Summit in Chicago |
| October 2008 |
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Sara Moss moderates the panel discussion "Search and Match: From Nuts and Bolts to Real Business Value" at the 2008 HR-XML Global Partnering & Integration Summit in Chicago |
| October 2008 |
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"Cool Tools 2008," SI Review (Registration required)
The second annual look at tools and services that satisfy a variety of staffing needs. We're sure this list of cool tools will open your eyes to new and cost-effective technologies that any staffing organization can benefit from and afford.
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| September 2008 |
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"The Many Faces of Onboarding," SI Review (Registration required)
Onboarding in the staffing industry takes many forms. In addition to effectively onboarding new internal staff, staffing firms ensure seamless onboarding of candidate placements. RPO and BPO organizations take on additional aspects of onboarding on behalf of their clients. |
| May 2008 |
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"Tighten Up Your Back Office," SI Review (Registration required) Review
In this article we discuss the three key trends for achieving back office improvements - streamlining back office workflows, replacing paper forms with electronic data capture mechanisms and upgrading back office technology. The article includes a list of 32 leading staffing back office vendors. |
| December 2007 |
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"Wooing and Keeping Candidates: The need for end-to-end candidate relationship management," SI Review (Registration required)
Making an effort to proactively deepen and lengthen relationships with candidates is increasingly important to staffing companies as candidates become more powerful in the recruiting process. In the article we discuss some of the emerging candidate relationship management concepts and strategies. |
| October 2007 |
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"Cool Tools for Recruiters 2007," SI Review (Registration required)
There are so many great software tools available today that are both easy to learn and cost effective. Our hope is that this article opens your eyes to new ideas for increasing recruiter efficiencies around sourcing contacts, networking, communicating and developing relationships with candidates and clients. |
| September 2007 |
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"Keeping Up: Are You Using Yesterday's Candidate Matching Technology?," HR-XML Global Partnering & Integration Summit, Las Vegas.
Sophisticated search and matching technology is available in an increasing number of recruiting and staffing solutions. These advanced search and match capabilities promise employers and staffing companies faster fill times, better candidates, and reduced recruiting costs. In this presentation we review various types of search and match engines currently available. |
| August 2007 |
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"Trends to Act On: Shop for Contingents Online," Contingent Workforce Strategies Magazine.
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| June 2007 |
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"Agile Database Refactoring with Hibernate," O'Reilly's OnJava.
This article shows readers how to upgrade their faulty schemas and data models without affecting existing applications or processes. By using the latest technology from Hibernate (version 3.0 and up)--along with a combination of database views, stored procedures, and standard design patterns--application developers and data architects can repair a faulty data model, one piece at a time. |
| May 2007 |
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"Customer Portals: 2007," SI Review (Registration required)
Even with the general trend toward online customer self-service, most staffing companies have been reticent to provide this functionality to their client base for fear that it will erode their personal bond with their clients. Of course, no staffing company wants to risk its client relationships, but some firms have found ways to improve their customer service offering by making more functionality available online. In this article we discuss some of the key features being offered by industry leaders. |
| October 2006 |
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"Services Spend Management: An Opportunity," Chimes Annual Customer Forum, Scottsdale.
In this presentation delivered to Chimes Customer Focus Group Forum, Scottsdale, Arizona, we talk about what is meant by services spend management and highlight a few strategy, process, people and technology best practices to get you going. |
| October 2006 |
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"Profitable Staffing via VMS," SI Review (Registration required)
While many staffing companies are still trying to avoid vendor management systems (VMS), forward-thinking firms are exploiting VMS as an opportunity to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and to grow profits. |
| May 2006 |
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"VMS: Subtle Changes in a Complex Market," SI Review (Registration required)
Despite a bold vision, a strong business case and aggressive goals, the VMS market has not changed dramatically in the past few years. Staffing Industry Analysts' research shows that only 3% of companies tracked put VMS systems in place over the last year. Despite the slow rate of change, there are many trends in this complex market that are noteworthy. In this article we discuss the four that are at the top of our list. |
| Jan/Feb 2006 |
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Front Office Software: Identifying the Final Contenders," SI Review (Registration required)
With the improvement of the economy, many staffing companies are considering replacing their existing front office technology so they can scale their revenues through automation of their processes rather than increase their headcount growth. Front office software for staffing is a niche market. Identifying the long list of potential vendors can be a time-consuming activity. In this article we identify 53 vendors that offer front office software. |
| September 2005 |
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"Supplier Focus: Changes in Front Office Software," SI Review (Registration required)
The market is picking up for staffing companies, putting a premium on sales staff time. Clearly, time spent on administrative tasks takes time away from service-oriented, value-added activities that have a greater effect on the bottom line. Proactive staffing companies are working to improve operational efficiencies so that their sales staff can focus on candidate and customer retention, rather than on tasks that can be more easily automated. |
| May 2005 |
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"Integrate Background Checks for Maximum Efficiency," SI Review (Registration required)
Companies have turned to background checks to help them reduce their exposure to costly negligent hiring lawsuits. Rapid access to background checking results is critical in temporary staffing. This article highlights how staffing companies are automating and streamlining this complex process. |
| April 2005 |
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"Search Matters: Make It Work for You," SI Review (Registration required)
Just try to survive one week without Google. Google has proven that search can change the way people work. In the recruiting and staffing industry, search is essential - after all, it's so much of what we do. In this article we discuss search strategies and technologies to improve search effectiveness. |
| October 2004 |
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New Players in Staffing Automation," SI Review (Registration required) A quote from Sara Moss appears in the article.
Sara Moss provides her thoughts on the trends in the staffing automation industry. |
| September 2004 |
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"Staffing Industry Exchange Goes Global," SI Review (Registration required)
Staffing companies are ramping up deployment of HR-XML standards to support their cost reduction and operational efficiency objectives, and have found many opportunities to implement this suite of standards. Increasing use of third party service providers along with widespread adoption of XML and Web services have driven automation of data exchange between staffing companies, their customers and third parties. |
| May 2004 |
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"Staffing Firm & Technology Considerations in Contingent Workforce Management," whitepaper included ICG's VMS Buyer’s Guide (Available for purchase).
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| January 2004 |
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"VMS Dynamics," published in the International Review of Employment and online at Vedior.com. Available in English, French, German and Spanish.
In this article, we trace the VMS evolution and discuss VMS functionality, vendor evaluation, key trends and strategies. |
| October 2003 |
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Sara Moss presents "HR-XML: Industry Standards for Human Resources," American Staffing Association Staffing World panel, Las Vegas.
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| October 2003 |
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"VMS Decision 2003 Highlights," The Staffing Files, HR.com.
The theme of VMS Decision 2003 was "addressing technology investment and integration decision." The 2-day was organized around panel discussion, keynotes, roundtables, and vendor one-on-ones. Here are some of the conference take aways. |
| October 2003 |
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Sara Moss presents "Technology Investment Challenges and Tradeoffs for Large Staffing Firms," VMS Decision panel, Chicago.
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| September 2003 |
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"Supplier Friendly Best Practices," The Staffing Files, HR.com.
VMS providers can make a variety of strategic, process, organizational and technology improvements to improve the level of service and support to their supplier constituency. This section aims to describe some supplier friendly approaches that have been successful for leading VMS providers. |
| April 2003 |
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Sara Moss & Jonathan Novich present "SIDES Conformance Test Facility: Lessons for SIDES Implementers," HR-XML Consortium Customer Meeting, Boston.
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| April 2003 |
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"eStaffing: E-procurement in the Staffing Industry," Best of HR.com for 2003.
This article aims to clarify the eStaffing environment, including the key player relationships, e-procurement strategic drivers, the business process being automated, and the various applications that make-up the staffing supply chain. |
