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Recruitment smashed! Recovery underway. The facts.

Greg Savage

The pandemic has wiped out a decade worth of recruitment industry growth, and sent employment and revenue in our industry back to 2010 levels. Figures from IBISWorld Australia suggest staffing industry revenue in Australia has dropped $4.4 Billion in the past financial year. Four ‘point’ four billion dollars!)

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How the Staffing Industry Can Help Shrink the Gender Pay Gap

The Staffing Stream

However, the gap is narrowing; that same LendEDU study found the gender pay gap in 2010 was 22.46%. The staffing industry has a unique opportunity to continue pushing the gender pay gap in the right direction until its completely closed. For example, let’s say a staffing company is working with a company to hire a developer.

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Social Media Screening: What Recruiters Need to Know

The Staffing Stream

Sterling’s “ Hiring Reimagined ” report found that over half (52%) of employers were planning to add more services to make their background screening more effective — and social media screening was at the top of the list for organizations in the EMEA region (it also scored highly in both Asia Pacific and North America).

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How to Establish a Solid Gamification Strategy for Your Staffing Company

Spark Hire

Furthermore, businesses spent $100 million on gamification in 2010 and that figure is estimated to reach $2.8 If you have decided to implement gamification at your staffing business, you will be joining the 25 percent of companies that the Gartner Group predicts will be redesigning their business processes by 2015. billion by 2016.

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Top Occupations For Temporary Employment Growth

Staffing Talk

The industry that’s added the most total jobs since the recession is staffing, and new data suggests the upward trajectory will continue throughout 2014. And in some metropolitan areas, the share of job growth that can be credited to the staffing sector is much, much higher. More than 2.9 million U.S. million U.S.

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Staffing News Of The Day, July 3, 2012

Staffing Talk

EmployBridge acquires ALLINES Staffing Professionals. Express Hiring survey reveals greatest growth for commercial and light industrial jobs. Express Hiring survey reveals greatest growth for commercial and light industrial jobs. Dynamics reseller partners with Nsight to create Brittenford Staffing. Simply Hired].

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CEO of fast-growing local company got his start mowing yards

Professional Alternatives

Today, he’s the CEO of Professional Alternatives of Houston LLC, a staffing agency that specializes in the placement of mortgage, credit, executive, IT and clerical professionals on a direct-hire and temporary basis. 6 event.

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