How To Keep a Staffing Company in Check
How You Keep a Staffing Company in Check, Controlling Budgets in an Ever-Changing Staffing Workplace The staffing industry is unique in many ways. Not a lot of companies have thousands of temporary employees. Typically if a business has thousands of employees then that business is most likely on the S&P 500 and it is most certainly […]
Competitive Ignorance
How I Lost Because of Competitive Ignorance I had prepared for weeks and the big day had arrived. Market research… Check. Competitive advantage… Check. Financial analysis… Check. Proven market-share… Check. I was perfectly prepared, or so I thought. Many years ago I was sitting in a conference room and anxiously anticipating the biggest sales pitch […]
The Role Trust Plays in Staffing
The Role Trust Plays in Staffing and With Clients Trust is what binds both the staffing agency and client. Somewhere in the middle are the employees that help forge that bond. In the world of staffing trust plays a crucial part not only with the clients but with the employees as well. Employee Trust When […]
How Staffing Has Changed
Staffing has changed over the past 20 years. Here’s my take. I may be going out on a limb here, but I’m taking the obvious stance that the reason my opinion was sought out on changes within the staffing industry – over the past two decades – has clearly nothing to do with my age. […]
Quitting vs Stopping
Quitting Versus Stopping: Is There a Difference? I think we’re all familiar with the saying, “Winners never quit and quitters never win”. No one wants to be labeled as a quitter…because in our culture quitters are synonymous with failures…and no one wants to be a failure. But there’s no denying the fact that failing is […]
3 Leadership Styles Learned at the Ballpark
Leadership Lessons Learned from Baseball There’s something special about a night at the ballpark. The warm weather, the foot-long hotdogs, the peanut shells crackling under foot, the man-made wave surging thru the crowd and, probably best of all, the crack of a bat sending a ball over the fence! As one sits and takes in […]
YES versus THEM
The Difference Between Your Employment Solutions and Every Other Staffing Agency When you think of a staffing agency what is the first thing that comes to mind? Temporary? Not a real job? Waste of time, etc.? That’s what I thought until I actually started working for one and not just anyone might I add, the […]
Lesson Learned!
The Most Important Lesson I’ve Learned in Your Employment Solutions’ 20 Years of Business 20 years ago a staffing agency called Your Employment Solutions (YES) was born in North Salt Lake, Utah. Shortly after the company was founded, I was hired to answer phones, recruit temporaries, and issue a few payroll checks. I was 20 […]
Constructive Criticism at Work
Offering Constructive Criticism in the Workplace Many experts say that when offering constructive criticism at work you have to stay positive with your employees. That when someone does something wrong on the job that you should start by telling them the good that they are doing. I think that is a very solid way of building a […]
ACA is Expensive, But YES Can Save You Money
ACA is expensive. Your Employment Solutions (YES) uses its customized staffing processes and IS SAVING its clients hundreds of thousands of dollars. My last post, YES Staffing Hires Better, Faster, Cheaper created a little buzz and I was surprised by its positive engagement. I am hoping my post this time around will provide the same type of […]
On Growth and Sales in Staffing
Smart Growth Stems From Smart Sales in Staffing Over the past few years Your Employment Solutions has experienced rapid growth. When looking at the structure of our company you will find that growth is, and always has been, in the forefront of our leaders’ minds. But YES hasn’t been interested in any old, run-of-the-mill growth – […]
Delegation
A Few Thoughts on Delegation I have thought at times that I am a pretty good delegator. I do so at work, home, and church. Why not pass the work load around? There is no question that more can be done/accomplished if all parties involved are able to work separately and on different items than […]
Retention and Turnover
Understanding Retention and Turnover in Staffing In the staffing industry it is important to understand not only our value when we succeed but also the costs when our goals and expectations aren’t met. Retention and turnover in staffing aren’t 100% under our control. However with a better understanding of how these two factors work we can customize […]
Doing the Little Things
Why Doing the Little Things in Life Make For Big Successes Many of us desire to be a good golfer. We want to step up to the tee and bomb a drive down the middle of the fairway 300 yards. If you golf, then you know that can be a difficult goal. If we don’t […]
Trust Your Gut
What Really Matters to Your Business? It seems more and more difficult to keep up with what the world thinks is important to your business. Everyone wants your attention and/or your money. Social media platforms by the hundreds claim they are what keep us informed and current. Software companies come round daily begging you to […]