The Candidate Experience: When You Can’t Help Them
Sometimes, you do everything you can to find a match for a candidate, but it doesn’t happen. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to help unmatchable candidates.
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The Candidate Experience: Bad Reviews
Review sites such as Yelp, Google Places and Yahoo let people talk about their experiences with a company, and sometimes their experiences weren’t great.
The Candidate Experience: Social Media Outreach
Social media is a great way to get your job listings out there, especially considering that most of your potential audience is already on social media. But your job openings aren’t the only content you can offer on social media.
The Candidate Experience: Online Applications
Not all candidates have their first experience with your company in your reception area. Many of them encounter you first through your online application process, and their impression of that can strongly color their impression of your company as a whole.
The Candidate Experience: Your Reception Area
We’re covering the candidate experience this month on the COATS blog, starting at the same place many of your candidates start (and some of them stop): your reception area and the people in it.
April 2012 Legal Roundup
From the latest EEOC rules on criminal background checks to a bizarre defense for not paying employees overtime, it’s been one busy month in employment law.
From the Bad Idea Files: Using Payroll Taxes as Operating Capital
Because so much of our money can be tied up in things like payroll taxes, it might be tempting to dip into that reserve in times when cash is low…
How to File Your Payroll Taxes in COATS Using Mag Media
“Mag media,” or, as the rest of us call it, filing your state and federal taxes electronically is one of the business marvels of the electronic age. But because of the whole “50 states, and they’ve each gotta do it differently” issue, it can get a little tricky.
Taxes: Quarterly Cycle Reports in COATS Staffing Software
Four times a year, chances are you’re legally required to report your payroll information to federal and state governments. Fortunately, COATS Staffing Software has a function for this: the Quarterly Cycle Report.
Setting up Tax Payment Accounts in COATS
When you’re setting up COATS Staffing Software, taxes might be the farthest thing from your mind, but you’ll still need to take them into consideration.
Quick Hit: New Versions Are Up!
We’ve got new versions of COATS Staffing Software available on the customers-only site.
Setting Up Employee State Taxes in COATS Staffing Software
When you’re plugging a new employee into COATS, there’s lots of data to enter. But there’s also tax information to be considered, and depending on the details, that could be a lot of information.
State-Specific Tax Updates in New Versions of COATS
Every new version of COATS includes lots of tax updates, because let’s face it: states keep changing their tax laws, and there’s 50 of ‘em!
New COATS Versions: 4.3.4 for COATSsql and 9.0.7 for COATS Standard
We’re proud and delighted to announce the latest versions of COATS Staffing Software!
Welcome to Tax Month
In which we welcome you to Tax Month, and provide a fantastic write-up of the Supreme Court health-care reform case from John of Essential StaffCARE.
March 2012 Legal Roundup
While we wait for the Supreme Court to rule on health care reform, there’s some good news for staffing firms… and some bad news for law firm employees who like to wear orange.
Legal Issues: The NLRA Poster and Health Care Reform
We’re finishing up a month of discussing the legal aspects of staffing with two quick hits on current issues in federal legislation that can affect your business.
Legal Issues: Why E-Verify Is Good Business for Staffing
The specter of major fines for hiring mistakes can make it seem like the federal government is out to get employers. But the government is also providing a way to improve the situation: E-Verify.
Legal Issues: No Room for Error on I-9s
The I-9 is a pain to fill out, especially for as many employees as staffing firms have, but the fines that can come from incorrect I-9 processes are a lot more painful.
We’re a Constant Contact All-Star — Again!
For the second year in a row, COATS Staffing Software has been named a Constant Contact All-Star, meaning we’re in their top 10% of communicators.
