Integrated Staffing Software

Using Social Media to Follow Up with Candidates

Social media is a powerful way to interact with large audiences like potential candidates or client prospects. But it can also be a great way to communicate directly with individuals, and that can help you follow up with highly desirable job candidates.

Once you’ve received a completed application and a resume from a candidate, it’s easy to get caught up in job orders, interviewing new associates and all the other hundreds of things staffing professionals do every day. However, if you really want to stay in touch with one candidate (or even a group of them), social media can make it a …

New Year’s Resolutions for Your Staffing Business

Hopefully, you haven’t abandoned your personal New Year’s resolutions just yet, although we’d totally understand, given the year-end stress. Once the dust has cleared, it’s a great time to set fresh goals for your business. Think of them as business resolutions for the new year.

Finding Strong Candidates: Red Flags

Over this series, we’ve covered a lot of the ways that candidates can tell you, “I’m not that great a candidate, really.” But there are also two more subtle ways a candidate can remove themselves from the “Strong” category.

Finding Strong Candidates: The Interview

While skills testing and background checks can give you empirical data about a candidate, the information you glean from their interview is a lot fuzzier.

Finding Strong Candidates: Reference & Background Checks

Reference checks and background checks are two separate things, but with one common goal: to find out if this person really is who they say they are.

Finding Strong Candidates: Skills

While employment history is often the focus of candidate reviews, skills are just as important—if not more so. A good resume will help a candidate get a job, but only skills will help them do the job.

Cover Your Back for Background Checks

Background checks are becoming a staple of our industry. These checks are a great selling point for clients; they’re also great for reducing your own risk and legal liability. However, background checks can be a legal liability unto themselves.

Write a Better Job Posting, Get Better Applicants

Job postings are one of the most crucial, yet the most often overlooked, marketing tools available to staffing firms. In fact, you might not even think of them as a marketing tool; that’s how easy they are to overlook.

Employees

COATS Employee tracking and processing allows you to control all employee related functions. Applicants are easily entered via Online Applicant Entry and/or Resume Parsing and are processed and tracked from the Employee Records screen.