How Do I Edit the Custom Skill Screens?
What do you do when you need to adjust that Custom Skills screen? Our tech support manager Lisa Gordon walks you through it.
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Save Time, Money and Trees
An employee portal can revolutionize your payroll day, payroll questions and year-end, and save lots of postage and time on the phone.
Is Your Recruiting Efficient?
Are you recruiting efficiently? COATS has a way to eliminate hours of data entry and find the associates your clients need in record time.
July 2012 Legal Roundup
Unlike June’s major rulings in employment law, July’s have less of an impact, but are interesting and even shocking in places, like good beach reading.
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.
Social Media: Why It Matters for Staffing Firms
While some publications have published articles pondering whether social media is a threat to the staffing industry, a better way to look at it would be to view social media as the powerful tool it is and understand how it can strengthen your recruiting and sourcing efforts.
Social media is, of course, a means of communication, allowing you to put your messages in front of an audience that has consented to receive them. But unlike most means of communication, in social media, your audiences can communicate right back to you and let you know what they think about your messages, …
New Year’s Business Resolutions for Staffing: Employee and Candidate Manuals
You might have thought that 2011 was an action-packed year in employment law, but if January is any indication of the year to come, 2012 is going to knock all our socks off (and then file an injunction ordering us to put them back on again).
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.
Build Stronger Working Relationships with Trust
In staffing, we rely on businesses to trust us with one of the most important strategic elements of their business: hiring. And candidates are trusting us with one of the most important elements of their lives.
Veterans Day Can Last All Year
it’s important to have a day to say “thank you” to all the men and women who have served our country. But even better than saying “thank you” one day a year is helping veterans find jobs, especially in this economy.
Job Interview Questions To Try, Part 2
You can use queries to get to know your candidates better as people and workers, to get an idea of what they value, how they perceive themselves and others and how they view their careers, and your position’s potential role in it.
Job Interview Questions to Try, Part 1
You can help your interviews become a better tool for finding the right fit between your client and potential candidates by asking better questions. Today, we look at the stories you can ask candidates to tell.
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.
Finding Strong Candidates: Unemployment
You’re bound to interview lots of candidates who have been unemployed for some time, so learning how candidates handle unemployment will tell you a lot about them.
Finding Strong Candidates: Employment History
Whether presented on a resume or an application, where a candidate has been is often used to gain the most knowledge about where they could possibly go.
Finding Strong Candidates: Referrals
We’ll be doing a seven-part series over the next few weeks, sharing tips for finding the diamonds in the rough of your waiting rooms. And we’re leading off with one of the most obvious sources of great candidates: referrals.
Summer Jobs: A Great Opportunity for Staffing
Between graduation and the end of another school year, the labor pool is experiencing its usual summer swell. What an awful time to be in staffing, right? Wrong! The summer and its tidal wave of job-market newbies can be a great opportunity for staffing firms.
