Monday, June 08, 2009

Top Staffing News for the Week of June 8, 2009

It’s the NBA finals so why not check out the Steve Nash videos on employment branding. image

Jim Lanzalatto writes in Workforce Management that staffing suppliers are in a brutal stretch over the next year but some are making gutsy bets: “Forward-thinking C-level decision-makers are picking their spots to expand their businesses, making gutsy, strategic decisions in what they think are growth markets, hoping to offset weaknesses elsewhere in their firms. And they’re not guessing. They’re making these calls after doing their homework, listening to their customers and making hard decisions.”

You’ve heard of just-in-time manufacturing.  Tempworks client Instaff in Dallas has matched it with just-in-time staffing.  Getting dozens of workers to a jobsite immediately via text messaging makes all the difference.

Public staffing stocks have not been left out of the bull run during the last three months:image

Barron’s has a bullish story on HR outsourcing…HR outsourcing predicated on the thesis that unemployment is in the early stages of normalizing,” and that “large companies will outsource an increasing amount of HR functions and hiring trends stabilize.”

Adecco, Manpower, Spherion say the sky is not falling according to Reuters.

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