Staffing tip for 2010, on-line application

If your staffing firm is not using an applicant portal, I would strongly recommend it. Your staffing firm does not make money entering in application information...your team gets paid to qualify applicants and put them to work.

A button can be added to your website, so applicants can apply from home, a friend's house, the library, or anywhere there is a computer:






If applicants are not able to apply before they get to your office, your team can set up a few kiosks for walk-in traffic. Laptops can also be used for applications at job fairs.

The applicant will be able to create their applicant file using a resume, or without:
















Make sure you talk with your software installation team to customize (add/hide) your application to include/exclude the information most important to you. Not every staffing firm asks the same questions, so make sure you are storing the information your team needs.


Below are a few sections from TempWorks' applicant portal so you can see what is available:

Interview:








Work Experience:











Education:









Skills (Experience, Language, Software, and more):










Once this information is entered, it can be reviewed by your staff. After the information has been reviewed, the applicant can be contacted. When the applicant comes to your office for an interview all of the information can be edited, or more information can be added.

If you have any questions about adding an application portal to your website in 2010, please let me know (Cory@TempWorks.com).

A few videos from TempWorks CEO, Gregg Dourgarian

Over the last couple weeks, Gregg Dourgarian has posted a few a few different videos on his Staffing Talk blog. I encourage you to read the blog posts, as well as watch the videos regarding:

• Why Recruiters Need to Brand Themselves
• How to Beat the Job Boards with Doug Berg of Jobs2Web
• How to Avoid Legal Troubles with Social Media and Sexual Harassment
  

My favorite office to visit

I know making a statement like this is going to get me in trouble. TempWorks has hundreds of customers, so making a statement "this is my favorite office to visit" is like saying "xxx" is my favorite child.

A few weeks ago I was able to stop in at the Manpower franchise in San Diego. I have been there a few different times, but every time I walk out of their office I think to myself, "man it would be fun to come to work here."

I like visiting the office because of the great people who work there. But what makes it my favorite office to visit is the how the office is designed, how it looks, and how it makes you feel when you are there.

In my opinion the owners, Mel Katz and Phil Blair, have done a phenomenal job in decorating the office. There is art work throughout the whole office. Many different colors, shapes and sizes. I even saw a multi-colored bicycle in the conference room.

I encourage any of our staff to stop by next time they are in the area.

A few more additions to the TempWorks staff

Joining the team at TempWorks in the last few weeks are Brian Bartell and Isaac Ishaque. Both Brian and Isaac will be working in our support department.

Also, TempWorks is happy to announce Dalyce Brell has rejoined our team. Dalyce has over fifteen years of staffing knowledge and experience. Dalyce will be working with our training department. Welcome back, Dalyce.

As we near the end of the year, TempWorks continues to hire. Please visit our career page if you are interested in applying for any of our current openings.

Maybe Gregg Dourgarian, CEO of TempWorks, will be buying you Lattes or taking you to lunch soon.

The Green Team from TempWorks

I have to admit the TempWorks' staff has been beating the "go green" drum loudly and often lately. Quite a bit of it has focused around our DocCenter product. I wanted to take a moment to make others aware that we have many products which add efficiency and convenience, help the environment, and help cut costs.

Below is a list of a few more members of our "green" team:

Application Portal - from your website or a kiosk in your office applicants can enter their contact information, past jobs, education, and interests.



















Job Board - allows employees and applicants to view current job openings within your organization














DocCenter -W-4's, I-9's and other forms that require data entry, signatures and storage are automatically completed and stored on secure servers.











Pay Cards/Direct Deposit - TempWorks has partnered with a few different pay card providers. Thus eliminating the cost of printing and mailing out paychecks.











Employee Assignment information - through the employee WebCenter assignment information can be seen (start time, first day, who to report to, address, not to mention the ability to map out how to get to the customer site).
























Electronic pay stubs - employees can log in and get payroll information from any time period they have worked for your staffing firm.









Electronic W2's - Employees can opt in or opt out of getting their w2's for current or past years from the employee WebCenter









Electronic employee time sheets - Employee can enter in their hours per day (including time for breaks, adjustments, cost codes, as well as different pay codes).

















Electronic time card approval - Client supervisor receives notification time cards are waiting for approval. Supervisor can approve or reject time. Everything in one system. Everything is documented in the system, no more billing disputes.









Electronic invoices - invoices can be emailed to your customers. But customers can also log into the WebCenter to see current and previous invoices (below is a list of invoices, but customers have the option of viewing/printing individual invoices).








Time clocks - The online time clock posts information immediately. The supervisor will know if an employee is late for a shift, and you can respond quickly to the unplanned absence.























Customer On-demand Reports - your customers are able to see real-time information any time of the day or night, when it is convenient for your customer.
























TempWorks Mobile - all of your customer contact information at your fingertips. Phone numbers, email addresses, maps to their office location.

TempWorks would like to congratulate Hire Dynamics and Nelson Family of Companies

Both of these companies were listed in the top 10 staffing companies to work for in 2009 published by Staffing Industry Analysts.

Quite the accomplishment. Again, congratulations.

Click here to see the complete list.

TempWorks: Another example of why I like working here

As most of you probably know the CEO of TempWorks, Gregg Dourgarian, is pretty excited about social media. He encourages our team (every chance he gets) to create (or make comments on) a blog or twitter account.

Yesterday was a good example of this. I posted a message on Twitter welcoming two new people to our support department, Brian Bartell and Isaac Ishaque. Neither of these guys has been with our team a week, and here is Gregg's retweet:

RT @coryhintz: #TempWorks welcomes Brian Bartell and Isaac Ishaque to our support team...hi guys...hope to c u here on twitter as well

Encouragement to start up a twitter account from the CEO the first week on the job. Thanks Gregg for making TempWorks a fun place to work.

Welcome Brian and Isaac to our team.

New TempWorks customer gives rave review of a few of our team memebers

Recently we received the below comments from Mike Mayo, President of Snelling Staffing:

I had contacted several companies to find the best software that fit our needs. Your account executive, Casey Kraus went over in detail how your system worked and the benefits that your system had that would fit our company's needs, he was excellent and gave me the best presentation of all the companies that I had contacted. I would also like to personally thank Todd Glander for his patience in explaining the Tempworks program to our office staff. He was superb and it made all the difference in getting our staff started in a positive way.

Thank you Mike for your comments about our team.

Nice job Casey and Todd!