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Give a HOOT: How Temporary Medical Staff Can Save Your Facility Money
During times of high seasonal demand, every enterprise needs to provide the best customer service possible. In healthcare, it is mission critical to provide quality patient care. The problem can be not knowing exactly when your facility will be busy. There are “seasonal” spikes… for cold/flu season or allergy season, as two examples. However, it […]
What To Do When Medical Staff Call In Sick
By Christiane Soto, Snelling.com We all get sick. No one knows this better than the people who work in healthcare. They are the first to get their annual flu shots ; they consistently wash their hands; they maintain a healthy lifestyle. Most importantly, when they do get sick, they understand the importance of staying home. […]
Temporary Work is Not a Dirty Word
By Christiane Soto, Snelling.com When searching for full-time employment, temporary and temporary-to-hire employment is a great way for job seekers to gain experience, diversify skills and gain access to local employers. However, many people do not even consider “temporary employment” as part of their job search strategy because the very phrase is considered “dirty”. People […]
5 Reasons to Find a Job through Snelling
The perfect job. It is what everyone dreams of, but the path to finding it can be tough. From stringent hiring requirements to difficult interviews to the second-guessing that consumes any attempt at follow-up, the process can be challenging. But there are choices when it comes to the path that you should follow. Not all […]
Writing A Super-Duper Job Description
By David Allen, Snelling.com I would like to start off this blog post with a shameless plug for the Client Resource Hub found on the Snelling website. This is where we help employers understand the ways that today’s companies acquire, cultivate and retain talent. Want to learn how to avoid worker misclassification lawsuits? Visit the […]
When You Work As a Temporary, You Need to Know Who's Your Boss
Temporary employment in the U.S. is on the rise, and the people “in the know” expect this trend to continue. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in the “temporary help services industry” is up 8.7% from January of this year (alone). Compare this to the job growth among all private employers (we are […]
How To Make a Team of Great, Committed Employees
Businesses need many things to survive, thrive and grow. They need a sound financial base – cash. They need a great product or service that they can market and sell. They need the discipline to follow a sound business plan, and they need good people. Without a good team that can work together and execute […]
What Is Flexible Staffing?
Rising labor costs, especially those associated with workers’ compensation insurance, health benefits and unemployment taxes, have led to an increase in flexible staffing arrangements. But what are the components of a “flexible staffing arrangement? The term does not have a set standardized meaning; it is an umbrella term that describes many different types of employment […]
What It Takes to Be a Great Employer
“Employment engagement” is essential to the success of any business and is one of those “hot” terms talked about in workshops, webinars, blogs and other forums. But what is it? Quite simply, employee engagement has been globally defined as an employee’s degree of positive or negative emotional attachment to his/her organization, job and colleagues. It […]
The Real Cost of Overtime
When calculating the cost of employee overtime, there is more to consider than just the premium wages (i.e. time and a half or double time for the extra hours worked) paid to the workers. There is much evidence that, despite the fact that many employers tout it’s short-term benefits, continuous overtime can cause harm to […]
