Staffing and Recruiting Blog

The Executive Outlook

Hiring for executive positions is looking to be on the rise over the next six months according to a recent survey by CareerBuilder and HeadHunter.com. Thirty-one percent of employers expect to be hiring for executive-level positions over the course of the next six months. This is a vast improvement from the 23 percent of companies that forecasted such growth in October.

Class of 2012: Walking Across the Stage and into the Office

The college graduating class of 2012 is heading into a better job market than alumni of the previous three years, according to a new study from CareerBuilder and CareerRookie.com. More than half of employers (54 percent) reported they plan to hire recent college graduates in 2012, up from 46 percent in 2011, 44 percent in 2010 and 43 percent in 2009. Of those who plan to hire recent college graduates, 29 percent expect to offer higher starting salaries than they did in 2011. While employers were most likely to report that they would pay between $30,000 and $40,000, a significant portion will extend offers exceeding $50,000.

When I owned my IT staffing company back in 2000, one of the main reasons we were successful in finding new business and placing more candidates was because of our business process. But if you think about it, if we all had the same business process, found the same candidates and submitted the same jobs, there would be no differentiators. Likewise, if we are all using the same process to collect time sheets and generate invoices, our customers would have nothing to compare us on.

David Linthicum defined APIs in his recent InfoWorld article "Lack of good API design hurts the cloud" as:

In our previous blog posts, we touched on some of the elements of Cloud computing, SaaS and True SaaS.  The goal of this Akken Series was to help you to understand a little more about how hosted solutions can help your staffing and recruiting business work more efficiently and without the worries associated with managing IT infrastructure and software upgrades.

You’ve been researching new solutions for your staffing or recruiting firm and the one obstacle that stands in your way is getting approval for a SaaS-based solution.

In our first post in the Akken Series about the Cloud and SaaS, we explored the definition of SaaS with help from John Zappe at ere.net. We looked at the basic components that help us identify and understand the advantage software-as-a-service has over locally-installed software. However, the discussion lately has shifted from simply defining SaaS solutions to identifying True SaaS. But what is True SaaS, you may ask?

There has been a lot of talk lately about "the Cloud" and what it all means for businesses.  "The Cloud" also tends to go hand-in-hand with discussions about SaaS (software-as-a-service) and most recently True SaaS.