Staffing and Recruiting Blog

What a day Tuesday was at the American Staffing Association’s 2013 Staffing Law Conference. We at Akken were excited to sit in on great discussions regarding regulations, and best practices. Our booth for the AkkenCloud also received a terrific amount of traffic, and we were thrilled to talk with both current and prospective customers about [...]

The ASA Staffing Law Conference is underway, and Akken is proud to be exhibiting at the conference. There is a lot of excitement and buzz surrounding this year’s conference, and we hope that you have the opportunity to participate. If you do find yourself at the conference, feel free to come and find us in [...]

It’s no surprise that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is one of the biggest issues being discussed within the staffing community. There are many questions that have not been answered about the implementation of the upcoming law, and many companies are uncertain about how these laws will affect how they do business. As the deadline [...]

The ASA will be hosting their annual Staffing Law Conference this May, with a full day of speakers on the 7th and a half-day on the 8th of the month. The highlight of the event will be the upcoming healthcare reforms being implemented for 2014. These events will be an excellent place for staffing professionals [...]

There are still a lot of questions swirling around about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect staffing and temp agencies. It will be difficult to tell how those questions will ultimately be answered until the act becomes officially enacted in January 2014. There are many valid worries that staffing companies have about how [...]

It is safe to assume that the chances you are already using Facebook to do at least a little recruiting are very high. Your company’s business page exists, there are regular posts to it, and you’ve got a respectable number of “Likes”. All of this, you hope, is helping to drive potential job seekers toward [...]

Troubled waters could lie ahead for the prominent job search/recruitment service The Ladders. Last week a class-action consumer lawsuit. An article by John Zappe goes into detail about the suit against The Ladders; describing how their subscription based service was misleading to both job seekers, and recruiters.

The largest social media site online could become one of the best tools available for recruiting new hires. Last November the social media site released the Facebook Job App, which boasts over 2.5 million jobs, aggregated from sites such as Monster, and U.S. jobs. This gives members of the social site a powerful tool in [...]

The Staffing Industry Analysts recently held their annual Executive Forum in sunny Orlando. The event drew staffing and recruiting executives from around the world. Akken is proud to have sponsored a number of the Strategy & Opportunities Track events at the Forum. Here are a few of the important highlights from the first two days. [...]

As a company, you want your staffing or recruiting software that is scalable and cost effective, that is easy to use and can be used anywhere. This is where Cloud based staffing and recruitment software comes in. Cloud based software or Software as a Service (SaaS) is software that can be accessed anywhere through a [...]