October 2006
Human Capital Services Spend Management: An Opportunity presented by Sara Moss to the Chimes Customer Focus Group Forum in Scottsdale, Arizona. The presentation provides an overview of services spend management and highlights a few strategy, process, people and technology best practices to get you going.
October 2006
Profitable Staffing Via VMS – SI Review
While many staffing companies are still trying to avoid vendor management systems (VMS), forward-thinking firms are exploiting VMS as an opportunity to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and to grow profits.
May 2006
VMS Trends: Subtle Changes in a Complex Market – SI Review
Despite a bold vision, a strong business case and aggressive goals, the VMS market has not changed dramatically in the past few years. Staffing Industry Analysts' research shows that only 3% of companies tracked put VMS systems in place over the last year. Despite the slow rate of change, there are many trends in this complex market that are noteworthy. In this article we discuss the four that are at the top of our list.
January/February 2006
Front Office Software – Part 2: Identifying the Final Contenders – SI Review
With the improvement of the economy, many staffing companies are considering replacing their existing front office technology so they can scale their revenues through automation of their processes rather than increase their headcount growth. Front office software for staffing is a niche market. Identifying the long list of potential vendors can be a time-consuming activity. In this article we identify 53 vendors that offer front office software.
September 2005
Supplier Focus: Changes in Front Office Software – SI Review
The market is picking up for staffing companies, putting a premium on sales staff time. Clearly, time spent on administrative tasks takes time away from service-oriented, value-added activities that have a greater effect on the bottom line. Proactive staffing companies are working to improve operational efficiencies so that their sales staff can focus on candidate and customer retention, rather than on tasks that can be more easily automated.
May 2005
Integrate Background Checks for Maximum Efficiency – SI Review
Companies have turned to background checks to help them reduce their exposure to costly negligent hiring lawsuits. Rapid access to background checking results is critical in temporary staffing. This article highlights how staffing companies are automating and streamlining this complex process.
April 2005
Search Matters: Make It Work for You – SI Review
Just try to survive one week without Google. Google has proven that search can change the way people work. In the recruiting and staffing industry, search is essential - after all, it's so much of what we do. In this article we discuss search strategies and technologies to improve search effectiveness.
October 2004
New Players in Staffing Automation – SI Review
Sara Moss provides her thoughts on the trends in the staffing automation industry.
September 2004
Data Exchange Goes Global – SI Review
Staffing companies are ramping up deployment of HR-XML standards to support their cost reduction and operational efficiency objectives, and have found many opportunities to implement this suite of standards. Increasing use of third party service providers along with widespread adoption of XML and Web services have driven automation of data exchange between staffing companies, their customers and third parties.
May 2004
Staffing Firm & Technology Considerations in Contingent Workforce Management a whitepaper included in HR.com's 2004 VMS Buyer’s Guide.
Jan 2004
VMS Dynamics published in Vedior’s International Review of Employment. In this article, we trace the VMS evolution and discuss VMS functionality, vendor evaluation, key trends and strategies.
October 2003
VMS Decision 2003 Highlights – HR.com
The theme of VMS Decision 2003 was “addressing technology investment and integration decision.” The 2-day was organized around panel discussion, keynotes, roundtables, and vendor one-on-ones. Here are some of the conference take aways.
October 2003
Technology Investment Challenges and Tradeoffs for Large Staffing Firms, Sara Moss participated in the panel discussion at VMS Decision panel, Chicago.
October 2003
HR-XML: Industry Standards for Human Resources, presented by Sara Moss at ASA’s 2003 Staffing World panel in Las Vegas.
September 2003
VMS Providers: Supplier Friendly Best Practices – HR.com
VMS providers can make a variety of strategic, process, organizational and technology improvements to improve the level of service and support to their supplier constituency. This section aims to describe some supplier friendly approaches that have been successful for leading VMS providers.
April 2003
eStaffing: E-procurement in the Staffing Industry – HR.com
This article aims to clarify the eStaffing environment, including the key player relationships, e-procurement strategic drivers, the business process being automated, and the various applications that make-up the staffing supply chain.
SIDES Conformance Test Facility: Lessons for SIDES Implementers presented by Sara Moss and Jonathan Novich at the HR-XML Consortium Customer Meeting in Boston.
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