Manpower is buying recruitment-outsourcing vendor CRI, a Los Angeles company that CEO Ladd Richland has kept somewhat under the radar. view article »

A new Bullhorn research report - Transform Your Recruiting Practice from Good to Great -   highlights best practices in using candidate sourcing tools and compensation that divide the staffing and recruiting industry's top performers from the laggards. Some of the key best practices revealed in this report include how to become embedded in social networks to source candidates, and using Pay for Performance. view article »

Talent Technology Corporation announced its Resume Mirror  Extraction Engine has been picked by itzbig to improve the user experience for both job seekers and recruiters on its network. view article »

Personified, the talent management and consulting subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com, has released a new Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) guide and a Staffing Industry Front Office guide to help employers navigate the ever-changing world of recruitment technology. The guides provide unbiased, side-by-side comparisons of ATS and Staffing Technology functionality.

Each guide costs $350 and can be ordered here.

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HireAbility.com launched an interactive landing page, www.talenttrader.net, that gives the staffing industry access to the latest recruiting news, trainings, networking opportunities, job postings, candidate searches, and the only placement center available requiring no administration fees for agency members. view article »

Bullhorn has experienced 29 percent growth (1,761 new users) among direct hire staffing and recruiting professionals so far in 2008, compared with the same period in 2007. view article »

Monster and staffing software vendor Bullhorn today unveiled a new online recruiting platform named PowerSource, based on Bullhorn’s new Integrated Resume Search technology. PowerSource combines real-time posting, shared apply and integrated resume search to enable faster, better quality placements.

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 A survey of staffing firms says 58 percent of them are investing in new services and repositioning their company to attract new clients. Another 52 percent have increased spending on marketing and hiring more sales reps.

Most telling is the optimsm of the 7,500 staffing firms surveyed for the TalentDrive-sponsored report. Some 57 percent predicted that the predict the staffing situation will improve by the third quarter of the year.

The survey was conducted byTalentDrive, creator of SaaS recruitment software TalentFilter.

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Bullhorn, a provider of front office staffing and recruiting software, said its implementation by UK staffing firm EPCglobal has allowed the company's recruiters and sales managers to improve productivity by reducing time spent on administrative work. It is now faster and easier for EPCglobal recruiters to access information on job orders, recruiting activity and placement status.

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Danny Cahill, industry “guru” and president of Hobson Associates, Cahill Consulting, presents ideas on how to succeed during a recession for today’s staffing and recruiting firms.

Some key advice includes closing deals aggressively, building demand for your services and candidates and increasing sales calls to outwork the market.  The full report, “How Danny Sees It: Surviving and Thriving in Turbulent Times,” is available for free download here.

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Do you spend more time recruiting, managing or selling? Danny Cahill says right now you should be selling.

Get a copy of Cahill's webinar “Driving Sales in Any Economy” by downloading it here from Bullhorn. 

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Sendouts and Virtual Software today announced full integration of the Sendouts Pro and Virtual Time+Expense platforms. The integrated solution offers staffing companies a comprehensive solution for managing and tracking placements from first contact to final payroll. view article »

M5 Networks and JobDiva have partnered to build telephony integration into the JobDiva CRM application for all JobDiva and M5 customers.

M5 provides Voice-over-IP managed phone systems. The new M5Connect for JobDiva allows users to track their phone traffic as part of the workflow process within JobDiva. It can also shave 20-30 seconds off each phone call and with staffing recruiters making 50 or more calls a day, the time savings alone can amount to almost a half-hour a day.

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Bullhorn,a provider of front office staffing and recruiting software, has been selected by Peoplebank, the largest IT recruitment company in Australia. Peoplebank chose Bullhorn’s staffing and recruiting software to manage its front office activities, and integrate these into its back office system, for its 200+ staff at six offices across Australia. view article »