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Articles by Lynn Connor

Lynn Connor currently co-owns COATS Office Automation and was a partner in Reliance Staffing & Recruiting for over 30 years. COATS provides fully integrated software to the staffing industry and works seamlessly with your staff to ensure software efficiency. Microsoft linking, Crystal Reports, a fully integrated CRM, payroll and complete accounting, online applicant entry, online job posting, and multi-state, multi-branch, multi-locality capabilities are available throughout the entire system. You can learn more about COATS here > https://www.coatssql.com Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmsconnor/

ASA’s Annual Economic Analysis of 2020: 5 Takeaways

Published: Dec 23, 2020 11:22 AM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 2770
Category: Expert Advice, Trends | Tags: Remote Work, Candidates, Recruiting, Placement, Staffing, Clients, Hiring

The American Staffing Associations annual economic analysis or “playbook” of 2020 is very well done, complete with charts and graphs, figures and key takeaways. I found the new hire...

5 Hidden Benefits of Using a Remarkable Staffing Company

Published: Dec 8, 2020 3:00 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 1628
Category: Expert Advice, Productivity | Tags: Business Development, Interviewing, Candidates, Recruiting, Job Market, Staffing, Clients, Search, Hiring

Does your company hire all day, every day? It’s highly unlikely. How many businesses do you know that recruit and interview employees all day, every day? Some staffing and rec...

The Job Market - Where do we stand currently?

Published: Oct 29, 2020 7:24 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 3000
Category: Homepage Showcase, Trends | Tags: Remote Work, Recruiting, Staffing, Search, Hiring, Jobs

Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas and San Francisco makeup the twelve federal reserve districts that are found in &ldqu...

Do you use more than one software program to run your staffing firm?

Published: Oct 26, 2020 4:26 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 1857
Category: Expert Advice, Productivity, Technology | Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Placement, Staffing, Clients, Hiring

I’m shocked at how many staffing firms use more than one software to run their business. We speak with countless owners and bookkeepers who use one program for their front office, and ano...

12 Time & Attendance alerts & Scheduling tools: Specific and in real time to the Staffing & Recruiting industry

Published: Sep 30, 2020 1:22 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 1895
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting | Tags: Staffing, Clients, Hiring

If you manage a staffing company, you know that no two clients are the same. Some customers want to be heavily involved in the time tracking process, monitoring every punch in and punch out. But other...

Form I-9 Compliance Extension, Further Extended

Published: Aug 27, 2020 5:12 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 3637
Category: Expert Advice, Legal | Tags: Remote Work, Staffing

ICE announced it would extend it’s Form I-9 flexibility rules that were granted in March, for another 30 days. September 19th is now the expiration date. In March, the DHS (Departm...

What is Electronic Employee Onboarding?

Published: Aug 24, 2020 3:02 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 3241
Category: Recruiting, Technology | Tags: Recruiting, Staffing, Clients, Law

It’s being used more than ever as people tire of laboring through mountains of paperwork to onboard each temporary employee your office assigns to work. Electronic employee onboarding is ...

10 questions employers are asking about hiring, legally, during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Published: Aug 11, 2020 1:37 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 3679
Category: Expert Advice, Legal | Tags: Staffing, Clients, Hiring

Hiring has grown more complicated with every passing year, but none have been more complicated than right now, in 2020. Pre-employment exams, post employment questions, temperature screening, doctor&r...

Employer Credit for Employee Retention 

Published: Apr 2, 2020 7:57 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 3035
Category: Expert Advice, Funding, Legal, Productivity | Tags: Staffing

The United States Department of Treasury issued a press release yesterday to encourage businesses impacted by COVID-19 to use the Employee Retention Credit. The credit was created to encourage ...

Educate your clients. Help fill new roles. Inside a Staffing Agency and How it Works (from a client’s perspective)

Published: Feb 25, 2020 7:33 PM
By Lynn Connor | Viewed: 2722
Category: Certification, Education, Productivity | Tags: Candidates, Placement, Staffing, Clients, Hiring

From a client’s perspective, if you are paying a staffing firm a direct hire fee (15 - 25% average fee of the candidate’s annual salary) or honoring a temp to hire policy (640 - 1000 hours...