ASA Staffing Success - November

Social media is, and will increasingly become, the new job marketplace, according to research from Adecco Group. More than 17,000 job seekers and more than 1,500 recruiters from 24 countries took part in Adecco’s survey about the use of social media for recruitment and job searches.

According to the Adecco study, in 2013 53% of all recruitment activity involved the Internet, with a particular focus on social media. For 2014, respondents expect

61% of recruitment activity to involve the Internet. Seven out of 10 recruiters say they use social media for their human resource activities, and not just to fill the highest positions—the majority of profiles that people search for via social media today are nonmanagerial ones.

Half of all job seekers say they use social media to search for job opportunities. Almost 30% of job seekers have been contacted through social media by a recruiter at least once, and 9% of those have received a job offer via social media. The study also confirms that the candidates’ social media reputation matters, and recruiters largely use social networks to assess it. For this purpose, the use of LinkedIn remains predominant (68%), but Facebook is also relevant (52%).

Staffing firms have a lot to smile about Staffing firms have a lot to smile about

Office–Clerical
and Administrative
Technical, IT,
and Scientific

Industrial Health Care

92% Overall

Staffing firms earn sky-high satisfaction levels. Among the nearly 12,000 temporary and contract workers who participated in the 2014 ASA Staffing Employee Survey, nine out of 10 said they are satisfied with their staffing company. That level of satisfaction figure holds true even when the data is broken down by industry sector. For more results from this ASA survey, see Research & Data on americanstaffing.net.

Hiring Looks Up for the
End of 2014

According to CareerBuilder’s latest job forecast, nearly three in 10 employers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in the fourth quarter, up four percentage points over last year. Among the 2,203 hiring and human resource managers surveyed, one in four expect to hire seasonal workers.

Two in five retailers (43%) plan to hire seasonal workers in Q4. Companies across industries are looking for help, though— 26% of surveyed companies plan to hire seasonal employees in Q4, and 42% of these companies expect to transition some seasonal staff members into full-time, permanent roles.

Nearly half (46%) of companies hiring seasonal employees said they’re boosting staffs to help with the busier holiday season; 25% are focused on wrapping up the year, and 24% on ramping up for 2015. The top five seasonal positions that companies are recruiting for in Q4 are customer service, administrative and clerical, shipping and delivery, accounting and finance, and inventory management. ➤