How to Pick a Temporary Agency

Article description: Temporary agency is an employment agency that finds workers to fill short-term temporary jobs. For instance, temps are regularly employed to work throughout seasonal increases in business or to cover vacations or sicknesses.

Jobs at temporary agencies can lead you to an excellent way to enhance your skills, acquire some experience in a new business and have some profits during in your in-between jobs. If you are not yet prepared to obligate to a permanent job or would want to get to recognize a new production from the inside out, by means of an agency to discover temporary occupations is a good answer.

A lot of temporary agencies have extended their role in the employment sector to fill “temporary to permanent” positions where they begin as a temporary job, however, could become permanent if the company opt to hire the applicant.

Temporary agencies provide temporary staffing that not only grant additional job skill training, but you don’t know at what time the boss you worked for one last day week will offer a genuine reference for the job you are interviewing for the next day. The trick is to find a temporary agency that fits for you.

Various temporary agencies concentrate in an exact type of job or industry. For instance, you are located in Dallas Texas; local web searches can tell you what kind of employees the agency is searching for.

Verify with your friends. You might already know someone who works for temporary agency. Inquire how frequently they have assignments, and if they are satisfied with the agency staff.

Recruiters of various temp agencies use advertisements and job fairs to recruit applicants. National firms might attract superior number of applicants due to the brand name, but large local firms are frequently evenly well recognized within their region such as Eli Daniel Group based in Allen Texas.

There are much greater dissimilarities, nevertheless, in how firms screen applicants before recruiting. If the agency needs a temporary with specific abilities, computer matches are usually enough, but personal interviews can help guarantee that employees are better suitable for certain needs. With this, you should be confident enough with the temporary agency you’ve chosen as they provide different ways to screen deserving employees, too.

Author: Brandon Foster, Eli Daniel Group

Three Digital Marketing Initiatives That Complement Your SEO Program

"While SEO will always be a good bet for generating long-term value," writes John-Henry Scherck at Renegade Search, "it doesn't necessarily have to be the only aspect of a good digital marketing campaign."
There's no reason to sit around waiting for SEO to take effect when you can bolster your burgeoning optimization program with short-term creative initiatives.

Scherck offers a number of actionable suggestions, such as:

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Obama Care and Small Business WBAP Features Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson Featured on WBAP

Will Obama Care run small businesses out of business? Chris Lawson, CEO, Eli Daniel Group talks about the impending changes that could impede the growth of small businesses across the nation.

"We are in a time right now that we really don't know what's going to happen, nor has it been explained" explains Chris Lawson.

College Grads Scared By Job Prospects

College Grads Scared By Job Prospects

The job outlook for recent college grads looks grim. The non-partisan Economic Policy Institute says unemployment among college grads under 25 has averaged 9.4%. Social scientists say these young adults are a lot like young Americans during the Depression ... and like them, this economic uncertainty will change the entire mentality of this next generation.

How can parents prepare their children for financial survival in this new world, where economic security is not guaranteed? Ed and Amy spoke with Chris Lawson, a hiring expert and CEO of the Eli Daniel Group.

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No Tebowing at Work!

Everyone has them, everyone knows them. The class clown, office prankster, and all around good guy that loves life and loves to have fun. Recently a friend of mine attended their annual charity golf event where a fellow employee decided to break out planking on stage during the raffle give-a-ways. The crowd responded with roars and cheers. So he exited the stairs coming off stage and bent down in all his glory and struck a TEBOW, also known as Tebowing. The crowd again applauded and he then took a bow. The night went off without a hitch and they had a wonderful event.

This is where the story perked my interest. My friend, Doug, told me that the following Monday office talk surrounded the wonderful golf tournament and John doing his famous planking and Tebow impersonation.  Late in the day Doug was about to head out when John walked by his office so he said, “John, strike a Tebow.”  Immediately, John drops to a knee in front of about 15 employees and Tebows. Doug chuckled while a few other employees smile with delight. Here is where the issue gets interesting. One of their colleagues walks by his office and says, “That’s so inappropriate in the work place.”  The next day, Doug and John are called into the boss’s office. They are told to refrain from making religious gestures or statements in the workplace, because someone felt like it was harassing toward their personal belief system!

This got me wondering what was so harassing about doing the Tebow at work. So much that I had to look up the law surrounding this incident.

Under Title VII, an employer has an affirmative obligation to maintain a work environment free of harassment, intimidation and repeated insult.

I have no idea the religious makeup of the person who reported the gesture, but my friend Doug is a faithful and devoted Christian that only meant for John to do the gesture in good fun. Is it farfetched this actually made some type of negative impact upon the person that reported the gesture who felt they were being mocked or even harassed? 

Under the law does the employer have the right to instruct the employees to refrain from making such a simple gesture in the workplace, and is this really considered harassment?  In my opinion I don’t find anything harassing, but only innocent fun.

Chris Lawson, President, Eli Daniel Group says "the employer has the power in most cases to enforce company policy rules that they believe would infringe upon freedom of speech.  You may get a “sit down” with HR for behavior that might be offensive or considered harassment by another employee. Ultimately, you will have to weigh the potential cost of further repercussion from your employer by doing things that might disrupt the unity in the workplace.  More often than not, the employer will choose to remove disruptions, especially if it impacts productivity and the bottom
dollar."

My advice, the next time you decide to break out Tebowing in the workplace you may want to think twice. You just might be offending the person next to you or even worse, harassing them!

Source: Brandon Foster Eli Daniel Group

WorkMeter Can Track Employees' Every Move On Their Work Computer | Eli Daniel Group

ALLEN, Texas -

It seems like anywhere we go or whatever we do these days, we are being monitored and tracked. Soon the monitoring and tracking could come to your work computer.
A program called WorkMeter allows managers to track what websites employees log onto, what programs they use and how productive employees are as they go about their days.
“The idea behind WorkMeter is not about spying. The idea is to build a database or look at a performance of an employee from a time management perspective,” said Andre Angel, the Chairman of WorkMeter.
Angel said WorkMeter worked best when managers included employees in the process.
“Nobody is doing anything malicious. Employees want to work, want to improve what they’re doing, and if you give them that feedback, they improve,” Angel told CW 33 News.
Chris Lawson, the CEO of the staffing company The Eli Daniel Group in Allen, Texas, recently installed WorkMeter. Employees at first were less than enthused about the new software.
“I was a little concerned at first because I really thought it was going to be Big Brotherish, Chris and management looking over your shoulder wanting to know what you are doing every moment,” said Kendra Fox.
But the Eli Daniel Group included employees from the start, allowing each person to follow their own productivity with a dashboard on their computer.
“It’s not like it is me over your shoulder wondering what you are doing all of the time. It gives the individual the real time information,” said Lawson.
Fox believed WorkMeter was only as successful as how it was implemented.
“As long as they explain it right and kind of pitch it the right way and make sure their employees are on board and kind of including them in the process, then I think people will be OK with it,” said Fox.

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36% of Companies Are Leaning on Temporary Workers to Support Slim Staffs

It’s 2012. The year of presidential elections; the year of the world’s end, if you ask some; and, according to the results of a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive© of more than 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals, the year of the temporary and contract worker?! Well, while that might be a stretch, it appears that 36 percent of companies will hire contract or temporary workers this year, up from 34 percent in 2011, 30 percent in 2010, and 28 percent in 2009.

Why the increase in demand for temporary and contract workers? 

As many of us are painfully aware, more than one-third (35 percent, to be exact) of American companies are operating with smaller staffs than before the recession. To address business needs and keep pace with market demand, many are turning to staffing and recruiting companies and temporary workers. And it’s good news for many employees: 35 percent of the companies hiring temporary and contract workers this year have plans to bring them on on a permanent basis.

When the hiring is happening
Some companies’ temporary hiring movement is already in full swing, and they’re not alone: 27 percent of companies will hire temporary or contract workers in Q1 2012.  As Eric Gilpin, president of CareerBuilder Staffing & Recruiting Group, pointed out, “Temporary jobs from staffing and recruiting firms are playing an increasingly important role in the economic recovery. Employers are relying on temporary and contract workers to support leaner staffs, and in many cases, will transition those workers to permanent roles.”

The most in-demand staffing and recruiting positions

We know that temporary and contract hiring is already happening — but where is it happening most?
Based on data from CareerBuilder’s Supply & Demand Portal, these are the most in-demand staffing and recruiting positions, broken down by industry:

Health Care
1) Occupational or Physical Therapist
2) Speech Language Pathologist

Industrial
1) Maintenance Technician or Mechanic
2) CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Machinist Information

Technology
 1) Java or .Net Developer
2) Network Engineer

Office-Clerical
1) Administrative Assistant
2) Customer Service Representative

Professional-Managerial
1) Business Analyst
2) Marketing Assistant

Temporary workers can provide a needed talent boost for businesses, while enjoying the flexibility that comes along with these types of jobs.

Source: Amy Chulik

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