By Tim Giehll, eEmpACT President & CEO

I believe that most people are genuine & sincere when they wish others a Happy New Year. For the majority of folks, it's a time to reflect on the past year, set new goals and look ahead to the future and all its possibilities. What a great opportunity to assess one's current situation and determine what areas need improvement or change. Of course, you can apply this thinking to your personal life as well as your professional life, so let's take a look at some New Years Resolutions that might benefit your staffing business.

Now, my hope is that all of you had a successful year in 2006, but I will bet there are areas of your core business that have not reached their full potential. Take, for example, how you measure your productivity; just how DO you mesaure it? Is it by the number of jobs you fill per week or per month? Maybe it's the number of new customers you acquire every month. Whatever the case, there's a good chance those numbers could increase by further automating your business.

Utilizing new staffing technology features in eEmpACT is a great way to start increasing productiviy. In addition, the InstaStaff integration will drastically reduce the number of calls made to fill a position. This is just one example of the many ways an automated staffing software system can enable you to meet and exceed your new goals set for 2007.

If you already use an automated system to run your business, you are one step ahead of the competition. The bottom line is this: no matter how you run your business, those with the best technological capabilties will ultimately outpace those who choose a less automated process. Good luck to all of you in 2007 and may the staffing industry see great advances in technology that will allow you much success.

Percentage of temporary workers citing top reason for choosing temporary or contract work in 2006

It will lead to permanent employment: 59%
Flexibility of schedule: 41%
To obtain experience/training: 40%
Diversity in jobs/challenge: 33%
This was the only type of work I could find: 32%
The money is better: 25%
Family or personal obligations: 25%
Changing careers and need more experience: 19%
Nature of work/seasonal: 16%
In school/training: 12%
Only want to work a short period of time: 12%
Health limitations: 6%
Retired and there are Social Security limits on earnings: 4%

Source: American Staffing Association

These item are available in the following Version 13 builds for Express 18-33 and Plus 19-28.

You can change the colors of the title boxes. The configure key you need to make changes is: EmpACT\Visual\General\BoxTitlesColor.

You may set the number of digits of the social security number that are visible in the system. This is located in the system keys under Security\ShowSSNDigits. There is also a new permission for each user to Edit/View Social Security number. Check or uncheck the permission as needed.

We also have a new configure key for you to send a resume individually in an email: EmpACT\UltraMATCH\SendResumesIndividually. When setting this system key to “yes” it will no longer send a coversheet.