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How to Write Highly Effective Job Postings

To get top-performing job candidates to interview for your open position, you need to write effective and compelling job postings. The quality of your job post will determine what type of candidates apply for your company. Guide to Writing a Highly Effective Job Posting Use a Strong Job Title Be sure to use a strong,… View Article

Identifying Performance Problems in the Workplace

Every manager and human resources professional understands the importance of employee evaluations, but sometimes it can be hard to deal with performance problems. While it’s a regular part of your job to deal with performance issues, you should still try to minimize poor performance. To maximize performance in the workplace, you should identify the underlying… View Article

How a Recruitment Agency Will Help You Meet High-Volume Staffing Needs

Almost every business or hiring manager has faced the dilemma of having several open positions at their company and needed help filling these positions with quality candidates. This can be extremely frustrating and costly to the company if open positions are slowing productivity. Thankfully, a staffing agency can be a helpful partner to solve this… View Article

The Importance of Investing in Employee Satisfaction

Every human resources department or manager has wondered how to make their employees more productive. Some even try to figure out how to make them happy. The truth is, these two questions don’t have to be separate. Why You Should Invest in Your Employees’ Happiness & How to Do It In fact, happy employees are… View Article

Assessing and Cleaning Up Your Online Presence Before Job Hunting

Your online presence, or what you share on social platforms, matters. For many job seekers, they’ve been creating and sharing social content for at least a decade. However, maybe they’ve only been crafting resumes and cover letters for a few years, so there’s some disproportion when it comes to a professional reputation. While resumes and… View Article

Red Flags to Look for When Interviewing Candidates

As a hiring manager, you have a lot of responsibility. One of your biggest responsibilities is making sure you hire valuable and competent workers for your company. A bad hire is expensive, but a star talent can help your company reach their goals faster. While resumes provide the basic information for each candidate, you’ll need… View Article

Safety: There’s an App For That

Today there is an app for everything, including mental and emotional health. Embrace technology and use these tracking and coping apps to reduce stress and improve your safety and well-being. Stigma Journaling made easy. This app organizes entries into word-clouds to make self-reflection simple. It takes 15 seconds to add a journal entry (limited to… View Article

MS-IL Staffing Honored as One of the 2015 Indiana Companies to Watch

Indianapolis, Ind. (August 17, 2015)– MS-IL Staffing has been recognized as one of the 2015 Indiana Companies to Watch, an awards program presented by the State of Indiana and the Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (OSBE) and endorsed by the Edward Lowe Foundation   Twenty companies from Indiana will be honored as outstanding second-stage… View Article

New Hebron, KY Office!

We have started our construction build out on our new office location in Hebron, Kentucky.  Our new address is 2091 North Bend Rd., Ste 130, Hebron, KY 41048.  We will be operating out of this office during the build out, so please come by and see us for job opportunities.  We are hiring for all… View Article

Success in the Staffing Industry & Pitfalls to Avoid

Staffing services are popping up everywhere all across the country, but not all of them can be successful and a going concern. We will explore some of the pivotal elements indicated by entrprenuer.com that can help shape and create a successful staffing business and also ensures it continues to thrive. We will touch on some… View Article

Service Minded

Being service minded in society seems to have a negative connotation. In reality, it should be perceived as one of the best qualities to have. To be successful in any career, especially human resources, we need to be willing to go the extra mile, and be there to serve our, coworkers, customers, management team and… View Article

Expanding!

MS-IL Staffing is expanding again! We are pleased to announce three new locations, Hebron, KY; Plainfield, IN; and Lombard, IL. Job seekers come in and apply. We are looking for you! Please call toll free 1-855-243-5562 and learn more about the jobs we have to offer. Our Plainfield office is opening soon and will be… View Article

Awareness

At work, we may be exposed to hazards that cause illnesses and we may carry out activities that result in serious injuries. Each type of work may expose us to different hazards.  We need to ask ourselves:   How does the work I do affect my health? What should I do to protect my health?… View Article

5 Ideas to Increase Sales

Friends not Clients – Research by McGraw-Hill into why retailers lost customers showed that 68% went elsewhere because of indifference or the attitude of their salesforce. Only 14% went because they were dissatisfied with the product or service and only 9% went to the competition. Your customers will remain loyal if you pay them attention. When… View Article