Automated Business Designs Named One of the Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2020

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

September 17, 2020

Staffing and recruiting software provider wins distinguished national company culture award. CHICAGO, Illinois– Automated Business Designs (ABD), developers of Ultra-Staff EDGE staffing software, was named one of the Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2020. This distinguished honor is the fourth consecutive year that ABD has been recognized by the National Best … Continued

A Whole New Workforce: How to Keep Millennial Candidates Engaged

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

August 25, 2020

Millennials otherwise known as Generation Y, have now become the largest group of professionals in the U.S. Labor Force, making up 1/3 of employees. ¹ These are individuals that were born between the years 1981 and 1996. While I was surprised to hear that millennials now have the largest population in the workforce, it does … Continued

Should You Attend the Next Virtual Conference?

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

August 12, 2020

Virtual conferences are all the rage these days. Since March, major conferences have been cancelled across the United States. Huge conferences that were never meant to be held remotely have turned virtual. You are probably receiving advertisements to attend different virtual conferences all the time now! But how do you know if it will be … Continued

ABD Named One of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in 2020

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

July 21, 2020

Staffing and recruiting software provider wins distinguished company culture award for 5th consecutive year. CHICAGO, Illinois– Automated Business Designs (ABD), developers of Ultra-Staff staffing software, was named one of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2020. This prestigious honor is the fifth consecutive year that ABD has been recognized by Chicago’s Best … Continued

Are Your Remote Staffing Teams Out of Control? Managing a Remote Team

By Terri Roeslmeier

July 6, 2020

Managing a remote team is a new art. Most managers were caught off guard when suddenly their office was evacuated and they were forced to manage their teams remotely. Worse, team performance needed to be at its peak in order to deal with one of the worst times to manage and sell in staffing history. … Continued

There Is No Going Back to Normal: How Jobs & the Workplace Will Be Affected Permanently

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

June 25, 2020

There have been many articles published about how to prepare to return to work, but how will jobs and the workplace culture be when you return? Will everything go back to how it was or will it be different? In the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted companies and the way they operate. … Continued

What Recruiters Should Be Doing Now to Prepare for the Future Hiring Surge

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

May 13, 2020

As I write this blog article, I am beginning my 9th week of working at home, which is very rare for our company. Usually a work at home day would be warranted by one of our infamous Chicago snow blizzards. Other than that, we are used to going into the office and seeing each other … Continued

Back Office Solutions for a COVID-19 World

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

April 23, 2020

Article provided by Benny Elzweig, CEO, Sunset Cove Solutions— an exclusive partner of ABD. Critical Questions & Viable Options Where is your staffing company’s business today? Maybe you serve a niche that is experiencing tremendous growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, like healthcare or IT. Perhaps you work with companies like Amazon, Walmart or Lowes that … Continued

How to Use Your ATS/CRM to Gain New Business in a Recession

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

April 22, 2020

Learn about key searches and essentials tools to take advantage of in your ATS/CRM as you search for new business. Are we in a recession? Some experts say we are already in a recession, some say one is coming, and others predict our economic future will be something we haven’t seen since the Great Depression. … Continued

Benefits of Switching to a Cloud-Based Staffing Software Solution

By Jennifer Roeslmeier Mikels

March 31, 2020

We are currently living in unusual times– so unusual it feels like we are living in one big dream. These past few weeks, the nation has needed to adjust to new norms, including “social distancing,” a term most of us have never even heard of before this all started. Companies have adjusted to 100% remote … Continued

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