Are you a woman looking for ways to grow your leadership skills and expand your professional reach? ASA THRIVE will deliver valuable content designed especially for women in the staffing industry. Brought to you by the ASA women in leadership interest group, it takes place Thursday, May 12, from 1:30 to 6 p.m. Eastern time.

Hear from keynote speaker Shennice Cleckley, who will explain how you can embrace work–life harmony so you can prioritize what’s important for you and choose what’s best for your life based on who you want to be and where you want to go.

Learn more and register at americanstaffing.net. The ASA women in leadership interest group is sponsored by ASA corporate partners Bullhorn and Essential StaffCARE, and by Anthem, Assurance, ClearEdge Marketing, Mee Derby, Sense, Textkernel, WorkLlama, and WorkN.

Celebrate standout talent—nominate outstanding performers for the ASA National Staffing Employee of the Year and Sector All-Stars program (sponsored by StaffPRO3, a division of PMC Insurance Group). The program honors current or former temporary or contract employees who best exemplify the promise of staffing employment. Award recipients will be recognized at Staffing World^® and in ASA publications.

Highlight your company’s temporary employee training program—enter the ASA Elevate Awards. The program celebrates the most innovative and effective work-based learning programs designed specifically for temporary and contract employees.

The deadline for applications is May 1. To learn more about ASA awards programs, visit americanstaffing.net/awards.

The association’s quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey for the first quarter of 2022 is now open. Staffing companies that complete the brief survey by May 20 receive an exclusive report on the results, which includes gross margin, sector-level, and search and placement data.

Register to take the survey, or view the questionnaire, at americanstaffing.net/quarterly-survey. If you have questions or did not receive a survey link, email research@americanstaffing.net. There are no fees to participate.

ASA is looking for experts in the staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry to share their experience and expertise at Staffing World^®, the ASA annual convention and expo, which this year takes place Oct. 25–27 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Submit your proposal to present a 10-minute talk in the Knowledge Hub—either a Technology Talk (on technology topics important to the industry) or a Knowledge Hub Talk (on a general topic important to the industry). The deadline for Staffing World Knowledge Hub proposals is May 31. For more information and to start your submission, visit americanstaffing.net/presenters.

Find employment and wage estimates for nearly 800 occupations nationwide, by state and by metropolitan statistical area, with the newly updated ASA Temporary Help Wage Tool—now available as an easy-to-download Excel file.

Use the tool to develop a picture of the temporary help services industry and inform strategic decisions. To get more information and download the tool, visit americanstaffing.net/wage-tool.

The ASA board of directors and staff welcome the following new members, which joined during the week ending April 17.

Ascend Career Services
Shippensburg, PA
Axxelus
Austin, TX
First Call Temporary Services Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
South Sound Staffing
Tacoma, WA

Provide training for temporary workers—and comply with the law—with cost-effective and state-specific training. ASA offers a comprehensive online course specifically for staffing company use.

ASA has partnered with Kantola Training Solutions to provide full-service training for the temporary workers staffing companies employ. It allows you to track candidate and employee progress, download status reports, and more. The training was co-developed with Littler, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm.

New training requirements recently took effect in California, Connecticut, and Illinois; the training requirements in Delaware, Maine, and New York have been in effect for some time.

Visit americanstaffing.net/harassmentprevention for details. ASA also offers a basic harassment prevention training product in collaboration with the New York Staffing Association, an ASA-affiliated chapter.

Don’t miss your chance to get the staffing and recruiting data you need. The association’s quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey for the first quarter of 2022 is now open. Participate in the survey and compare how your company is doing with similar-sized companies and firms within your industry sector.

After completing the survey, you will be able to access an exclusive online report archive, which includes benchmarks for the number of direct hire searches and permanent placements, sector-specific gross margin trends, and payroll and productivity metrics by company size. Participate by May 20 to get the staffing industry information you’re looking for.

Register to take the survey at americanstaffing.net/quarterly-survey. If you have questions or did not receive a survey link, email research@americanstaffing.net. There are no fees to participate.

ASA Central—the dynamic online community just for staffing professionals—is home to more than 27,000 staffing professional profiles and countless ongoing industry conversations.

This week, take a look at your colleagues’ discussions and some of the blogs they’ve posted on ASA Central:

• Celebrating National Volunteer Week
• Text messages for employees about upcoming assignments
• Understanding retainer fees

Get involved with the community—update your profile today so you can network with colleagues, join a section community, recommend and comment on your colleagues’ posts, and share your own blog or discussion post. Log in to ASA Central now.

Don’t miss the ASA webinar “Staffing STATS—Data-Centric Webinar Series.” It takes place today from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern time. Get insights from timely ASA data and hear a reliable analysis of industry research and economic trends in the latest session of the Staffing STATS webinar series, sponsored by ASA corporate partner Essential StaffCARE.