The next few weeks will offer more opportunities for free education from ASA. These upcoming ASA webinars can help you grow your business, measure your successes, and more.

Feb. 20—”ASA and Staffing in 2025—Your Industry Forecast for the Year Ahead“
Hear from ASA executives about key issues, trends, and forecasts for the year ahead; the topics ASA will focus on for 2025; and the ways ASA will work to support members’ business.

Feb. 25—”What the Best Staffing Firms Do Differently“
Brad Bialy of Haley Marketing will examine proven strategies that successful staffing firms use to outperform the competition and answer question: What sets the best staffing firms apart?

Feb. 27—”How Data and AI Will Drive Success in 2025“
Data-driven decision making can help your firm make better hiring and staffing decisions, optimize workflows and processes, and more—Mike Perrone and Adrian Reece of Prodoscore will discuss how leveraging data and artificial intelligence can address key challenges and opportunities in the staffing industry. Sponsored by Prodoscore.

All ASA webinars are free for ASA members, and most qualify for continuing education hours toward ASA certification renewal. To learn more and to register, visit americanstaffing.net.

The ASA board of directors and staff welcome the following new member, which joined during the week ending Feb. 9.

Vald Staffing
Woodbridge, NJ

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:

• Creating a sustainable culture of continuous improvement
• Discussing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) for Celebrate Diversity Month in April
• Insights into the industrial sector

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.

The association’s quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024 is open through this month. Staffing companies that complete the brief survey—including search and placement firms—will have access to an exclusive report on the results, enhanced with graphs. The report, which participants can download from the ASA website, also includes an executive summary, plus sales category and sector-level data.

The data collected by this survey enable ASA to track staffing sales and gross margin trends and provide direct hire metrics. Participate in the ASA Staffing Employment and Sales Survey by Feb. 28 to get the staffing industry information you’re looking for.

Register to take the survey, or view the questionnaire, at americanstaffing.net/quarterly-survey. There are no fees to participate.

When you commit to earning the ASA Certified Staffing Professional^® credential, you’ll also receive access to more than 20 on-demand professional development Knowledge Bites—free.

Knowledge Bites are three- to five-minute videos on a variety of subjects, from search engine optimization to emotional intelligence, and much more. These topics are not covered on the credential exam—this is bonus content from ASA and its trainers, coaches, and industry volunteers.

Purchase your ASA credential exam package today to take advantage of bonus Knowledge Bites videos.

ASA members can now access the latest issue of Staffing Success magazine as a digital edition. The print version of the issue is in the mail.

In the January–February issue, learn more about 2025 ASA National Staffing Employee of the Year Amanda Alexander, Ph.D.—a civilian psychologist who has an exhilarating assignment supporting a U.S. military squadron of elite pararescue specialists who conduct life-saving missions. Plus, check out the staffing mergers and acquisitions outlook for this year; learn how a wave of “revenge quitting” could be the catalyst that lifts the staffing industry from its current slump; and much more.

ASA members can access the current issue and back issues of Staffing Success, and other ASA digital publications, at americanstaffing.net/digital.

The ASA board of directors and staff welcome the following new members, which joined during the week ending Feb. 2.

Clean Slate Solutions
Seattle, WA
Commercial Employees Inc.
McMurray, PA
Dhaka Technologies Ltd.
Washington, DC
Technical Talent Group LLC
Phoenix, AZ
UWork Inc.
Pensacola, FL

Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, providing innovative new ways to source, engage, select, and hire candidates. Navigating and understanding the technology landscape, however, is a challenge. ASA and Talent Tech Labs ran an industry-wide survey to understand how staffing firms are utilizing technology and how satisfied they are with specific tools and vendors.

Check out the results for help benchmarking your firm’s use of technology and mapping a technology roadmap. There’s an infographic that highlights the most important strategic findings from that survey—including overall industry adoption, satisfaction with vendors, the average number of technology tools that staffing firms use, and even what the actual industry “tech stack” looks like today.

Is your staffing firm ready to thrive in 2025 and beyond? With growth hard to find in the staffing industry over the past two years, a deep understanding of customer needs has become even more imperative for growth-oriented firms.

Join Eric Gregg and Darreon Day of ClearlyRated, an ASA corporate partner, for an exclusive deep dive into the annual ClearlyRated buyer study during the webinar “Inside the Mind of the Staffing Buyer: Predicting Needs and Exceeding Expectations.” It takes place today from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern time.

To learn more and to register, visit clearlyrated.com.

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:

• Getting started on ASA Central
• Helping candidates strengthen their résumés
• Time frames for commission payments

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.