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:

• Best job boards for recruiters and hiring managers
• Can you recommend an expert on personal branding?
• Do you have health care expertise to share with your association peers?

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.

Do you have insights that are essential to the staffing, recruiting, or workforce solutions industry—information you’d like to share with the ASA community in 2026? Submit your idea today for your chance to speak at Staffing World^®, the ASA annual convention and expo, or to present an ASA webinar in 2026.

Staffing World 2026 takes place Oct. 12–14 in Denver. Spaces are available for

• Staffing World breakout sessions—interactive presentations between 60 and 75 minutes long (proposals due Jan. 31)
• Staffing World Demo Stage talks—10-minute presentations about industry products, emerging trends, or compelling questions (proposals due May 31)
• ASA Webinars—60-minute virtual programs (proposals accepted on an ongoing basis)

For more information and to start your submission, visit americanstaffing.net/presenters.

Invest in your career and expand your expertise by taking advantage of the ASA professional development sale before the end of this month. You’ll get a 25% discount on education and certification products (except certification renewal fees)—including certification packages, exams, and study materials; Staffing Pro Stacks credentialing programs; staffing industry onboarding courses; and more.

Why should you earn an ASA credential? Visit americanstaffing.net/certification to learn the answer—then place your order in the ASA store, using the discount code WINTERCERT25, by Dec. 31.

The Staffing Today team has made—and continues to make—updates to this daily email newsletter to streamline the reader experience across email platforms and various devices. For example, the linked table of contents that formerly appeared at the top of the newsletter has been phased out, and the code used to create the digital publication has been updated to reduce bugs and improve readability. If you have any questions or comments about the updates, email staffingtoday@americanstaffing.net.

Don’t miss the fourth ASA State of the Industry webinar of the year. It takes place today from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern time. Presented by ASA and ClearlyRated, the association’s satisfaction survey partner, this highly rated webinar brings you the most important trends, research, and legislative updates affecting the industry right now—plus a discussion with Tom Moore, co-founder of ROCS Grad Staffing.

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

Don’t miss tomorrow’s ASA webinar, the fourth ASA State of the Industry webinar of the year, 2–3 p.m. Eastern time. Presented by ASA and ClearlyRated, the association’s satisfaction survey partner, this highly rated webinar brings you the most important trends, research, and legislative updates affecting the industry right now—plus a discussion with Tom Moore, co-founder of ROCS Grad Staffing.

All ASA webinars are complimentary 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 Staffing Compensation and Benefits Survey provides the only comprehensive view of corporate employee salaries and benefits in the staffing industry, and reports are now available.

Report data are based on peer input from more than 50 staffing companies and provide compensation benchmarks for 27 positions specific to the staffing industry, in addition to general benchmarks about benefits offerings. The reports are based on data for fiscal year 2023 collected in 2024.

Visit americanstaffing.net for more information and to order your report—ASA members get a discount.

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:

• Apps you can use for recruiting
• How hiring must change in 2026
• Tax changes in 2026—deductibility of business and employee meal expenses

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 is pleased to announce a new benefit available to members: the ASA Anti-Fraud Tool Kit. The tool kit offers timely, curated resources designed to help firms identify, respond to, and prevent a variety of scams—including payroll fraud, identity theft, “bait and switch” schemes, and more. Packed with downloadable resources, links to federal alerts and support, and on-demand ASA webinars on a variety of fraud tactics, the tool kit can assist staffing employers in today’s challenging environment.

Special thanks to members of the ASA anti-fraud taskforce who volunteered their time and expertise to identify key risk areas as well as credible resources that directly serve the industry in combating fraud. Visit americanstaffing.net/anti-fraud for more details.

All ASA members have access to a host of free resources designed to help them answer frequently asked questions. Get marketing resources that will help your clients and candidates understand the value of using a staffing company—including infographics, member logos, social media tactics, sector-specific FAQs for clients and talent, slide presentations, and much more—in the ASA Staffing Promo Tool Kit.

You can customize the FAQ documents with your company logo, incorporate them into client presentations, or provide them to candidates during the interview process. Get them in the ASA Staffing Promo Tool Kit at americanstaffing.net.