Edison, NJ February 4, 2009 – Last week Everett Reiss, project and account manager for AST, was the main speaker for the first of six seminars that NJSA is presenting at the Sheraton Edison Hotel, in the Raritan Center.  Reiss spoke on “Social Media Success Stories in the Staffing Industry” and gave the 70 plus attendees three action points to use in formulating a social media strategy for their staffing firms.  To engage the attending staffing executives and professionals, Reiss used a video interview with Tracy Tillapaugh, technical recruiter for Contemporary Personnel Staffing in Liverpool, NY; and a panel consisting of Elaine Balady, Co-Owner of The Assurance Group, Robert Derbabian, Vice President at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, and Steve Isenberg, President and Founder of ASJ Partners.  Find highlights of the interview with Tracy Tillapaugh at AST’s Mad Staffing Blog.

NJSA’s next “Web 2.0 and the Staffing Industry” seminar is going to be presented by a Northeast Account Executive, John Hassett, on “How To Use Linkedin for Staffing Firms” on February 23, 2010 from 5:00-7:30pm at the Sheraton Edison Hotel.  You can register for this evening forum on the ten easy steps recruiters and sales staff can use to build community on Linkedin on the NJSA website.

NJSA’s remaining four forums, all of which are at the Sheraton Edison Hotel are:

• “How to Use Social Media to Bolster Your Recruiting Efforts” presented by Everett Reiss, project manager for the staffing software firm, AST on March 23, 2010 at 8:00-10:00am.
• “How to Twitter and Source Candidates” presented by Rob Tyson, CPC, President and CEO, Bonifield Associates on April 20, 2010 at 5:00-7:30pm.
• “Building Awareness, Influence, Reputation, and Authority Using Facebook for Staffing and Recruiting Professionals” presented by Tracey Madden, CPC, CTS, President of McIntosh Staffing Resources, LLC on May 18, 2010 at 5:00-7:30pm.
• “Building Profitable Web 2.0 Activities Into Your Daily Work Lives” presented by Everett Reiss, project manager for the staffing software firm, AST on June 22, 2010 at 8:00-10:00am.

For more details on the “Web 2.0 and the Staffing Industry” seminar check out the NJSA’s 2010 Business Issues Expert Resources Forums e-brochure that Patricia Koziol, Executive Director & Recording Secretary of NJSA put together.

About New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA): The New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA) is an industry trade association of direct hire, contract and temporary staffing firms. NJSA represents members professionally engaged in all areas of personnel services including search, recruitment, placement and temporary help services. All levels of employment and vocational disciplines (from warehouse and distribution staff to scientific and medical personnel) are served by specialists among the members. We are an affiliated chapter of the American Staffing Association and the National Association of Personnel Services, the national organizations representing direct hire and temporary staffing firms in all fifty states.

About Applied Systems Technology (AST): Applied Systems Technology provides fully integrated staffing agency software to mid market staffing agencies throughout the United States. Its unique ‘outcomes’ approach to automation starts with helping senior management align the projects around very specific measureable goals relating to the operations of their business. By fusing their business processes to automated tools, the client companies are able to grow their businesses with significantly improved operating ratios. The ability to script business rules around desired outcomes in the staffing software itself provides staffing operators significantly greater control over the business.

There will be five other breakfast/evening sessions on web-related and social networking topics – the most complete educational series on these important tools for the staffing industry.

You can click here for the registration brochure for all the sessions, and please feel free to sign up for all of them or one at a time.  The breakfast sessions are FREE and the evening sessions are at a nominal cost.

Plan to attend with your recruiters, sales associates, and technology staff.  If you have any questions, call the NJSA office at 973-283-0072.

• Are you confused about LinkedIn, Blogs and the other Social Networking tools and platforms out there?
• How can these tools help your firm succeed in finding today’s clients and customers?
• Are you on the same page with your staff on reaching new sales via technology?
• Can you afford not to bring your firm into the intelligent internet?
• Get the Answer to the question: What is a manager or owner of a staffing firm to do with Web 2.0?

You can quickly and easily find answers to the social networking arena by attending the next “Business Issues-Expert Resources Forum: MANAGER/OWNER BRIEFING! Social Networking Tools: How to Embrace the Technology and Make it Work for Your Staffing Firm”