Let’s be honest. Investing in corporate culture can be, even if well-intentioned, a largely performative exercise. Times are tough and the way forward is uncertain. The staffing industry has seen monumental changes at a breakneck …
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“First Do No Harm” – Ethics, Empathy, and AMN Healthcare
On Ref Around the Edges, we believe that every much-hyped innovation deserves a healthy dose of skepticism and context. We as technologists have an obligation to build solutions to solve meaningful problems – not find …
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Does Your Agency Place the Best People? Great. Prove It.
Here’s the deal… When you ask a staffing agency what makes them different from their competitors, almost every single one of them will say the same thing: “it’s our people.” A people industry, in the …
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“JeffAssured” – When Life Hands You Lemons, Build a Legendary Business
Jeff Harris and Jeff Bowling have a stellar reputation for leadership in the staffing industry. They are celebrated for building storied healthcare and IT staffing companies (Harris with ettain, acquired by ManpowerGroup and Bowling …
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“Role” with the Punches – the Convergence of Staffing and Tech
It’s no secret that RefAssured has a longstanding relationship with Bullhorn, the original SaaS staffing software provider. We’re a Bullhorn Ventures-backed business and a Bullhorn Marketplace partner. Our CMO Vinda spent almost ten years …
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Ref Finery – Leadership and Long-Term Thinking with Janette Marx
There are few leaders in staffing with a more stellar reputation than Janette Marx. With 25 years in staffing leadership and ten years at the helm of Airswift, one of the largest and most …
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Why Did DEI in Staffing Fail and How Do We Move Forward?
With our new podcast, Ref Around the Edges (RATE), we pull no punches. It’s a staffing podcast that solves problems, and that requires us to a) acknowledge that there are problems in the first …
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Introducing a Staffing Podcast that Solves Problems: Ref Around the Edges
So we’ve launched a new staffing podcast! It’s called Ref Around the Edges, or RATE for short, and we couldn’t be more excited. Let’s talk about it. Why a podcast? At RefAssured, we believe …
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Ringo and RefAssured: Faster Placements for Healthcare Staffing
The combination of RefAssured and Ringo provides quality, speed, and productivity improvements for healthcare staffing companies and strategic suppliers. Ringo and RefAssured recently hosted an informational webinar to discuss how the platforms unlock growth opportunities, …
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What Tech Could Learn from Staffing – An Inside View
While I’ve spent more years than I care to disclose working in tech marketing, I started my career doing something called cause branding. It’s a cross between social purpose, brand management, and public relations, and …
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