by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readFor temp workers, agencies charge a bill rate that is the worker's pay rate plus a markup, often somewhere between 40 and 75 percent of pay. A worker paid $20 an hour might be billed at $28 to $35. For direct hires,...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 3 min readThey are better than nothing and worse than almost everything else. A one-way survey tells you a client is unhappy weeks or months after the morning that made them unhappy, which is too late to fix it. By the time the...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readWrite down what you think is expected, in five lines, and send it back to the person who asked. Ask one question: "What would make this a mistake?" Then agree what done looks like before you start. Unclear expectations...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readTop billers mostly leave for one reason, and it is not money. They leave when they have to fight the firm's process to do good work. Slow answers, orders taken badly by someone else, reviews that feel like being watched,...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readFive skills matter most on a staffing desk. Listening on the intake call. Writing a clear submittal. Judging evidence instead of claims. Following through on every promise. And reading a job order properly. The last one...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readFor a US staffing firm, the five rules that come up most are these. The Fair Labor Standards Act, for minimum wage and overtime. Form I-9 and work authorization rules. The anti-discrimination laws enforced by the EEOC,...
