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When we receive a job order request from a client company, we check our list of applicants to match preferences and skills with requirements. If your skills and work and schedule preferences match the client company’s need, we will call you. If you accept the assignment, we will provide you with all the necessary information about the job. When the assignment has ended, you contact your Wisdom Staffing agent to be placed back on the available list.
At Wisdom Staffing, we want to find you ‘ideal’ assignments. This means carefully screening and matching your preferences, skills and experiences with the right job. To ensure that you are well-suited for the demands of a specific job, we may assess your skills and characteristics.
No. Flexibility is one of the priorities at Wisdom Staffing – you are under no obligation to take on a position. We want you to work the way you want to. However, when you accept an assignment, Wisdom Staffing depends on you to complete it.
Wisdom Staffing assignments vary from hours to weeks or even months. When we make an assignment, we will provide you with the approximate length of time it will last. If you decide to accept an assignment, please ensure you are available for the full length of the assignment.
This depends on your availability and willingness to work, the quality of your work and the
marketability of your skills. We make every attempt to ensure our job seekers are given the
opportunity to realize their ideal work-leisure lifestyle.
Nowadays, Uncle Sam wants you to keep working – legislation passed in 2000 recognizes the value of older workers and actually provides incentives for baby boomers and seniors to remain in the workforce or take retirement jobs. Follow this link to find out more click here
Contact a Wisdom Staffing Consultant at 631-866-4008. We will need to gain a thorough
understanding
of your business and your staffing issues in order to show you how Wisdom Staffing
can help optimize the
flexibility and productivity of your workforce today, so that you can outcompete
tomorrow.
A specific description of the job responsibilities, required skills, work schedule and length of assignment. The more information you can provide, the better our chances of finding the ideal candidate(s). Also inform the Staffing Consultant of any requirements that are unique to your organization e.g. dress code, lunch, parking arrangements, HR liaison etc.
More and more organizations are using temping agencies for good reason – they enhance staffing flexibility and provide access to qualified workers upon demand. In fact, the contingent staffing industry will create more jobs over the next decade than any other sector, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Practically speaking, we help our clients to better focus on their core business by alleviating time-consuming paperwork, recruiting and interviewing and taking care of employee payroll and benefits. All our clients are responsible for is a flat hourly fee, billed weekly in a single detailed, easy-to-read invoice.
Financially speaking, our clients are able to better match staffing levels with workload, enhancing productivity and profitability. Use of temps also eliminates some employee turnover costs - according to a conservative estimate by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average cost to replace an employee is $13,996.
It depends on the job or assignment. An hourly rate is agreed upon at the time the work order
is placed – usually a flat percentage above the typical hourly rate of their permanent counterparts.
As the temp’s employer, we manage the payroll, all government reporting and pay all insurance
and taxes. You don't pay for lunch breaks, sick time, vacation pay, holidays, or costly overtime.
You will receive one simple, detailed easy-to-read invoice each week.
Baby-boomers, pre-retirees and retirees all fit the definition. Wisdom Staffing promotes a focus on flexibility, skills, experience and work ethics -not age. If job seekers are good enough, they’re young enough.
We believe the virtues inherent in later life job seekers are consistent with the traits found in superior temps - namely flexibility, availability, experience, knowledge, skills, dependability, amenability, honesty, loyalty and professionalism.
The average US organization will lose 1 in 3 of its current employees due to retiring baby boomers over the next 10 years. At the same time, participation rates from 16-24 year olds are the lowest in history and 40% of current population growth is fueled through immigrants who are in general, less qualified and skilled than their American counterparts.
Wisdom Staffing is taking advantage of the fact that although baby boomers are starting to retire from their full time jobs en masse, the majority of them (55% according to a 2006 Merill Lynch survey) want to continue to work during retirement with more flexible schedules.
Our database growth is aided by the huge number of retirees coming through the system. On Long Island alone, almost 1,000 retiring baby-boomers will be looking for more flexible work arrangements every month for the next 10 years. Being synonymous with later life employment affords us unparalleled access to this pool of later life job seekers.
Through careful screening of this immense pool of qualified candidates, Wisdom Staffing can be part of your strategic solution to what may prove to be the biggest human resource challenge of the next decade.
Our later life niche provides many highly qualified and experienced candidates, some of which are interested in imparting their wisdom on younger workers and/or consultancy, supervision, project management and executive positions. An innovative facet of our proposition gives our clients the opportunity to access candidates who once competed against them.
We have developed innovative recruiting, screening and matching processes to cope specifically with our later life focus, high volume and broad range of job seekers and clients.
Recruiting is aided by the huge number of retirees coming through the system. On Long Island alone, almost 1,000 retiring baby-boomers will be looking for more flexible work arrangements every month for the next 10 years. Being synonymous with later life employment affords us unparalleled access to this pool of later life job seekers.
Screening utilizes the web-based registration and profiling system all prospective job seekers must complete online. WisdomMatch™ is our innovative internet based software application, used to effectively and efficiently assess and evaluate job seekers, which can be customized to your organization’s specific job order.
Yes. Wisdom Staffing specializes in the temporary placement of later life job seekers. Our employer clients value the flexibility, experience, dependability and availability we are able to offer and our job seekers value the flexibility of schedule and diversity of opportunities available.
Many of our job seekers are highly experienced and already sufficiently trained to fulfill the requirements of the assignment. Of course, we work with our clients to develop customized training and testing programs for candidates when necessary, assuming the scale of the relationship warrants it.
This depends on the discipline and nature of the specific assignment at hand. All job seekers are profiled in our web-based automated registration system when they sign-up. Personality, skill and proficiency testing may be undertaken during the screening and matching process and candidate results will be available to employers.
We take pre-employment background and reference checks very seriously – our reputation depends on the quality of Job seekers we place. Fingerprinting and other requests should be made to your assigned Staffing Consultant and we will accommodate where possible.
This depends on how many temporary employees you will need at your workplace and for how long. We will be willing to provide an on-site manager if the volume of business derived from your company warrants it.
Generally, our later life temps are interested in the flexibility our service provides and are unwilling to commit to permanent employment. However, exceptions arise and we will assess a fee consistent with industry norms in such cases. Contact your Staffing Consultant if such a situation arises.
