A contingent staffing-specific blog

There are over 9,000 (and counting) staffing firms in the nation yet there is very little online conversation happening about the industry. While some staffing firms are already involved in offline discussions and collaboration with each other, the majority are still in the “every man for himself” mindset. Some stick to it for completely valid reasons. The staffing industry is a fiercely competitive market.

In the meantime the communities we serve has evolved into something that highly values transparency and collective intelligence. Several years after blogging took off there are still very few blogs in circulation that relates to the staffing industry. Several years after Wikipedia was born, there is still a bare page that serves worthless information to someone who wants to learn about the staffing industry. I won’t go into details right now about why I think these are not good signs, but I will say that these show that while everyone can agree that there is a ton to talk about, we aren’t discussing it either.

And this is why I am opening up this blog. To discuss my thoughts on what is going on in the staffing industry and hopefully lead the conversation.

If you made it here, thanks for coming and please excuse the dust. I have smoke coming out of my head from all the issues I’d like to open up for discussion here. Stay tuned.

Oh. And speaking of collective intelligence, I’m actively looking for other staffing industry blogs (I’ve been looking, and looking, and looking. There are plenty of HR blogs, but virtually none specifically for contingent staffing) to link to on my brand spanking new blogroll. Please leave your suggestions in the comments. I did find contingentstaffing.org. Unfortunately they have not updated since May of 2006. I’m going to read through the archives and try to figure out what happened.

Lisa out.