This week, LJ and Rob catch up with Bryan Wilson, Head of Product at StaffUp App (www.staffupapp.com), exploring innovative approaches to talent pool management and AI integration in staffing. Bryan, a staffing technology veteran, shares insights on enabling light industrial and high-volume clients to create and quickly activate flexible work pools. The conversation dives into the risks of over-relying on single candidate sources and explores how AI is transforming talent pool management strategies. In their AI news segment, LJ and Rob discuss OpenAI's strategic shift to Softbank funding and its implications for the industry. They also analyze encouraging trends from two key industry reports: the SIA | Bullhorn Indicator and the Federal Reserve's January 2025 Beige Book, both showing moderate optimism for the staffing sector. This week's featured technology spotlight: Talivity, innovating the way staffing firms manage their operations. This episode is brought to you by Leap Advisory Partners, empowering staffing firms with strategic growth solutions. Visit www.leapadvisorypartners.com to learn more. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode. Your support helps us continue bringing valuable insights to the staffing technology community.…

This week, LJ and Rob catch up with longtime podcast friend, Matt Dichter. Matt, VP of Sales at Staffing Engine, shares insights about their AI acceleration platform for the industry. He provides an update on how staffing firms are gaining productivity through their solutions. Lauren and Rob review several significant AI developments, including: ARM's initiative to develop their own chips for AI applications Perplexity's expansion into deep research capabilities The release of Grok 3 The evolution of SQL and Excel: while not obsolete, these tools are becoming more user-friendly than ever Our featured technology this week is TechServe360, offering comprehensive back-office outsourcing services. Thank you to our sponsor, Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode. Your shares help our community grow!…

This week, Lauren and Rob continue their focus on sales with a conversation with Joey Brodsky, Head of Go-To-Market at Stott and May. Joey, throughout his staffing and sales career, has used a lot of technology, so we picked his brain on what technologies move the needle. Things like AI to create research for potential clients and SourceWhale to help with prospecting are all on Joey's must-use list. He shares insights on how these tools can transform the sales process. Lauren and Rob kick off the episode with a review of what's new with AI, including the possibility that Alexa gets smarter, and whether Deepseek is a distillation of ChatGPT. They explore the implications of these AI advancements for sales professionals. This week's featured technology spotlight: EQ™ App. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode with your network. This episode is brought to you by Leap Advisory Partners, helping Staffing businesses scale.…

This year, LJ and Rob kick off the podcast focused on sales, specifically account management. Carolyn Durant of TCP Software has been in the staffing and recruitment tech industry for a decade. She recently started creating content on LinkedIn to share what she's learned and is definitely on the show's must-follow list. Carolyn's Account Communication Cadence This week, the dynamic duo also highlights the improving week-over-week growth of the US Staffing Market per the Bullhorn SIA Indicator, and they discuss the US Government & OpenAI's Stargate investment. This week's featured technology is SourceWhale. And thank you to our sponsor, Leap Advisory Partners.…

Today LJ and Rob recap all the ups, downs, wins and loses of 2024. We also make a few predictions for 2024 and we will continue our predictions for marketing, sales, recruiting and staffing operations early next y ear. This episode is sponsored by Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate, review and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week, LJ and Rob cover the latest in Staffing Industry news, including the positive uptick in US Staffing according to the Bullhorn/SIA Indicator. The dynamic duo also cover the importance of upskilling your teams on AI and the fact that AI creates incredibly quick opportunities to create training and adoption materials. For example, using your company's Sales Kickoffs to do AI or system adoption training. This week's featured technology is actually two companies: Woo & CandidateIQ by VettD. Both of these companies help refresh your current ATS data so you can get out of the job board black hole while empowering better automation and AI functionality. Thank you to our sponsor, Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week, LJ and Rob cover the latest news in the staffing industry, including updates from SIA's Healthcare Staffing Summit and the newest AI tools, including NotebookLM and Writer.com Studio. The dynamic duo also reviews a report on private equity investment that McKinsey released in July 2024, as we see more PE firms investing in staffing and recruiting companies. The featured technology of the week is Prodoscore. Thank you to our sponsor, Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate the show wherever you listen and share it with your colleagues and friends.…

This week, LJ and Rob sit down with Nicole Krensky, Product Marketing Manager at Bullhorn, to review the 2024 Talent GRID Report. Nicole reports that talent values the right jobs along with consistent and speedy communication. Not surprisingly, 81% of candidates say they are comfortable with AI in recruiting if it speeds up the process. LJ and Rob also highlight Staffing World & Thrive Live 2024. Our featured technology is WhatFix. Thank you to our sponsor, Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week LJ and Rob are joined by Gorilla Works' Alessandra Willsher and Steven Ng to talk about all the AI they are building into their Flexible Back Office and Front Office Solutions. The dynamic duo also cover the latest and greatest ai and atuomation news in the industry including the stat that experts believe 80% of software engineers will need AI upskilling/reskilling. This weeks featured technology is Great Recruiters. Thank you to our sponsor Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate, review and the share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week on the podcast, LJ and Rob tackle the news from the past week including the report 6 out of 10 business leaders have let go of a new college graduate in the past year. LJ and Rob are both fans of Gen Z but know that showing up on time is a great start. The dynamic duo also cover what's new in AI and Automation. This episode is brought to you by Leap Advisory Partners. Remember to rate, review, and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week on the podcast, LJ and Rob sit down to talk about the 2 big SaaS conferences of the year, Hubspot's Inbound and Salesforce's Dreamforce and the rise of AI Agents. The duo also highlights LJ's talk and the overall topics at last week's SIA's Collaboration in the Gig Economy Conference and what additional conferences Lauren will be talking about AI during. The dynamic duo are also taking part on a webinar in next week, October 2nd, with CloudCall to talk about the insights from conversational data. This week's featured technology is License Logic. Leap is an official reseller of License Logic so reach out to LJ or Rob if you are interested in learning more. Finally, the SIA & Bullhorn Staffing indicator showed an increase on week over week payroll in US Staffing and is still down about 8-10pts year over year. At the end of the episode, LJ asks Rob what being a new parent is like and the duo offer some ideas on the #1 priority for parents...showing up for your kids. This episode is sponsored by Leap Advisory Partners. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week, LJ and Rob sit down to discuss the latest news in the staffing and recruiting industry. The dynamic duo highlights: Manpower's test of setting up six branches in U.S. Walmarts. A discussion of the Staffing Indicator, which was down 0.1% week over week and hovering at 7% year over year. This is better than the average for the past 18 months, which is around -12%. The jobs report released last week showed slower job growth but an improvement over July 2024. The U.S. added approximately 140,000 jobs in August. In AI news, the new release of Agent.AI and Bullhorn's acquisition of the search and match tool Kona Search have the team making predictions. Additionally, Apple is releasing their iPhone 16, which will have AI capabilities. The featured technology for the week is Staffing Referrals and their automated referral management platform. Please remember to rate, review and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week, LJ and Rob sit down to discuss the 'why' behind Leap Advisory Partners and the weekly industry and AI news. On the AI front, a few notable AI businesses got behind California's SB 1047 to regulate AI. This bill did pass in California's legislature after the recording. Anthropic made their backend prompts public, which is the first time one of the large LLM groups has been this transparent. Rounding out the AI conversation, we share some stats around AI in organizations with the highlights being: 73% of employees expect AI to impact their job 36% of employees have been trained on AI Finally, the dynamic duo talks about Leap's founding principle 'Leap with empathy always,' something that both Lauren and Rob learned through usually trying to solve everything quickly in the beginning of their careers. Our featured technology this week is Chat Automation. Please remember to rate, review and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week, Rob and LJ sit down with Jeff Staats, fractional CRO. The trio discusses the importance of true differentiation in your staffing business and highlights what differentiators are and are not in 2024. The group also explores the role your business's Mission, Vision, Values, and technology play in branding your company and how being a thought leader is now part of brand building. On the news side, LJ and Rob highlight the AI Bill in the California legislature and a lawsuit that could challenge Section 230 protections is allowed to move forward. This week's episode is brought to you by Leap Advisory Partners, and the featured technology is Whippy.AI. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode wherever you tune in.…

This week, LJ and Rob are joined by Erin Pittman & Maddie Walker of Leap Advisory Partners. Maddie & Erin are front, middle, & back office experts for staffing technology. The dynamic duo share with our crew common mistakes folks make when looking to optimize data flowing between the different parts of your technology stack and the overall importance of training your team regularly. LJ and Rob also highlight the Bullhorn Light Industrial GRID report and last week's SIA Indicator. The highlighted technologies of the week are all about AI: Kyloe Partners' AI Assist and Staffing Engine's prompt engine. At the end of the episode, the crew shares their favorite parts of the 2024 Paris games. Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode wherever you tune in.…