g2 is supporting the Epilepsy Foundation Eastern PA - good times at the Mardi Gras Gala

g2 solutions, a leading provider of consulting and staffing solutions, is happy to continue it’s support for the Epilepsy Foundation Eastern Pennsylvania.  The Epilepsy Foundation Eastern Pennsylvania is a nonprofit, voluntary health organization that provides education, support and advocacy for people with epilepsy and their families. The Epilepsy Foundation Eastern Pennsylvania also promotes understanding of seizure disorders through a wide variety of programs presented to business, government and school communities, professional audiences, and the general public.

Tonight’s 5th annual Mardi Gras Gala is in the spirit of New Orleans' most famous celebration complete with beads, masks, cocktails, dinner, mummers, music and tons of fun. The Gala brings the Philadelphia community, made up of local business owners, renowned doctors, pharmaceutical companies any many others, together in support of the EFEPA and its mission to provide education, support and advocacy for the 109,000 individuals and family members in the Eastern PA area affected with the epilepsy / seizure disorder.

Read more about the EFPA here http://www.efepa.org/

How SaaS will impact 6 key software categories; from CIO.com

As more sourcing executives consider incorporating SaaS solutions into their overall technology vendor landscape, the potential to significantly disrupt the current software market grows. And while SaaS adoption is expected to expand in the coming years, the challenge for sourcing professionals will be a lack of uniform adoption across the whole software market. In some software categories, SaaS will be a disruptive technology, in others the only option, and in many cases SaaS will have minimal impact.
To navigate this changing landscape, Forrester analyzed over 120 software products, assessing the degree to which these products are being offered as SaaS solutions today, and the likely adoption in the future.
Overall, SaaS will more than double from 7% of software investment in 2010 to 16% in 2013, so it's not surprising that many of the assessed product categories will change to have a greater or smaller number of SaaS solutions during that time. Here's a look at where SaaS has—and has not—become a factor in the software market:
1. IT Management Applications: Despite the threat of losing jobs to cloud providers, IT is increasingly recognizing that cloud solutions can save money and allow workers to focus on what is important to them in areas of core competency, business value, and differentiation. In fact, IT areas such as service desk, IT asset management, and capacity planning have already adopted SaaS, working with Service-Now, HP (HPQ), CA, and BMC, rather than traditional vendors. SaaS is also gaining market share in security software, where users benefit from rapid upgrades (able to stay real-time with new threats) and network detection (able to leverage the power of the network for greater threat detection).
2. CRM Software and productivity applications: Desktop and collaboration applications are well-suited for SaaS. Their broad user base — including employees, customers, and partners — makes accessibility a must. Some CRM attributes that hinder SaaS adoption include a large amount of data, high security, and varied maturity of products. Although blogs and wikis are almost fully SaaS, and email and collaboration are following suit, content management programs are still relying mainly on traditional services.
3. ERP and Supply Chain Software: Very few ERP and supply chain functions have taken on a SaaS model, and not many are likely to change over the next few years. Many of these categories are still seen as too mission-controlled, custom, or heavily integrated to successfully use SaaS. One exception to this is ePurchasing/eProcurement, which has greatly shifted over to SaaS in new product categories like services procurement, automated spend analysis, supplier network services, and supplier risk and performance management.

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http://www.cio.com/article/670968/How_SaaS_Will_Impact_6_Key_Software_Categories

Staffing employment is up 13% in February! Great things to come!

Staffing employment in February is 13% higher than in the same month last year, according to the ASA Staffing Index.
 
The index for February is 90, up one index point from 89 in January, suggesting that U.S. staffing employment has increased 1% over the past month. Staffing employment is typically lowest during the first few months of each year and grows throughout the subsequent months.

Message from the President: Hiring with Cautious Optimism

While the country is moving towards economic recovery, it doesn’t mean that the past few years have been easy, nor does it mean that 2011 will be straightforward.  The year 2010 marked a year of economic transition. The United States was marked by stronger than expected early growth, a slight decline mid-year, and increasing optimism and positive news in late 2010.  2011 should fare better than the past two years with small levels of growth taking place in Europe as well as the United States. Economists estimate that GDP growth in the U.S. for the year will be just under 3.0 percent, which is a half percent increase over 2010, and the inflation rate holding below 2 percent for the year, which should allow business and consumer confidence to grow.

The job market is expected to improve in 2011, continuing the momentum that began in late 2010. From a sector perspective, global salary increases will be most evident in technology, life sciences, healthcare and alternative energies reinforcing the job demand in these categories.

Employers continue to move forward with hiring strategies that are centered on cautious optimism.  The private sector addition of jobs, increased home sales, improved manufacturing and retail sector growth are beginning to shine, however, a nearly 10 percent unemployment rate, amongst other trends, make it hard be fully optimistic on where the economy is headed. Additionally, with a number of political changes for both healthcare and financial reforms being passed new economic and workforce dynamics have been created that will have an impact on the future of the financial and job market situation.

Overview.

Temporary jobs have been one of the leading sectors emerging out of the recession.  Temporary jobs have accounted for the creation of over half a million jobs since a low in September 2009. This sector will continue to grow and generate new jobs.  Businesses will be in need of employees to manage temporary projects and increased workloads, leading to the  demand for specialized workers.  Businesses will be looking to expand their operations without bringing on permanent staff.

Temporary hiring is a method that a large amount of employers have opted to take advantage of as they emerge from the recession. It allows for a workforce model that contracts or expands rapidly according to business needs, making it an ideal way to begin bringing staff on. Additionally, more and more workers are searching for job opportunities that offer flexibility. Based on this, there will be a large amount of jobs added to the temporary sector in the foreseeable future.

Areas in demand.

While all sectors need temporary staff members, some of the highest demand sectors are healthcare, information technology and security.

The Solution

At g2 solutions, we understand that there are many factors that need to be covered as clients’ ramp up for 2011.  With the increased caution on hiring, it is imperative that clients’ hire the best candidate, with minimal time invested in their recruiting efforts. 

g2 solutions ensures that we have the right match for both the consultant and client, including technical ability, knowledge, industry background, role and responsibilities.  We have over 20 years of recruiting experience for small to mid-sized companies, as well as, Fortune 500 organizations. 

We offer the following:

• 20 years of experience of IT Staffing and Recruiting.  We have built our database to include over 10,000 resumes.

• A comprehensive pre-screening process, including candidate interview, testing and completed manager references.

• A state of the art recruiting Content Management System that allows us to be quick without compromising on quality.

• Cost efficient solutions, working with our clients budgets.

The team at g2 solutions understands that our clients don’t have time to sift through the overwhelming number of unscreened resumes they receive for a position.  At g2 solutions, we take the recruiting process out of our clients’ hands and make the right match - saving our clients considerable time and money, while identifying advancing opportunities for our consultants. We are passionate about partnering with our clients to make the right match for all of their staffing needs and appreciate the confidence of our clients and consultants who have turned to g2 solutions as their staffing firm of choice.