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McCallion Achieves National Certification

lmccallion — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:36:30 +0000

Lisa McCallion, President of McCallion Staffing Specialists, Montgomeryville, PA, has been certified as a business owned and controlled by a woman by the National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC), the first national certifier of Women Business Enterprises. Over 700 public and private sector individuals participated in establishing the Standards and Procedures of this rigid certification review. The goal of the certification program is to streamline the certification process and increase the ability of women business owners to compete for contracts at a national level.

“Certification provides a marketing opportunity for women business enterprises to participate in outreach programs,” says Lisa McCallion, President. “In addition, this program will enable us to develop relationships with larger companies and create opportunities for future partnerships with them and public and private companies.”

“NWBOC seeks to increase the ability of women business owners to compete for corporate and government contracts,” says Janet Harris-Lange, President of NWBOC. “At the same time, NWBOC also hopes to decrease the number of front operations participating in corporate and government outreach programs.”

NWBOC, a national 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation, was created in response to needs identified by the Procurement Special Interest Group of the National Association of Women Business Owners. The study revealed that the public and private sector had not received nor recognized the benefits of contracting with women suppliers. This has prevented purchasers from obtaining the best value in their procurement and it has limited women business owners from penetrating these markets, which has stymied their growth. NWBOC seeks to provide more corporations with the opportunity to better their procurement practices and to women suppliers the opportunity to compete.

McCallion Staffing Specialists have been supplying companies with their “people” needs since 1979. McCallion is a staffing and recruiting agency that works with both temporary placement and direct hire applicants. Our specialties include Office Support, Light Industrial, Scientific, Engineering, Accounting, and Human Resources opportunities. For more information, please contact us at 215-855-8000, lmccallion@mccalliongroup.com or www.mccallionstaffing.com.

McCallion Staffing Specialists achieves Women’s Business Enterprise Certification

lmccallion — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:37:04 +0000

McCallion Staffing Specialists, a leader in the tri-state area in staffing and recruiting for over 30 years, has achieved their Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) Certification. This designation fulfills vendor eligibility requirements for public and government-sponsored projects and business partnerships with set utilization guidelines for minority or women-owned enterprises.

“It will be exciting to see what type of opportunities arise with this designation,” says Lisa McCallion, President of McCallion Staffing Specialists. “A number of our clients have been with us for over 20 years, but we’ve run into complications as certain companies, particularly in government or other regulated industries, have begun to broaden their diversity requirements.” Lisa goes on to explain that having been in the industry and servicing Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware for over 30 years, she expects this designation to allow her company to service additional businesses in need of help in a time when hiring the right employees is even more important than ever.

McCallion Staffing Specialists is a family business that believes outstanding customer service and long-lasting relationships with their clients have been paramount to the success of their agency. “When companies employ us to fill a vacant position,” says Jim McCallion, Vice President of McCallion Staffing Specialists, “we aren’t just selecting a candidate with an appropriate skill set, but one that we believe will fit in the corporate culture of the business and truly impact their success.”

McCallion Staffing Specialists is a staffing and recruiting agency that works with both temporary placement and direct hire applicants. Their specialties include Office Support, Light Industrial, Engineering, Accounting, and Human Resources industries. They have additional expansion projects in the works, with an Executive Consulting division opening later this year.

Continuing the Green Effort

lmccallion — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:30:13 +0000

McCallion is continuing our Green Efforts. Finally our system has been updated to allow our employees to see their earnings for the past 2 years. This information is available 24/7 on the Internet. This will eliminate the need to print copies of earnings and mail or fax them to employees.

Effective October 18, 2010, we will discontinue mailing the direct deposit vouchers. If you do need your voucher mailed, please call McCallion and request the mailing. This conversion to electronic will save a huge amount of paper and will add additional features for our past and present employees.

To see your earnings within the past 2 years, click Employee Login on the website. If you do not have a user name and password, please call McCallion 215-855-8000.

We hope you enjoy the new features!

Troubling reason for drop in unemployment

lmccallion — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Troubling reason for drop in unemployment rate: People exiting work force

America’s official unemployment rate declined in June, but the reason was largely because people are opting out of the labor force – not because employers are adding lots of new jobs.

It’s a sign of how difficult the job market remains, and it comes as Congress recessed for the July 4 holiday without extending jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.

Despite signs of economic recovery in recent months, the overall labor force shrank by 652,000 in June, even though the US population grew, the Labor Department reported Friday. That helped push the unemployment rate down to 9.5 percent, from 9.7 percent in May.

If the labor force participation rate had held steady for the month, at roughly 65 percent of the civilian population, the unemployment rate would have gone up – to about 10 percent – based on the current number of jobs in the economy.

“As the US population grows by about 200,000 each month, the labor force is also expected to grow,” economist Charles McMillion said Friday in a report analyzing the monthly job-market data. In his view, the situation “almost guarantees that unemployment will again rise to over 10 percent when more of the unemployed again agree to be counted.”

Earlier this year, as the job market began to show some signs of revival, labor force participation rose – meaning more people began looking for work. But the influx may have outstripped the number of available new jobs, sending some discouraged workers out of the labor force in the past two months.

The reversal, by Mr. McMillion’s calculation, means that the labor force is no larger than it was when the recession began in late 2007, even though the adult population has risen steadily since then. And 1 million fewer people are in the work force now than one year ago.

The central problem is that, with so many already unemployed, there are multiple job seekers for every open position. Some 6.8 million people have been jobless for 27 weeks or more. Legislation in the Senate to extend jobless benefits, which have begun to run out for many long-term unemployed, stalled amid disagreement over how to pay for it. The House has passed an extension of jobless benefits.

Who’s leaving the labor force, or not entering to begin with?

Labor Department data suggest that the problem spreads across virtually all demographic groups, but the trend is strongest among the men, African-Americans, and the young. Regionally, the Midwest appears to be most affected. Here are the numbers:

•Overall, labor force participation has fallen by 1.5 percentage points since January 2008, as the recession had just begun (from 66.2 percent of civilian adults – excluding those in prison – to 64.7 percent).

•Among men, participation has fallen 2 percentage points, while it has fallen 1.1 percentage points among women. Looking at 2010 alone, men’s participation has risen slightly – perhaps a sign of rebounding hopes or expectations of finding work, while women’s participation has continued to edge down.

•Among African-Americans, participation has fallen 2.1 percentage points, versus 1.4 for whites.

•By age, participation has declined most for teens (7.1 percentage points) and young workers ages 20 to 24 (down 3.3 percentage points). Declines have also occurred among older workers, but by amounts smaller than the national average.

•For one age group, those 55 and over, participation has actually risen during and after the recession – a sign of the headwinds facing many people in or near retirement. Many homes and investment portfolios have lost value.

A silver lining in the June jobs data is that the private sector added at least some jobs (83,000) for the sixth straight month.

By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer / July 2, 2010 The Christian Science Monitor

Tech firms more trusted than Facebook

lmccallion — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:41:14 +0000

NEW YORK, USA: Americans trust technology heavyweights such as Apple, Google and Microsoft more than social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll.

Nearly half of 2,100 adults questioned in a Zogby Interactive survey said they trusted the big three technology firms “completely” or “a lot,” compared to eight percent for Twitter and 13 percent for Facebook.

But all of the companies rated higher than traditional media.

John Zogby, the president and CEO of Zogby International, said big companies have had the time to build brand equity, while Facebook and Twitter do not have the corporate identity.

“They don’t have the brand equity,” he added in a telephone interview.

Young adults aged 18 to 29 had slightly higher trust levels in Facebook with 20 percent and Twitter with 15 percent compared to the levels of adults of all ages which were seven percent lower for both companies.

When asked how important online privacy was to consumers, Zogby said it was huge.

“I think to a great degree, it’s all about privacy,” he explained.

Google has been criticized by some privacy regulators for its Street View cars which collected some private information from unencrypted WiFi networks while roving the streets taking photographs for its online mapping software.

Facebook recently changed its privacy policies to give users more control over how much information from users profiles is public following protests from some users and privacy watchdogs.

The traditional media received little sympathy from the public with only eight percent of all adults and six percent of young adults saying they trusted the media.

Reuters

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