Assignments relate to the temporary side of the staffing business.

Assignments exist in a many-to-one relationship with order. There may be many assignments to one order. For example, a company may place an order for 10 temporary office workers. In this case, there is one order and 10 assignments.

Relationship Between Order and Assignment

If order is general, assignment is specific. An assignment is the job itself. When an employee is found for a job, they fill the assignment. The information on an assignment defaults from the order, but because it is separate, can be individually edited. For example, you may choose to pay more or less on one assignment than on another.

Filled assignments are the lifeblood of your business. StaffSuite makes it easy to track the various activities that surround an assignment and fill the job with the best (and most appropriate) employee. In addition, powerful profitability features allow you to tweak payment and billing rates to achieve the highest margin while creating new business.

It is also vital to add assignments as quickly as possible. In addition to the Add Wizard which walks you through the assignment information, much of the data defaults from the order. This speeds up the time needed to add an assignment, but allows the information to be edited, if needed.

Like an order, an assignment can be duplicated. Thus, instead of adding 10 different assignments for temporary office workers, you could simply add one assignment and duplicate it 9 times. In fact the Add Wizard does exactly that. If you tell the Add Wizard to create 100 assignments, it does so by defaulting the information from the order into each assignment. If no changes are necessary, you can add those 100 assignments in seconds. Once you've added the assignments, Mass Field Update is an extra feature that allows changes to be made to certain assignment fields in multiple existing assignments all at once.

Working with Assignments

You can add, edit, duplicate and delete assignments. You can track the entire employee selection process (Present Employee, Schedule Interview, etc.) and evaluations of the employee by the company (and vice-versa). Activities such as Reminder Calls, Counseling Sessions, and Verifying Arrival are easily tracked. You can fill, refill, close, and extend assignments. And the best part is that StaffSuite keeps track of all activities forming a historical workflow for each assignment.

Various windows allow you to see basic information about the assignment, as well as special instructions and desired preferences. Orientation needs, work schedule, and phone numbers are easily accessible giving you the information you need to make quick decisions concerning the assignment.

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