Applied Systems Technology, Inc. (AST) has developed email and contact integration between their fully integrated staffing software system and Microsoft Outlook. This integration greatly increases the productivity and mobility of the salespeople and and staffing coordinators of staffing companies using AST’s software.
Cornwall, NY July 7, 2010 – Contacts and e-mail communication are now easily synchronized between Microsoft Outlook and AST’s fully integrated staffing software system.
Easily move contacts and email between Outlook and AST's staffing software system.
With the touch of a button, e-mails sent and received within Outlook are automatically documented in AST’s staffing industry software and associated with the applicant/candidate/employee or client contact to whom they were sent. If the relationship does not exist in the software, a short form pops up in Outlook allowing you to quickly create the relationship in your staffing company’s AST system. This integration with Outlook is part of a larger initiative to make AST’s staffing software easy to use and adapted to the way people naturally do their daily tasks.
In addition to the ever expanding web interface throughout AST’s software, this feature allows AST to provide the power of a sophisticated fully integrated staffing software system in a package that is easy to use and highly functional.
Taking advantage of Microsoft’s Add-ins feature, AST added a button-bar in Outlook that their clients use to intuitively select and move e-mails and contacts back and forth between Outlook and their staffing industry software. Since Outlook is used as the primary communications tool for many business users, AST has automated the process of keeping e-mails and contact information synchronized between both applications. Existing or new contacts in Outlook can generate new applicants/employees/contacts and customers in the AST system’s database.
We are expecting these features to substantially enhance the productivity of the service and sales departments in our clients’ staffing companies. Contact us or email me if you have further questions about Outlook integration, and other ways staffing companies are saving money and gaining efficiencies through our fully integrated staffing software.
Dave Reiss
Founder and CEO
Applied Systems Technology
845-534-7100 X1101
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About Applied Systems Technology (AST):
In 2010, AST is celebrating 25 years of helping staffing firms improve profitability by combining automation and best practices within our fully integrated front and back office staffing software. With Persona, our web-enabled role based software, you can reduce workers comp and unemployment, and go paperless.
Contact us if you are interested in talking to us about ways we can help you save and make money with technology after 25 years of developing and implementing staffing software systems.
Everett Reiss
Director of Marketing and Communications
Applied Systems Technology
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When we came on the scene with our staffing software 25 years ago…
Mainstream search engines were still a decade away and Google a decade-and-a-half.
Text messaging or SMS standards were just being defined.
People listened to Cassettes not IPOD’s.
Microsoft was still a few months away from releasing its first retail version of Microsoft Windows.
A lot of things have changed since then, but some things have not…
Celebrating our 25th anniversary and reflecting back over a quarter of a century of equipping temporary staffing firms with fully integrated staffing and recruiting software solutions, the same values of excellence in service and relationships that have made us a dependable and loyal to our clients, employees and partners are still the foundation for everything we do.
Our 25th anniversary is a time to celebrate and recommit ourselves to those values so we can continue to contribute to the success of the wonderful people we have had the privilege of working with during this time span.
Check out our latest video, in which Doug Newman, President of AST, Everett Reiss, Director of Marketing and Communications, and I talk about where we’ve been, where we’re heading, and what we’re doing for you as we celebrate 25 years servicing the staffing industry.
Dave Reiss CEO and Founder
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AST, which has been providing fully integrated staffing software solutions to the staffing industry for 25 years, has teamed up with the New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA) to help put on a series of six seminars on “Web 2.0 and the Staffing Industry.” NJSA, founded in 1960, is an industry trade association of direct hire, contract and temporary staffing firms. NJSA represents members professionally engaged in all areas of personnel services including search, recruitment, placement and temporary help services.
Edison, NJ February 4, 2010 – Last week Everett Reiss, project and account manager for AST, was the main speaker for the first of six seminars that NJSA is presenting at the Sheraton Edison Hotel, in the Raritan Center. Reiss spoke on “Social Media Success Stories in the Staffing Industry” and gave the 70 plus attendees three action points to use in formulating a social media strategy for their staffing firms. To engage the attending staffing executives and professionals, Reiss used a video interview with Tracy Tillapaugh, technical recruiter for Contemporary Personnel Staffing in Liverpool, NY; and a panel consisting of Elaine Balady, Co-Owner of The Assurance Group, Robert Derbabian, Vice President at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, and Steve Isenberg, President and Founder of ASJ Partners. Find highlights of the interview with Tracy Tillapaugh at AST’s Mad Staffing Blog.
NJSA’s next “Web 2.0 and the Staffing Industry” seminar is going to be presented by a Northeast Account Executive, John Hassett, on “How To Use Linkedin for Staffing Firms” on February 23, 2010 from 5:00-7:30pm at the Sheraton Edison Hotel. You can register for this evening forum on the ten easy steps recruiters and sales staff can use to build community on Linkedin on the NJSA website.
NJSA’s remaining four forums, all of which are at the Sheraton Edison Hotel are:
“How to Use Social Media to Bolster Your Recruiting Efforts” presented by Everett Reiss, project manager for the staffing software firm, AST on March 23, 2010 at 8:00-10:00am.
“How to Twitter and Source Candidates” presented by Rob Tyson, CPC, President and CEO, Bonifield Associates on April 20, 2010 at 5:00-7:30pm.
“Building Awareness, Influence, Reputation, and Authority Using Facebook for Staffing and Recruiting Professionals” presented by Tracey Madden, CPC, CTS, President of McIntosh Staffing Resources, LLC on May 18, 2010 at 5:00-7:30pm.
“Building Profitable Web 2.0 Activities Into Your Daily Work Lives” presented by Everett Reiss, project manager for the staffing software firm, AST on June 22, 2010 at 8:00-10:00am.
For more details on the “Web 2.0 and the Staffing Industry” seminar check out NJSA’s 2010 Business Issues Expert Resources Forums e-brochure that Patricia Koziol, Executive Director & Recording Secretary of NJSA put together.
About New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA):
The New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA) is an industry trade association of direct hire,
contract and temporary staffing firms. NJSA represents members professionally engaged in all areas of personnel services including search, recruitment, placement and temporary help services. All levels of employment and vocational disciplines (from warehouse and distribution staff to scientific and medical personnel) are served by specialists among the members. We are an affiliated chapter of the American Staffing Association and the National Association of Personnel Services, the national organizations representing direct hire and temporary staffing firms in all fifty states.
About Applied Systems Technology (AST):
Applied Systems Technology provides fully integrated staffing agency software to mid market staffing agencies throughout the United States. Its unique ‘outcomes’ approach to automation starts with helping senior management align the projects around very specific measureable goals relating to the operations of their business. By fusing their business processes to automated tools, the client companies are able to grow their businesses with significantly improved operating ratios. The ability to script business rules around desired outcomes in the staffing software itself provides staffing operators significantly greater control over the business.
AST, which has been providing fully integrated staffing software solutions to the staffing industry for 25 years, has launched a new blog called Mad Staffing. The primary contributor to the blog will be Dave Reiss, AST’s CEO, along with guest posts from other industry experts. Mad Staffing will be updated weekly with simple ideas on how to get staffing agencies moving with the best tools (e.g. web 2.0 tactics, staffing agency software, and a variety of other applications) and practices in light of the most recent staffing industry trends.
Cornwall, NY January 5, 2009 – Applied Systems Technology (AST), provider of fully integrated staffing software to staffing agencies for over 25 years, has launched a new blog called Mad Staffing. AST’s Founder and CEO, Dave Reiss, is the primary contributor to the blog and describes it as “an idea exchange where we get to air elegantly simple ideas on how to get our staffing companies moving with the best tools and practices.” Through the Mad Staffing blog, Reiss – who has 35 years of experience selling & implementing staffing agency software, and consulting executives in the deployment and management of technology – is looking to help staffing agencies focus on the disciplines and activities required to get the highest ROI out of various technologies from staffing software to web 2.0 tools.
When asked who should be reading this blog, Reiss replied, “If you’re a staffing professional – who seriously wants to advance your staffing business, stay on top of the latest staffing industry trends, and have a little fun while doing it – we’d love for you to engage with us on a regular basis by reading, commenting, contributing and helping further develop the ideas that we’re putting out there.”
Reiss went onto explain the timeliness of the Mad Staffing Blog for staffing executives and professionals, “After one of the industry’s most difficult years, every staffing company is trying to figure out how to do more with less. This is AST’s entire focus – how to help staffing agencies use technology to make and save more money. Whether we do this by helping implement a fully integrated staffing software solution or by offering some useful information on our website on how a staffing business can better take advantage of their current technology – we’re still accomplishing our mission.”
You can find the Mad Staffing Blog at http://www.astusa.com/staffing-blog/. AST’s CEO and Mad Staffing contributor, Dave Reiss promises “at least one idea per week that will be light, entertaining, and guaranteed to put money in your staffing agency’s checking account.”
About Applied Systems Technology (AST):
Applied Systems Technology provides fully integrated staffing agency software to mid market staffing agencies throughout the United States. Its unique ‘outcomes’ approach to automation starts with helping senior management align the projects around very specific measureable goals relating to the operations of their business. By fusing their business processes to automated tools, the client companies are able to grow their businesses with significantly improved operating ratios. The ability to script business rules around desired outcomes in the staffing software itself provides staffing operators significantly greater control over the business.
