Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 16, 2012
It takes commitment, perseverance, and resilience. It takes a willingness to work alone, honing their craft, while friends socialize, play video games, post on Facebook, and contemplate the lint between their toes as they put on a clean pair of socks and prepare to go out for the night. It takes an insatiable hunger to beat their competition. These are the traits of The Athlete.
Workable
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Setting up your beta account. Workable is designed to be simple to use so getting started is really easy. Sign-up with your LinkedIn credentials. Don’t worry, it’s 100% safe, you are directly authenticating with LinkedIn’s servers (it’s similar to the ‘login with facebook’ button you’ve seen on many websites) so that we can automatically pick up your name, title, company profile, etc.
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Hiring Thing
OCTOBER 14, 2012
'According to recent data referenced by the Society for Human Resource Management, 50% of all hourly workers leave their new positions within 120 days of hire, and 50% of all externally hired senior managers leave within the first 18 months. What do these alarming statistics mean for You?
Jobvite
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Jobvite Social Job Seeker Survey Results 2012. Job seekers are out in full force — with an impressive majority actively looking or open to finding new employment. Unfortunately, not all of them feel good about their odds. And even more think 2012 has proven an increasingly difficult year to be on the job hunt. In our third annual Social Job Seeker Survey , we bring you some eye-opening and important statistics about the real mindset of candidates in today’s job market.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 22, 2012
This is a real safety disclaimer poster made by Flinn Scientific and distributed to science teachers across the nation. Now it’s been made fun of so many times that you’ll probably never see anything this ridiculous displayed by your customers.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 22, 2012
After much heckling from my graphic design friends, I finally took the time this weekend to watch Helvetica , a 2007 documentary primarily about the font of the same name. I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn’t realize how much typeface impacts their everyday life, and even more so for people who make typeface decisions. If you’re a designer, you need to see it.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Demand for foreign languages in staffing can range from needing an in-house supervisor who can communicate with Spanish-speaking industrial workers to filling a translator position for an international law firm. But bilingual staffing is not as easy as just adding a checkbox to your application. As two very different staffing firms within the niche show, it’s critical to understand the nuances of your particular market.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 25, 2012
“So what’s the deal with those applicant tracking systems? I mean c’mon…the month you started a job 10 years ago and the reason you left? Who knows? Who cares! Kind of sounds like something out of a Seinfeld routine, huh? Actually the sentiments expressed are mine, after recently filling out a couple of long, tedious, redundant ATS information fields in the Careers section of a couple of corporate websites.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Watching the bottom line to ensure your company is in the black is undoubtedly important, but it can be even more helpful to dig deeper and look at what causes your firm to make money. Crunching numbers beyond the bottom line can help a firm replicate its successes and correct problems. For The Waters Organization, that means tracking how many of the firm’s placements are successful.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 19, 2012
I must admit I am bit confused about social media use after doing a little bit of reading and researching for this post. Richard Branson recently wrote in this blog about the surprising lethargy in the executive suite when it comes to engaging in social media. Then I saw a new Manta survey of 600 small business owners across the United States that finds 90% are actively engaged in social networking sites and 74% perceive social networking as valuable — if not more valuable — than networking in-
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 25, 2012
One of the indelible memories of my life was when, at 16 years-old while watching a Fourth of July rodeo in Livingston, Montana, I witnessed a fatal skydiving accident. So many of the details are clear that it remains a life lesson I come back to over and over again. I remember being with my dad in the grandstands, following him along as he met many of his friends.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 23, 2012
How do you measure productivity at your place? Most jobs filled, most calls made, shortest time-to-fill, cost-per-hire? According to Harvard Lecturer Robert Pozen , you might be getting productivity all wrong. He says we put too much emphasis on “dashboard metrics” and not enough on quality. Pozen knows a little about the subject. Over the last five years, he taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-services f
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 9, 2012
“Since then it’s been decreed that the sun is highest at one o’clock.” “Who decreed that?” “The Soviet government.” –One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. When an absurdly pompous government creates tragic circumstances for its citizens, one healthy response is to make jokes about it. Solzhenitsyn has Buynovsky doing just that, implying that the Soviet government believed itself so powerful that it could change the very laws of nature.
Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch
Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 30, 2012
It’s been about two years now since I’ve seen anything about social media that didn’t make me gag, so thank you Adobe for this video.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 30, 2012
Job seekers in Michigan were reporting that aggressive recruiters were shopping their resumés to employers without their knowledge. And some employers were complaining staffing firms were competing with them for the best candidates. In response, this state talent website in Michigan just re-launched with some changes, including blocking recruiters and staffing companies from viewing job seeker profiles on the site.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 12, 2012
78% of us say we get our best ideas doing one of these three things: showering, exercising and driving. But what if we were more deliberate about creating that time and space for us to be free thinking? For our brains to be relaxed and connect some dots on their own? To not act more quickly, but pause more deeply? That is the premise of the brand-new book The Pause Principle by Kevin Cashman, senior partner, CEO and Executive Development, at Korn/Ferry International.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 23, 2012
If you’re a Staffing Talk veteran, you know from Gregg’s posts that TempWorks Software uses Google AdWords quite frequently. Recently some of us wondered what would happen if we configured AdWords to serve our ad when someone is searching for a competitor’s name. Certainly a clever strategy, but is it legal? That’s the question we posed to TempWorks’ general counsel, John Reid, and his analysis was so thorough that we had to share it with you.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 9, 2012
“I can’t wait until this election is over so I can start doing some business again.” I recently ran into a family business consultant I hadn’t seen for about a year or so, and that statement was in response to my question, “So how are things going?” And this is not the first time I have heard his sentiment echoed recently.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 29, 2012
If the staffing industry was one giant office building, Staffing Talk would be the water cooler. The conduit for all manner of conversations about staffing. And if each worker was a different firm, then you’d be … like … the mouth and … um … eyes … and … uh … left ear … or something. You know what I’m getting at: the water cooler would be worthless without you.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 4, 2012
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill last week making it illegal for employers to ask for workers’ email or social media passwords. That’s not stopping one California CEO, who doesn’t agree with the law by the way, from heavily incorporating social media searches into his hiring process. In fact, he blogs about interviewing a woman who was qualified for the job, but didn’t get it after he found “unsavory content” on her Facebook profile.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 5, 2012
A major point in Jim Collins’ bestselling book, Good to Great , goes as follows: “Good to great leaders began the transformation by first getting the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figuring out where to drive it.”. Makes sense. And I’m on board (pun intended). But what about all these college graduates that keep coming to us, wanting to get on the bus, but they took the wrong road to get here?
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 17, 2012
I assume all of our employees are always looking for a new job. I was at a networking event recently and happened to strike up a conversation with a woman who works as a corporate recruiter for a global retailer. Since I still hear people discussing the nuances of active and passive candidates at recruiting conferences all the time, I asked her about the distinction.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy failed to push the Labor Department off its schedule for releasing a local jobs report Tuesday, tamping down concerns that the storm would delay the closely watched national unemployment report past its Friday deadline and until after the election. The department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday morning released, as planned, a report showing the unemployment rate had fallen in 345 of the 372 metropolitan areas surveyed, and department officials say they plan to follow suit
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Nice driveway, eh? This Palo Alto bungalow is selling for $2.2 million. I’m guessing it would be $95k in suburban Minneapolis. How about your town? No way will the next generation of innovators choose to live in a place where you can’t find a wife and can’t afford studio apartment.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 5, 2012
More businesses, workers turn to temporary jobs. [The Herald Weekly]. Monster Worldwide, Inc.: Monster Employment Index rises 3% Year-over-Year. [4-traders]. The Conference Board Inc.: Job growth still slow, but not slowing. [4-traders]. U.S. Unemployment rate falls to near four-year low. [Fits News]. Facebook decision goes against employee. [The Press Enterprise].
Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 26, 2012
I don’t generally go to Facebook to find fodder for my Staffing Talk posts, but in a rare visit recently, I saw a women I know raving about an awesome onboarding experience her recently employed daughter had with her new company. The company is called Starkey Hearing Technologies , (used to be Starkey Laboratories until a recent name change) a hearing aid producer in Minneapolis.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 10, 2012
[photo ‘leaked’ yesterday on Twitter of an iPad mini]. This is the first of two posts on the emergence of new form factors in computing and what they mean for the staffing industry. In this first one, I look at the devices from a consumer basis. In my next one, I’ll share an amazing story from a continent you’d least expect about how the low cost of these devices is disrupting our notion of work itself.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 2, 2012
The intersection of IT, government and business. Do you think much about that space, or place? I must admit I don’t, though this post about the tech talent shortage at Microsoft , and the suggestions they propose to solve it, put it on my radar recently. I also happened to have a very interesting conversation the other day with Gopal Khanna , a man who makes his living at that intersection.
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