Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The Obama Administration released the long anticipated Open Government Directive on Tuesday. It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, participatory, and accountable, such as: Within 45 days, each agency shall identify and publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets and register those data sets via Data.gov.

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Jobvite

DECEMBER 12, 2009

What is the new normal? My last post left off asking some questions: what are the realizations that have now hit us about how people look for work and workers? What’s “the new normal” from … Continued.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I caught up with attorney Teresa Thompson, a guest speaker at the recent Minnesota Recruiter conference organized by Paul DeBettignies. She had some wise advice for me.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The folks at IOM are looking to hire a Manager of Web Communications, to serve as the primary point of contact for the IOM?s interactive activities as well as the producer and editor of the IOM?s website. "It is a critical role in this 175-person organization focused on improving health." More info here. Tags: Jobs.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The folks at IOM are looking to hire a Manager of Web Communications, to serve as the primary point of contact for the IOM?s interactive activities as well as the producer and editor of the IOM?s website. "It is a critical role in this 175-person organization focused on improving health." More info here. Tags: Jobs.

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Jobvite

DECEMBER 11, 2009

What just happened? As the year – and decade – comes to an end, we at Jobvite think it now makes sense to start a dialogue with smart people about the next ten years in … Continued.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The Obama Administration released the long anticipated Open Government Directive on Tuesday. It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, participatory, and accountable, such as: Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The folks at IOM are looking to hire a Manager of Web Communications, to serve as the primary point of contact for the IOM’s interactive activities as well as the producer and editor of the IOM’s website. "It is a critical role in this 175-person organization focused on improving health." More info here. Tags: Influence Jobs.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

My competitor Jason Lander keeps a great blog on staffing and VMS, but his recent post on healthcare in Canada didn’t sit right with me, particularly comments to the effect that private market forces (like profit-seeking businesses) detrimentally impact healthcare delivery in the USA. My friend Pete Arnold (husband of Alisha Arnold, Director of Training at Tempworks) felt the same and chimed in with a rebuttal: I have worked with government run healthcare before.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 28, 2009

You can always ride on one safe prediction: forecasting something that already happened. That’s the case with vendor press releases. You know what those are, right? Those nauseatingly formulaic proclamations by vendors: “The First and Only Global Leader with Revolutionary, Market Transforming” blah blah blah. Actually they used to work. At Tempworks we were always careful not to use the superlative language so common especially among technology vendors, but we did use them.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 26, 2009

The race is on. The social media revolution has happened and no stone is being left unturned. Not for Pepsi. Not for Tiger. And not for enterprise software companies either. Everyone of us is aiming to emerge as the Talleyrand of the new regime – the first to ally itself with the Napoleonic likes of Twitter and Facebook. I recently watched a segment of the Gillmore Gang , a TechCrunch hosted jousting between various internet illuminati like Jason Calacanis, Kevin Marks and the ever present Rober

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 23, 2009

[with the biggest blizzard of the century supposedly about to hit Minnesota, i pulled out this story of mine as a warning to any who dare defy mother nature] Assumptions can cost you dearly. One I made once almost cost me my life. This story takes place in the Amish country in southern Minnesota near Canton in 1987. I would travel down there periodically from Rochester where my wife was going to Mayo Medical School to buy walnut and cherry wood.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Jobs2Web has been cleaning up in the career portal space for a while now by combining search engine optimization with well-crafted landing pages and a holistic approach to the career website, providing clients a captive and interested candidate pool. I caught up with CEO Doug Berg after his presentation at a recent recruitment conference, and he shared details of his dashboard product that allows recruitment managers to quickly evaluate lead generation sources and drill down to get specifics – I

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I can’t say enough good things about the TempWorks payroll funding team. Efficient. Caring. Intelligent. Empathetic. Patient. Capable of taking on stressful projects and completing them on time and with a smile. The two guys standing beside me and behind the lovely ladies are staffing industry icons Jack Terrana and Rich Peterson - rain-makers with a gift for listening and crafting the kinds of end-client solutions that eliminate overhead and provide liquidity for staffing companies that truly a

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Ever wonder what Tempworks Enterprise looks like from the inside. This Zoomer 3d demo shows how the visual object tree gets rendered in WPF and gives you an idea of the work that went into making Tempworks a showcased business app on Microsoft’s.Net WPF app profiling site.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Last week I wrote about a flawed article in the LATimes that sought to discredit the temp nursing industry, and this week a public radio station in Southern California took the story further. Michael Weinholtz, board member of the American Staffing Association and President and CEO of CHG Healthcare Services , joined the show and did a great job maintaining calm in the face of an annoyingly anecdotal attack on the temp nurse industry.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Employers can eliminate on-boarding paperwork with TempWorks paperless solutions. TempWorks developer Brandon Johnson demonstrates how an employment candidate could submit W4 and other paperwork.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

It's a fallacy that social media replaces the ATS or for that matter job boards. Email didn't replace the fax, the fax didn't replace the letter, the letter didn't replace the personal visit etc ad nauseum. Things evolve. New, thriving job boards emerge in niche spaces on a regular basis. Enterprise software now integrates ATS, social media, CRM, HRMS, payroll and more.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Investment banking house Stifel Nicolaus maintained its hold rating on Monster.com (ticker MWW ) , discounting any benefit MWW may have gained from an improved job economy worldwide. Monster’s new ‘power-user’ offering that has gotten a lot of attention on bulletin boards like ERE also seemed to have no impact as it was not mentioned in Stifel’s 12/3 press release on Monster.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The story out of the San Francisco Chronicle this morning offers the usual throw-together platitudes about the temp industry. Staff-writer Tom Abate tells us that “employers are applying just-in-time tactics to labor”. VMS. Clutch for the recovery. Blah, blah, blah. Snore. But the readers chimed in to wake us from our slumber. HappyMike44 tells us his temp story [typo corrections, mine]: 12/5/2009 9:22:35 PM Yes and temp services don't pay health benefits it is just a flat fee for the hourly emp

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Where to begin? Let’s start with the title. The headline “A Times Investigation” is incorrect. It was not a Times investigation. It was done by a Charles Ornstein, a member of “citizen journalism” group propublica.org , a site that “shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong” (cough). Sieyès and the rest of the Third Estate would approve heartily.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Congratulations to my guys for working closely with Microsoft on design principles that among other things netted us a #1 position on Microsoft’s.Net showcasing site.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2009

[link] The Onion succeeds with this humoristic piece because it’s as believable as it is ludicrous.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Tempworks client and text-messaging partner Instaff is surging as the recovery takes hold. The Memphis Business Journal interview of Instaff CEO Beth Garvey revealed that it recently received orders totaling more than $5 million for 585 temporary positions at five companies. Instaff was the first client to go live on our just-in-time (JIT) recruitment tools, dubbed “Texting for Temps” by Cheezhead , a popular HR blog: The product allows temp employees to text their availability, hours and reques

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Jobvite

DECEMBER 12, 2009

What is the new normal? My last post left off asking some questions: what are the realizations that have now hit us about how people look for work and workers? What’s “the new normal” from the vantage point of employer, jobseeker and recruiting professional? This conversation is one we’ll approach from many vantage points…these are just observations I am putting out as a starting point for this dialogue: The Jobseeker Perspective.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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