Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
The United States faces a growing economic challenge – a substantial and increasing shortage of individuals with the skills needed to fill the jobs the private sector is creating. The country faces the paradox of a crisis in unemployment at the same time that many companies cannot fill the jobs they have to offer. But these problems are not unrelated.
Workable
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Here’s a challenge: walk around a contemporary office and spot the one thing that dates back to the fifties. It’s the resumé. If it’s not sitting in a stack of papers with hundreds of its friends, it’s in your email, dutifully converted in PDF, preserving the unstructured form of its paper ancestors. Hard to decipher, even harder to compare with other resumés, each carrying the stylistic creativity of its author.
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Hiring Thing
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
'Any company, if it''s been around long enough, has had the unfortunate experience of hiring the wrong employee. Despite a good interview, it’s not uncommon for some folks to just not fit into a new company or role.
Jobvite
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
As corporate acquisitions fuel the ubiquity of bundled Human Resources software, many recruiters wonder: Should I go Suite or Best-of-Breed? Consolidation and integration work well in some departments, but recruiting might not be one of … Continued.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Are you using social media for recruitment? Answer no, and know you are in the minority. Social media has become the chief source of employees for companies, recruiters and staffing agencies worldwide. In fact, a new survey finds 92 percent of U.S. companies use social media networks as part of their recruitment efforts. And 7 out of 10 employers have successfully hired a candidate through social media.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Here in Minnesota we’re getting to the end of soccer season, that glorious time of the year when we parents no longer need to slog through Minneapolis rush hour to get our kids to and from their games. I complain but actually I learn a lot driving the kids and their friends around and from talking with the other kids’ parents during the games. One conversation I’ve been having is with the Dad of a really smart boy in my son’s class.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
No, I do not believe all recruiters suck and are liars , as someone from Chicago penned on an Indeed. com career forum right before I wrote this post. But after just speaking to a networking group consisting of mostly unemployed people about how to do a better job of presenting – and telling – their own stories, I am convinced recruiters don’t have the greatest reputation.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
I’ve never liked the expression ‘war for talent’ a whole lot. It gives the idea that the war is solely about different parties with capital fighting each other for the limited supply of talent. As recruiters, we like that view of the war since we get paid some of that capital to help one party win talent from another, but like most wars there are many fronts besides the one we see.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
If you have a Kindle-owning employee asking you for advice on how to get ahead in the temporary workplace, you can direct them to a book available for download for free this week only. Tim Whitney, author of one of our most popular posts , has written a book called “The Fast Track 50: The Get Ahead Guide for Temporary Employees” and it is packed with useful information to help your employees understand their value and how to increase it.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
It’s a shame that the headline scared off serious readers, but Mike Butcher’s “Recruiter’s Wet Dream” article about social discovery apps deserves attention from staffing pros. Not of course for the apps that he hypes – they were summarily dismissed by the few commenters to his article – but instead for the mere reasonableness of a future in which mobile eHarmony cum Four Square type apps make their way into the recruiting space.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Three peace activists, including an 82-year-old nun, perpetrated what is being called the most significant security breach of a U.S. nuclear weapons facility in the country’s history. And now, somewhat understandably, the hiring practices of the contractor that provides security at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, have been called into question.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Here’s some good news for the 47% and actually anyone else out there that wants to avoid debt and see their kids successful. As reported by Bloomberg, an engineering grad from South Dakota will make more than a Harvard grad. That’s just the beginning of the good part. Tuition, fees, and room & board for South Dakota School of Mines amounted to less that $12k a year in 2009 which is less than what can be made from two months of hard labor in a fracking camp.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
To be fair, Twitter never promised me or anyone that I’m aware of that it wouldn’t go changing its API more often than a football fan changes his fantasy roster. But they do, and that creates problems for software developers. How are we to keep up? And it’s not just mature software systems that struggle with the change, startups do too. A while back I wrote about a staffing industry startup that was not just leveraging Twitter but actually using it as its sole platform.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
There is a lot of banter out there about CEO salaries and how they are paid too much. The argument goes that the system isn’t fair and that the market is rigged such that the CEO unduly influences the very board that is supposed to manage him or her. A different view holds that the high pay of the CEO creates a heated competition among the lower ranks to be next in line, thus producing high performing junior and senior executives.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
It’s that time of year again — when we all start planning our yearly trip to ASA’s Staffing World. This year the event will be held in Las Vegas. We love to take this opportunity to meet up with our readers and contributors in person to discuss what’s going on in their neck of the woods. The staffing industry is different in every city and I love finding out which cities are booming and which ones are struggling.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
The recent post in which I shared an email from a worn-out staffing company staffer who said staffing is the hardest job he’s ever had struck a responsive chord, or a sore spot perhaps, with many of you. Many thoughtful, detailed comments flowed in, with advice for our staffing company friend, as well as broad thoughts about the industry in general, and the types of people who succeed in it.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Paul Phipps and I have been out recruiting a full-time reporter for Staffing Talk, so this video of Sarah Lacey interviewing HuffPost co-founder Jonah Peretti fascinated me, especially their comments (starts at minute 59) on the career and salary prospects of good journalists (excellent) and the business prospects of ‘second-tier’ aggregators like local newspapers (not so excellent).
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
We’ve had a lot of discussion here on Staffing Talk about the healthcare act and its potentially dire consequences for temporary staffing agencies, customers and employees, but a lot of that has been pure speculation because of ambiguities about whether temporary employees would in fact be considered “full-time” and thus subject to shared responsibility for healthcare by their employers.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
By almost all accounts, the teacher strike in Chicago was born out of a power struggle between a mayor and a union boss and has little to do with actual grievances of the teachers themselves nor the needs of the kids who already suffer from a 40% literacy rate. I welcome comment from anyone closer to the situation there. I’m not in Chicago but I was in New York over the weekend and got a taste of just how unions and the Left perceive themselves by going to see Newsies , one of the more acclaimed
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
U.S. Jobless claims fall to lowest level since July. [4-traders]. The U.S. economy grew at a sluggish 1.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, held back by the severe drought that reduced farm production in the Midwest. The growth rate was lowered from a previous estimate of 1.7 percent, the Commerce Department said Thursday. [Newsmax]. Jobless claims in U.S. fall more than forecast to two-month low.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
I met up with my daughter Anna (22) who is volunteering in North Minneapolis this year with the Sisters of Visitation for the next year and she turned me onto the latest sounds from the hood. Hot Cheetos and Takis. Ever heard of them?
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
Friday night I took my daughter Anna out for Sushi at Origami in Minneapolis and later we met up with a gang from Tempworks at the Corner Coffee where The Openrs including our very own Rob Gedelian were playing. Let me introduce them, starting with one of the highest potential software talents on the face of the planet. That would be Maggie Pint and Joe DeCock’s baby boy, an adorable kid blessed to have two highly intelligent parents, both standout developers at TempWorks.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
As a guy who can get to the third hole an early morning round without realizing he has his golf shirt on backwards, I don’t normally give much thought to dress, not even on a beautiful woman. But whether it was the bluish grey trim, the vibrant pink or Michelle’s gorgeously toned jeez-how-often-does-she-work-out deltoids, the visual effect of her dress accompanied by her well-delivered speech last night was a big plus for the Obama campaign.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Before I launch into my totally predictable report on how Francois Hollande and his cabal of leftists are destroying what little remains of the French private sector, how about a little quiz for all of your wannabe francophones out there. The image above is a job posting for a temporary ( interim ) cashier ( employé de caisse ). But what does the “H/F” mean and why would you almost never find the translation of it posted in a help wanted sign here in the United States?
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
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