Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, here’s a reason to be thankful: hopefully you aren’t working in any one of these ten most dangerous jobs in America. Compiled annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the list for 2011 was recently released (it is compiled from 2010 figures). This list is formally from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CF0I), part of the BLS Occupational Safety and Health Statistics (OSHS) program, and compiles a list of all fatal accidents during the ca

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Jobvite

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

This fall, we commissioned a new nationwide survey on the use of social networks to find job opportunities. The Social Job Seeker Survey 2011 polled over 1,200 members of the workforce; more than two-thirds (69%) are job seekers – people either actively looking for work or employed but open to a new job. The survey provides the first in-depth look at how the power of being social can lead to employment and which job seekers make the most of social networking; see the full report for details.

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Hiring Thing

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

'When I began talking to Josh, the founder and CTO here at HiringThing it brought back the many recruiting and hiring experiences I have had during my business career. The details change case by case, but a few strong themes emerge that seem to be challenges for every new company.

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Bersin

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

'The business environment in healthcare is more complex and challenging than any other industry. Faced with government regulation, physician integration, electronic medical records, workforce shortages and healthcare reform, the industry is in a continuous state of change. These challenges make it difficult for healthcare providers to achieve its three most fundamental goals – reduce costs, improve patient safety, improve patient satisfaction.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It’s great to stay on top of the latest staffing trends. But it’s even better to be ahead of them: to see where the labor market is going, not just where it is today. So what will the market for contingent workers look like a decade from now? And how can staffing firms prepare? I spoke with a few staffing experts and they offer these predictions for the next 10 years: Unemployment will remain high by historical standards.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I have an ongoing dialogue with a friend of mine, Lars Leafblad, around such topics as interviewing and finding top talent. He is an open, engaging and inquisitive person by nature, and his position as principal at a retained executive search firm gives him plenty of fodder for fascinating discussions. Recently Lars sent me a list of takeaways from his time in the business, and I want to share them.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Today is National Unfriend Day for Facebook. Started by Jimmy Kimmel, it’s a half-serious mission to cull your Facebook list. As I said, it’s half-serious, but probably a good idea for those of you who use Facebook for business. While I realize many professionals have already made a dichotomy between their LinkedIn contacts and their Facebook contacts, I know a lot of salespeople who have had great results with Facebook, and it’s obviously a great tool for business connections, if used properly.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Ok, I admit it. Several times a day I check LinkedIn to find out who is checking up on me. I might watch a You Tube video or two if my mind is really wandering. There are definitely going to be a couple of tweets and re-tweets. And I culled my Facebook friend list as Jeff Reeder suggested while doing research for this post. Time suck? Sure. Does it make me happier AND MORE PRODUCTIVE?!

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Back in April we brought you a hilariously dangerous picture gallery of OSHA violations that had to be seen to be believed. Now it’s time for the sequel. Because unlike some of the people in these images, we’ll live to fight – or work – another day. I missed class that day. And those guys at the hardware store said the ladder was going to be too short!

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Despite protests by The Job Board Doctor , the job boards – specifically those companies that formed the monopoly/oligopoly of job posting – are dying. Oh yes they are. Evidence? Monster lost tens of millions in 2010 thanks in no small part to clever accounting that let them hide a billion dollars in other losses that they have tucked away in a secret account called ‘Goodwill’.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

During peak periods – around the holidays, tax season or over the summer – it’s critical that businesses can easily manage the addition of temporary employees and quickly get them up to speed. And from recruiting and training to offboarding, seasonal employees can put your human resources software and processes to the test. Not only do you have to find and hire the right people, you have a very short time to train them and get them connected to your organization.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Veteran executive recruiter Rick Deare doesn’t mind the term “headhunter.” In fact he even uses it on his Deare Recruiting Solutions website. But he contends that problem solver is a better way to describe what he does. “We have always been tasked with identifying strong talent,” says Deare. “But we’re being asked to make more real contributions to hiring managers these days, and that means being a bigger, better and broader problem solver.”.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday I posted about how an 11-year-old kid started his own software company and how with almost zero money you can use mature web tools to threaten Monster’s business model. Well here’s a little post that shows you how to take both of those memes and make them your own. There’s a little programming here, so if you’re not the type to deal with the usual crap of debugging and hacking your way through APIs and poor documentation, well then you’re better off giving this job to your teenager.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In my post last week about how you can create a Facebook job board for free using common web development skills , we saw how you can drape your jobs with the familiar context of the Facebook page frame. But that’s just the beginning of business benefit available via Facebook. In this post we’ll push further into Facebook innovations and focus on how you can build community there.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Myth #1: LinkedIn Will Find You a Job. You’ve heard how you should use your network to find a job and how LinkedIn makes that easy, but making LinkedIn a cornerstone is a major mistake. Yes the tools are nice. It’s easy to get your name out there with it. But employers have had it up to their ears with spammy LinkedIn requests, and the amount of garbage emanating from the site risks putting you in a category of desperate.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

As a proud parent of a sixth grader myself I was in awe of this kid, not so much because he develops software (heck mine been doing it since first grade), but because of his calm, fun and bien-dans-sa-peau way of presenting – the exact opposite of the prototypical megalomaniac TED presenter. I’d hire him in a second, not to program, but to head up some marketing effort.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

At Tempworks we’re constantly facing build or buy decisions on how to better support our staffing software. Such was the case recently when we wanted a better way to assure that each customer service call was handled efficiently and to the satisfaction of the client. One option was to build our own survey system. The other was to use one of the several innovative survey products that have come on the scene as organizations around the world have realized the benefit of efficient feedback from cli

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

A study released by Randstad delivers new insights on employees’ predictions on career and job prospects for 2012. Almost half of workers surveyed, 48 percent, believe their companies will cut benefits in the New Year and 41 percent believe their companies will lay off workers. However, 74 percent of US workers agree that their companies have great futures.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Google+ for Business is here whether you are ready for it or not. I’m sure many of you are thinking, “Great, another social media website, I already have a Facebook. Why do I need it?” It seems redundant, especially if you look at it that way. But there is a very large audience that is plugged into Google+, so it would be wasteful to ignore all those eyeballs.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Think you’re entitled to that prevailing wage job you once had? Guess again, because chances are that you aren’t — at least yet. That’s the message from Lani Harless, who has a tough love approach when it comes to helping local job seekers find employment. Harless runs Rapid Staffing, a Brandon, Florida based company she first founded in 2002.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

They say news travels fast, and bad news travels faster. That was the case for the Google Panda updates earlier this year. Everyone in the recruitment seo business knew about them because the media went gaga over the story, largely presenting Panda as punishment. Nothing like bad news to get attention. But how about good news? It doesn’t travel quite so fast, but for those interested in recruiting better there is some to be had.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Imagine you are a branch manager and you just got back to the office from a business lunch meeting. You walk into your office and it’s absolute mayhem. Your employees are running around like headless chickens. There are three people in one room filling out paper applications, four people on assessment computers and five more people standing around waiting for someone to pay attention to them.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Given my coverage recently on how staffing companies can leverage Facebook, it’s only fair that I give a competitor some airtime as well. In this video, Jason Calacanis interviews the charismatic Rick Marini, CEO of Branchout, whose services exploits the Facebook social graph like no one else in the job board space. Branchout has taken a lot of heat for being a Facebook timeline flooding service , and it could just find itself the victim of the mass revulsion building over Facebook’s bungling Fa

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I’ve heard it time and again over the last five years that one of the best business investments you can make is VOIP, a technology that lets you make phone calls over the internet. Many of our clients, especially the more recently established ones, use them, yet Tempworks for all our grandeur in staying at the cutting edge, well were still relying on our Intertel phone sets which belong more rightly in our technology museum (yes, we have one), than on our desktops.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Doris Ruiz, of Minneapolis, MN and owner of Olen Staff Company , was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and ten counts of failure to account for and pay over federal employment taxes. The indictment alleges that from 2005 to 2007 Ruiz diverted $152,292.44 in payroll taxes by instructing employees to stop preparing tax return forms.

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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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