ExactHire Recruiting

JUNE 8, 2012

Around here, we sometimes call the unique job specific screening questions available in our applicant tracking software portal the “deal-breaker” questions. You may attach these questions to individual job postings in order to gather more objective information about applicants up front. In turn, the Screening Questions Reports allow you to quickly compare applicants’ answers to one another and change status codes on the fly.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 1, 2012

When it comes to recruiting and hiring people do you find the process a bit of a lottery? Do you feel like it is difficult, if not nearly impossible, to tell in advance whether a candidate is going to turn into a high performer? Leadership and training provider Mark Murphy would like to help you improve your odds, and he has lots of good ideas in his book Hiring for Attitude.

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Forum One

JUNE 11, 2012

On May 23, 2012, Stephen VanRoekel, U.S. CIO, and Todd Park, U.S. CTO, unveiled what is officially called “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People” (PDF). The federal digital strategy provides interesting new guidance for U.S. agencies. Here are 10 key things you need to know about it: 1) Emphasis on providing “information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device.

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Hiring Thing

JUNE 21, 2012

'When you find that perfect new employee and you''re ready to bring them on board, it''s important to take step back and consider your new employee process. There are several documents you''ll want your new employee to sign, some of them required, and others simply a good idea.

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Advertiser: Paycor

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Jobvite

JUNE 5, 2012

Leader in Social Recruiting Helps Designers Refine Their Job Search With Expert Sessions On Networking, Resumes, Portfolios and Interviews. BURLINGAME, CALIF., June 5, 2012 – Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, today announced Jobvite’s UX Resume and Portfolio Bootcamp. The free event on June 19 aims to help designers use their creative skills to improve their job hunt and design their dream careers.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 12, 2012

For a couple weeks we have been running reader-submitted real-life staffing stories. We’ve been calling them “True Staffing Stories.” The first two were positive, but the third one highlighted what happens when you aren’t cut out for staffing. Today’s story comes from an intern at a very large staffing firm. This firm has over 100 offices spread out all over the United States.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 21, 2012

Recently I have been attending lots of networking events, and making lots of small talk in the process. These things tend to be cyclical for me, as I may go to a bunch in one month and none the next. But this recent round got me thinking, and doing some research, about how to make these events more successful. Here are five things that work for me: 1) Have a plan.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 27, 2012

Time for another installment of “Be happy you don’t have this job.” Or these jobs. Or work here. Or there. Or however you want to say it. Just a little photo gallery to make you appreciative for a moment, a day, a week or a lifetime!

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 21, 2012

People have been criticizing Facebook because of the IPO fiasco. If you believed the hype that Facebook’s earnings and prospects justified a 100x valuation then you only have yourself to blame. However, much of the data that’s coming outshould give recruiters some pause as well when using social media. The conventional wisdom behind using social media as a recruiting tool is that it gives us unparallelled access to candidates.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 19, 2012

I completely agree with the points Margaret Steen brought up in her recent StaffingTalk article: How to Write Your Way to Success: A Practical Guide. In her essay, she discussed the importance of using good traditional writing skills to show yourself or your candidates in the best possible light. The same sense of communicating a professional image holds true to candidates who are presenting themselves through video.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 22, 2012

Technology is comprised of three basic components: hardware, software and people. That third one might throw you for a loop, but people are what technology is all about. Without people, technology just sits there, directionless and meaningless. How many of you remember using punch cards? You all have heard stories of mainframes consuming entire floors.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 14, 2012

What do you want to change in your life? Grow your business? Shrink your waistline? Improve your relationships with colleagues, clients, candidates? For most of us, figuring out what to do, what’s in the way and how to get to a better place is a constant struggle. We seemingly have the desire, yet we can’t seem to attain the changes we consciously tell ourselves we want.

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Forum One

JUNE 21, 2012

The U.S. government is pushing for a more modular process for IT development. Instead of large, multi-year IT projects, the U.S. CIO, Steven VanRoekel, is advocating for projects that can be completed in three to six months (or multiple projects of that duration). VanRoekel’s report, “Contracting Guidance to Support Modular Development,” recommends the use of a more “Agile” development process.

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Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

Strategy

Staffing Talk

JUNE 11, 2012

Lesson learned: misfits make for the most overlooked source of great candidates. When I started my airline software company in the 1980s one of my early hires was an ivy league graduate, a mathematical genius, and he carried himself in a distinguished way, reminiscent of the Vinklevoss twins of Facebook fame. He totally won me over. He also totally won over my French client’s secretary.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 8, 2012

Perhaps you’ve overheard the flippant yet intriguing comment as well, something to the effect of “Staffing companies are going the way of the do-do bird , the internet is disrupting their business model.”. “Sure you can get coffee for free at another store, but then you have to drink it.”. I liken that comment to the attitude of a certain grocery chain here in the Twin Cities that was going to “disrupt” the coffee house market by offering free coffee to shoppers.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 4, 2012

Last week we published a couple heart-warming stories that some of our readers sent in. They highlighted special reasons why they decided to make a career out of staffing. But there are plenty of people who aren’t cut out for it. This morning an ex-staffing pro sent me a story I thought you all would be interested in reading: a staffing FAIL story.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 7, 2012

How much is an outside recruiter responsible for divulging to job candidates about their relationship to the client? When someone applies for a position online, and they are contacted for either a conversation and/or an interview, and the person doing the contacting is an outside recruiter, what – and how much – should the recruiter say?

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Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you struggling to make sense of the pre-employment assessment space? In this live webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychologist, will guide you through a practical and objective framework to identify and implement the assessments that best address your organization’s unique hiring needs.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 4, 2012

General Mills is laying people off. MedTronic is laying people off. Hewlett-Packard is laying people off. Is this all about size? Mean-spirited corporate types dumping dead weight, heartlessly hacking expenses, or trading long-time, loyal associates in for a better conference call with Wall Street analysts this quarter – bragging about how much smaller the company is getting?

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 26, 2012

Call me! Call me! On the line, Call me, call me any anytime. Okay, okay, I’m mixing my calls. When I went to Google for those lyrics and typed in Call Me , of course I didn’t get the 1980 chart topping version by Blondie. The search autofilled and I got that silly You Tube sensation Call Me Maybe (128 million views – and counting!).

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 11, 2012

It has been a while since we tried to make you feel good about your job, by showing you others who are struggling, for a variety of reasons, with their jobs. What better time to share with you some more memorable images than on this Monday. So take a look and take solace, and feel free to come up with some captions in the comments.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 28, 2012

We don’t need a crystal ball to know where employment is heading in the USA. In fact, all it takes is a coup d’oeil at France or Spain where you’ll find out the impact of our Supreme-Court-Approved Obamacare: The cost of employment goes up. With every new tax, every new regulation, employment in the USA gets more expensive. Tant pis. Unemployment will increase.

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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

JUNE 26, 2012

Robotics Skills Demanded : Hiring to build, program, and operate robots grows 29%. [Wanted Analytics]. Futurestep has been named a ‘Star Performer 2012′ within the Everest Group’s annual ‘RPO service provider landscape and capability assessment’ report. It is one of just six providers to be given this title. It was also acclaimed as a major contender in recruitment process outsourcing (RPO).

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 15, 2012

No good deed goes unpunished. The Scottish council has banned 9-year-old Veg from blogging about her ‘school dinners’. Anyone been to Scotland who knows what a school dinner is? Are they eating dinner (evening meal) at school? Whatever, Veg’s photos and writing are impeccable and have helped raise more than 2000 British pounds for charity. And compared to the school lunches I’ve had in France or the United States, Scotland is gourmet heaven for children.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 15, 2012

The CEO of an Indiana medical packaging and transport company needed to fill some jobs. Quickly. However, he “wanted to avoid” spending the $45,000 to $60,000 it would take to hire a staffing company to fill those posts for him. So instead he turned to Indianapolis’ WorkOne offices , a “one-stop career center system” funded by a grant awarded by the U.S.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 13, 2012

Kelly Global Workforce Index When Worlds Collide – The Rise of Social Media for Professional and Personal Use (June 2012) was released. [Kelly Global]. Eight ways your employee social-media policy may violate federal law. [Ad Age Digital]. As a Supreme Court decision on healthcare draws ever closer , a study shows 68 percent of physicians gave the Affordable Care Act a C, D or F grade, according to a survey from staffing company Jackson Healthcare.

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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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Staffing Talk

JUNE 8, 2012

I recently took exception to a staffing story by The Chicago Reporter , an investigative news organization that publishes a website and bimonthly magazine examining the political, economic and social issues of metro Chicago with a focus on race and poverty. I thought the story unfairly and inaccurately slammed and impugned the entire staffing industry.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 11, 2012

(The Eggplant aka Not-The-Onion). Auto body repair jobs already seeing rebound, says President’s Press Secretary. Astounding even his staunchest conservative opponents and with strong support from Hollywood celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, President Obama launched today the Advanced Auto-Body-Repair Job Initiative , an already proven national effort to create high-quality auto body repair jobs and enhance America’s global competitiveness while rehabilitating automobiles.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 28, 2012

Randstad and SEO launch research report “Into the Gap”: The qualitative mismatch in EU and US labor markets. [Randstad]. How essential is showing up for work on a predictable basis under the Americans With Disabilities Act? [mondaq]. Exec recruiter , Bonnie Lunt , put up the money that got Anna Gristina (accused NYC madam) out of jail after four months.

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