ExactHire Recruiting
JUNE 18, 2012
Advances in technology over the past few years have allowed organizations to streamline a variety of functions. Accounting, inventory control, payroll – these areas, and others, have seen significant advances in efficiency due to automation. Human Resources departments have also felt the positive impact of automation, although perhaps not to the extent of other organizational areas.
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.
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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Hiring Thing
JUNE 21, 2012
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ExactHire Recruiting
JUNE 22, 2012
For those of you who read my first Unique Job Specific Screening Questions blog, then you know that many of the deal-breaker and essay questions sampled in this piece are especially common to high-volume positions for which one may recruit frequently. But what about your organization’s leadership roles? While you may not be creating these types of job listings in your applicant tracking software very often, it is still critical to identify the make-it-or-break-it questions for these high-l
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.
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.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 13, 2012
There is a common misconception among business leaders that “workplace flexibility” is just a concessionary benefit for employees that comes at a cost to employers. But like many things, it is fear of the unknown that propagates perception. In truth, the benefits to employees translate to strong, measurable positive outcomes for companies. They go hand in hand, and as skilled workers and professionals in general become more of a premium, organizations that offer progressive workplace programs wi
Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch
Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!
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!
Staffing Talk
JUNE 20, 2012
We know there are multiple generations in our workforce today, right? The older age groups are delaying retirement and more young people are starting to skip college to look for full-time work. But did you know the challenge of having five or more age groups working in the same office is giving rise to generational tension? That’s what human resources expert Jeanne Meister is saying in her book “The 2020 Workplace.” “These different age groups can get along, with some t
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.
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.
Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo
HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 14, 2012
Why are there no epic summer blockbuster movies about staffing? I think the staffing industry can be pretty interesting at times, but I guess Hollywood just hasn’t picked up on it yet. Remember when Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark came out? How about Jaws or Independence Day ? Even Star Wars , although technically that came out in May.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!).
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.
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.
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.
Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright
Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con
Staffing Talk
JUNE 14, 2012
An attractive nursing student is found dead in a covered passageway at Eerie County Medical Center, and police are baffled. Not by whodunit mind you – everyone seems to know it was her doctor lover/ex-lover, Dr. Timothy V. Jorden, 49, who they can’t find – but by how it is that Martin L. Motley III has been on sick leave for three years.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 8, 2012
Manpower CEO Jeffrey Joerres said , “If these uncertainties keep stacking up and none get resolved, we’ll see a hiring pause rather than the current slowdown.” [Bloomberg]. Patriot Staffing Agency and other companies will be at a Greensboro Community Cookout Saturday, June 16 th offering help if you’re looking for a job while others offer hot dogs and hamburgers, buying a home and much more.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 18, 2012
Going Green : Zimmermann Construction Staffing embraces eco-friendly practices. [PR]. Incepture Executive honored with title of Ultimate HR Executive. [MarketWatch]. The Strategic Recruiting of Purple Squirrels , Innovators, and Gamechangers. [ERE]. Perception Is Reality : Talent Magnets Attract the Best People. [FORBES]. Privacy : sail your employee handbook into GINA’s safe harbor.
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