ExactHire Recruiting

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It’s no secret that I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for the men and women – past, present, and future – that make up our Military. You will see that every opportunity I have to pay back our military, I will do it without complaint. It boils down to this one sentence, “They risk their lives so that I may be free.” There are very few instances where I would willingly go into harm’s way to save those I do not know.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The book Humanize makes the case for innovating the way we lead and manage our organizations. It suggests that last century’s mechanical models of management have become outdated in today’s more social world, and our challenge now is to create more human organizations that are more open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous. The very same elements that made social media a success.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

On The Daily Show Tuesday night, Jon Stewart said he hopes “we can have some healing now” that we are a week past the election. He also blasted business owners who say they are going to make staffing changes because of Obamacare. Stewart calls it “just the latest excuse to rig the social contract.” Stewart featured an interview with Murray Energy Corp.

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Hospital Recruiting

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

As a strategy for physician recruiting success , the first rule of thumb is to make initial contact with new candidates as quickly as possible. These days most physician job searches begin with online job boards. Many of these job boards will distribute a physician’s contact information to dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of competing recruiting firms and in-house recruiters.

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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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Workable

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Eliminate the frustrations that a hiring manager faces with old-school applicant tracking tools. We wanted better hiring software, so we made our own. I should not be managing documents and email s. A computer should be collecting, organizing and showing me job candidates the way I browse people on LinkedIn or Facebook. I should not be decoding a million different resume styles that basically contain a few standardized pieces of information.

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ExactHire Recruiting

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

A challenge for many Human Resource professionals has always been getting a seat at the proverbial table. In other words, how can HR and the workforce, in general, be viewed less as an expense and more as an asset? After all, that’s what we all want, right? Speak the Same Business Language One of the primary reasons this remains a difficult task is because the language and analytics traditionally used by human resources professionals may not be as meaningful to others in leadership roles.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This year’s Halloween went on without a hitch! What is it about Facebook as a content platform that makes it a top destination and how can you take these learnings and apply them back to your website? read more.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

If someone handed you this résumé looking for a job, would you give it to them or challenge them to a cage match battle to the death? Because I’m pretty sure he’d only give you those two options.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I graduated from college in 2008. After relentlessly pursuing the “job of my dreams” and coming up empty, I decided to put my dreams on hold to join my parents’ recruiting and staffing company. I had been in and out of the company since my mom founded it many years ago, so the learning curve wasn’t too steep. The jargon and processes almost came as second nature.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Many-a-staffing-firm have opened new branches in cities based on population trends and rumored demand. It’s easy to find breakdowns of top markets in the U.S. based on population , but what if when they get there they realize there’s already a bajillion staffing companies in existence (or, worse yet, that there’s a lot of big corporate branches there)?

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

[Note: this weekend I watched an excellent apps vs web online course by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer on Pluralsight (registration/trial-subscription required). If you’re new to the topic or just want to be entertained, I highly recommend it.]. Which do you prefer, software that installs directly on your phone or desktop (apps) or software that you access through your web browser (web)?

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I must admit I don’t always think about the true meaning and historical significance of many of our nation’s holidays, but I have spent quite a bit of time reflecting on Veterans Day 2012. My wife and I had the History Channe l on for a few minutes over the weekend while we were getting ready to go to an event, and the documentary about Vietnam that was airing sparked a discussion about that conflict.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One quick glimpse of Brand Allure’s website , and it’s clear they’re all about class. The gold hue background. The spaced-out sans serif logo with unclosed Rs. The photos of young attractives in formalwear. The use of terms like integrity, professionalism, and excellence. A little more poking around and you’ll see they do staffing for event catering , like weddings and corporate events.

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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.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

There’s few terms that get our attention here at Staffing Talk more than “retro posters” and “impending danger.” Animals doing human things is one of them. But that’s beside the point. The images below are work safety posters made by the National Safety Council in decades past. We’re torn between our three favorites: counting your fingers (presuming you still have them), knowing the ropes (if you’re a snake charmer), and hearing loss (you’ll

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Mitt Romney was supposed to be the experienced businessman, the operational executive whose acumen would drive him to victory, but in the end he ran his campaign like an old man trying to use Windows8 , stumbling at every step and failing to get out the vote. Meanwhile President Obama’s number-crunching, millennial web guys crushed it. If you need your kids to switch from the Playstation to the NFL game like I do, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

My 15-year-old son Andrew pointed out this ad that he found on his Facebook page. “Dad, come see this,” he says. It’s from Indian job board company Naukri. It worked on me. At first I thought it was some pitch for a donation. Then I wondered where the beggar went. Then I read the sign, thought a bit, laughed, and finally went to their website.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Hey, did you hear there are millions of unfilled jobs, right here in these United States, because there is a gap between what employers want and need, and the skills job candidates have to offer? Yes, you have. In fact I have written about that in previous Staffing Talk posts here and here and here. A recent infographic created by CareerBuilder advances the story a bit, by laying out some statistics regarding that gap.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

“If you elect __, the staffing industry will __.”. If you’re looking for concrete answers to fill in those blanks, we sadly can’t predict the future or know what flip-flopping, manipulative liar politicians actually will follow through on when they promise everything you’ve ever wanted. What we can provide, however, is a collection of links to what others are predicting this election will mean for the staffing industry.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a reader submitted story. We hired Trevor Kupfer about a month ago to work on Staffing Talk full-time. Hopefully all of you have been enjoying his unique brand of humor. I know I have. Obviously people are going completely apeshit over the election. I can’t remember an election where several of my friends decided to actually hate each other after a Facebook fight.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Today, I gave a webinar titled “Break Through the Clutter: Create a Social Content Plan in Four Steps.” We will post a link to the entire webinar here within a few days. During this presentation, I reviewed the following steps for helping your social content rise above the din: Resources from Forum One's November 2012 webinar, “Break Through the Clutter: Create a Social Content Plan in Four Steps.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you run a business, handle marketing of any kind, or are just interested in marketing strategies, you should set aside 20 minutes for Seth Godin’s TED Talk entitled “How to Get Your Ideas to Spread.” I’ve embedded the video for your convenience, or you can watch it at the link above. Otherwise I’ll summarize the major points for you below. When sliced bread was invented, it was far from the greatest thing.

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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 15, 2012

In recent years staffing industry news has been over-run with horrible stories of staffing companies exploiting workers. What’s amazing to me isn’t the existence of exploitation. Certain people will always take advantage of others for their own gain if they find a way to. That’s why bad-guy staffing company stories will always be around. But the amazing thing right now, at least to me, is that these stories have gotten SO bad that people are equating “staffing” to “The Slave Trade.”.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

So let’s say you’re at a Christmas parties and your 6’ 3” neighbor is talking about how he’s hauling his twin Skidoo Renegade snowmobiles up to International Falls with his GMC Sierra and complaining about his girlfriend who wants to bring along the $2100 Miu Miu Capretto Leather Lame Embellished Shoes he bought her. Hard to beat, right? Wrong. You just start taking Bond.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Why an employment crisis now when there’s no shortage of capital? Why indeed? Because, according to Pulitzer Prize winner Hendrick Smith, author of the new book Who Stole The American Dream , we forgot. We forget, he says, the lesson that Henry Ford and other historic figures taught us, and that is that well-paid workers generate consumer demand that in turn promotes business expansion and hiring.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The internet can be quite something when it comes to understanding your own company. I came across this post by a former employee on GlassDoor , a site dedicated to helping employees vent, and vent he/she did. Here is what was vented and also how I responded. From: “Feel Like Dirt”. “Feel like dirt, overworked, and under appreciated”. Former Implementor in Eagan, MN – Reviewed 5 weeks ago.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

No, but they’re keeping it running for the time being: Allen is right, pse clerks work way harder, plus they work a hell of a lot more hours. Right now I’m on 33 days straight without a day off, before that it was 37 days without a day off, and the only reason I got a day off was because I called off! Management and supervisors treat pses like s**t and rely on them to finish the work that the regulars can never seem to get doNE.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Before I begin this piece in earnest, let me make one thing clear. It is not designed to be a political post, appearances notwithstanding. I am not going to tell you who I am voting for, and who you should vote for today. But I do want to pass on a conversation I had recently with a new staffing entrepreneur. Several times over the past five months or so we have written about ObamaCare, including this original post in June, and posited about whether it will be good – or bad – for the

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I recently joined and became active in a few LinkedIn Groups* related to staffing. I was told these were places where valuable discussions and networking take place every day. Where people discuss issues important to the industry, and where we can pose some of our own questions for potential use in posts. I was not told about all the god damned spam.

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