ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A thought occurred to me last week after a meeting with one of our clients — why don’t more organizations use employee assessments ? Here at ExactHire, we use and promote the use of assessment tools for many employee issues. Among those uses are hiring, team building, succession planning and 360 degree feedback for performance reviews. Then it hit me…most people (and therefore organizations) see these tools as “tests”, not assessments.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When you are interviewing someone for a job, either for a “permanent” position or temporary one, do you monitor how – and how many times – the candidate uses the words “I” “we” and “they?” Do you have a metric for it? Place much significance in it? Pay attention or care at all? Professor James W.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Mobile is on the rise. Here are five solid statistics sure to persuade any non-believer: Mobile is on the rise. Here are five stats you need to know. read more.

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Workable

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Business software need not be ugly or clumsy. In fact, software for a job like recruiting is going to be used by people who only spend a few hours a month hiring people. For them, the process of reviewing applicants or taking in interview notes is a side job. Something they cannot afford to be trained for separately or do day-after-day, often enough to become experts with a complex tool.

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Hiring Thing

DECEMBER 13, 2011

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ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

You may recall from “Part 1” of this story the emphasis I placed on creating and nurturing a recruitment brand for your organization. Because whether or not you address it, you have a brand…so make sure it is a recruitment brand you are proud to support! In this post, we’ll take a quick look at how you may use applicant tracking software to help maintain the recruitment brand you worked so diligently to create.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This video of Forrester CEO George Colony at LeWeb in Paris lasts only 22 minutes, but it’s got gems on strategy that I’ll bet I’ll look back on in five years and wish I took more to heart. He explains for example how the web differs from the internet (note to earth: the web is not the internet, it’s software we’ve built onto the internet) and how the web may not be the best horse to bet on given that network speed is increasing much less quickly than processor and storage capability.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 24, 2011

When golf season ended here in Minnesota back around November 1, I signed up with Adam Paulson, the well-regarded fitness coach at the nearby Snap Fitness center, who quickly had me replace my near daily 1600-calorie-kill golf rounds with his regiment of core workouts and nutrition reboot. I’ve since lost two inches of belly fat and moved from the bottom 25% to the top 50% in flexibility and am determined to bring that same renewal to my businesses in 2012.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2011

No doubt you’ve experienced the web’s evolution toward a more social and mobile space. We share and consume content in more ways and across a greater variety of devices than ever before. You may have heard less about localization – another way the web is evolving. This trend is about making the web more targeted and meaningful to local audiences, primarily in terms of language and culture.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The holidays anguish staffing company owners like no other time of the year. Deck the Halls can turn your stomach when you realize your GP is about to drop by 30% for two weeks straight followed by the worst staffing month of the year, January. Let it be a mortal blow for your competitor, not you. So get a jump on 2012. Ready? Cut Costs. Yeah some genius marketer is going to tell you that now is the time to spend more not less on sales and PR, but you know the reason you’ve succeeded where other

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Finding a new job may be at the top of your employees’ New Years’ Resolutions list. A recent Right Management Survey highlights that most employees want to leave their current position. Even more alarming: the percentage was just as high last year. Here’s the key question from the study: ???. That people are dissatisfied at their jobs isn’t surprising given the general distrust workers have of employers after record layoffs during the recession.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Last week I wrote about the possibly discriminatory but certainly stupid new trend where job boards and employers are requiring that applicants have a job before they can apply. Now I’d like to take my hand at busting another myth, that of the wonderfulness of the passive candidate. We all know about conventional wisdom. These generally accepted ideas are often left unexamined.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Okay, I got the memo. We are in the midst of a busy holiday season. Our time is precious. We can count the days – and the hours – until the Christmas/Hanukkah break. And if I wasn’t on your radar/agenda/to-do list for a while, it’s hard to add me now. But we’ve been friends and/or professional acquaintances for how long?

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A month or so ago I did this post on how to create your own Facebook job board. I’m back now with an update on the project and this time have created an open source repository for it over on Codeplex. That means you can go over there, download it, install it, and use it free of charge subject to the terms of the liberal Microsoft Public License. This app flattens the Facebook object graph so that you can search your friends and your friends friends and so on for contact information that may be h

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2011

With more than 550 offices in three countries, the CEO of the world’s 11th largest privately-held staffing company says it’s one thing to take revenue from the communities in which they do business, but giving back is equally important. “It’s not how much you take; it’s how much you give that really counts,” Bob Funk, CEO of Express Employment Professionals said in an interview with Staffing Talk.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 14, 2011

So my esteemed Staffing Talk colleague and TempWorks software guru Gregg Dourgarian has some awesome and authentic ways to beat the holiday staffing blues. At the risk of adding to that drop in productivity and GP he references, let me offer another way to beat the holiday blues. Here are more always-popular images of some people who definitely have it a lot worse than you do on the job.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2011

My weekly coffee chat and peer-to-peer networking group meeting didn’t start out as a bitch session against recruiters. But it did turn into one. And yes, in the process, someone told of a corporate hiring manager who did utter those words that make up our headline. During an actual job interview. More on that in a minute. So I am in this group of fairly disparate people in terms of life stage and vocation.

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

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just talked to a staffing company owner who told me he has clients who want him to expand and open offices in other cities, and that he could double the size of his company overnight if he could find the right people to fill all his job reqs. Then minutes later I sit down at the computer and see that 5.7 million Americans are due to have their unemployment benefits expire January 1 st , and that some of them, along with member of Congress, are panicking.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Now that he has been convicted, is the legal saga over for a tangled web of staffing businesses run by Greensboro, North Carolina’s Bruce Harrison? Or will another shoe drop in the form of additional charges against his cohorts? That’s what many of you are apparently wondering after our December 22nd Staffing News of the Day story on this case generated lots of readers – and some strongly worded comments.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The 5 Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2012. [Inc.]. A Recruiter To-Do List for 2012. [Recruiter]. Top news stories affecting workers in 2011. [The Work Buzz]. Advance Staffing Solutions adopted two families and gave through a local community center this holiday season. [Advance Temps]. RNvip.com, Inc. has been selected for the 2011 Best of Naples Award in the Employment Agencies category by the U.S.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Proactive on behalf of customers, Voyager opens up the lines of communication as Tempworks Software’s customer feedback survey. [PR Web]. The “walking meeting”: Managers at Salo conduct business while using treadmills in a conference room. [The New York Times]. Temp hiring seen as a sign: Experts say permanent jobs could follow next year. “I believe companies are truly hesitant to bring on direct employment, but the needs are still there ,” said Leigh Ann Pagnard, president of Cincinnati-based

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Christmas time is in the air again. Happy Holidays from the Bennett-Hall Company, who gives back to its community all year long. Adecco North America CEO Tig Gilliam details the December 2011 Workplace Economy Report, which shows the economy is continuing to gain momentum in jobs recovery. Fox 2’s Job Shop opens with Robin Ankton, regional manager from Robert Half International, shares her thoughts on today’s job market.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Whenever I talk to staffing company owners, and ask them about their primary barriers to growth, the answers often are the same. Among them, human capital, or the lack of good, qualified workers, worker’s comp and of course continuing changes in (and rising costs of) employee health insurance. As we straddle this last week of 2011, and the new year, let’s look at some small, but steady changes in employee health insurance, and how and where ObamaCare figures in.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2011

[originally published on the Tempworks Staffing Software blog ]. This post is about the rapidly changing mobile industry and how it is impacting staffing and the Tempworks product line, but before I get into that let me get a little braggadocio out about our current offering. Tempworks Mobile is a game-changer for the staffing industry. It unglues you from your desktop and makes it super-convenient to get 90% of the information you need while on the road with your iPad, Android or iPhone.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I can almost hear the champagne bottles being opened at Jobs2Web , the career-site-cum-seo startup on the other side of Minneapolis from us. Like a Jared Allen blitz, they just plowed through a host of suitors before finally selling themselves for a cool $110 million to SuccessFactors, itself a recent and fortunate $3 billion acquisition by SAP. I’ve always been charmed by Doug Berg, the innovation guy behind Jobs2Web, and interviewed him a while back about the Jobs2Web dashboard that tells you

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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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