Staffing Talk
MARCH 26, 2012
Your business will rise and fall on the quality of your employees. Yet, the hiring process can make it difficult to find the right person for the job. If you’re not sure what look for, you can wind up with a candidate that seems perfect but, in reality, can’t do the job well. You can go with your gut, but your gut has a much greater margin of error than the facts.
Forum One
MARCH 26, 2012
As I said in Forum One’s year-starting post 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012 , "2012 will be the time that educators will master community management and exploit readily available community platforms." As I said in Forum One’s year-starting post 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012 , "2012 will be the time that educators will master community management and exploit readily available community platforms.
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Makena
MARCH 29, 2012
After two late nights polishing up responses to RFPs for technology projects, it felt like writing a de-brief of the process and key takeaways would be a cathartic thing to do. Let’s find out. There are skeptics (like me at times) who believe that the RFP process is really just an administrative checks and balances activity and that procurement has its mind made up on the vendor of choice long before the RFPs are received and reviewed.
Jobvite
MARCH 27, 2012
Twitter works. How do I know? The senior visual designer I work with, Kenneth James Hamer, got his job through Twitter. Five recent high quality applicants I had for an interaction designer position came through … Continued.
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Hiring Thing
MARCH 13, 2012
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 16, 2012
Recruiting is a sales job, and a marketing job. And effective job posts are where everything begins. That’s the premise of the presentation delivered at the recent Minnesota Recruiter’s Conference by Eric Putkonen, president of Minnesota TechJobs.com and a senior recruiter at UnitedHealth Group. “Recent surveys shows that job boards and our career sites account for about 30% of hires,” said the 10-year veteran of corporate and agency recruiting. “That means your act
Staffing Talk
MARCH 22, 2012
The Apple Store is an extension of the widely popular (and super chic) Apple brand. From its physical design and layout to the way it’s staffed–by adopting brand elements into the stores has resulted in a shopping experience that mirrors the consistent, high-quality consumer experience that Apple products deliver. But what really makes the Apple stores work are its people.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 23, 2012
At PlaneTechs , there are two types of customers: “customers that pay us and customers that we pay,” says David Pearson, the company’s president. The company, based in Oak Brook, Ill., recruits and places aviation technicians all over the country to work on both commercial and military aircraft. “There are not enough technicians in the market for all the jobs that are available, so loyalty is a really big deal for us,” Pearson says.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 22, 2012
For really the first time in our nation’s history, four generations are employed together in the workplace. Although this multi-generational workforce discussion kind of got tabled in the midst of the economic downturn, it is bubbling to the surface again. I wanted specifically to call out a new MTV study on Millennials. A “Millennial,” born after 1980 and now roughly between the tweens and 30s, comprises the largest generation now alive, 101 million in all.
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 14, 2012
And who better to provide the authenticity, the dependable connections, to make a great hire or find a new job than a staffing company? Judging by the massive throngs out here in Las Vegas for the Staffing Industry’s Executive Forum , our industry is not only back, it’s stronger than ever. By all accounts, this is the biggest and best show ever and kudos go to Staffing Industry Analysts for landing a perfect 10 on show organization.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 27, 2012
His Defense: ‘I didn’t know they were hookers’. In defense of Dominique Strauss-Kahn who now stands accused in Lille, France, of procuring prostitutes for himself and his government banking chums, there’s not a whole lot to do in Lille, France. In fact, in all of France, you’d be hard pressed to find a region remotely resembling dull and unpleasant Lille and moche Nord-Pas-De-Calais.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 20, 2012
Okay, so it’s been a while since we have aggregated some fun photos from the workplace…images that should always make you feel good about what it is you are called on to do for a living. We don’t really have a good hook to hang these on. It’s not Monday, or Friday, though many of you may see this on Hump Day. So enjoy. And appreciate.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 20, 2012
If you’ve been watching Apple and by that I mean AAPL , you know that there is beaucoup d’argent involved in the internet’s latest sharp turn towards mobile devices like the iPad and Android. And where there is a hint of big money, you see technology companies falling all over themselves to be or at least to appear to be the ‘first’ or ‘only’ or ‘best of breed’ product in its category to make use of said technology.
Speaker: Speakers
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 27, 2012
Italy’s unemployment crisis has escalated out of control. Peter Schrank of the Economist tells why with this caricature of Prime Minister, Mario Monti. Is the USA really any different?
Staffing Talk
MARCH 5, 2012
I have worked at a few warehouses in my life. I still have a couple scars on my forearms from one of them — caused by repeated burning. Working there sucked bad. Undercover warehouse worker/journalist Mac McClelland recently took a job at a major online retailer shipping warehouse and lived to tell the tale. She calls herself a Warehouse Wage Slave.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 7, 2012
Twenty-six-year-old entrepreneur Rajeeb Dey says we are in the midst of a youth employment crisis. So he decided to do something about it in the form of enternships.com , a website that connects students and graduates to internships in startups and small companies. For his efforts, the London-based Dey has been named among the Young Global Leaders for 2012 by the World Economic Forum, and is in fact the youngest YGL in the world.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 7, 2012
Posing as job-seeker, man abducts staffer. A woman working at The Reserves Network staffing agency told officers a man came in asking what jobs were available Monday. After giving him an application, he came back with a knife and demanded her car keys, cell phone and money, according to a police report. Using the knife, the man forced the woman to her car and told her to drive him to an ATM.
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.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 12, 2012
Recruiter casting call: do you have what it takes? The TLC network is seeking an outgoing, experienced recruiter based in New York to work with an upscale recruiting firm on a new TV docu-series. This series will follow the staff and fast-paced world of one of New York’s most successful recruiting firms. But, before we can film, the firm needs to hire a new recruiter.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 26, 2012
The American Staffing Association has offered FREE ASAPro Webinars: The Art and Process of the Conscious and Powerful Interview, How to Never Negotiate Direct Hire Fees Again, and Recruiting in the Cloud. Visit americanstaffing.net to register for these upcoming Webinars. [ASA]. Regional Personnel Services celebrates fifteenth anniversary helping clients prepare for the next wave of hiring.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 1, 2012
2012 Women’s Research : The Path Forward. [Accenture]. This is how women and men are different in the workplace. [Business Insider]. The Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy expanded modestly in January through mid-February as hiring picked up a bit across several districts. [Reuters]. How the Staffing Resource Group refocused on service to survive a tough economy.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2012
I recently spoke with several contract workers to see how they liked contingent work, how client relationships were working, and what they thought of their staffing companies. One contingent worker was very upset with his staffing company. If you read below, you will see that his treatment is likely to result in some unexpected consequences for the staffing firm.
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.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 13, 2012
…you’re employees can’t afford to get to the job site. Who to thank? We can start with our Nobel-prize winning energy secretary Steven Chu who said recently he wasn’t interested in keeping gas prices down, an approach that apparently had its effect on the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone pipeline project.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2012
Pinterest is the hottest social media site that business people don’t talk about. It works much better than google for a lot of employment related searches. For example, I did a search on ‘hiring’ and got this output of videos, cartoons and articles, many of which were new to me and entertaining.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 8, 2012
When you have a service-oriented, six-branch staffing company serving 15 states, you can’t afford network down time due to a new software installation, or any other reason for that matter. That’s why Personnel Staffing , a highly respected, 30-year-old staffing agency based in Birmingham, Alabama, turned to TempWorks for their software overhaul. “I have been through several staffing software conversions in my years at PSI, and this one had to be the most streamlined and least stressful,” said Pe
Staffing Talk
MARCH 15, 2012
[It’s my pleasure to introduce new Staffing Talk contributor, Robert Bausch, a marketing strategist who consults to TempWorks and a longtime friend of mine. --Gregg].
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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