ExactHire Recruiting

JANUARY 18, 2013

Are You Asking the Right Knockout Questions Early Enough in Your Selection Process? By Harlan Schafir Regardless of what you call them (screening questions, knockout questions, or something else), we all have them. Those questions that, at least in our minds, help differentiate the candidates who will be successful from those who will not. So at what point in the selection process are you asking these types of questions?

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 31, 2013

You read that right. It’s not a typo. The digital dating service eHarmony will soon offer a job searching function. Their line of thinking is simple. They have some 20 millions users, each with “in-depth” personality profiles. Today’s hiring trends (according to them) suggest that employers tend to pick people based on “four to five superficial traits” much like meeting someone in a bar.

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Hospital Recruiting

JANUARY 23, 2013

Hire More Physicians by Recruiting the Spouse and Children. You’ve received an excellent looking CV of a well-trained physician; you’ve made the calls to court the candidate and picked dates for the candidate to interview. You know what the candidate needs from an opportunity, and you feel pretty good about your chances of a successful recruitment effort.

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Hiring Thing

JANUARY 2, 2013

'Every company faces the challenge of how to motivate employees to perform at their full potential. This challenge seems even more daunting for small businesses that are operating on leaner budgets. Let me share with you some motivational concepts that are being taught in business schools across the country that won’t break the bank (which is more than many of us who paid for those business degrees can say).

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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

JANUARY 23, 2013

Plenty of applicant tracking systems (ATS) claim to get you from point A to point B, but they focus too heavily on features instead of function. In the real world, features mean very little if they’re not usable. Whether you’re a candidate, a recruiter, or a hiring manager, you need technology that lets you focus simply on moving forward.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 29, 2013

I assumed everyone had heard about this amazing story when it happened back in September, so never bothered to post it. But after repeated looks of confusion whenever I mention it in water cooler conversations, I realized some people actually exist who haven’t heard it. So I’ve decided to let you all in on what is undoubtedly the greatest email to an employer in the history of mankind.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 25, 2013

It’s hard to attract much attention with a resume, right? I mean, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seem them all. Not so on both counts for an enterprising – and creative – web product manager from Paris, France, by the name of Philippe Dubost. His resume takes the form of an amazing Amazon product page. But don’t just check out the screen grab, go here and see it for yourself.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 18, 2013

Do you think you have some ideas about how staffing agencies might circumvent Obamacare once it comes into law? Think again, says the IRS, they’re already a couple of steps ahead of you. When I wrote this post last June about a staffing agency owner who claimed Obamacare might force him to shut down his business, it inspired lots of comments from readers about how staffing agencies – and others – might try to circumvent it.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 23, 2013

Each department at Zappos is decorated uniquely. This is the rainforest (and pirates, apparently). Sometimes reason and common sense are wrong , and no matter how straight-forward the equation looks, you never get the desired result. By the same token, sometimes the most radical and counter-intuitive ideas are the ones that work, and in turn change the way we think.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 14, 2013

With a new season of The Millionaire Matchmaker upon us, it seemed like a timely reminder of just how similar the worlds of matchmaking and recruiting are. For those who’ve never seen the Bravo reality show (or won’t admit to it), The Millionaire Matchmaker follows the professional adventures of Patti Stanger , a New York-based matchmaker who caters specifically to millionaires.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 4, 2013

Jan Smith, Jeff’s girlfriend. An Eggplant exclusive. The Eggplant denies any relationship with The Onion. Office temp and former Obama campaign worker Jeff Sanders was stunned to find out today that he too is a millionaire after verifying the numbers in his paycheck today. “I dreamed for President Obama to be reelected so he would increase taxes on millionaires,” says Sanders.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 15, 2013

As a news source for the staffing industry, we often take stories from the perspective of the staffer/recruiter, and as such I guess you could say we show favoritism. True, we call out poor practices and cheating companies fairly regularly, but that’s to single out that the bad apples shouldn’t be spoiling an otherwise wholesome bunch that’s just trying to put people to work.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 22, 2013

Are recruiters obsolete and staffing firms’ days numbered? Will technology completely replace what my firm and my colleagues do for our clients and contractors? If you Google these questions you’ll get plenty of opinions: our demise has been predicted for more than a decade and just as vociferously denied as well. The defenders point out that recruiting, at heart, is a people-centric endeavor, and while technology can enhance efficiencies and even replace manual functions, you can’t take the hum

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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

JANUARY 8, 2013

This week I read a post on recruiter.com , The Real Reasons Your Employees are Leaving You. Author Maren Hogan references a recent infographic by Paycom that discusses the issue of “pull” versus “push.” A “push” is when an employee leaves for reasons related to their current job as opposed to being “pulled” by an outside offer that tantalizes. Paycom says that 94% of employees report voluntarily leaving for a push reason rather than a pull.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 30, 2013

We’ve seen loads of videos and commercials for staffing companies, and it seems to me that often the most effective and memorable ones are also the most simple. Take, for example, this fantastic new campaign from the UK pub group Geronimo Inns. These four commercials (adverts, to all you Brits) have a static camera, quick narration with no sales pitch, and damn funny content (tongue-in-cheek interview tips for landing a dream job).

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 4, 2013

Sometimes temporary workers flat-out quit on you. They don’t give notice. They don’t fulfill the contract period. They just quit. In many employment circumstances, this reflects negatively on the employee, as it rightfully should. They’ll get bad comments when future employees check their references, and it’ll look weird on a résumé to see a really short stint.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 21, 2013

When the talent search engine TalentBin made its public launch last year, they were rather immodest in stating their value proposition, saying it “ turned the entire professional web into the largest talent sourcing database known to mankind.” Is that what happened? Or is it just another aggregator of information widely available for recruiters – and others – online?

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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

JANUARY 30, 2013

You know that scene from The Miracle on 34th Street , where Santa promises a kid he’ll get a fire engine on Christmas morning? The kid’s excited, but his mom is anything but. She’s been all over the city looking for one to no avail, and she gives Santa a piece of her mind for promising one. Santa: You don’t think I would’ve said that unless I’m sure?

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 10, 2013

With its built-in readership’s desire to be inspired, enlightened, informed, or just merely told something they don’t already know, business advice is a major industry. But no matter how many books come out, few are even good enough to admit to having read, let alone are considered essential reading. The solution to this problem is simple: replace the authors.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 1, 2013

This is a busy day for payroll processors across the country. If you’re a payroll processor and you actually got the day off (and you aren’t in government union!), then count yourself as one of the few. At Tempworks we’re getting a lot of inquiries like this one: Do you know if the rate applies to the check date or the w/e ending date? At Tempworks we’re getting a lot of inquiries like this one: Do you know if the rate applies to the check date or the w/e ending date?

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 2, 2013

Another state makes it illegal for employers – or potential employers – to request login information for social networks. Just before the end of the year, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed House Bill 5523, saying “potential employees and students should be judged on their skills and abilities, not private online activity.” Michigan is the fourth state by my count to make a law to protect employees from divulging their personal social network information.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2013

Hi David, An employer or recruiter on TheLadders just posted a job that matched with your profile. If you’re a fit, apply now! That email recently appeared in my inbox. I am not what you would term an active candidate for W-2 jobs, so the notification is a bit of an anomaly, and is honestly the first such one I remember ever receiving. At some point I guess, I must have filled out a form online indicating my interest in a particular company, and when a job fitting my skills and experience

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 10, 2013

Have you heard of the practice of not only considering an applicants’ Klout score, but actually using the measurement as a first-round qualifier? Are you doing this now? Would you consider it? Maybe for certain positions only? Do you even know what a Klout score is? Do you care? Knowing that if you don’t even know what a Klout score is you probably won’t read this far, “the Klout score is a number that represents the aggregation of multiple pieces of data about your social med

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 2, 2013

During our review of 2012 and all the ups, down, ins, and outs of our year in reporting staffing news, we realized that Staffing Talk is approaching a major milestone. Our popular News of the Day emails have nearly 20,000 daily subscribers. That’s more people than 17 island nations and one continent. Ergo, it is significant. And in honor of this milestone, we’re going to reward one of our lucky readers with an exclusive Staffing Talk t-shirt (as seen modeled wonderfully above).

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 14, 2013

Have you heard of TaskRabbit , the website and mobile app where you can outsource small, short-term jobs? Should staffing companies be worried? Is this a model you can take something away from? Is TaskRabbit trying to undercut the staffing industry, or does it live comfortably outside the confines of the traditional staffing space? Here’s how it works.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2013

My friend Keith Potts who runs the UK’s ginormous job board JobSite has kicked off 2013 with a branding campaign starring Max Beesley of The Last Enemy and Spice Girl boyfriend fame. Beesley’s pitch: quit wasting your time on the internet, “upload your CV, only takes 10 minutes”. CV by the way means résumé if like me you use helmets in football. What kind of candidates will we find on the job board?

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 9, 2013

Perhaps not as famous as George Carlin’s infamous Seven Dirty Words , Staffing Talk’s Five Forbidden Words are hopefully just as widely understood among staffing professionals as Carlin’s are for those in TV. But I’ll let you be the judge …. Temp. noun. 1: an individual with limited-term employment. Not so much a forbidden word as politically incorrect or faux pas, “temp” (and its plural form, “temps”) has garnered a dirty and quazzi-derogatory reputation as meaning “inferior worker.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 31, 2013

Everyone likes a good quiz or game of trivia. But while the web is chock-full of tests about your IQ, emotional IQ, which Twilight character you most resemble, and which Twilight character’s emotional IQ you most resemble, staffing is sadly absent. But no more! Thanks to our discovery of Sporcle and an undying quest to entertain you at work, we’ve devised quizzes to test your knowledge of large staffing companies (US and Europe) and in-demand jobs.

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