ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We always hear that first impressions matter. Immediately our minds gravitate toward meeting people in business and social settings, interviews or even sales calls. Why don’t we think of the first impression we make when we add a new employee to our company? The goal at any company should be that the new prospect will be so impressed and wowed by his/her first day that he/she goes home and tells someone that it was the “best first day on the job EVER.

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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 It suggests that last century’s mechanical models of management have become outdated in today’s more social world, and our challenge now is to create more human organizations that are more open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous.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

APRIL 27, 2012

I’m a sucker for old photography. I don’t mind admitting I have a pretty impressive tintype collection at home. I started looking through old pictures of staffing offices, ads, and signs and found a lot more than I thought I would. When looking at these it’s impossible not to be impressed with how far we’ve come today. My personal favorite: the “Don’t Be A Job Hopper” sign drawn by Walt Disney.

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ExactHire Recruiting

JUNE 8, 2012

Around here, we sometimes call the unique job specific screening questions available in our applicant tracking software portal the “deal-breaker” questions. You may attach these questions to individual job postings in order to gather more objective information about applicants up front. In turn, the Screening Questions Reports allow you to quickly compare applicants’ answers to one another and change status codes on the fly.

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ExactHire Recruiting

APRIL 4, 2012

It’s that time of the year…the grass is green, the birds are chirping, and many new faces are popping up as potential employees (and perhaps as new LinkedIn followers) for your organization as students dive full throttle into the internship search process. Let’s say you are pretty satisfied with the questions asked on your employment application, and it helps you capture appropriate, job-relevant information from experienced job seekers and recent college graduates.

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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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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

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 4, 2012

“The question is not ‘can they do this job?’ The real decision is, ‘Do I want to have beer with this person?’” Sharing a “spark,” as well as the same tastes, background and after-work activities as the interviewer is just as important, if not more so, than actual job skills, according to a new study by Northwestern University management and organizations assistant professor Lauren Rivera.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 22, 2012

I love getting stories like this in my inbox. The woman who sent this to me felt like it was too cheesy for her style — so she asked me to keep it anonymous. I can tell you, however, she means every word of it. = = = = =. I have been in the staffing and recruiting industry for over 11 years now. When I first started off, I was just out of college.

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Staffing Talk

AUGUST 21, 2012

How do most staffing companies pay outside sales people? Is it base plus commission, commission only, base only, and is mileage always reimbursed? Those are a few questions posed to us by a Staffing Talk reader, Jody Audet of Castle Rock, Colorado’s TPM Staffing Services , and we went on a fact finding mission to get some of those answers. It wasn’t that easy though.

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Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2012

Are you buffudled by the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? I often am. It's the most common question I receive when presenting on social media. Are you often confused about the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? And how they compare to LinkedIn Groups? This post helps end the befuddlement. read more.

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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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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 16, 2012

It takes commitment, perseverance, and resilience. It takes a willingness to work alone, honing their craft, while friends socialize, play video games, post on Facebook, and contemplate the lint between their toes as they put on a clean pair of socks and prepare to go out for the night. It takes an insatiable hunger to beat their competition. These are the traits of The Athlete.

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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.

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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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Staffing Talk

AUGUST 7, 2012

I love soccer, playing poker, reading books of all types and creative writing. I also have a new hobby I am pretty excited about: agate hunting. I’ve discovered the joy of the outdoors and the excitement of each new find. My kids and I appreciate spending quality time while we “hunt” agates together and I have found the relaxing pace of this particular activity to be a useful counterbalance to the fast-paced world of executive search, where I make my living.

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Staffing Talk

JULY 27, 2012

I was on a national job board site recently and read a statement from a job seeker complaining about this one particular large staffing company with offices in 24 states around the U.S. And then a bunch of other people chimed in from other parts of the country with similar sentiments. This may not be a particularly new phenomenon, or a new criticism, but I’m not seeing the play here.

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

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Staffing Talk

APRIL 14, 2012

Beautiful weekend here in Minnesota. I got my nine holes in. Didn’t hit any shots like this though. Three-putted from seven feet in fact.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 26, 2012

A year ago I decided to follow in my father’s footsteps by working for his staffing company. I’ve since been doing a lot of training on recruiting, social media, networking, skill marketing, and lead hunting by attending seminars, participating in webinars, and writing recruiting blogs. The hope being that, by the time I hit the sales field, I’m running with all the tools I need to be successful.

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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.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

After our “ where to put your next branch office ” post attracted lots of readers this week, including at least one from Mongolia as we found out in the comments, we thought we would follow with the 25 best cities in the U.S. when it comes to jobs. Okay, let’s get one thing established right away. No area of the country is experiencing explosive growth at the moment.

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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 28, 2012

We’ve always known this tried-and-true adage, but now it’s finally legal precedent thanks to the Iowa Supreme Court: Employers are not responsible for their sexual desires, the hot employees who coax them are. According to this recent ruling , a 50-year-old dentist fired a stellar assistant of 10 years on the grounds of “irresistible attraction.” The assistant filed a discrimination suit against him, but the employer and his wife viewed the assistant as a threat to their marriage, and according

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Staffing Talk

APRIL 1, 2012

Ever wondered what "The Three Little Pigs" would sound like if it had been written with a more classic, robust command of the English language? John Branyan shows you in this very funny stand-up bit.

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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 22, 2012

This is a real safety disclaimer poster made by Flinn Scientific and distributed to science teachers across the nation. Now it’s been made fun of so many times that you’ll probably never see anything this ridiculous displayed by your customers.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 1, 2012

What do you say to someone, or put in writing, informing them you are not going to hire them for the job they applied for? I think it’s a serious question, and it is one I have written about on this site. And in fact, we received several good comments about the last story I wrote on this subject, so maybe it’s time to revisit it. Not now though.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Running a staffing firm can be lonely, and if you’re a woman it’s easy to feel even more isolated. But don’t worry, we caught up with a few women who have dealt with that very thing, and they say if you’re willing to put in the networking legwork, it’s easy to get connected. 1) Connect with the Pros. When Julie Brown, president of San Diego Insurance Staffing , moved from working in the insurance industry to placing workers there 17 years ago, she used professional associations right from the be

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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

APRIL 15, 2012

I keep writing about how if I were unemployed I’d hitchhike up to North Dakota. Here are five girls who actual did it.

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