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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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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JANUARY 2, 2013

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ExactHire Recruiting

JANUARY 11, 2013

When I hired on at ExactHire, I honestly had NO idea what this company did. I had never dealt with applicant tracking systems and onboarding before. These were words that might as well have been foreign! To make it more interesting, my family and friends wanted to hear all about my new job and what services we provided…. I had a hard time explaining, at first.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 24, 2013

A recent survey conducted by staffing juggernaut Adecco had some great insights relating to the millennial generation. As a crusty old hiring veteran, I have interviewed hundreds of job candidates over the last 10 years and I have witnessed first-hand the behaviors documented in the survey. Reading the Adecco survey compelled me to write this article for the sake of job seekers, and for the sake of recruiters who want to do a better job of preparing their candidates for the interview.

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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 30, 2013

“ Video interviews will be the norm in three years.” That’s what Ryder Cullison, manager at human resources technology provider Hire-Intelligence tells the New York Post in this article. What’s your take on this? Agree? Disagree? Too much too soon? Maybe you’ll see more of it but it certainly won’t be the norm? Let’s take a look.

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

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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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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Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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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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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 11, 2013

The following email is real, though the names have been changed (for obvious reasons). It was sent to us by an HR professional and long-time reader, who tells us the applicant sought an accounting position. She says: “This guy applied online on Friday, I emailed him Saturday to follow up and was going to phone screen him today until I noticed that he lives out of state.

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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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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 16, 2013

Whether you call it “virtual,” “remote,” or “from home,” working outside the traditional office is a major employment trend, and as technological conveniences continue to advance, it only stands to get bigger. While some in the staffing industry were a little slow to bite, now they’ve officially swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Everyone from small niche firms to heavy hitters like Adecco, Kelly, and Randstad are employing recruiters on a remote basis.

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Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

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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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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 23, 2013

The chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants Congress to make more high-skilled visas available to immigrants as part of its push for comprehensive immigration reform. Microsoft says the tech talent shortage is “close to crisis.” President Obama says we should attach a green card to the diploma of people who come here getting bachelor’s degrees, particularly in science and math.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 17, 2013

“ Unapologetically honest.” “ Shows energy and pluck.” “ People on Wall Street are calling it one of the best letters they have seen.” Really? I’m not getting it. I think it’s a bunch of bull. Which come to think about it, is probably fitting for Wall Street. Anyway, a cover letter from a current college student sent to a boutique investment bank in New York City about internship prospects and possibilities also ended up in the hands of Business In

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 28, 2013

"Johnson, stop the presses! I've got a candidate here that's just PERFECT for the front page." Someone sent us this email a few days ago, and while it’s a little sporadic and obviously inspired by recent hiring frustrations, it makes some decent points. When it comes to hiring recruiters and HR pros: Teamwork mentality is key (media people have this – in a newsroom the writers, designers, photographers, editors, etc. must all work together).

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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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