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25 Best Towns For Jobs

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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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Facebook IPO: What It Means for Recruiting

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Facebook, the world’s largest social network with 845 million users, just filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with a hefty $75-$100 billion valuation. This would beat Google as the largest U.S. Internet IPO in … Continued.

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LinkedIn: The Dead Space Between Monster and Facebook

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It’s our pleasure to introduce new guest writer Fred de Villamil, a Paris-based user experience specialist. When not enjoying wine and exotic fromage, Fred writes about UX (user interface) and creates startups that fail as fast as they blossom. This post originally appeared in French on his blog, t37.net. If you and I were connected on Linkedin in the past but aren’t anymore, please, don’t take it personally.

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Improve Communication: Become A Master Storyteller

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Whether you’re pitching your services to a potential client or coaching a candidate on interview strategies, your interviewer will likely get very similar plugs from your competitors. To rise above the noise, you need to make what you say more memorable than all the other pitches and candidate interviews your audience will hear. A key strategy: Tell stories.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Shouts and Murmurs: How to be a Genuinely Arrogant Tech CEO

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[new and improved!]. I’ve been noticing something deeply disturbing about the moral fabric, the guiding ethos, the savoir-vivre, the posed refinement of the new tech CEOs I meet. It’s this: far too many of them don’t grasp the value of arrogance. Instead, these guys – they’re mostly guys – indulge a most peculiar character flaw that some refer to in the contemporary context as extroversion.

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How to Talk Like a Facebook IPO Insider

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Recruiting Video So Bad It’s Good

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Facebook IPO: What It Means for Recruiting

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Facebook, the world’s largest social network with 845 million users, just filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with a hefty $75-$100 billion valuation. This would beat Google as the largest U.S. Internet IPO in history. Roughly 60% of the US population has a Facebook profile with 483 million users logging in daily from around the world. This tremendous IPO will create a sea change in the recruiting space, enabling it to go above and beyond what is has been in the past.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 1, 2012

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A Free webinar panel discussion will be held tomorrow February 2nd at 10am PST. What’s the best way to roll out a satisfaction survey program? How will you engage your team? How can you implement change successfully? Click here to register. Join Moderator: Eric Gregg – CEO, Inavero, along with Panelists: Jeff Bowling – CEO, The Delta Companies, Aaron Green – CEO, Professional Staffing Group and Marcella Vail – Marketing Strategist, Perkins & Co. as they discuss the best pra

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Staffing News Of The Day, January 30, 2012

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Jeremiah Norman Johnson, son of the manager of Express Personnel Services and a friend of the alleged victim in the case, was charged with felony forgery and misdemeanor theft, after allegedly being sent to deliver paychecks from a Helena, Montana Express Personnel Services to a worker living in a prerelease center and instead signed the checks over to himself.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 2, 2012

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Indiana Governor signs right-to-work bill, but foes vow to continue fight. [Indianapolis Star]. Healthcare Locums has appointed Sue Bygrave as chief finance officer designate. [Accountancy Age]. CEO talent pool is shrinking due to specialization. Finding a good CEO is getting tougher and tougher. [Credit Union Times]. CTPartners Executive Search Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a new repurchase program to acquire up to $1 million of CTPartners’ outstanding common stock i

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The Secret of Linkedin’s Success

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There are competitors I fear. Some I loathe. Others I ignore. And then there are those like Linkedin that I don’t even realize play in my market until one day out of the blue they’ve come in and eaten some of my lunch. Getting lunch-eatened isn’t fun although one advantage is it leaves you hungrier than you would otherwise have been, and in the software business that means you’re out looking really hard at what that competitor does that’s special.

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Where To Put Your Next Staffing Branch Office

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Where should you open up your staffing company’s next branch office? Just so you won’t have to read this entire post if you’re crunched for time, I’ll just give you the Top 5 right up front. Here they are, in reverse order: 5) Hangzhou, China 4) Izmir, Turkey 3) Jiddah, Saudi Arabia 2) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1) Shanghai, China.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Staffing News Of The Day, January 31, 2012

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Adecco Workplace Insights Survey : 2012 Outlook on Jobs & the Election. [AdeccoUSA]. Homebuilders who delivered best customer experience honored with 2012 Eliant Homebuyers’ Choice Awards. The Eliant awards are presented annually by San Clemente, CA-based Eliant in partnership with Real Estate Temps. [Market Watch]. MAU Workforce Solutions, a staffing and recruiting firm in Augusta, GA , has hired Laurie Herron as a Recruiter in Greenville, SC.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 3, 2012

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The top hiring employers in America’s biggest cities. [Forbes]. Pass the ICE Test : nine I-9 recordkeeping tips. [Law]. Green Talent Staffing provides innovative workforce solutions for the green industry , focusing on the following verticals: solar, wind, hydropower, biofuels, transportation, and green manufacturing. Green Talent Staffing is a specialty division of The Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies.

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Wanna Get Fired? Do These 10 Things

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Most of the posts here on the pages of Staffing Talk have to do with hiring people, not firing them. And that is as it should be. But when a member of the editorial staff at this fine site sent me a survey about the Top 10 reasons companies fire people, I thought I would share it. As for the source, we found the write-through on Hub Pages, but their source wasn’t credited.