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 the channel in a time where interaction designers are in high demand. How hard is it finding a job through Twitter? It’s not. You don’t have to be clever.
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2012
Are you finding a gap between the true, current market value of a candidate, and what your client, or company, is willing to pay? Is the hiring process taking so long the really good candidates are long gone? The Minnesota Recruiting and Staffing Association recently held its 3rd annual Job Summit. Following a panel discussion she moderated with HR representatives from some large employers, I had the chance to speak with Marni Hockenberg, principal at Hockenberg Search in Minneapolis.
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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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 28, 2012
Senators rush to stop employers from requiring applicants to turn over Facebook passwords : Experts say employers open themselves up for lawsuits when they snoop on applicants’ social media sites. [Chicago Tribune]. ASA Staffing Index highest since 2008 for week 12. [ASA]. Employer safety incentive programs might be unlawful – new OSHA memo clarifies, threatens.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2012
Most of the time the news that hits my inbox is bad. This morning, however, I received a friendly email about a nice little program called Project Prom. Frankly, it was a breath of fresh air. The project is orchestrated by One Simple Wish in New Jersey. The mission is to provide prom dresses, jewelry and shoes to girls whose families might not be able to afford them on their own.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2012
This cartoon was somewhat anonymously submitted by ‘Nina’ of New York. Nina, if you’re out there, this was great. Send more!
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.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 27, 2012
Employment Plus named best employer in Ohio 2012. [Tumblr]. ‘Needless networking’ : How and why to stay connected when you’re already employed. [The Work Buzz]. ‘How Creativity Works’ : It’s All In Your Imagination. [NPR]. In South Africa, arguments rage over temporary employment. One of the issues in the heated debate around the Labour Relations Amendment Bill adopted by the Cabinet last week is whether employers will be able to continue employing temporary workers “on t
Staffing Talk
MARCH 30, 2012
Unemployment rates fall in 29 US states. [NECN]. Hire Like Google: 5 Ways. Small businesses can’t match the likes of Google in budget or branding. But you can steal this search-giant recruiter’s best tips on snagging top talent. [Inc.]. The now-defunct Framingham staffing firm, Operations Management Group stiffed workers’ wages leaving Not Your Average Joe to explain.
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2012
Mancan Inc. Staffing announces the opening of another staffing office – Chardon, Ohio. [PR]. The state Employment Development Department reported last week that there were an estimated 38,800 people working through temp agencies in February, 2,200 more than the same month last year. That represents a very healthy 6 percent increase. Nationally the American Staffing Services reported that its hiring index, which is compiled from hundreds of staffing firms that are members of this trade grou
Staffing Talk
MARCH 25, 2012
It has come to my attention via one of my teenage daughters that there is a significant percentage of people out there who labor under the mistaken impression that Hunger Games is a Young Adult trilogy-cum-blockbuster by Suzanne Collins that stars among others Jennifer Lawrence and Stanley Tucci. There are still others that suffer from the illusion that Hunger Games, the movie, is some T.S.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 26, 2012
A great deal of money can be made if you buy a staffing business. Finding the perfect staffing agency for sale can literally land you in a gold mine. Literally? A gold mine? I didn’t expect to see staffing agency and gold mine in the same sentence when I looked at the search results that came back when I Google’d “buying a staffing agency.” At any rate, this post is in fact about staffing agencies, and specifically staffing agencies for sale around the country.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 30, 2012
e-Verify. A good idea that has proved successful in helping businesses with their efforts to weed out illegal hires? Or simply a cover for employers to in fact “get away” with illegal hiring, even as they are touting their compliance? That’s the framework of a story Gregg Dourgarian posed when he sent me an email query about the subject, asking if I could do some research.
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