Staffing Talk
AUGUST 24, 2011
Job search coaches are guilty of telling people to try unique ways to job hunt, to make yourself stand out from the competition. Are you willing to hire the candidate who conveys his skills on a sandwich board ? Or is it just a waste of your time and theirs? Let’s take a quiz. Quizzes are fun, right? The following are real situations, at least, as reported online.
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AUGUST 24, 2011
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 20, 2011
You’d have to read deep into this article by ABC to realize that instead of being run by legitimate employers, the supposed job fair that left thousands waiting outside for hours in Atlanta’s sweltering heat for nothing was actually the work of U.S. Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson and sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and its “For the People” Jobs Initiative (cough).
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 22, 2011
?Judge Loretta Preska took a lot of heat for rejecting an EEOC class-action claim that Bloomberg L.P. (NY) discriminates against pregnant women. According to the 2007 lawsuit, 603 female employees took maternity leave from Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s financial/media company over a period of six years. Seventy-eight claimed they were demoted , excluded from other job opportunities or took pay cuts after telling the company they were pregnant or returning from maternity leave.
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 24, 2011
Frenchman Victor Petit made his resume stand out when applying for a creative internship. On the back of his resume, there was a picture of Petit’s face. He’d placed a QR code over his mouth. Recruiters could take a picture of the code, which links to a video on their smartphones. The video shows Petit’s mouth as he further details his career experience.
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 25, 2011
We couldn’t help but notice how several online job seekers have been wondering if HRP Staffing, which claims to be a staffing firm for healthcare professionals and operates from Plaistow, NH, is legitimate. The website for HRP (which stands for Hospital Recruiting Partners ) appears fairly convincing, with links to articles related to employment in medical staffing.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 24, 2011
Although I never met him, Steve Jobs has had a profound impact on my life. His genius transformed my business at two pivotal moments. One when he ran the now famous Super-Bowl ad for the MacIntosh in 1984, and the other when he came out with the Apple Laserwriter. When the Macintosh commercial ran, it woke me up from the slumber of coding strictly on mainframes.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 23, 2011
That’s the offer from a group of downtown Detroit businesses, including a staffing firm. Called Live Downtown, the program leverages cash that five companies, including Strategic Staffing Solutions Inc. (S3) , has thrown into the hat for employees who agree to live or rent in the downtown area. Live Downtown promises incoming employees up to $20,000 if they buy a home in or near downtown Detroit.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 25, 2011
It’s not often that I get bested in an argument at least to the extent that I’m willing to admit it but it did just happen this last week over on AVC , one of my favorite technology blogs. In a post about business funding , the author, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and a commenter, Carl J. Mistlebauer, vented against a financing alternative known as factoring which is a service that my company, TempWorks, provides with our payroll funding division.
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 23, 2011
LINK Staffing Services announced the launch of their new website. [Market Wire]. Randstad Holding received Canadian Competition Act clearance allowing Randstad to move forward with the closing conditions for the tender offer of SFN Group. [4-traders]. Former Paramount Staffing employee Susan A. Stephens was charged with theft , two counts of unlawful use of a credit card and forgery for allegedly charging over $53,000 between January 2008 and July 2011, according to police.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 22, 2011
Staffing Talk brings you another weekly update on staffing industry stocks from some of the largest staffing-related organizations in the United States. We’ve been comparing the top three biggest gains and drops from Monday to Monday. From Monday, Aug. 15, to Monday, Aug. 22, there were only two rises on average. Biggest Rises – Aug. 15 to Aug. 22. Barrett Business – 5.15%.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 22, 2011
U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose sentenced Nicole Sumerlin Faris to 6 months in jail followed by 3 years of supervised release, with the first 6 months of that release on house arrest. Judge wants to make certain “the disconnect” won’t be there again and that the staffing executive will be deterred from embezzling ever again. Faris is also ordered to pay $52,000 in restitution.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 26, 2011
It’s no secret that British staffing agency Healthcare Locums has been through the ringer lately, both with the case of alleged accounting irregularities and in the media. Now, when they’re trying to pull it together, the board gets accused of conflict of interest. Talk about beating someone when they’re down. According to the financial website This is Money, three of HCL’s largest shareholders claim that advisory firm Penta Capital’s proposed investment in the professional healthca
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 23, 2011
Young businesswoman Nicole Sumerlin Faris was sentenced to six months in jail on Aug. 19 for embezzling from staffing agency Gulf Coast Personnel. Faris managed the Mobile, AL branch of Gulf Coast Personnel in 2008, which provided temporary employment in construction, hospitality, warehouse jobs and more. According to her LinkedIn profile, she is currently the events manager for Stella Lu Productions.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 24, 2011
Details of Gary Giordano’s previous court history paints a picture of a man who would lie, cheat, fraud and neglect to maintain his hefty lifestyle but the question is, would he murder? Still no new information obtained on the whereabouts of Robyn Gardner. [Washington Times]. American Staffing Association has notified many honors recipients who are scheduled to be acknowledged at their national conference Oct. 11-14 in New Orleans.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 22, 2011
It’s now been more than 36 years since my Dad and I first sat down at an early microcomputer and banged out our first staffing software app, a machine language thing for recording individual payroll records on magnetic cards whose primitiveness gave no indication of how software would transform our industry in the years to come. In the decades that followed we’d see little change from year to year but over the course of each 10 year period everything changed.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 26, 2011
Seven years ago, Melissa Carbonell was on the hunt for the elusive perfect job. “I was contacted by several recruiters promising me not only a job but chocolate rivers and gummy bear trees,&# she says on her website. That may sound enticing, but it was overwhelming for her. “There were massive companies with offices all over the nation and small entrepreneurs working from their dining room tables but they all sounded the same and they all sounded great!
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 23, 2011
You wouldn’t know it from LinkedIn’s stratospherically high market cap , but people like me whose job it is to look far and deep for the best talent available don’t want to have anything to do with the cesspool of email and network-join requests that social networks like LinkedIn eventually become. You see at the end of the day, social networks end up like the free coffee you get at your grocery market.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 26, 2011
Staffing Firms Top Inc. List of Fastest Growing in HR. [ERE]. Information-technology and staffing provider CDI Corp. said Thursday that Chief Financial Officer Mark Kerschner is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. [Canadian Business]. Hershey’s: “I personally think the kids are being misled by the National Guestworker Alliance and the AFL-CIO,&# Rick Anaya, CEO of the Council for Educational Travel USA (CETUSA) said. “For some reason they’ve chosen to target thi
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 26, 2011
Hurricanes! Earthquakes! Roller coaster markets! Overthrown regimes! It’s been quite a year so far all over the world. Which got us thinking. What if all of this is just one gigantic message to you that it’s time for a change of scenery? It’s never too late. You can be a hero to your coworkers, or you can be a hero to the whole world. Here are a few suggestions to push you along!
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 25, 2011
Congratulations to Care Communications, Inc. who received the Elite Award in the small business category from the National Association for Business Resources, one of just eleven such awards presented as part of “Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” in 2011. [PR Web]. Fios, a provider of electronic discovery services, has teamed up with Special Counsel, a legal staffing company, combine services and offer “e-discovery services to clients at affordable per-document or per-gigaby
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