Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
'Tech VC Anil Dash has done a lot of stuff I admire. He’s worked as a columnist for Wired, he serves on the board of one of my favorite sites, Stack Exchange, and he’s done and advised successful startups. He claims to hold dearly to values like inclusivity and honesty and proudly mentions on his blog that he helps companies at the intersection of technology and media.
Hiring Thing
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Technical debt is a term used to describe architectural or implementation issues with software that inhibit further development. Practically every successful software project, if it''s been under development for long, has some technical debt.
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Jobvite
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
At Jobvite, we recognize that there are times where as a Jobvite Engage user you really wish you could easily share the ultra rich contact records in your pipeline with your recruiting team, hiring managers, and even external stakeholders, to move passive candidates down the recruiting funnel. With Jobvite Engage, you can now easily share contacts in a few clicks.
Bersin
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
Analyzing score of data for its own sake is not so interesting – but what if you could predict future trends and behaviors with the data you have today? The business implications are huge. But how? Enter “predictive analytics.” Predictive analytics applies statistical algorithms to prescribe or recommend actions based on patterns in data that […].
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'A recruitment ad for a Canadian hospital, depicting a smiling woman wearing a hijab and white lab coat, has attracted 112 job applicants, received 150,000 Facebook page views and 1,800 shares. The ad, which reads…“ We don’t care what’s on your head. We care what’s in it. ”…recently debuted in several newspapers and via social media, in an attempt to raise the profile of the facility.
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Jobvite
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
At Jobvite, we recognize that there are times where as a Jobvite Engage user you really wish you could easily share the ultra rich contact records in your pipeline with your recruiting team, hiring managers, … Continued.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'“ There’s no experience like experience.” Between December 2007 and June 2009, when the United States went through its longest, and by most measures, worst economic recession since the Great Depression, between 8 or 9 million jobs were lost in this country, depending on whose numbers you use. And older, more experienced workers took a disproportionate hit.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'Here’s a news flash for you. Women don’t earn as much as men on average. In fact, for more than a decade now, the comparison between the median earnings of full-time employed men and women in the U.S. has remained at right around 77%. Put more simply, and bluntly, women earn 77 cents on the dollar when stacked against the paychecks of white men.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'The nation’s largest drugstore chain said today it is moving 120,000 employees to a private health insurance exchange from coverage provided directly from carriers, similar to those offered to uninsured Americans. Walgreen’s says the program will actually provide more health coverage choices and an opportunity for most employees to lower their out-of-pocket health care costs next year. " I think the only way to drive down costs in the health care space is to have the consumer bu
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'One of the things I like to do in my spare time is go to job fairs. Not really. That’s not an entirely accurate statement. But every once in a while if I see one happening nearby I will drop in and walk around and eavesdrop and listen to conversations that might turn into Staffing Talk fodder. And I heard a whole bunch of chatter recently just in front of the booth of a national staffing company.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'Employers are fleeing France because of high taxes. In fact, there are only a handful of countries (shaded pink, how nice) that tax at a higher rate. Can you name them? I missed both the South American and African ones.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'1,000 U.S. businesses are notified they must verify workers’ employment status.[Wall Street Journal]. Affordable Care Act’s special rules for grandfathered and self-insured health plans. [JD Supra]. Tom Golisano, the founder of payroll processing giant Paychex makes the Forbes 400 list of richest people in America. [Forbes]. Silicon Valley start-up Box teams up with Google Docs creator and former Microsoft Office leader to create “document engine of the future.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'[This came from a friend north of the border. I told it to my kids who never laugh at my jokes anyway, but this one I actually had to explain to them.]. At a job interview: “Would you be comfortable on a computer?” “Why, haven’t you got any chairs?
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'There’s a recruiter on Reddit tonight making the claim that counter offers invariably backfire , that the core reasons behind a resignation remain in vigor even though the employee is temporarily made happier with the counter offer’s pay or conditions. He/she advises either not doing them or doing them while quickly finding a replacement because the employee likely will leave within nine months anyway.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'How do you look at selling? Is it a transaction or a process ? Here is a twist that accounts for why most people won’t sell, why many who choose to become salespeople can’t sell, and why no one wants to be sold to. To understand this, however, we need to make a distinction between different types of selling. A retail clerk or cashier bags our merchandise when we give them money.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'The recruitment ad for Lakeridge Health in Oshawa, Canada, depicts a smiling woman wearing a hijab and white lab coat. It reads: “ We don’t care what’s on your head. We care what’s in it. ” The campaign, which debuted in several newspapers and via social media, is an attempt to raise the profile of the facility, one of the largest community hospitals in the province.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Several months ago, while pushing a buggy down a Walmart aisle with one of my kids, I heard someone call my name. Now, before I delve into the nature of this particular encounter, in the interest of full disclosure I’ll admit that I often cringe when somebody I don’t know calls me by name in public. It happens more often than you think – not because I’m famous (oh, the horrors the likes of Brad Pitt must endure!
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Several months ago, while pushing a buggy down a Walmart aisle with one of my kids, I heard someone call my name. Now, before I delve into the nature of this particular encounter, in the interest of full disclosure I’ll admit that I often cringe when somebody I don’t know calls me by name in public. It happens more often than you think – not because I’m famous (oh, the horrors the likes of Brad Pitt must endure!
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'Want to know what others are saying about recruiters and the companies they/you work for? Here’s a guide to hiring recruitment firms. [Forbes]. This should be interesting. Why you shouldn’t contribute to your 401(k). [Market Watch]. Are some of Amazon’s labor practices unfair ? Amazon workers across the country are standing up in growing numbers to the retail giant’s practice of forcing distribution plant employees to wait for long periods without pay in security check lines.
Jobvite
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
We recently spoke with Erin Osterhaus, who researches and reviews HR solutions at Software Advice, to learn more about her findings from a discussion she had with Twitter’s recruiting programs officer, Anitra Collins. In that … Continued.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'The gap in employment rates between America’s highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels on record. [ABC News]. The federal government might lose 100,000 jobs if Congress doesn’t reverse the automatic spending cuts associated with the sequester. [Washington Post]. How can workers who are 50 and older accentuate their abilities and not look over the hill?
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'In today’s chaotic, fast-paced, networked, 24/7 world we have to pay attention to – and work on – lots of different things at once. In fact, many of us pride ourselves on our ability to multitask. But do we know – or remember – how to unitask; filter the flow of data, set aside our to do list, and focus exclusively on a single thing?
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'Hiring managers, are you the last to know your recruiting strategy may not be working as well as you think ? Here are some reasons why it may not be working. [Huffington Post]. What is your workplace like? Does your office resemble a scene out of Game of Thrones ? That’s what some insiders say the culture has been like at Google with plenty of sex and political intrigue.
Jobvite
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
We recently spoke with Erin Osterhaus, who researches and reviews HR solutions at Software Advice, to learn more about her findings from a discussion she had with Twitter’s recruiting programs officer, Anitra Collins. In that conversation, Collins described some of Twitter’s methods for finding top talent on Twitter, which include re-Tweeting job posts from employees’ personal handles, showing visuals of company culture and using hashtags to find the perfect audience.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
'I spent some time this week speaking with the owners of several staffing companies. Though the conversations were wide ranging, one of the common things we talked about was the Affordable Care act, and its impact on them as business owners as well as on their contingent workforce clients. More on those conversations will come out in Staffing Talk posts in the next couple of weeks, but for this post I wanted to talk about the take of an economics professor who says more part-time jobs are on the
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Washington, D.C. shooting raises concerns about contractors gaining access to sensitive facilities. [Washington Post]. Dreaming of a career as a Mad Man or Mad Woman? Forbes says being an ad agency account exec is not only overrated, it tops the list of the most overrated jobs of 2013. [Forbes]. House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans unveil a budget bill that strips money from Obamacare.
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