Sat.May 12, 2012 - Fri.May 18, 2012

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Why I Quit Facebook and So Are America

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Don’t look now but Facebook is getting as popular as a two-time no-show/no-call temp who wants to know why you’re not calling him about jobs any more. My evidence for this is both quantitative and anecdotal. The quantitative part you could see from the stock market IPO yesterday. If not for the benevolence of the underwriters, it would have tanked well below its offering price of $38.

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How Many Times Has Your Staffing Company Reinvented Itself?

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The constantly evolving labor market makes a knack for reinvention key to a long-lasting staffing business. “I’ve had to realign my business several times,” says Laurie Kahn , founder and president of Media Staffing Network , in Scottsdale, Ariz. “You have to be flexible.”. Since she started her business in 1993, Kahn has survived by being able to change.

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The Uncoordinated Interview Process

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“Neither candidates, nor companies, really know exactly what they want,” opines Bob Norton , a former business analyst turned information systems search and placement firm founder. “From the client side, it’s figuring out the business problem they have, not the laundry list of skills they think they need. On the candidate side, it’s taking an inventory of their skills and accomplishments, rather than merely looking at where they’ve been, then determining what the ma

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What Has A Mentor Meant To You?

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Have you been helped in your career by a mentor? I haven’t myself, but after attending a panel discussion featuring the CEOs and founders of five early stage companies, it has me thinking about the value of them. I am on the board of directors of a local TiE chapter. TiE is a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

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

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Writing Code For A Successful Search

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“ The interview and hiring process is just like writing code. If you have bad specs at the start, you’ll end up with something flawed at the end.” When you speak with Bob Norton, founder/principal at Franklin Key Associates , as I did recently, you get lots of analogies. But they’re not random examples, pulled out of thin air, merely to illustrate a story.

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Staffing News Of The Day, May 14, 2012

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Reflecting back, advancing forward : Kforce celebrates 50 years in business. [MarketWatch]. Monster Worldwide Inc has drawn importance from a number of possible buyers, including private equity company Silver Lake Partners , though at least one would-be suitor, Linkedin Corporation, has planed not to hunt a contract after an early look, people familiar with the matter said.

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Headhunters, Sex and Violence Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

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As if the staffing industry didn’t already face enough challenges…. Roger Brown is an ace recruiter with an elite agency in Oslo. He specializes high-end searches and would have had no problem snuffing out the problems Yahoo had last week with its ex-CEO Scott Thomson. He’s five foot six and has a gorgeous blond wife who towers over him like Matt Kuchar over a nine-iron.

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Staffing News Of The Day, May 17, 2012

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Naked man runs for the woods at a music festival and falls, fractures his spinal column and the staff move him from the woods. The naked man was Daniel Weaver, of Hudson, N.Y., who was paralyzed from the chest down during last summer’s All Good Music Festival and he has sued Marvin’s Mountaintop LLC, Event Staffing Inc. of Norfolk, Va., and Maryland-based Walther Productions along with All Good Presents (whose employees he says contributed to his injuries) in U.S.

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Staffing News Of The Day, May 18, 2012

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Rona Borre, president and CEO of Instant Technology says , “Facebook has dramatically changed the way I hire people.” [CNBC]. Dan Rodriguez, CEO and co-founder of Veredus Corp., has led his company to growth topping 40% annually the past two years in a mature, tough industry. How? By focusing more on making the customer and client happy than the direct return and in the end, it returned threefold.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Staffing News Of The Day, May 16, 2012

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Online recruiter Monster updates its résumé. [The Wall Street Journal]. CTPartners says preventable errors brought down Yahoo! CEO and Directors and offers five ways to avoid a Yahoo! Disaster. [MarketWatch]. Help Wanted (unless you’re over 50). [The Wall Street Journal]. Legal issues abound in telecommuting. [Finance & Commerce]. Inside Edge Legal Contract Staffing Services expands in the District of Columbia.