Sat.May 17, 2014 - Fri.May 23, 2014

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3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Edge in Hiring

ClearCompany Recruiting

'About half of the companies polled in this year’s PayScale Compensation Best Practices Annual Report are having a difficult time filling skilled positions. Popular belief is that these hard-to-fill positions are strictly in the IT field –not so. CareerBuilder found that management, healthcare and maintenance and repair workers are also proving very hard to come by lately.

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Social Media and Job Hunting – 3 Tips for Success

ExactHire Recruiting

If you’re considering a career change, social media can be a wonderful tool to help you find opportunities and introductions not easily available in your day-to-day life. At the same time, these tools can cut the other way, if not used properly. For example, if you think the picture above is a great way to show potential employers your “fun” or “interesting” side, think again.

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Access The Mobile Recruiting Strategies Event Recordings For Free

Web Based Recruitment

'Mobile & Video Recruitment & EventsE Mobile Recruitment. Free Mobile Recruitment Guide. Video Recruitment. Training Courses. Mobile Recruitment Video Training Course. Recruitment Events. We Can Help you. Contact Us. About Us. Press & Media. Blog. Access The Mobile Recruiting Strategies Event Recordings For Free. May 19, 2014 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment One of our new events for 2014 was – Mobile Recruiting Strategies – a new online event that covered: Why mobile recr

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Blame It On My Youth, Not My Generation

Staffing Talk

'Here’s how it goes: alarmists notice negative traits in twenty-somethings. They say “I don’t have these negative traits” and attribute it to generational difference. But there’s something else that’s at play here: youth. To state the obvious, everyone was young once (I think). Might Generation Y have more in common with the baby boomers and Generation X and even the Silent Generation if we compare young people to young people?

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Dear Think Tanks: No One is Reading Your PDF Report

Forum One

'"What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world''s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever read them?" Earlier this month, Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post''s WonkBlog posed this troubling question while highlighting findings from a recent. "What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world''s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, so

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Practical Policies & Summer Perks - Part 1

iCIMS

Prepare for vacation season and create an appealing employment brand with responsible time-off & vacation policies.

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Better Online Advertising for Rural Physician Jobs

Hospital Recruiting

© Michael Shake / Fotolia. In the physician job board business, we notice that many employers deliberately create job advertisements to be very general and lacking in specific detail. For hospitals and groups in urban and suburban markets, this makes sense because a wide variety of individual physicians are likely considering practicing in their geographic areas.

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Email from a Great Candidate? Careful Opening That Attachment!

Staffing Talk

'don’t open attachments you’re not expecting. Passwords weigh on us like a “nightmare” according to Fernando Corbato, the guy who first created a computerized one back in the early 1960s at MIT. And that nightmare only gets worse. Ebay reported yesterday that hackers ran off with password related data, and they’re asking all 145 million users including me to change theirs.

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If Your Career Site Could Talk…

Jobvite

What would yours say? Would it tell potential job seekers what it means to be a part of your organization? Would it convey your mission? Or how your employees feel about their work? Would it … Continued.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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.

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Practical Policies & Summer Perks - Part 1

iCIMS

Prepare for vacation season and create an appealing employment brand with responsible time-off & vacation policies.

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Should Companies Bother Doing Exit Interviews? The DOs & DO NOTs!

ExactHire Recruiting

Have you ever conducted an exit interview that was laughable? Or, maybe you had to endure one as a departing employee that you felt was a complete waste of time…or that you fibbed your way through in an attempt not to burn any career bridges on your way out the door. Personally, I believe in the value of exit interviews when they are designed carefully, and more importantly, when they are just one part of a broader effort by a company to regularly gather feedback from employees throughout

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Foggy Future for Cloud Computing

Staffing Talk

'WSJ writer Christopher Mims spiked quite a reaction with his column “ Forget the Cloud” in which he predicts “the fog”, aka cloud data close to the user, is tech’s future. By tech future, he means value delivery. He’s going after how unexploited smart phones are by enterprise tech. I agree with him and commented: “ I’m a lead dev of an open source crm/recruiting app on Github (Exartu) which uses a publish/subscribe platform (Meteor) for to keep

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If Your Career Site Could Talk…

Jobvite

What would yours say? Would it tell potential job seekers what it means to be a part of your organization? Would it convey your mission? Or how your employees feel about their work? Would it use pictures and video? Would it tell stories? Would it be full of fresh, compelling copy? Would it offer perspective on daily life in your office? Would it give people options for how to stay in touch if they’re not yet ready to apply?

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

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.

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Summer Perks - Part 2

iCIMS

Increase organizational productivity, employee engagement, and candidate interest through strategic summer benefits!

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New Job Board Options

Hiring Thing

'HiringThing has added five new paid online job boards over the past few weeks. Our paid job boards offer a little something for every kind of business - from highly trained tech staff to entry level employees.

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Last Call for The Staffing Event of the Summer

Staffing Talk

'There are only eight weeks left until TempWorks clients and other Industry Executives get together for The Works: 2012, a staffing industry conference presented by StaffingTalk.com. The event – themed “What’s Behind What’s Ahead” will be held July 18-19 at the Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis. The Works 2012 will be a high-energy short course on behind-the-scenes branding strategy development in business as diverse as professional baseball and a behind the scenes tour of TempWorks.

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Summer Perks - Part 2

iCIMS

Increase organizational productivity, employee engagement, and candidate interest through strategic summer benefits!

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Mobile Matters

iCIMS

If you are not already providing a mobile application experience, you’re potentially losing fantastic talent!

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Bitcoin, Distributed Trust and Recruitment Platforms of the Future

Staffing Talk

'When I wrote a year or so ago about how the staffing industry might be affected by Bitcoin , I was pretty far off. when your biggest impediments to giving someone a job is the time it takes for both you and the candidate to create trust, you know you are in an industry ripe for disruption. My focus then was the fiscal irresponsibility of the United States and how many of us in cash oriented industries like staffing will find ourselves stripped of assets one day when, out of the blue, the govern

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Staffing News of the Day, May 22, 2014

Staffing Talk

'OSHA and ASA sign alliance to ensure ASA members are informed and can keep temp workers safe [ASA]. U.S. jobless aid applications jumped by 28,000 last week , but the four-week average stayed low [Charlotte Observer]. 110 protesters are arrested outside McDonald’s corporate campus in suburban Chicago [CNN Money]. Select exits bankruptcy and beefs up board of directors with execs from Randstad, TAC Worldwide [SIA].

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How to Become a Thought Leader and Other Signs of Unemployment

Staffing Talk

'So you want to be a staffing industry thought leader? Snark Attack scribe Matt Charney suggests your first steps should be to become unemployable and to begin enjoying lousy coach travel and somewhat clean two star hotels. Matt’s on target here. Social media has evolved to the point that nothing says unemployed louder than LinkedIn networking.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Most Desired Software Development Skills

Staffing Talk

'The job market is good for software developers these days. If you have hired – or placed – any recently you know that. But do you know the number one thing hiring managers are looking for in their search for developers, engineers, architects and leads? According to a new report from Dice, it’s Java/J2EE skills and experience by a wide margin. “For a programming language that started to be commercialized about 20 years ago, it’s stranglehold on modern development is

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Staffing News of the Day, May 23, 2014

Staffing Talk

'Insurance fee for big businesses helps fund Obamacare [NPR]. Giving up or retiring early: at 63.4 percent, labor force participation rate now matches that of the 1970s [PE]. Eight California National Guard members charged with collecting tens of thousands in fraudulent recruitment “bonuses ” [Stripes]. Baltimore enacts ‘Ban the Box ’ law, which restricts the timing of inquiries about an applicant’s criminal record [National Law Review].

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Staffing News of the Day, May 19, 2014

Staffing Talk

'The Society for Human Resource Management to offer its own certification program to rival SPHR/PHR [Fistful of Talent]. GM tells employees to stop using the words like “deathtrap ” & “widowmaker” it internal emails about unsafe cars [CNN Money]. Even college grads with the most in-demand degrees (engineering, tech, math, business) don’t have jobs lined up [NJ].

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Staffing News of the Day, May 20, 2014

Staffing Talk

'NYU apologizes for treating 6,000 Bangladeshi workers poorly at its newly-completed Abu Dhabi campus [NY Times]. The best and worst states for staffing firms—based on lawsuits, taxes, regulations, & union presence [SIA]. “Bonehead” dad loses job after video of him kicking his son down a skateboard ramp goes viral [Today]. Is no degree better than a liberal arts degree?

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

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

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Staffing News of the Day, May 21, 2014

Staffing Talk

'Arizona drywall firm will pay $556K in back wages and $44K in civil penalties after its labor contractor misclassified workers [SIA]. FBI director says in order to keep pace with cyber criminals, the FBI has to loosen up its no-tolerance policy for hiring marijuana -smokers [WSJ Blog]. Waco police arrest temp who filled out time sheets & collected $5,400 while not at work [KXXV].