ExactHire Recruiting

JUNE 8, 2012

Around here, we sometimes call the unique job specific screening questions available in our applicant tracking software portal the “deal-breaker” questions. You may attach these questions to individual job postings in order to gather more objective information about applicants up front. In turn, the Screening Questions Reports allow you to quickly compare applicants’ answers to one another and change status codes on the fly.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 8, 2012

Perhaps you’ve overheard the flippant yet intriguing comment as well, something to the effect of “Staffing companies are going the way of the do-do bird , the internet is disrupting their business model.”. “Sure you can get coffee for free at another store, but then you have to drink it.”. I liken that comment to the attitude of a certain grocery chain here in the Twin Cities that was going to “disrupt” the coffee house market by offering free coffee to shoppers.

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Jobvite

JUNE 5, 2012

Leader in Social Recruiting Helps Designers Refine Their Job Search With Expert Sessions On Networking, Resumes, Portfolios and Interviews. BURLINGAME, CALIF., June 5, 2012 – Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, today announced Jobvite’s UX Resume and Portfolio Bootcamp. The free event on June 19 aims to help designers use their creative skills to improve their job hunt and design their dream careers.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 4, 2012

Last week we published a couple heart-warming stories that some of our readers sent in. They highlighted special reasons why they decided to make a career out of staffing. But there are plenty of people who aren’t cut out for it. This morning an ex-staffing pro sent me a story I thought you all would be interested in reading: a staffing FAIL story.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 7, 2012

How much is an outside recruiter responsible for divulging to job candidates about their relationship to the client? When someone applies for a position online, and they are contacted for either a conversation and/or an interview, and the person doing the contacting is an outside recruiter, what – and how much – should the recruiter say?

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Jobvite

JUNE 5, 2012

Leader in Social Recruiting Helps Designers Refine Their Job Search With Expert Sessions On Networking, Resumes, Portfolios and Interviews BURLINGAME, CALIF., June 5, 2012 – Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, today … Continued.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 4, 2012

North American workers aren’t a happy group these days , a new survey shows. A survey by Right Management found that nearly half of workers (44 per cent) are unsatisfied with their current job. [The Globe and Mail]. Global businesses and modern technology are fuelling an increase in remote working in Hong Kong, which could lead to greater employee satisfaction and lower operating costs, says recruiting experts Hays.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 6, 2012

6.5 million LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked, LinkedIn is “looking into” it. [Tech Crunch]. Have a bad boss ? Treat him like a toddler. [CNBC]. HireIQ: agent work-at-home trend continues to accelerate. [Virtual Strategy]. RemX Specialty Staffing first to offer video interviews in the Big Apple. [World News Report]. Employment Plus has just opened a new office in Bryan, Ohio with plans of bringing jobs to the area and helping to reduce the fairly high, over 10%, unemployment rate.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 7, 2012

Right at Home temporary employee, Bassey Justice Woodson, 49 , allegedly offered a forged Nurse Aide Certification and Employment Authorization Card when she applied for the job in Hackensack. Woodson subsequently received $4,410 in salary she was not entitled to. She was arrested June 4. [NJ]. LinkedIn confident in its hashing and salting. [Recruiter].

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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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Staffing Talk

JUNE 8, 2012

I recently took exception to a staffing story by The Chicago Reporter , an investigative news organization that publishes a website and bimonthly magazine examining the political, economic and social issues of metro Chicago with a focus on race and poverty. I thought the story unfairly and inaccurately slammed and impugned the entire staffing industry.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 8, 2012

Manpower CEO Jeffrey Joerres said , “If these uncertainties keep stacking up and none get resolved, we’ll see a hiring pause rather than the current slowdown.” [Bloomberg]. Patriot Staffing Agency and other companies will be at a Greensboro Community Cookout Saturday, June 16 th offering help if you’re looking for a job while others offer hot dogs and hamburgers, buying a home and much more.

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 6, 2012

“Read this article and let me know what you think.” That short directive, with no other editorializing, came in an email recently from Paul Phipps, the editor of Staffing Talk. The article he wanted me to read is called Undocumented Life: Staffing agencies offer a rough option when a regular job is lost. The piece was written by María Inés Zamudio, of The Chicago Reporter , an investigative news organization that publishes a website and bimonthly magazine examining the political, eco

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Staffing Talk

JUNE 5, 2012

OVIA announces major strategic investment from Recruit and company name rebrand to Wowzer. [MarketWatch]. A truck driver was killed at the Port of Houston Monday morning after a 40-foot-long metal pipe fell on him, the company he worked for, Lone Star Staffing, confirmed. [Your Houston News]. Eastridge InfoTech expands bay area presence through opening of San Francisco office.

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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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