Nothing Is More Expensive Than Cheap Indian IT
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 31, 1969
" In 1993 I got the chance to travel to India to do software demos for Air India and the now defunct Indian Airlines. I adore Indian cuisine and consider my [.]'
Use the “2+1” Rule to Create Great Staffing Clients
Staffing Talk
NOVEMBER 16, 2013
He was the director of a France based airline cooperative, and he took me by the horns and set me straight when I was selling my airline software all wrong. He taught me something every great staffing sales person knows intuitively: to win a mega deal you need a champion inside the prospect’s organization.
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The Revival of the Staffing Industry Executive Forum
Staffing Talk
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
I had the chance to have a beer with Staffing Industry Analyst’s Hugo Traeger a few weeks back. Virtual reality was going to take their place and put the gropers at the TSA and the airlines with their soaring airfares in their place. Instead, a desire for intimacy has resurged.
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Staffing News Of The Day, November 12, 2012
Staffing Talk
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Hurricane Sandy leads to hiring spike, says VAR Staffing. Nobody odor allowed : Jobseeking airline pilots’ armpits sniffed. Insperity Time and Attendance acquires Sage TimeSheet Software; Companies enter into endorsement agreement. [4-traders]. Phoenix Group expands at 370 Lexington Avenue. Commercial Observer]. Journal Star].
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Hardware Finds a Home in Staffing and Recruiting
Staffing Talk
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
Software gets a lot of attention in the recruiting industry these days, but hardware deserves its place too. Airlines have long used simulators for training pilots and flight attendants, but today costs have dropped so fast that applications abound. In healthcare alone, there are more than 100k apps and 4.3
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A great story on firing someone the right way
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 31, 1969
" Firing someone the right way can be the best thing you ever do for themI've been a big fan of Adobe since the 1980s when I used its flagship Pagemaker product to launch a marketing campaign for my airline software product, Supertrace.Here's an article about Adobe's founder with some of his business aphorisms and a story… [.]
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Mobile Software Update
Staffing Talk
APRIL 18, 2012
When I wrote Supertrace, a mainframe tracing system for airlines, in the 1980s and started marketing it (in all the wrong ways), I could never have gotten back on track without the seasoned business leaders that belonged to our state supported high tech business group MHTA who bent over backwards to help me out.
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Business Travel Solutions You Haven't Thought Of
Transformify - Recruiting
MAY 16, 2018
When it comes to business travel, travel planning software applications are a valuable business investment. In addition, travel planning software offers greater flexibility for airline flights and accommodations. This saves quite a bit of the cost of planning and scheduling.
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Since This Site Is About Jobs
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 24, 2011
I had spent the previous two years building my software practice by writing airline software for an Air France related cooperative (SITA) that had put me in contact with developers from all over the world. That connected world of the airline industry was far more enticing to me than any stand-alone microcomputer could be.
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Creating Something From Nothing
Staffing Talk
MAY 17, 2013
Gregg also built an airline diagnostic and training software system called Supertrace, that to this day helps keep airline reservation systems running smoothly worldwide. David’s sister, and Gregg’s daughter, also transitioned from software development to company controller.
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How Many Revolutions Started on a Full Stomach?
Staffing Talk
MAY 24, 2012
Those gold coins weigh you down, and it happens in staffing just as much as it does with tech startups. When I started my airline software business in the 1980s, I had literally nothing in my pocket and was ready to do whatever it took to make a success. Can’t deal without working out and playing golf on a committed schedule.
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The Most Overlooked Source of Great Candidates
Staffing Talk
JUNE 11, 2012
When I started my airline software company in the 1980s one of my early hires was an ivy league graduate, a mathematical genius, and he carried himself in a distinguished way, reminiscent of the Vinklevoss twins of Facebook fame. Lesson learned: misfits make for the most overlooked source of great candidates. He totally won me over.
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What's the next big thing
Staffing Talk
JANUARY 4, 2016
1980 was a great time to get into airline mainframe software.… Maybe it means something for you, maybe not. For me it's a reminder that, over my life, the big wins happened in part because I was at the right place at the right time. … [.]
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Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger to Keynote Bullhorn’s Engage Boston 2018
Recruiting Blogs
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
15, 2018— Bullhorn® , the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, today announced that Capt. Engage Boston 2018 is Bullhorn’s annual industry conference that explores how to more effectively engage talent, leadership, and the future of staffing. . BOSTON—FEB. About Bullhorn.
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How to Get Your First Customers
Staffing Talk
JUNE 12, 2009
This morning Jack Terrana and I did our weekly show with 25 entrepreneurs from around the country, and quickly it became obvious that the hot topic of the week was how to get those first few customers for a new staffing agency. I should have started out by selling them training which is a great silver bullet for enterprise software.
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The Story Behind TempWorks
Staffing Talk
FEBRUARY 23, 2008
"Our mission which began as a way to make staffing more profitable with technology has matured into a business opportunity for any adept staffing entrepreneur that wants to run mean and lean without worry of payroll funding and without the onus of costly, non-revenue generating staff like accountants and IT staff."
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The “No Dead Bodies” Approach to Agile Development
Staffing Talk
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
In software there is a lot of talk about Agile software development , a project management method used by people who can’t code and have no idea what they really want to provide the illusion to the CEO that things are moving along steadily like Matt Schaub and Andre Johnson marching for a touchdown.
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5 Ways to Measure Employee Onboarding Effectiveness | ClearCompany
ClearCompany Recruiting
JANUARY 31, 2023
Check out these five ways you can use metrics to measure onboarding success — and how onboarding software helps you do it. airline Southwest said for some positions, around 15-20% of new hires don’t show up for their first day. Is #EmployeeOnboarding at the top of your HR priorities this year?
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An Overlooked Negotiation Technique
Staffing Talk
APRIL 6, 2008
Like most of our staffing company clients, I’ve read a lot of business books on negotiation, and along the way I’ve collected quite a few techniques – don’t be needy, exist in the world of the adversary, prepare well – and so on. Here’s an assumption from my airline software company that cost me dearly for several years.
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Staffing Talk
MAY 14, 2007
Although not the only company with Vista Certified solutions, we were I believe the only enterprise software company and most certainly the only staffing software company. Besides us, they featured the New York Times, an airline reservation website and others. Check out the clip.
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Where Were You 25 Years Ago Today? My Mac Story
Staffing Talk
JANUARY 25, 2009
I had spent the previous two years building my business with my nose down writing mainframe assembler code for a French airline cooperative (SITA). [link] When Apple ran its now famous Super-Bowl ad for the MacIntosh in 1984, I didn't know what to think. Others saw it differently.
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32 Customizing.Net Applications
Staffing Talk
APRIL 26, 2006
But first, I want to give some background on how my two software companies have thrived by providing customization through source code changes. Both companies (Probe, an airline software company started in 1982 and TempWorks in 1994) offer their software products largely on an open-source basis. Two things.
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RallyFwd December 8: Speakers Announced
Rally Recruitment Marketing
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
As the founder of hiring consultancy TalentNet Media, and a past leader of global marketing, employer brand and recruiting innovation at Allegis, North America’s largest RPO and staffing company, Craig Fisher is synonymous with recruiting innovation. Clinch : Recruitment Marketing Software. Brands, Microsoft and many more. .
The Story Behind TempWorks
Staffing Talk
JANUARY 4, 2007
And yet another when he got laid off from a national staffing company. He liked to talk about how big he thought the staffing industry was going to be. My Dad wanted Manpower to adopt it and make training a component of the staffing business. First, I didn’t have a clue how to sell software.
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32 Sylvia's, Atlanta, GA
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I just love visiting Atlanta, the city that gave my struggling airline software services company its first big contract back in 1982. Cornbread, ice tea and Brunswick stew at Dean's Barbecue in Jonesboro, the famed location of Gone With the Wind, all bring back great memories.
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Employers learn new recruitment strategies at SourceU Hawaii
SmartSearch
MARCH 14, 2019
This comprehensive all-day seminar was attended by a cross-section of the Islands’ human resources, recruiting and staffing industry professionals, corporate management executives, and small business owners looking for new ways to recruit and better compete in the local job market.
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The Truth About My First Job: I Got It with a Resume
Staffing Talk
MARCH 24, 2007
The Apple people were talking excitedly about their software. If I'd had my wits about me, I would have talked them into a job offer and made off with millions in stock options, but instead I went back home and started sending out my resume in response to every software related job ad in the Sunday paper.
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That’s a Wrap on Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Week 2022!
Recruiting Daily Advisor
JUNE 10, 2022
Tim Sackett is the President of HRU Technical Resources, an IT and Engineering Staffing firm. Their films have helped clients like Nike and American Airlines engage candidates and employees alike. Educational Session | The Future of Recruitment: An Ethical Framework for Software Selection. Pages of HR Podcast | The Talent Fix.
What Can I Do Instead of College? 15 Alternatives
Zengig
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Trade school Skilled trades like plumbing, mechanics, and welding are experiencing dramatic staffing shortages. Some of the most common programming job functions are designing websites, building apps, and creating software programs. Most airlines require only a high school diploma or a GED to apply.
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How Recruiting Agencies Can Navigate the “New Normal”
Crelate
MAY 7, 2020
The question is, what are you doing to prepare your recruiting, staffing or consulting business to provide the talent needs of the New Normal? We also know that historically, the Staffing and Recruiting industries offer a higher frequency reflection of underlying economic conditions. I’m not just talking recruiting software either.
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Three Reasons Why We Don't Get The Sale
Staffing Talk
APRIL 21, 2006
I tried for months to get my first software contract in 1982. I tried everything from running ads to cold-calling. I failed so badly it was depressing. A few things finally coincided that made it happen. The first was that my boss at the time really pissed me off, to the point that my motivation level to make the break reached a peak.
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How Customer Data Can Inform Your Hiring Strategy
Eightfold
JULY 29, 2019
It’s relatively easy to use analytics software to sift through potential candidates and find those with data points that best fit your ‘shopping list’ of ideal attributes,” says business and technology advisor Bernard Marr. . Flight attendant hires are one of the most important for JetBlue Airlines. Candidate assessments.
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The Turnover Takeover: How Tech Can Be a Differentiator for PEOs and SMBs
Prism HR
JANUARY 23, 2023
We see it in the airline industry. Tim Pratte PrismHR President of HRO Even as the Great Resignation/Great Reshuffle —or “the Great Reprioritization” as PrismHR President of HRO Tim Pratte calls it—continues to linger during uncertain economic times and the era of so-called “quiet quitting,” many companies are still facing staffing shortages.
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52 10 Awesome Video Job Description Creation Tools
Ongig
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Notable VideoMyJob customers: Siemens, Randstad (Staffing), Davidson, People2People. Notable Skill Scout customers: Unilever, Nike, McDonald’s, American Airlines. As part of that, our career site content management software lets you easily add video to any job page after the video is created. Skill Scout. SparcStart.
Staffing News of the Day, September 4, 2013
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
AtWork Group recently added franchises in eight cities , indicating a larger trend of staffing growth [Digital Journal]. staffing firms [Staffing Industry Analysts]. Europe’s second-largest airline, Lufthansa, hopes to attract students/young people through temp hiring [Bloomberg]. As Walmart goes, so goes the nation.
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CAREER REINVENTION
Recruiting Blogs
APRIL 9, 2023
For example: If you are a long-time teacher who is considering a career change to the corporate world as a learning and development coordinator, one of the biggest challenges might be learning new technology (in particular, a specific L&D software/platform).
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52 Home Alone: Why We Can’t Keep Candidates Waiting
Recruiting Daily
JUNE 30, 2016
Whether you exclusively recruit for white collar, exempt workers or specialize in staffing for high volume, high turnover positions, your application process must cater to the people you most want to hire—candidates who are qualified, interested and available. It’s simple, apply to a job yourself and see how long it takes.
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29 Best Books on Recruitment (MUST Read Resources for Recruiters)
Recruiting Blogs
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The authors highlight the latest trends in tech, such as recruitment software , that are shaping recruitment with a special focus on Artificial Intelligence. Much like our guide to buying the right software for HR , which is another great resource to help you along the way. Amazon rating: 3.7. Amazon rating: 3.7.
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52 Friend or Foe?
Staffing Talk
NOVEMBER 18, 2006
Within months, we had MacPaint-inspired marketing documents going out to literally every airline in the world. Back then, airline reservation systems went down for long periods, often delaying thousands of passengers, and our ads spoke to that pain in a fun way with vocabulary unique to airline execs and their IT problems.
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A Recent Hire at TempWorks
Staffing Talk
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Graduating from the U of M in 2008 with a Bachelor's Degree in HR Development, Colin went to work as a Recruiter for a regional airline. Colin's experience as a Recruiter helped him to get a better understanding of the importance of software like TempWorks, since he already had the hands-on experience of what many of our clients do.
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How to Avoid the Pothole of Sanctimony on Integrity Street
Staffing Talk
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
In the airline software industry where I began my career, I was on both sides of the selection process many times, and the self-interest of the “independent consultant” was ever-present. " This lie doesn’t always work though.
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32 Staffing News of the Day, January 9, 2014
Staffing Talk
JANUARY 9, 2014
Healthcare staffing provider Parallon opens first office in Wisconsin amid nurse shortages and cost pressures on hospitals [Business Wire]. Open source staffing and recruitment software is disrupting traditional innovation models and making it possible to collaborate with crowd-sourced solutions. National Review].
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45 Silver-Bullet Your Way to Staffing Profits
Staffing Talk
JANUARY 31, 2009
I while back I had the good fortune of playing golf with a superstar staffing salesperson. Eventually, this technique helped me win large software licensing contracts with Air France, Cathay Pacific, Japan Air Systems and a host of other airlines and governments.
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By the Numbers: January 19, 2018
BountyJobs
JANUARY 18, 2018
2018 Off to an Optimistic Start in Staffing. Enlisted Military Personnel, Firefighters, Airline Pilots and Police Officers, due to the increased risk of physical hazards each day. Some at the top of the list are Ultimate Software, Workday, and Salesforce. Check out the full list of 20 here. Onboarding Processes Gathering Dust.
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