January, 2012

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An Employment Application’s Place in the Selection Process

ExactHire Recruiting

I was recently emailing a newer client during our applicant tracking software implementation process , and asking him to make edits to the standard version of the employment application that we load to our client sites. After all, we can customize applications to the needs of each of our clients. To this he responded: “I’m actually wondering if I even want the actual employment application online.

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Table: Facebook Pages vs. Facebook Groups (vs. LinkedIn Groups)

Forum One

Are you buffudled by the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? I often am. It's the most common question I receive when presenting on social media. Are you often confused about the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? And how they compare to LinkedIn Groups? This post helps end the befuddlement. read more.

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How Three Recruitment Pros Deliver Bad News

Staffing Talk

One candidate you’re trying to place needs to improve her hygiene. Another didn’t get a position he was banking on to end months of unemployment. And a client has asked you to fill a position at a salary that is well below market rate. Being a staffing professional means delivering bad news — while maintaining good relationships with the candidates and clients who hear it.

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Serving Our Troops

Jobvite

The men and women of the United States military provide a great service to our country, so it is disheartening to see that the unemployment rate for veterans 18 – 24 is a staggering 30.4%; that’s 100% higher than that of non-veterans the same age. This is one of the reasons I was so excited to be invited by the White House to have Jobvite participate in the new Apps for Heroes initiative to help veterans easily find and apply to jobs.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Managing Infrastructure - On Chef and Rails

Hiring Thing

'We''ve recently been making some upgrades to the HiringThing hosting infrastructure, and one of our initiatives is to add more automation, DevOps style. ([link] HiringThing runs on many servers behind the scenes, so configuration changes can take a lot of time. Our goal was to implement a tool that allows us to make changes to our stack without logging into each server one by one.

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Eight Killer Staffing Resolutions For 2012

Staffing Talk

It’s the time of year when individuals resolve to stop snacking and start exercising — and when forward-looking business owners and managers set goals for the coming year. Some goals may vary depending on the industry in which a firm works, the type of searches it performs, the size of the firm or other factors. For example, as 2012 dawns, some staffing firms are still struggling to work their way out of the recession — while others say business is booming.

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12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012

Forum One

New years invite new prognostication. In this post, 12 of our staff experts make predictions about what will gain momentum, inspire, or catch fire in 2012. Have better ideas? Tweet @ForumOne using the hashtag #12in2012. New years invite new prognostication. In this post, 12 of our staff experts make predictions about what will gain momentum, inspire, or catch fire in 2012. read more.

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Three Facebook Trends That Will Impact Recruitment

Staffing Talk

Staffing professionals are all over the board as to whether Facebook has any relevance to their business. One will say nah it’s just for sharing pictures of the kids, another will say she finds her best candidates there. Personally I’ve recruited some of our top employees via relationships on Facebook, so my bias is to consider it an important business tool.

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4 Strategies for Going Mobile

Forum One

Nam-ho Park often, blogs, speaks, and presents on mobile strategy. The Nonprofit Technology Network originally published this post online at NTEN.org and it is cross posted below with permission. Distraction is a basic fact of mobile that you have to work with. Mobile apps or websites need to be a small focused subset of the content or service you would normally offer on your full website.

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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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LinkedIn: The Dead Space Between Monster and Facebook

Staffing Talk

It’s our pleasure to introduce new guest writer Fred de Villamil, a Paris-based user experience specialist. When not enjoying wine and exotic fromage, Fred writes about UX (user interface) and creates startups that fail as fast as they blossom. This post originally appeared in French on his blog, t37.net. If you and I were connected on Linkedin in the past but aren’t anymore, please, don’t take it personally.

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Is This A Kodak Moment For The Staffing Industry?

Staffing Talk

After being in the business of capturing and preserving memorable moments for so long, the death of the 132-year-old Eastman Kodak company is a sad moment, but does it hold lessons for the staffing industry? Let’s take a look. First, let’s set the stage a bit. Cash poor Kodak spent the last 15 years in constant belt tightening mode, as it watched their profits, and products, sink.

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Manpower: World Leader Or Leadership Embarrassment?

Staffing Talk

Of course we love to write great content around the staffing industry on a daily basis here at Staffing Talk. But we are also interested in reading and listening and learning. As a result, we always have our ears to the ground – and the chat rooms – checking out the noise around the staffing industry. And some of you are making plenty of it about Manpower!

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Super Staffing Needs For The Super Bowl

Staffing Talk

Wanted: thousands of parking attendants, waiters and waitresses, hosts and hostesses, security guards, limousine chauffeurs, shuttle bus drivers, customer service assistants, babysitters, massage therapists and food service workers. Apply online, or in person, Super Bowl XLVI, Indianapolis, Indiana. Yes, able bodies, and staffing companies, are in high demand right now as Indianapolis businesses temporarily bulk up in preparation for the big game on February 5th at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Five Question Friday

Staffing Talk

For Five Question Friday, we turn to Open Systems Technologies (OST), a company established in New York in 1990, and calling themselves “one of the largest, privately held, staffing companies in the world.” Through their brands of Open Systems Technologies, OS Financial, OS Government Services, OS Global, and soon healthcare, OST employs over 1,500 consultants in 16 dometsic and international markets.

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Obama Wants to Take Over Your Job Board and Training Business

Staffing Talk

In case you missed it, the Economist’s feature story this week was on the rise of state capitalism. If you don’t want to take the time to read it, you can save yourself a bunch of time because our president summed it up in one line during the State of the Union last night. The context of his statement was that of a private company, Siemens, that recruited a woman, Jackie Bray, paid for her training at a community college and then hired her full-time to take advantage of that training.

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SOPA, PIPA & The Staffing Industry

Staffing Talk

What’s all this noise around a pair of bills called The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA)? It doesn’t really matter to you, right? After all, you’re in the staffing business, not creating content or running an e-commerce site. So how Congress monitors and legislates copyright infringement on the Internet isn’t a big concern to you.

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Palo Alto Has the Ocean, Des Moines Has Better Looking Women

Staffing Talk

Or “Why the Midwest is the Best Place for a Startup”. dr01d on Jan 25, 9:27 PM said: The median home price in Palo Alto is $1.25 million. Not only is that a small, old house but it’s over 10x these kids annual salaries. The median home price in Des Moines is just $100,000. An average high school graduate in the midwest has a higher standard of living then a Facebook engineer living in Palo Alto. ya but on Jan 25, 10:21 PM said: he has to live in fucking Des Moines. dr01d on Jan 25, 10:38 P

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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Monster Layoff Not Scary for Some

Staffing Talk

Given the news out of Monster yesterday evening , I’m tempted to do another job-boards-are-dying post. Believe me, it’s tempting. After all, Monster lost tens of millions in 2010 and that doesn’t begin to count the carnage of acquisitions gone bad, hidden like skeletons in a closet otherwise known in account as ‘Goodwill’. Meanwhile, employers are bypassing Monster’s hefty posting fees and finding it easier advertise via their own career sites that are directly linked to their backend ATS, allow

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How I Made $250k With My Tempworks iPad App

Staffing Talk

This is a story of how I made $250k with our TempWorks iPad app and how we are constantly evolving this aspect of our product suite which we believe may soon spell the difference between success and failure for staffing sales professionals. I was down in a southern state visiting some friends and calling on a few clients when it happened that I had two spare hours to kill between a customer visit and a golf game.

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Shouts and Murmurs: How to be a Genuinely Arrogant Tech CEO

Staffing Talk

[new and improved!]. I’ve been noticing something deeply disturbing about the moral fabric, the guiding ethos, the savoir-vivre, the posed refinement of the new tech CEOs I meet. It’s this: far too many of them don’t grasp the value of arrogance. Instead, these guys – they’re mostly guys – indulge a most peculiar character flaw that some refer to in the contemporary context as extroversion.

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Santorum’s Almost Win in Iowa and What It Means for Staffing

Staffing Talk

It was about 24 years ago today that my dear wife informed me that of all the wonderful spots we had picked for her medical residency – San Francisco, Montreal, Saint Tropez (ok, that wasn’t a real choice) – it was Iowa that the medical school matching algorithm spat out for us. Not happy would be a mild way to describe my reaction. I’d driven south on 35W from Minneapolis to Iowa a few times.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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Why Your Sleazy Competitor is #1 on Google

Staffing Talk

So your staffing firm is the talk of the town. You have the best recruiters. The best candidate experience. The best assessments. So why aren’t you number one on Google? And why is it instead that low-balling rugrat on the other side of town? That’s a good questions to be asking yourself. This is the age in which marketing is all about being found, not finding.

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Webinar on Employment Law, Thursday, by Manpower’s Mark Toth

Staffing Talk

I don’t recommend many webinars but when I do it’s the Employment Law one by Mark Toth of Manpower. He’s an attorney and – astonishingly – easy to understand and funny. It’s Thursday, at 11am, and you can sign up for it here. Oh yes, one more thing, it’s free.

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Command Center Problems

Staffing Talk

If you read the official press releases and investor information, it appears as if all is well at Idaho-based Command Center, Inc. , "a national provider of on-demand and temporary staffing solutions through a network of more than 50 company-owned branch stores." But take a look at the message boards, or the SEC filings, and you will find innuendo worth of the New York Post." First, the recent back story.

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Staffing News Of The Day, January 4, 2012

Staffing Talk

A New York creditor has asked the NC Business Court to appoint a receiver to take control of staffing companies believed to be controlled by Greg Harrison for the purpose of collecting on a $7.5 million debt. [YES! Weekly]. According to a quarterly hiring survey by legal staffing firm Robert Half Legal , close to one third of lawyers are planning to issue new hires in the first quarter of 2012.

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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Forget Software, What You Need in Marketing is a Taser

Staffing Talk

There’s a mindset out there among the hoi poloi that sell marketing software , as my company, Tempworks, also does , that marketing is all about clever web 2.0 products that let you do cool stuff like track a lead from your website all the way to an executed contract. But is that really the case? Is marketing really about technology? Is it even foremost about lead nurturing, messaging or strategy?

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Staffing News Of The Day, January 25, 2012

Staffing Talk

American workers are spending $1,000 a year on coffee and another $2,000 on lunch, with men and young workers more willing to indulge in a $5 coffee than women or older colleagues, according to a survey of Americans’ workplace spending habits. [Chicago Tribune]. Express Employment Professionals reports record year for 2011. Sales are up 22 percent.

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Staffing News Of The Day, January 23, 2012

Staffing Talk

Contract award irks S.D. firms. Area job recruiting agencies say they were surprised and unhappy about Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s announcement two weeks ago that national recruiter Manpower Inc. had been awarded a $5 million state contract. [The Argus Leader]. Chamber welcomes Life Style Staffing to town. [NewsCow]. CHG Healthcare promotes Scott Beck as President.