February, 2012

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25 Best Towns For Jobs

Staffing Talk

After our “ where to put your next branch office ” post attracted lots of readers this week, including at least one from Mongolia as we found out in the comments, we thought we would follow with the 25 best cities in the U.S. when it comes to jobs. Okay, let’s get one thing established right away. No area of the country is experiencing explosive growth at the moment.

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Top Tips for Effective Succession Planning

Professional Alternatives

Succession planning is a critical factor in the long-term success of your company. If a key executive retires, or if an unforeseen event removes top leadership from their role, you need to ensure that business will carry on. Whether the changes are planned or not, if you do not have an effective succession strategy in place, your business continuity could be at risk.

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Defining Business Relationship Management

Makena

CIO’s at some of the top companies are recognizing the value implementing a Business Relationship Management framework can have on an IT organization. After all, the concept was actually created by CIOs as the solution to a recently definable problem that the business side of things sees a barrier to the use of IT in companies mostly because they (the business, not IT) do not understand what can and cannot be done with IT.

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Facebook IPO: What It Means for Recruiting

Jobvite

Facebook, the world’s largest social network with 845 million users, just filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with a hefty $75-$100 billion valuation. This would beat Google as the largest U.S. Internet IPO in history. Roughly 60% of the US population has a Facebook profile with 483 million users logging in daily from around the world. This tremendous IPO will create a sea change in the recruiting space, enabling it to go above and beyond what is has been in the past.

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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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Recruitment is NOT Talent Acquisition

Bersin

'In our Lexicon , we define Talent acquisition as “a strategic approach to identifying, attracting and onboarding top talent to efficiently and effectively meet dynamic business needs.” The term Talent Acquisition (TA) is often used synonymously with Recruiting. However, these are two very different things. Recruiting is a subset of TA, and includes the activities of sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessing, selecting and hiring.

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Why I Suck as a Sales Person

Staffing Talk

This is for all you staffing sales pros who’ve taken a shovel or two in the face. The beginning starts a little slow. Cut to about 70 seconds in for the real deal.

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Dress For Success: What To Wear For Your Job Interview

Professional Alternatives

First impressions are everything. In job interviews, even more so. When you first meet a potential employer, they will form an opinion about you right away, largely based on how you present yourself. No matter what type of job you are interviewing for, it’s vital that you maintain a professional appearance, because how you look can either make or break your efforts.

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Job Interview Tips: Making a Great First Impression

Professional Alternatives

When applying for a new job, chances are you will be one candidate among many applying for the same position. So, what can you do to make a great first impression, stand out, and win the day? As one of the most awarded recruiting and staffing firms in Texas, we have some insight on this topic! Here are our top tips for helping you stand out and nail that next job interview: 1) Do Your Research Understanding the company you are applying to and the people you will be interviewed by will give you c

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Your Interview Commute: Plan Ahead to Avoid Delays

Professional Alternatives

If you are on your way to a job interview, the last thing you want is to be stuck in traffic or lost. While most of us depend on Google Maps or an on-board GPS device to get us where we need to be, this is not always a reliable approach. How many times have you been on your way somewhere, and your app tells you it will take 20 minutes, but you still end up being on the road for an hour?

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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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Top Tips on Writing an Effective Resume

Professional Alternatives

Having a well-crafted resume that hits all the right points is a critical component in landing your next position. Unfortunately, these days, it’s not just about getting noticed by the hiring managers, it’s also about including keywords that will get picked up by software bots. Showcasing your unique talent and skills is the primary purpose of a resume, but sometimes it’s not enough to get past the algorithmic firewall.

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No Excuses: Launch Your Startup On Your Lunch Break

Staffing Talk

Quite a few people I know have long dreamed of owning a staffing company. They speak of their dream like it’s some lofty goal attainable only by others. They say things like “If only I had the time get it started” and “I wish I was rich so I could start my own company.”. Bullcrap. Getting your business off the ground does take time and money, but the first step doesn’t require a dime.

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Oracle Overpays $1.9 Billion for Money Losing Taleo

Staffing Talk

It is losing money and market share, but that doesn’t count for much anymore. Taleo just sold itself for a cool $1.9 billion to Oracle. Some things need to be said about this. Suggestion for the developers: call your headhunter. There are a lot of great companies out there including mine that are looking to build great things, and they won’t be asking you to mate a fish with a bird.

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BYOP: Bring Your Own Phone…To Work

Staffing Talk

Do you allow employee-owned phones, tablets and laptops to connect with your company networks? Plenty do. But how do you adapt to the bring-your-own device trend and protect critical business data, belonging to either you or your clients? And if you restrict personal device use, how do you do it without pissing off your workers, particularly younger ones?

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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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Improve Communication: Become A Master Storyteller

Staffing Talk

Whether you’re pitching your services to a potential client or coaching a candidate on interview strategies, your interviewer will likely get very similar plugs from your competitors. To rise above the noise, you need to make what you say more memorable than all the other pitches and candidate interviews your audience will hear. A key strategy: Tell stories.

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Proactive Poaching With JobPoacher

Staffing Talk

Wouldn’t it be great to get a call from someone who wants you? An employer who invites you to leave your present career position and go work for them? It’s fun to do the recruiting, but it would also be nice to be the one being recruited , right? Well, now you don’t have to wait for them to come to you, you can let others know you might be in the market for a new position with JobPoacher.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 17, 2012

Staffing Talk

Registration for Staffing World 2012 is now open and we hope to see you there! [The American Staffing Association]. 10 things bosses never tell employees. [Inc.]. Is America overworked? [The Fiscal Times]. Founder and CEO Dan Campbell provided a behind-the-scenes look at how staffing firm Hire Dynamics has achieved results that would be remarkable in good economic times—even more impressive to have achieved these results during a major recession.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 27, 2012

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Social media in the workplace: Legal questions raised over business social media creations. [Inside Tucson Business]. Unemployment costs are killing small businesses. [The Baltimore Sun]. A triple-A debt rating or not , a lack of quality job creation threatens the long-term viability of the Canadian economy. [The Mark News]. High school girl wins scholarship.

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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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Employer Thankful e-Verify Lets Him Hire Illegals

Staffing Talk

[The Eggplant resents and strongly denies any association with TheOnion that has been attributed to it in the popular press.]. (The Eggplant). ISSUE 35•45 | 02.24.12 | News in Brief. Jackson, Missippi–Factory owner Doug McCraken has never felt so good about himself. He says he used to suffer from peptic ulcers, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, and stress all because he worried law enforcement would eventually catch up with his penchant for hiring illegal Mexicans, Hondurans, Chinese and t

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Whitney and the Scourge of Squandered Talent

Staffing Talk

What a waste. Arguably the most gifted voice of our age, snuffed out by bad lifestyle choices, Whitney is a stinging reminder that talent only counts for so much.

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What Does This Have to Do with Employment?

Staffing Talk

Don’t hold your talent back. Let wild horses run. There are those who refuse to see the connection between this 9-year-old’s conquest of Megaramp and recruitment but I’m betting the real staffing entrepreneurs out there do. The real staffing entrepreneurs know that there is no resting on your laurels. Every day you have to go out and win for your clients again, and the only way to do that is to constantly evolve and not hold your talent back.

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Staffing Talk’s Star Temp Employee of the Week

Staffing Talk

Everyone likes an underdog, but here in Minnesota where we blow our wad on flameouts like Donovan McNabb we have a certain reverence for the kid who comes off the bench to save the day. So here in honor of those staffing specialists that place a temp who becomes a hero at the client site, we offer the Staffing Talk Star Temp Employee of the Week. Last week our star temp (actually he’s gone perm) was Jeremy Lin.

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How to Decrease Costs and Increase Engagement - The HR Playbook

Preparing for the future in this volatile economy means making some tough decisions. You must trim costs and run a lean operation while still managing to motivate and engage employees so morale doesn’t take a hit. In Paycor’s new whitepaper, we share 13 practical ideas to accomplish both of those objectives. Download our new guide to see how it’s done.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 15, 2012

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New Intelligent Office Survey finds that people don’t want to be corporate executives. [MarketWatch]. Workplace email language predicts if they are sent up/down the ladder. [TruthDive]. After 13 years of helping connect employees with employers, CTS Employment Services will be closing its doors on July 31. [North Bay Nipissing]. Collegial humor can build ties in workplace.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 10, 2012

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Breaking Down the Five-Factor Model in the Workplace. [Gist]. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a free online service that allows workers to check their employment eligibility status, according to a statement from the citizenship agency. Guam workers can use this tool. [GuamPDN]. Nearly one-third of workers who had office romances married their co-worker, finds annual CareerBuilder Valentine’s Day survey.

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 16, 2012

Staffing Talk

Don’t let weak economy keep your business down. [The Globe and Mail]. Jobless claims fall to nearly four-year low. Applications for unemployment benefits drop 13,000 to 348,000. [MarketWatch]. Facebook Brand Pages for Timeline Coming Soon. [Read Write Web]. Mapping the financial impact of population movement in the U.S. [information aesthetics]. Lou Perez, along with Paul Rodas, has been exonerated of the worker’s compensation fraud charges brought against Perez’s enterprise, Checkma

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Staffing News Of The Day, February 6, 2012

Staffing Talk

Sorry, you’re not funny enough to work here. A new survey of chief financial officers finds that most think it’s somewhat or very important to have a sense of humor if you want to fit in with their companies. The survey of 1,400 CFOs, conducted on behalf of staffing firm Accountemps, found that 57 percent think an employee’s sense of humor is somewhat important when it comes to fitting in with the company’s corporate culture.

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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Bad Times for Commercial Staffing in France

Staffing Talk

Although professional recruitment remains strong, industrial staffing and most low-end clerical staffing has fallen off badly in the last year. That according to this report in the French daily Le Figaro, with Agence France Press.

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She’s Rubbish at Winning New Business

Staffing Talk

Charlotte is rubbish at new business. I’m not much better. The peak of my staffing sales career was getting horse-collared out of the Pacific Telephone building in midtown Sacrament in 1975.

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Career Builder Fails Big with Super Bowl Ad

Staffing Talk

Poor acting. Nonsensical plot. Boring. Career Builder, your ad stinks so bad it might get some attention.

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