ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A thought occurred to me last week after a meeting with one of our clients — why don’t more organizations use employee assessments ? Here at ExactHire, we use and promote the use of assessment tools for many employee issues. Among those uses are hiring, team building, succession planning and 360 degree feedback for performance reviews. Then it hit me…most people (and therefore organizations) see these tools as “tests”, not assessments.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When you are interviewing someone for a job, either for a “permanent” position or temporary one, do you monitor how – and how many times – the candidate uses the words “I” “we” and “they?” Do you have a metric for it? Place much significance in it? Pay attention or care at all? Professor James W.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Mobile is on the rise. Here are five solid statistics sure to persuade any non-believer: Mobile is on the rise. Here are five stats you need to know. read more.

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Workable

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Business software need not be ugly or clumsy. In fact, software for a job like recruiting is going to be used by people who only spend a few hours a month hiring people. For them, the process of reviewing applicants or taking in interview notes is a side job. Something they cannot afford to be trained for separately or do day-after-day, often enough to become experts with a complex tool.

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Hiring Thing

DECEMBER 13, 2011

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ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

You may recall from “Part 1” of this story the emphasis I placed on creating and nurturing a recruitment brand for your organization. Because whether or not you address it, you have a brand…so make sure it is a recruitment brand you are proud to support! In this post, we’ll take a quick look at how you may use applicant tracking software to help maintain the recruitment brand you worked so diligently to create.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This video of Forrester CEO George Colony at LeWeb in Paris lasts only 22 minutes, but it’s got gems on strategy that I’ll bet I’ll look back on in five years and wish I took more to heart. He explains for example how the web differs from the internet (note to earth: the web is not the internet, it’s software we’ve built onto the internet) and how the web may not be the best horse to bet on given that network speed is increasing much less quickly than processor and storage capability.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2011

No doubt you’ve experienced the web’s evolution toward a more social and mobile space. We share and consume content in more ways and across a greater variety of devices than ever before. You may have heard less about localization – another way the web is evolving. This trend is about making the web more targeted and meaningful to local audiences, primarily in terms of language and culture.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Finding a new job may be at the top of your employees’ New Years’ Resolutions list. A recent Right Management Survey highlights that most employees want to leave their current position. Even more alarming: the percentage was just as high last year. Here’s the key question from the study: ???. That people are dissatisfied at their jobs isn’t surprising given the general distrust workers have of employers after record layoffs during the recession.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Last week I wrote about the possibly discriminatory but certainly stupid new trend where job boards and employers are requiring that applicants have a job before they can apply. Now I’d like to take my hand at busting another myth, that of the wonderfulness of the passive candidate. We all know about conventional wisdom. These generally accepted ideas are often left unexamined.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A month or so ago I did this post on how to create your own Facebook job board. I’m back now with an update on the project and this time have created an open source repository for it over on Codeplex. That means you can go over there, download it, install it, and use it free of charge subject to the terms of the liberal Microsoft Public License. This app flattens the Facebook object graph so that you can search your friends and your friends friends and so on for contact information that may be h

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2011

With more than 550 offices in three countries, the CEO of the world’s 11th largest privately-held staffing company says it’s one thing to take revenue from the communities in which they do business, but giving back is equally important. “It’s not how much you take; it’s how much you give that really counts,” Bob Funk, CEO of Express Employment Professionals said in an interview with Staffing Talk.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 14, 2011

So my esteemed Staffing Talk colleague and TempWorks software guru Gregg Dourgarian has some awesome and authentic ways to beat the holiday staffing blues. At the risk of adding to that drop in productivity and GP he references, let me offer another way to beat the holiday blues. Here are more always-popular images of some people who definitely have it a lot worse than you do on the job.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2011

My weekly coffee chat and peer-to-peer networking group meeting didn’t start out as a bitch session against recruiters. But it did turn into one. And yes, in the process, someone told of a corporate hiring manager who did utter those words that make up our headline. During an actual job interview. More on that in a minute. So I am in this group of fairly disparate people in terms of life stage and vocation.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just talked to a staffing company owner who told me he has clients who want him to expand and open offices in other cities, and that he could double the size of his company overnight if he could find the right people to fill all his job reqs. Then minutes later I sit down at the computer and see that 5.7 million Americans are due to have their unemployment benefits expire January 1 st , and that some of them, along with member of Congress, are panicking.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Steady employment growth expected to continue for Canada in the New Year, finds CareerBuilder.ca’s 2012 job forecast. [PR Newswire]. Talent Management Trends in 2012. [customerTHINK]. Bradley-Morris, Inc. announced first quarter 2012 dates for their ConferenceHire® events today. [PR Web]. A recruiting agency with a boozy reputation – in a good way – has signed a three-year lease at6 Harrison Street in TriBeCa.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Insight Global History. Why Work at Kforce: Potential for Growth. John Reed, Executive Director, Robert Half Technology, describes the hiring environment for the first quarter 2012, based on findings from the Robert Half Professional Employment Report. Unemployment Drops to 8.6%. Canada lost a surprising 18,600 jobs in November, pushing the country’s unemployment rate up by 0.1 percentage points to 7.4 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Proactive on behalf of customers, Voyager opens up the lines of communication as Tempworks Software’s customer feedback survey. [PR Web]. The “walking meeting”: Managers at Salo conduct business while using treadmills in a conference room. [The New York Times]. Temp hiring seen as a sign: Experts say permanent jobs could follow next year. “I believe companies are truly hesitant to bring on direct employment, but the needs are still there ,” said Leigh Ann Pagnard, president of Cincinnati-based

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Whenever I talk to staffing company owners, and ask them about their primary barriers to growth, the answers often are the same. Among them, human capital, or the lack of good, qualified workers, worker’s comp and of course continuing changes in (and rising costs of) employee health insurance. As we straddle this last week of 2011, and the new year, let’s look at some small, but steady changes in employee health insurance, and how and where ObamaCare figures in.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2011

[originally published on the Tempworks Staffing Software blog ]. This post is about the rapidly changing mobile industry and how it is impacting staffing and the Tempworks product line, but before I get into that let me get a little braggadocio out about our current offering. Tempworks Mobile is a game-changer for the staffing industry. It unglues you from your desktop and makes it super-convenient to get 90% of the information you need while on the road with your iPad, Android or iPhone.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I can almost hear the champagne bottles being opened at Jobs2Web , the career-site-cum-seo startup on the other side of Minneapolis from us. Like a Jared Allen blitz, they just plowed through a host of suitors before finally selling themselves for a cool $110 million to SuccessFactors, itself a recent and fortunate $3 billion acquisition by SAP. I’ve always been charmed by Doug Berg, the innovation guy behind Jobs2Web, and interviewed him a while back about the Jobs2Web dashboard that tells you

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Penmac Staffing Inc. announced that its founder and CEO, Patti Penny , will step down as CEO on Dec. 31, according to a news release. Penmac’s current president, Paula Adams, Penny’s daughter, will be become president and CEO effective Jan. 1. [News-Leader]. Montage Talent Inc., a Delafield provider of video interviewing technology , has raised $3 million in a funding round led by Baird Venture Partners.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2011

TEKsystems announced findings from its quarterly IT Executive Outlook survey, conducted in partnership with the Inavero Institute. Ninety-six percent of IT leaders agree that the success of any IT initiative significantly depends upon the IT professionals implementing it. Moreover, 94% say that people-based issues such as talent attraction, development, retention, team communication can derail the success of IT projects.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Talk about institutionalizing a wrongheaded idea. A new twist in hiring, as seen on both job boards and in online job postings by employers, is that candidates must be employed to apply for an open position. This from a major job board: “If you are currently employed and confidentially seeking a new opportunity…”. It’s something that’s been popping up with distressing frequency.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 10, 2011

If you are into software, then Hacker News is Christmas every day. Here’s a quote I pulled off there today. The writer was commenting on an article about recruiting developers: My experience is that companies are "desperate" in the sense that they’re willing to invite you to lavish parties and fill you with free alcohol to get you to work there.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The wallets of millions of Americans might be slimmer these days, but their waistlines certainly aren’t. What can we do about it, and what should we do about it? Can we pass new laws? Should we not hire - or fire – someone who is fat because they might require more health care? Is it the role of government and employers to educate – or legislate – around health issues?

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 30, 2011

A guy tells Tempworks VP, Jack Terrana, that he’s selling snake oil. They guy says he’d rather skip a mortgage payment that use payroll funding. This was from the Animal Recruiting show from earlier this year.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Jacobson Group , a provider of insurance talent, announced the addition of a standalone recruitment process outsourcing service line to assist the insurance industry with enterprise hiring needs. [Insurance News Net]. Snelling Staffing in Summit , New Jersey are collecting for Dress for Success through December 30. [The Alternative Press]. Your Assets Exposed !

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