Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Lately there's lots of buzz about innovative ways that government can use new technologies share data, increase citizen visibility, and promote participation. Our staff and clients are excited by the Obama administration's pledge to promote transparency in government, as well as the DC government's recent innovations with public data. As part of this, Forum One is participating in a number interesting activities over the next few months: First, we're co-sponsoring and attending the Transparency

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Microsoft’s mandated 10% reduction in temp bill rates instigated angry responses from the temp IT contractors of Aditi Staffing. Aditi allegedly responded to its employees with the following email [edited for brevity by me]: Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Subject: Re: Important Announcement: Changes to Agency Temporary Importance: High Hello, The team here at Aditi Staffing would like to follow up with the communication you received yesterday. […] Some of you have asked whether A

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Forum One was lucky enough to be invited to the Fifth Annual United Nations' Web4Dev conference , hosted by UNICEF, which brought together global thought leaders and innovators from the United Nations, academia, the development and private sectors to focus on the importance of strategic partnerships, innovation and new technology for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Last Tuesday night our friends at PATH hosted the second "Seattle Web for Global Health" Roundtable. This invitation-only events brings together folks responsible for web communications in their organizations, and there was a mix of people from organizations large and small, including the University of Washington, the Insititute for Systems Biology, Seattle Children's Hospital, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and many more.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

We're always haranguing our client organizations to set up blogs to collect "field notes.". For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. It increases the profile of the organization's experts, makes their work more accessible, and creates a stream of fresh, unique, and interesting content ripe for dissemination.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing some interesting work this week bringing the online dimension to a face-t0-face event. I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." It's a three-day gathering of economists and development policy experts from almost every continent.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Many readers of this blog work for influential organizations that produce top-tier research. Chances are still pretty good that these organizations capture their work, first and foremost, in formal reports that appear as hard-copy books and, in online form, PDF files. To be clear, I don't necessary fault this move - there is still nothing that says "important" and "credible" like a book (not to mention: who isn't looking for a nice think-tank tome to take on their mid-Winter beach get-away!).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

I just sat through an informal brownbag lunch discussion with the founder of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) , social entrepreneur Mark Hanis. Says Mark, "GI-Net is creating a permanent and powerful anti-genocide constituency in the United States, and essential to this is the innovative use of technology.". In particular, he reflected on five strategic uses of the internet which, when combined intelligently, have influenced the actions of the entire US Congress.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

I’ve been hearing a lot of stories about large staffing customers dictating significant rate cuts. Wells Fargo slammed its contingent providers like RHI something in the 10% range. Desperation or simply a reflection of a severe deflation? Mostly deflation and some simple labor market supply and demand economics I’d say. Microsoft tried to nail its vendors for 10% and now is backing off for a few weeks.

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Hiring

Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

RecruitingBlogs master Slouch tells the story of his first placement. He dragged his almost sleeping wife out of bed late at night to make the candidate call that put the deal to bed (would have gotten me in the dog-house for a week had I tried anything like that). How about you? What is the story of your first direct hire placement or big staffing deal?

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Remember how quickly Grandpa used to fix whatever was broken, especially broken windows? I remember mine did. He was an Italian immigrant that settled in downtown Omaha, and as crime escalated there in the 1960s he was fanatical about keeping his house and rental properties freshly painted, lawn well-tended and windows unbroken. He never said it but I suspect there was more to his meticulous nature than wanting things to look pretty.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In a recent post I discussed the failure of most staffing company websites to offer sufficient content to get listed high in search engine rankings (SERPS). The article touched on key issues like proper URL naming and the importance of separate pages. This advice was all well and good – if you don’t have good content, you won’t get good SERPS. But if you want to rank really high on more competitive searches, then good content is just a base.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Tempworks welcomes its Operations Manager, Kevin Prow, to the team of Tempworks bloggers with his first post to The Paperless Perspective. Kevin like many Tempworks empoyees went to school with my kids, right here in Eagan, MN. He is also a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and I’m proud to have him on board.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Remember the days when Labor Ready ( now True Blue: TBI ) became the gorilla of industrial staffing? I do so I called an old contact there when I heard a rumor that they were closing down the UK and facing big losses from recent acquisitions…tried a half-dozen times to get a human on the phone – no luck. Here is TheRealRVP’s take on the UK Labor Ready disaster: A good well run business in the blue collar industry can easily generate substantial sales.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Is it this bad (as portrayed by the Office of the Speaker)? Or this bad which uses percentages as opposed to number of jobs used above? Check out flowingdata.com for other perspectives.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

At staffing conferences the question of Select Staffing and where they get their money from is often brought up. Well now Select is buying out Westaff , and you can read rumors about the funding source and all sorts of staffing gossip. Re: Someone help me with the math 4-Feb-09 12:24 am An appraisal does you no good. All smaller staffing companies have lost 60% to 90% over the past six months, not just Westaff.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

My sources at Monster forecast a 45% decrease in sales 1Q2009, and the reasons go deeper than the lousy economy. Recruiters are finding it easier to find candidates with social networks and increasing effective searching capabilities on Google and Twitter.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Why talk about color when meatier issues like how to profit during the downturn are at hand? In this clip I address this question and dispel the notion that soft issues like color and appearance don’t matter.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

I noticed a competitor IP address registering multiple clicks on one of our adword ads, and so I shot a question over to SEM expert Clint Danks at ThinkSEM : “Is this click-fraud?” He answered [slightly edited by me]: click fraud really doesn’t exist on Google.if any type of "fraudulent" clicks make it past.they usually find them within a couple days and reimburse you.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

It seems everyone is praising Steven Korman for his exhortation to fellow CEOs to avoid layoffs done in the name of ‘the bottom line’. Pardon me for expressing disgust for his sanctimonious rant which would have made much more sense as a blog post or email thus saving tens of thousands of dollars that could have been donated to a food shelter. Here’s my response to him: Dear Mr.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

[link] Erick Schonfeld and the majority of commenters on Techcrunch believe LinkedIn is disproportionately (in comparison with Indeed or Facebook) benefiting from the recession as people seek job-mobility. Myself, I just don’t see it. Even in the over-50 demographic my LinkedIn network rarely shows activity with the exception of a recruiter here or there.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In auditing client websites I find that often the artistic design is good but that the content structure holds them back from being listed high on search engines or from being heavily utilized by their clients, employees and prospects. Here are the improvements I most often suggest: Separate Page for Each Branch Office Staffing companies typically have a list of branches on one page or a lame map that lists out the branches after you select a state or region.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Actually, I’ve never seen that program but it’s a fair bet that slime being slung over on the ccni.ob bulletin board is a threat to anything screen writers can come up with: Around the first week of Sept. 2005 Glenn sent his partner in the San Diego franchise (Bruce Donaldson) to fix the revenue problems in the 6 of the 7 Arizona branches. Bruce said he was given total and complete control of the region except the Tucson branch run by Eric.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Ever wonder why there are so many ATS products on the market? Because it's easy and a lot more fun for a tech guy to build one than to figure out what users really need. It’s also more fun to build than to support and train or deal with any the other political crap that goes into a software selection. Plus the tech guy can fool people for a long time and move on to a new job before the money runs out marketing the ATS he built.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Kroyer painting ( 1888 , musée des beaux arts de Göteborg ) depicts the France that I came to know and love in the 1970s. Trips to the countryside, picnics in the fields, mushroom-picking expeditions. And always, a bottle of wine and a toast. The French word for ‘toast’ as in ‘raise a glass to toast your success’ is ‘trinquer’, so I don’t get the headline “Employment: temporary staffing toasts” below from a Southwest French newspaper.

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

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Yum I love it when staffing people write about injustices committed against them. Take Mr. Technisource for example over at the Spherion message board. Salesmen are dishonest, motivated yes, but motivated to lie in order to make themselves look good. I can only comment on the Technisource side. For years, Technisource has allowed incomplete orders: salespeople could not give us bill rates, durations, a complete job description (unless it was emailed by a VMS contact), steps client will take next

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Been waiting a while to belt this one out: It’s ok to say ‘truly unique’, ‘kind of unique’ and ‘really unique’ Never let anyone, not even an English major or Inigo Montoya or a copyblogger tell you different. Those fussy people would tell you otherwise and stammer about claiming that that you can’t qualify ‘unique’, that it is what it is – unique.

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Staffing Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

How do the values of truth and transparency fare when the spotlight is on the blogger? Turns out not so well. Joel Cheesman , a popular blogger and critic of job boards, made it seem in a recent post that he had a scoop: job board company JobFox was doing a layoff this month, less than two months after JobFox PR director Barry Lawrence issued a press release claiming “No further workforce adjustments are expected.

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