Forum One
JULY 14, 2009
Forum One co-sponsored the Open Development Barcamp at the World Bank on Friday. Over 100 people showed up to talk about how we can make aid more transparent and do a better job of sharing knowledge and lessons learned across organizations, projects, topics, and countries. Owen Barder of Aidinfo ( www.aidinfo.org ) kicked off the day, watch or read his remarks.
Staffing Talk
JULY 22, 2009
It happened to me the other day, right in front of my eight-year-old. One-under after three holes I chunked a sand shot on my way to a triple-bogey. Turning away from everyone I slammed the sand wedge into the ground. The turn-and-bury has been scientifically proven to be golf’s only intuitive stroke as far as I can tell. I can understand the media getting upset about Tiger’s on-air f-bombs , but the turn-and-bury I can’t fault him for.
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Forum One
JULY 13, 2009
Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson , former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success. Lots of what Sam talked about can be translated into useful tactics for small and large organizations who are building communities of people who care about their issues. First, let me say that I was stunned to learn that overall the campaign raised $750 million dollars(!!
Forum One
JULY 1, 2009
Securing Your Lawn A neighbor in distress called me this past weekend trying to see if I had a key to our building?s tool shed so he could grab the lawnmower and cut the grass. Evidently he lost his. Although I had no key, I did have was a lock pick kit I acquired from Privacy Camp DC. Lock picking just happened to be one of a few sessions I attended that day and the speaker, Deviant Ollam (yes that is his real name), sold kits for anyone wanting to pursue lock picking as a ?
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Forum One
JULY 1, 2009
Pew Trusts has two new job openings for the web communications team at the Pew Environment Group. "PEG" is ramping up its organization and its efforts - and so this should be an exciting time to work there! PEG focuses on addressing three major environmental problems- climate change, wilderness and biodiversity loss, and degradation of ocean environments and marine fisheries.
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Staffing Talk
JULY 2, 2009
A Woman-Cannibal, by Leonhard Kern, 1650 Amazon is reinventing the book industry with its Kindle product and cannibalizing its own printed book market along the way. You should be thinking the same way about your recruitment company. As much as I’ve been a fan of Borders, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com itself, paper books are going the way of the rest of print media.
Staffing Talk
JULY 30, 2009
In part one of French cartoonist Bernard Swysen’s series on temporary staffing, the two sales guys head out to make their calls. In part two they continue in their respective ways, one hitting on receptionists and the other awkwardly making a pitch to a funeral home. Finally they return to the staffing office. “So, Antoine, how’d it go?” the girls ask the bump-and-grind sales guy.
Staffing Talk
JULY 29, 2009
I’m a big fan of Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens and his saying that advertising is a tax on being unremarkable. Robert got his start here in Minnesota, and he certainly has garnered a lot of free publicity himself on his way to making Geek Squad an international brand now part of Best Buy. However, advertising does have its place. It’s great to be remarkable, but we aren’t all remarkable about everything every day.
Staffing Talk
JULY 29, 2009
Part one of a French staffing cartoon by Bernard Swysen. In part one the two sales guys are heading out on calls, and the lead gal that works the job order desk is not amused: “And while those guys are out prancing about, us we’re nailed to these desks.” “That’s what you get for not going into sales,” says the other gal. The next scene shows sales guy #1 hitting on the gal at the perfume counter while sales guy #2 is being put through the grinder by a cigar-smoking client.
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Staffing Talk
JULY 29, 2009
Forget all about the nasty things I’ve written here about Twitter. Recruitment guru and tools handyman Josh Kahn has got me back on track on how to use it right. Josh gave a presentation at Google a few weeks ago and followed it up with a repeat performance at the Minnesota Recruiter conference. He’s really got his act down, and as a tools guy myself I was humbled to see someone not only entertain a crowd way better than I can but beat me at my own forte of tools as well.
Staffing Talk
JULY 17, 2009
Noted ERE columnist Kevin Wheeler entertained 250 of us at a recruitment conference hosted by Best Buy this morning. I had a chance to catch up with him at lunch as well where he spelled out the inevitable doom of job boards and how that creates opportunities, especially local opportunities. I couldn’t sit still. It’s going to be a very exciting next several years as we see innovative staffing companies step in and fill the void that the cross-aggregated job board mess has created.
Staffing Talk
JULY 15, 2009
Tony Gregoire wrote an article over at Staffing Industry Analyst (membership required for full viewing) about the weakening of the traditionally strong correlation between general economic trends and the temporary help business. He’s right to question the correlation because if temporary employment and the stock market tracked each other, the DOW would have crashed to about 4500.
Staffing Talk
JULY 14, 2009
Bernard Swysen, a French cartoonist, depicts a young man that enters a staffing company and asks how it works. After getting the explanation, he walks out the door to start his own temp agency. July 14 is the date of the French national holiday, Bastille Day, that marked the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. A new revolution is needed in France to reform laws that punish employers at every step.
Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow
The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.
Staffing Talk
JULY 14, 2009
Every once in a while I like to go through the motions of finding a job just to see what that world looks like to be a job-seeker, and so I’ll run a search on Google and few other places, something like “ sql job mn ” or “ internet marketer ”. The result I get back is an infestation of listings duplicated and “cross-pollinated” by job aggregators like Indeed, Simply Hired and Job Central whose VP Josh Sowash just did this entertaining podcast on this same subject with Joel Cheesman.
Staffing Talk
JULY 13, 2009
That the printed newspaper industry is going bust in not a difficult to support , but I got arguments against it wrong in this post about how a “Cincinnati Business Examiner” denigrated the staffing industry. It happens the story is not from a printed Cinci newspaper at all but from a website that seeks out citizen journalists and as is obvious from the article I criticized is willing to print anything.
Staffing Talk
JULY 13, 2009
Cory Hintz did the California customer tour last week and wrote about how he makes the most of his time. I’m really grateful to have Cory to constantly help our clients improve their use of our products. This is a repost from his blog : Earlier this year I wrote a post about three business travel essentials. This is an updated list based off of my recent purchases and recent trips: 1.
Staffing Talk
JULY 13, 2009
Here’s a press release put out by Tempworks PR wunderkind, Laura Baratto, about how a client of ours reducing employment costs: [link] Good news for job seekers. Atlanta-based employment innovator, CHASE Professionals, has radically reduced costs associated with employment throughout its nationwide network making it attractive for staffing clients to engage more workers.
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Staffing Talk
JULY 13, 2009
I’m proud that my client and friend Gary Nelson has confounded the abysmal economic trend in California and uncorked a great year of results. Here is the story: [link] Nelson Increases Rank by 20 Places on List of Largest US Staffing Firms May 2009 Staffing Industry Analysts Report Places Company at 44th Sonoma, California ( PRWEB ) July 13, 2009 - Nelson, the leading independent San Francisco Bay Area staffing firm, has jumped from the 64th largest staffing company in the United States to the 4
Staffing Talk
JULY 10, 2009
[link] If this link about the staffing agency business from the Cincinnati Examiner was a troll, then I apologize in advance to Kevin O'Reilly, a Cincinnati "Business Development Examiner", whatever that is. But if in fact he is real and it was an article he wrote to be taken seriously, then he gets the employment idiot-of-the-week award. First his numbers.
Staffing Talk
JULY 21, 2009
Got this from my daughters on facebook…makes me feel cool:
Staffing Talk
JULY 16, 2009
Over the last several months I’ve been engaging in a debate on ERE and other blogs about whether recruitment companies can benefit from full-bore use of social networks to attract candidates. StaffingTalk readers know where I stand, that the answer is in and that the profitable players have long since made social media a cornerstone of their business and not a sideline activity.
Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright
Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con
Staffing Talk
JULY 16, 2009
John Zappe at ERE asks what you did last time you invested in HR systems and comes away with the conclusion that selection committees need to place more value on post-sale issues like support. John is an excellent journalist and arguably the best writer on recruitment topics, but I commented to him that selection committees are unfixable and that the real problem lies not with the committees themselves anyway but with the business model of enterprise software: John Although you’re right that pac
Staffing Talk
JULY 23, 2009
Having trouble sourcing those hard-to-find candidates? Job boards not working? Telephone sourcing too painful? Marvin Smith of Microsoft offered this essay on how to identify which candidates to look for, where they might be hanging out and finally getting them to raise their hands. “The first thing we tried to understand was our target audience and how we could identify the individuals who we needed to attract — where they were employed; the best colleges for hardware engineers; what associatio
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