ExactHire Recruiting

JANUARY 18, 2013

Are You Asking the Right Knockout Questions Early Enough in Your Selection Process? By Harlan Schafir Regardless of what you call them (screening questions, knockout questions, or something else), we all have them. Those questions that, at least in our minds, help differentiate the candidates who will be successful from those who will not. So at what point in the selection process are you asking these types of questions?

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 18, 2013

Do you think you have some ideas about how staffing agencies might circumvent Obamacare once it comes into law? Think again, says the IRS, they’re already a couple of steps ahead of you. When I wrote this post last June about a staffing agency owner who claimed Obamacare might force him to shut down his business, it inspired lots of comments from readers about how staffing agencies – and others – might try to circumvent it.

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Hiring Thing

JANUARY 13, 2013

'Here are HiringThing, we''re working hard on creating a culture of personal responsibility and mutual trust, and we wanted our vacation and time off policy to reflect that. After some reflection, we decided to adopt an Open PTO Policy which allows our employees the flexibility to take time off when they need it.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 14, 2013

With a new season of The Millionaire Matchmaker upon us, it seemed like a timely reminder of just how similar the worlds of matchmaking and recruiting are. For those who’ve never seen the Bravo reality show (or won’t admit to it), The Millionaire Matchmaker follows the professional adventures of Patti Stanger , a New York-based matchmaker who caters specifically to millionaires.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 14, 2013

Have you heard of TaskRabbit , the website and mobile app where you can outsource small, short-term jobs? Should staffing companies be worried? Is this a model you can take something away from? Is TaskRabbit trying to undercut the staffing industry, or does it live comfortably outside the confines of the traditional staffing space? Here’s how it works.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 12, 2013

When it comes to hiring developers, I’ve made every mistake in the book. But as bad as I am, it’s rare I come across an article on the subject that gives me any hope of improving. So I was surprised to find one this weekend on TechCrunch a site that used to be one of my favorites. Here is a gem from the post: Getting Coffee Is The First Win. “For that first reach out, the goal, the win, is just getting that coffee.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 15, 2013

IRS tells employers there’s no circumventing ObamaCare [The New American]. Michael Page reported a drop in profits for 2012, and expects the first quarter to be challenging as well [Daily Post]. The most promising industry for hiring in Australia is IT, according to Hudson recruitment agency [ARN]. IT unemployment rates remain low and job rates outpace growth in other industries [ComputerWorld].

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 14, 2013

Not so with Apple who safeguards its app store like Candieland guards its Mandino fighters. Having spent the last three months dodging back and forth between our Android and Apple developers, it’s no surprise to me that Apple’s fortunes are waning. As the NYTimes reported yesterday , developers simply prefer Android and its open source freedom to the plantation mentality that grips Apple.

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Hiring Thing

JANUARY 13, 2013

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ExactHire Recruiting

JANUARY 15, 2013

I’ve read a number of articles over the past few months about how impersonal and cumbersome the hiring process is for most employers. Given the space we operate in, we pay particular attention to those comments, as those same comments may apply to our clients and their applicants. The underlying issues for these opinions appear to stem from two things: Applicants not hearing back from employers after they’ve submitted an application or resume Employers making the application submittal process mo

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 16, 2013

Whether you call it “virtual,” “remote,” or “from home,” working outside the traditional office is a major employment trend, and as technological conveniences continue to advance, it only stands to get bigger. While some in the staffing industry were a little slow to bite, now they’ve officially swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Everyone from small niche firms to heavy hitters like Adecco, Kelly, and Randstad are employing recruiters on a remote basis.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 17, 2013

Landrum acquires two Carolina-based employment organizations [Staffing Industry Analysts]. NLRB overturns numerous precedents, tipping the balance of bargaining in favor of unions [JD Supra]. Applicants for jobless benefits fall to lowest levels since January of 2008, and though that sounds good a columnist says it may be “a statistical mirage” [MarketWatch].

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 18, 2013

Which employers will be subject to the “play or pay” health care reform rules in 2014 [JD Supra]. Want to avoid Obamacare? Mad Money ’s Jim Cramer suggests hiring more temps. Also, invest in Robert Half. [Yahoo Finance]. How the 50 employee rule is scaring small businesses [Wall Street Journal]. Aerotek is hit with 15 worker discrimination complaints [Chicago Tribune].

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 16, 2013

Nissan may unionize because employees say temp workers jeopardize job security and lower overall compensation [New York Times]. St. Louis University ditches Recruitment PLUS to try Enrollment Rx’s cloud-based CRM [Marketwire]. A workers union in the UK is staging a series of protests today to spotlight exploited temp workers who aren’t getting compensated the same as full-timers, as is required by law [The Telegraph].

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 17, 2013

“ Unapologetically honest.” “ Shows energy and pluck.” “ People on Wall Street are calling it one of the best letters they have seen.” Really? I’m not getting it. I think it’s a bunch of bull. Which come to think about it, is probably fitting for Wall Street. Anyway, a cover letter from a current college student sent to a boutique investment bank in New York City about internship prospects and possibilities also ended up in the hands of Business In

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 15, 2013

As a news source for the staffing industry, we often take stories from the perspective of the staffer/recruiter, and as such I guess you could say we show favoritism. True, we call out poor practices and cheating companies fairly regularly, but that’s to single out that the bad apples shouldn’t be spoiling an otherwise wholesome bunch that’s just trying to put people to work.

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 14, 2013

New recruiting service IntelliTalent , aimed at helping mid-size companies find top talent, launches [PR Newswire]. Increased cases of the flu is creating an increase in demand for staffing agencies [CF News], is estimated to cost us about $10 billion [Phoenix Business Journal], and here’s the U.S. markets that are the most afflicted right now [Forbes].

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Staffing Talk

JANUARY 18, 2013

A Wordle visualization of the 150 most-used words in the history of Staffing Talk. (Click to see it big.). We’re overloaded with data, statistics, and just information in general these days. To such an extent that we’ve become desensitized to its meaning and a lot of that information is just plain lost. For example: We’ve been hearing a lot about things like national debt and military spending in recent years, but the numbers are rarely put into perspective.

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