Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Veteran executive recruiter Rick Deare doesn’t mind the term “headhunter.” In fact he even uses it on his Deare Recruiting Solutions website. But he contends that problem solver is a better way to describe what he does. “We have always been tasked with identifying strong talent,” says Deare. “But we’re being asked to make more real contributions to hiring managers these days, and that means being a bigger, better and broader problem solver.”.

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Hiring Thing

OCTOBER 30, 2011

'You might have noticed the button the front page has our HiringThing mascot peeping out from behind. It''s a great way to add some personality , and it didn''t take long to whip up a little javascript to get this done.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Think you’re entitled to that prevailing wage job you once had? Guess again, because chances are that you aren’t — at least yet. That’s the message from Lani Harless, who has a tough love approach when it comes to helping local job seekers find employment. Harless runs Rapid Staffing, a Brandon, Florida based company she first founded in 2002.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Imagine you are a branch manager and you just got back to the office from a business lunch meeting. You walk into your office and it’s absolute mayhem. Your employees are running around like headless chickens. There are three people in one room filling out paper applications, four people on assessment computers and five more people standing around waiting for someone to pay attention to them.

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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Hi! I’m Amy Bingham , and I’m an 18-year veteran of the staffing industry. I spent more than a dozen years with Spherion in field and corporate roles learning the business from soup to nuts and winning many awards and trips for beating my numbers along the way. I live in Orlando with my husband, teenage son, and pre-teen daughter. Love my kids, but I’m most passionate about my three cats (OK not really, but you know what I mean).

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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Since I’m speaking on a panel tomorrow on unemployment , I decided to get a sense of how others view our economic system and went down to the Occupy Minneapolis protests at the People’s Plaza in Minneapolis yesterday and met up with a full range of anarchists, Christians, school teachers, and black power groups all so different from one another I was amazed to find them together.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

There are only 2 weeks left to register for the 2012 Best of Staffing competition. It’s only $275 per competition to participate. Click here to learn more. [Inavero]. On the heels of a surge of 61,000 jobs gained in September , Canadian employment for October is expected to have grown further, but only modestly, Statistics Canada is likely to report on Friday.

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Hiring Thing

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

'Integrating EventMachine with Rails can be a complicated experience. We worked through some of the compatibility issues and share our solution here.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The interview with the CEO of a downtown Minneapolis headhunting firm began in rather typical fashion. Questions about my resume. My skills. My hopes. My dreams. But it ended rather atypically! With a sales pitch that included him asking me for money to proceed. Lots of it. A couple of years ago I was pondering my future career direction and decided to cast about and see what kinds of opportunities existed at the time.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Police say that two masked men entered the Integrated Staffing building on Friday morning and took nearly $30, 000 from the temp agency. [WTKR]. AMN Healthcare announces third quarter 2011 results. [Market Watch]. West Sound Workforce, Inc. certified as a Woman-Owned Small Business. [Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal]. Manpower approves stock buyback program.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

German unemployment unexpectedly rose for the first time in more than two years in October and manufacturing contracted as pessimism mounted among businesses in Europe’s largest economy. [Bloomberg Businessweek]. Dice Holdings, Inc. reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. [Market Watch]. A recent Everest Group report highlighted SourceRight Solutions , a Randstad company, as one among limited providers with blended RPO experience in the “Rise of Blended RPO.

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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Happy Halloween everyone! The slideshow below features pictures of all kinds of staffing companies celebrating Halloween! Is your company in the slideshow? Click the image below to load! California enacts new round of employee-friendly laws. [Proskauer]. TrueBlue reports 2011 third quarter results. [Benzinga]. The Work Connection opens newest Minnesota office.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Fifty-eight percent of Kentucky manufacturers surveyed for the recently conducted 2011 Annual Manufacturing Wage and Benefits Survey said they are planning to hire between one and 19 employees in 2012, up one percent from last year’s results. [Lane Report]. Thirty-eight immigrant workers say they were “systematically defrauded and exploited in the recruitment and hiring process,” and subjected to “exorbitant debt, forced labor, substandard living conditions and substandard wage

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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.

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