Staffing Talk

MAY 31, 2013

'Hiring isn’t just about finding talent for your company; it’s about helping ideal candidates find the best suited positions within your company. Hiring also means making sure that potential candidates or new hires come into contact with the right people to help foster their professional growth and success. For most business owners or recruiters, this translates into facilitating mentoring opportunities by being a connector point for the employee and experts.

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Hiring Thing

MAY 30, 2013

'I have compiled a list of common tips for improving applicant response to a job listing. Take a look at your next job listing and see if any of these suggestions could help.

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Bersin

MAY 25, 2013

Earlier this year we launched the 2013 Corporate Learning Factbook, and the numbers are striking. US training organizations grew their spending by 12% in 2012 with similar growth rates expected in 2013. This is the highest growth rate in the last 8 years. Why the high growth? Companies realize that despite the high levels of unemployment in […].

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Staffing Talk

MAY 25, 2013

'“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” ? George Orwell , Animal Farm. Perhaps someone can explain to me the difference between a union and a temp agency. As it stands, as I look from union to agency, agency to union, and from union to agency again, but already it is impossible to say which was which.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 31, 2013

'What is your big personal – or professional – ambition? What do you dream of doing? Perhaps it’s starting a company, writing a book, coming up with the next big idea or simply creating something from nothing. So what’s holding you back, preventing you from realizing this “unlived life?”. In his first non-fiction work The War of Art , novelist Steven Pressfield ( The Legend of Bagger Vance; Gates of Fire; The Warrior Ethos ) says it’s most often Resistance with a capital R that blocks the way.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 30, 2013

'How many people do you know who complain about every little thing? Who are fundamentally unhappy with their job, their career, their life? Lots of people fit that description, right? So what is keeping most of us from trying to break out and do something new or difficult? To do this, says Steven Pressfield in his book The War of Art, we must overcome a very real entity he calls Resistance, with a capital “R.” The whole aim of Resistance, says Pressfield (the bestselling author of T

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Staffing Talk

MAY 30, 2013

'How many people do you know who complain about every little thing? Who are fundamentally unhappy with their job, their career, their life? Lots of people fit that.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 28, 2013

'Coming soon from an IRS office near you. Wish I could take credit for this, but it’s just a knockoff from the SuperMexican.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 30, 2013

'If you are confused about the new I9 form and rules, take heart. The Feds are, too. A few months ago US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) released a new version of Form I-9 with the mandate that electronically pre-populating (or auto-filling) Section 1 would no longer be permitted as of May 7. They also instituted draconian penalties between $110 and $1,100 per non-compliant form.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 28, 2013

'I’m quick to tell The Huffington Post lefties that make it over here to Staffing Talk to whine about low pay and ‘rip-off’ temp firms that they should just thumb a ride up to Mandan or Williston where you can make $20/hr flipping burgers and twice that if you’re drug-free and can drive a truck. But is life there really a bed of roses? According to one of my favorite writers, Minneapolis-based Kristi Rendahl , “Suicide 85”, the highway that runs through what some affectionately refer to as Frack

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Staffing Talk

MAY 29, 2013

'How Houston added more than two jobs for every one it lost after the stock market crash [The Atlantic]. ManpowerGroup finds 39 percent of companies are having trouble finding workers ; skilled trades tops the list of “toughest jobs to fill” [Today’s TMJ4]. A new kind of corporate temp worker, placed not through staffing firms but online [Wall Street Journal].

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Staffing Talk

MAY 31, 2013

'(This article was originally posted March 16, 2011, during a week of stories about employment law.). It has never been easier to search for – and find – information about workers you might hire for your own company, or your clients. However, it’s probably never been more difficult to stay on the right side of employment laws while you are doing it.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 31, 2013

'Global staffing provider CorTech acquires Illinois-based Stafflogix ; the overarching brand is now CorTech [Staffing Industry Analysts]. TechServe Alliance and Inavero scrutinize the process of finding, hiring, and onboarding IT professionals, and here is their advice [MSP Mentor]. Entangled in a tax law abuse scandal, IRS employees are nonetheless taking home paychecks [Reuters].

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Staffing Talk

MAY 28, 2013

'Consumer confidence elevates to highest level in five years , coinciding with rising property values [Bloomberg]. ManPowerGroup study finds global talent shortage is highest since beginning of recession [PR Newswire]. Excuses won’t be tolerated as OSHA revamps temp safety efforts [HRE Online]. Rahm Emanuel selects Chicago-based PeopleScout to recruit 100,000 veterans for Walmart [NBC Chicago].

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Staffing Talk

MAY 28, 2013

'Sex at work is a lot more common than most people think. At least that’s what former Fortune 500 HR head Liz Ryan and a Business Insider survey that one of her recent columns spawned would have us believe. Ryan, who has her own blog , and is also a Businessweek columnist, said in this recent post that about once a month she hears from a distressed human resources chief who’s dealing with some kind of office romance or sexcapades involving his or her executive team.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 30, 2013

'Number of unemployment benefit applications rises a modest 10,000 [USA Today]. Non-financial perks are rated most attractive for legal staffers , especially flexible hours/telecommuting [PR Newswire]. Despite more computer science degrees being awarded to Black students, there’s disproportionate representation – especially as businesses push for foreign temps [Insight News]. 25 percent of U.S. small- and mid-sized businesses have hired or will hire in 2013 [Staffing Industry Analysts].

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