Sat.Feb 23, 2013 - Fri.Mar 01, 2013

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LinkedIn Is Worse Than Chlamydia: Keep Your People Out of Harm’s Way

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I met up this evening with two professionals. One a biologist. The other an insurance underwriter. They are on and off readers of Staffing Talk and we exchanged pleasantries about what we post here, but the conversation went from cheerful to macabre the moment LinkedIn came up in the conversation. Quick! The house is on fire. “Ok, I’ll just update my status first.”.

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Sequester Savings Idea: Leave Kim Dotcom Alone

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Two videos for you this evening. The first is of Kim Dotcom, internet entrepreneur, sharing the love with his wife and five kids. The second is the FBI backed raid on his home in New Zealand in January of 2012.

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The Revival of the Staffing Industry Executive Forum

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I had the chance to have a beer with Staffing Industry Analyst’s Hugo Traeger a few weeks back. It was sub-zero here in Minneapolis, but it was Hugo, the Californian, who warmed up the conversation with the comeback story of the Executive Forum, his firm’s yearly conference of industry captains. It was only a couple years back that I was mistakenly convinced that in-person shows were going the way of the fax machine.

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Staffing News of the Day, February 27, 2013

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Majority of Americans support Obama’s call to raise minimum wage [Michigan Live]. Mass layoffs down in January, but temp help filed the most claims [Staffing Industry Analysts]. After retiring, sixty percent of workers age 60-plus said they would pursue a new job [Daily Markets]. New survey reveals generational differences in workforce ; Baby Boomers take more risks [Herald Online].

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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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Are Your Job Postings Driving Away Talent?

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Are you satisfied with your hiring success rate? With the speed at which you find talent? Are you happy with the quality of candidates you are reaching? Do you feel you are getting to passive candidates who are already employed? Attracting top talent is a challenge, and a new online recruiting company wants to help. KarmaHire , a Vancouver, British Columbia-based online recruiting company is just soft launching in Beta this week.

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Interview Simulators: Game Changer or Gimmick?

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When it comes to internal hiring, very few staffing websites actually post information about a career in recruiting. This is probably not an oversight; it’s because staffing firms already have a long line of potential employees parading through their offices. And when they find real gems, I’m told they keep them for their own devices. But do staffing agencies need to enliven the hiring process by reaching further than their desk chair can roll?

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Staffing News of the Day, February 28, 2013

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Pro Staff (Atterro) gets proactive on ACA by offering insurance coverage to eligible temp workers [Houston Chronicle]. Tech companies: gay marriage ban has negative affect on recruitment [C Net]. Indeed.com tops list of most trafficked job sites for Americans [ERE]. Manager of a city-owned, NY golf club funnels hundreds of thousands of dollars away from city through staffing company [The Tennessean].

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Should PR – Not HR – Have Been The Mouthpiece For Reeling In Yahoo’s Homeworkers?

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“S peed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home ,” reads the memo to employees from Yahoo! HR head Jackie Reses. “ We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” The blogosphere and the online universe have pushed back with some force to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer’s recent edict that evicts homeworkers, and tells remote employees to move back to company office facilities or move on.

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Yahoo HR Fiasco: PR Needed a Seat at the Table

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“S peed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home ,” reads the memo to employees from Yahoo! HR head Jackie Reses. “ We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” The blogosphere and the online universe have pushed back with some force to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer’s recent edict that evicts homeworkers, and tells remote employees to move back to company office facilities or move on.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Staffing News of the Day, March 1, 2013

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Investigation finds Illinois staffing firm created higher hurdles for non-U.S. citizens in the verification process [E News Park Forest]. U.S. branch of Dutch staffing firm reported fraudulently high earnings , then deals $12.7 million blow [Reuters]. From 2011 to 2012, the number of temporary and contract workers hired per day rose 4.1% [Staffing Today].

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Staffing News of the Day, February 25, 2013

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Nine out of 10 Californians support paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants, provided they have a job, learn English, and pay any back taxes [My Desert]. ManpowerGroup to acquire Norway’s largest construction-focused recruitment firm [Herald Online]. Top Echelon increases sales of Hiring Hook Job Board to staffing firms by 24% [Times Union & PR Web].

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What We Can Agree On In The Debate Over Telecommuting

Staffing Talk

Last week, an internal HR memo to Yahoo employees got mud-spattered, torn up, and dragged through the public square that is the Internet. Everyone from Google’s CFO to Donald Trump weighed in on CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to ban telecommuting among Yahoo workers. And the Tweets! My God, the tweets! (Also, be sure to check out David Gee’s post about Yahoo’s confusion over PR and HR).