Staffing Talk
MAY 18, 2012
Don’t look now but Facebook is getting as popular as a two-time no-show/no-call temp who wants to know why you’re not calling him about jobs any more. My evidence for this is both quantitative and anecdotal. The quantitative part you could see from the stock market IPO yesterday. If not for the benevolence of the underwriters, it would have tanked well below its offering price of $38.
Staffing Talk
MAY 14, 2012
The constantly evolving labor market makes a knack for reinvention key to a long-lasting staffing business. “I’ve had to realign my business several times,” says Laurie Kahn , founder and president of Media Staffing Network , in Scottsdale, Ariz. “You have to be flexible.”. Since she started her business in 1993, Kahn has survived by being able to change.
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Staffing Talk
MAY 15, 2012
“Neither candidates, nor companies, really know exactly what they want,” opines Bob Norton , a former business analyst turned information systems search and placement firm founder. “From the client side, it’s figuring out the business problem they have, not the laundry list of skills they think they need. On the candidate side, it’s taking an inventory of their skills and accomplishments, rather than merely looking at where they’ve been, then determining what the ma
Staffing Talk
MAY 17, 2012
Have you been helped in your career by a mentor? I haven’t myself, but after attending a panel discussion featuring the CEOs and founders of five early stage companies, it has me thinking about the value of them. I am on the board of directors of a local TiE chapter. TiE is a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.
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Staffing Talk
MAY 15, 2012
Bloomberg BNA Publishes 2012 Edition of “Preventing Sexual Harassment and Other Workplace Harassment: A Fact Sheet for Employees” [Market Watch]. The golden rule of cold-calling. Don’t. [Recruiting Blogs]. EmploymentGroup names Robert G. O’Hare Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. [Market Watch]. Lofton has been named as Inavero’s 2012 “Best of Staffing Talent” winner.
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Staffing Talk
MAY 16, 2012
As if the staffing industry didn’t already face enough challenges…. Roger Brown is an ace recruiter with an elite agency in Oslo. He specializes high-end searches and would have had no problem snuffing out the problems Yahoo had last week with its ex-CEO Scott Thomson. He’s five foot six and has a gorgeous blond wife who towers over him like Matt Kuchar over a nine-iron.
Staffing Talk
MAY 16, 2012
“ The interview and hiring process is just like writing code. If you have bad specs at the start, you’ll end up with something flawed at the end.” When you speak with Bob Norton, founder/principal at Franklin Key Associates , as I did recently, you get lots of analogies. But they’re not random examples, pulled out of thin air, merely to illustrate a story.
Staffing Talk
MAY 16, 2012
Naked man runs for the woods at a music festival and falls, fractures his spinal column and the staff move him from the woods. The naked man was Daniel Weaver, of Hudson, N.Y., who was paralyzed from the chest down during last summer’s All Good Music Festival and he has sued Marvin’s Mountaintop LLC, Event Staffing Inc. of Norfolk, Va., and Maryland-based Walther Productions along with All Good Presents (whose employees he says contributed to his injuries) in U.S.
Staffing Talk
MAY 17, 2012
Rona Borre, president and CEO of Instant Technology says , “Facebook has dramatically changed the way I hire people.” [CNBC]. Dan Rodriguez, CEO and co-founder of Veredus Corp., has led his company to growth topping 40% annually the past two years in a mature, tough industry. How? By focusing more on making the customer and client happy than the direct return and in the end, it returned threefold.
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Staffing Talk
MAY 15, 2012
Online recruiter Monster updates its résumé. [The Wall Street Journal]. CTPartners says preventable errors brought down Yahoo! CEO and Directors and offers five ways to avoid a Yahoo! Disaster. [MarketWatch]. Help Wanted (unless you’re over 50). [The Wall Street Journal]. Legal issues abound in telecommuting. [Finance & Commerce]. Inside Edge Legal Contract Staffing Services expands in the District of Columbia.
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