Forum One
OCTOBER 25, 2011
The diffusion of information and communication technology (ICTs) throughout the world is changing the face international development and global health in fundamental ways. Development practitioners and technologists have an array of new tools with the potential to solve age-old problems, but the road to realize success is full of failures – as it should be.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 22, 2011
Next week I’ll be debating at a local high school on a panel with liberal economists about unemployment. Them: the world is ending, the government needs to bail everyone out. Me: nonsense, there are opportunities everywhere. Three signs: The Temp Business is Booming. Look at trends over the last 40 years and two leading indicators stand out: the stock market and the temp staffing industry.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Internet pioneer and permission marketing author Seth Godin wrote on his blog the other day that there are two kinds of recessions. The first is cyclical, pat of the natural order of things, and has a definitive beginning and end. The other kind is permanent, where jobs go away and don’t come back. Ever. That second one he opines is what we are in now.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Atrium Staffing announced the expansion of their Finance and Accounting direct hire services. [Market Wire]. American Staffing Association Elects 2012 Board of Directors. [American Staffing Association]. CTPartners announced that Jason Magnus has joined the firm as a Principal in the Financial Services Practice. [Market Watch]. Tesco has confirmed that it has adopted the “Swedish derogation” model in relation to the agency workers regulations (AWR) by using recruitment consultancies that directl
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Robert Half International Inc. revenues up 20% from last year according to their Q3 earnings report. [The Street]. The Intersect Group announced that the firm has added an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) practice to the Atlanta office. [Digital Journal]. I asked Wesley Madziva what was new with staffing in South Africa. Here is his answer: Staffing is under attack from the Unions on the Temporary staffing side.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 25, 2011
DPSS, LLC, an affiliate of Nesco Resource, announced it has acquired DePasquale Staffing Services. [Sun Gazette]. Health care staffing agency Jackson Therapy Partners, based in Orlando , has paid $134,073 in back wages to 40 nonimmigrant employees hired under the H-1B program to work as physical and occupational therapists in 15 states, following an investigation by the U.S.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Mancan Inc. collecting for Coats for Kids. [Newark Advocate]. JH Technical Services Inc. sees increase in work with energy industry. [Pittsburgh Business Times]. LINK Staffing Services has recently launched a new franchising website to give visitors an in-depth look at LINK’s franchise opportunity. [Market Watch]. Unlike the economy, staffing stocks and their earnings are soaring : Kelly Services, TrueBlue and ManpowerGroup.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 27, 2011
Staffing company Randstad says sales up; profits rose 11 percent in third quarter. [The Washington Post]. CompHealth’s practice and laboratory staffing division received official recognition from The Joint Commission for achieving Health Care Staffing Services (HCSS) Certification. [PR Web]. eHire survey says retail industry feeling bullish about hiring in 2012.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 27, 2011
How much do your company’s computers cost you? When the CFO of Salo – a finance, accounting and human resources staffing services company – took a hard look at their aggregated IT spend, she didn’t really like what she saw. So she turned her gaze skyward, to the cloud. “We had all these service providers,” Salo’s Denise Doll-Kiefer told me recently.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 26, 2011
If you’re a genuine staffing industry person the title of this post makes perfect sense whereas for those in adjacent fields like HR it smacks of small mindedness. In staffing, especially staffing in the lower end of pay ranges, you know how important those pennies are. We win or lose based on how well we manage those pennies. Take for example something as banal as paycards, a little innovation that hit the staffing industry scene in the mid-1990s.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 26, 2011
I recently did something I haven’t done in a long, long time. I applied for a position at a Fortune 500 company…online. And I actually received a prompt response. Yea me. Okay, let’s back up for a just a moment. This wasn’t for a full-time position as an employee. I haven’t applied for a “permanent” (HA!) job for over a decade. No, this was for a consulting position.
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