ExactHire Recruiting

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It’s no secret that I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for the men and women – past, present, and future – that make up our Military. You will see that every opportunity I have to pay back our military, I will do it without complaint. It boils down to this one sentence, “They risk their lives so that I may be free.” There are very few instances where I would willingly go into harm’s way to save those I do not know.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The book Humanize makes the case for innovating the way we lead and manage our organizations. It suggests that last century’s mechanical models of management have become outdated in today’s more social world, and our challenge now is to create more human organizations that are more open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous. The very same elements that made social media a success.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Mitt Romney was supposed to be the experienced businessman, the operational executive whose acumen would drive him to victory, but in the end he ran his campaign like an old man trying to use Windows8 , stumbling at every step and failing to get out the vote. Meanwhile President Obama’s number-crunching, millennial web guys crushed it. If you need your kids to switch from the Playstation to the NFL game like I do, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This year’s Halloween went on without a hitch! What is it about Facebook as a content platform that makes it a top destination and how can you take these learnings and apply them back to your website? read more.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

“If you elect __, the staffing industry will __.”. If you’re looking for concrete answers to fill in those blanks, we sadly can’t predict the future or know what flip-flopping, manipulative liar politicians actually will follow through on when they promise everything you’ve ever wanted. What we can provide, however, is a collection of links to what others are predicting this election will mean for the staffing industry.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Even though many staffing companies have chosen to pursue paperless in some or most of their internal operations, many still have cabinets upon cabinets of employee files from the past that they must contend with. So what are they doing about those employee files? That’s what Staffing Talk intended to find out with its newest survey, sent to thousands of staffing professionals like yourself.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Management change at Randstad. [4-traders]. Peoplelink Staffing Solutions has announced the acquisition of Trade Management, Inc. headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. [Inside Indiana Business]. KMP Staffing in Cottonwood Heights was burglarized last week by Tyler Andrew Conti, 29, police said. The company lost about $5,000 worth of computers during the burglary.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Judging by the hits to Staffing Talk this morning, employers woke up today with one thought on their minds: how can I still run my business with the new healthcare reform regulations? Solve it for them and you have yourself a flourishing business.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I got a kick out of this Economist article about a woman entrepreneur in Africa, Divine Ndhlukula, who has emerged as the owner and operator of one of Zimbabwe’s most successful staffing firms. She began it from her kitchen table by providing security guards to transport American dollars (the official currency, interestingly) from one point to another.

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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 8, 2012

It seems the American consumer is not buying prescription drugs at the rate they used to, including the 48.6 million uninsured Americans who are reluctant to spend money they don’t have on prescription drugs they can do without. Normally this kind of story wouldn’t catch my attention, but some employment and staffing company insights that were tucked in behind the story did get my attention.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Cross Country Healthcare announced its third quarter results and they were not pretty. The Boca Raton-based nurse and health care professional staffing company (NASDAQ: CCRN) lost $17.6 million, or 57 cents per share. That fell well short of analyst expectations of the company losing 2 cents per share. [South Florida Business Journal]. ReadyLink HealthCare Inc. of Thousand Palms owes State Compensation Insurance Fund an additional premium of $555,327 based on State Fund’s determination that Read

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Providing healthcare benefits is top business challenge for company leadership, according to Adecco staffing US survey. [PR Newswire]. CBIZ acquires the Employee Benefit Division of Leavitt Pacific Insurance Brokers. [PR Newswire]. Labor SMART, Inc. hires Seasoned Veteran as New Area Vice President. [PR Newswire]. CDI Corp. ( CDI ) reported solid third quarter results on October 30 that included a positive surprise of nearly 30%.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Impellam chairman steps down. [StockMarketWire]. Randstad US, Professionals rebrands The Mergis Group’s engineering practice to Randstad Engineering. [Yahoo Finance]. Sentinel Capital Partners Sells Interim HealthCare. [PEHub]. Prolim Corporation acquires Able Design Engineering. [Melodika]. Team Health Holdings Inc. completes amendment of existing credit facility.

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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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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A week ago Staffing Talk was made aware of a new staffing recruitment program called Scavado. With barely a year under its belt, this talent search engine promises to save recruiters’ time and money, improve their hires, and unearth talent your competitors won’t. It was already named Human Resources Executive Magazine ’s “Top HR Product of 2012” and has 160 company subscriptions from around the globe (mostly U.S. and UK).

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Before I begin this piece in earnest, let me make one thing clear. It is not designed to be a political post, appearances notwithstanding. I am not going to tell you who I am voting for, and who you should vote for today. But I do want to pass on a conversation I had recently with a new staffing entrepreneur. Several times over the past five months or so we have written about ObamaCare, including this original post in June, and posited about whether it will be good – or bad – for the

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Have you ever felt like staffing is a world unto itself? Well what if it’s also an afterworld all its own? This goofy piece imagines that very thing using Dante’s Inferno as inspiration. For those of you unfamiliar with Dante’s Inferno , it’s part of an epic poem ( The Divine Comedy)wherein the author is led on a tour through Hell with his mentor (fellow poet) Virgil.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

A circuit court judge in South Dakota dismissed a lawsuit a trio of local companies filed against South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard that was intended to invalidate a $5 million contract the state awarded to Manpower earlier this year. Governor Dennis Daugaard. Three local companies, Careers Unlimited Staffing , Employment Edge and Reagan Enterprises, brought the suit, arguing the Manpower contract violated state and federal laws as well as the state’s constitution.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Monster Worldwide reports Third Quarter 2012 Results and announces corporate restructuring. [MarketWatch]. Agility Clinical Expands Consulting Services to more broadly serve small and virtual biopharma and device companies. [MarketWatch]. What’s Moving Markets: Why Europe Matters – Industry Report on Precision Castparts Corporation and Robert Half International Inc.

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