The Investigative Recruiter
JUNE 24, 2014
'What’s Hot: Top Advertising Executives. Advertising is a talent-driven business and demand for top adversing executives is on the rise — a trend that is being fueled by the resurgence of the advertising industry. Total spending by the 100 Leading National Advertisers has topped pre-recession levels — it reached a record $108.6 billion in 2013, passing the previous spending peak set in 2007.
Metashift
JUNE 24, 2014
'It was my great pleasure to speak at the excellent RecFest in London the other week. My presentation on “The Art of Persuasion” was inspired by some recent conversations with a number of employers who have found themselves struggling to recruit the talent they need in 2014. Many employers are currently facing a big uplift in recruitment and some are going into a blind panic throwing money at projects that have been on ice since 2009 (new EVP, new recruitment website etc) to try and fix their pr
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Recruiting.com
JUNE 26, 2014
'Sourcing for great talent can be difficult in today’s job market—where everyone who is employable is already employed. This can be especially true when it comes to a niche position that’s in high demand. Since too few candidates are actively looking, you’re usually forced to go after prospects who are already employed. So what does. The post Candidate Sourcing: Get More Replies to Your Contact Emails appeared first on Recruiting.com.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 21, 2014
'As the evidence rolls in about how damaging the ACA (Obamacare) is to the well-being of rank and file workers, I hope that those of us in the staffing industry whose businesses are benefitting from it – agencies, software companies, insurers – stand nevertheless against it. Obamacare is shrinking the American economy according to new analyses by leading economists from Harvard and the University of Chicago.
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iCIMS
JUNE 26, 2014
Best Practices to Enhance your Candidate Engagement Levels and Reduce Turnover Rates.
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The Investigative Recruiter
JUNE 24, 2014
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Staffing Talk
JUNE 23, 2014
'Scott Adams is on the right track about the creative class, but engineers have quite a lot of runway ahead of them, thank you. One highlight of my trip to California was to meet up with my nephew, a freshly minted engineer from Cal Berkeley whose day job is with a venture backed San Jose company that is reinventing transmissions and has contracts to replace the aging, noisy ones on garbage trucks.
iCIMS
JUNE 26, 2014
Best Practices to Enhance your Candidate Engagement Levels and Reduce Turnover Rates.
Jobvite
JUNE 24, 2014
Connecting with today’s on-the-go job seekers just got easier, thanks to Jobvite’s new mobile career website solution, which was announced earlier this morning. This offering is a critical asset for recruiters looking to market more … Continued.
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.
The Investigative Recruiter
JUNE 23, 2014
'How to Recruit the Right Executive I have recruited top […].
Staffing Talk
JUNE 23, 2014
'What are your thoughts on the post-crisis recovery? Pmarca drew in a variety of theories to explain the listlessness of the post-crisis recovery. Some blamed student loans, others insufficient government spending (cough), yet others slow birth rates, and yet others saying that there’s still not enough data to make a guess more meaningful than the Lottery in Babylon.
ExactHire Recruiting
JUNE 25, 2014
So you are a small business and ready to grow – maybe you are currently the only employee or you have a few partners in your company. Or maybe you are building a HR department from scratch. Either way, making your very first hire can be daunting, here are a few things to keep in mind to make sure this first hire (and future hires) are a success. Find the right fit.
Jobvite
JUNE 23, 2014
The recruiting world has changed. As former HP president Carly Fiorina wisely stated, “The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” New recruiting tools and technologies help us do this efficiently. … Continued.
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.
Bersin
JUNE 26, 2014
The market for corporate talent management software continues to surge forward. Our new research shows that this exciting market grew by 17% last year and is now over $5 billion in size. Why? Companies have now realized that "talent optimization" is key to their business success. And without integrated software to manage the people-processes in a […].
Staffing Talk
JUNE 23, 2014
'Me with current Tempworks CEO, David Dourgarian, in front of the. I made it out to California this last week and visited the office at 24th and O St. where my Dad’s temp agency, a Manpower franchise, started in 1974. For me, a striking public labor union occupying the offices of a free market employment business represents a blistering caricature of what has gone wrong with the Californian economy.
iCIMS
JUNE 24, 2014
HR and recruiting departments get a bad rap for being only a cost-center. Time to put on your strategic advisor cap!
Jobvite
JUNE 23, 2014
The recruiting world has changed. As former HP president Carly Fiorina wisely stated, “The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” New recruiting tools and technologies help us do this efficiently. HR software of today allows us to save time, automates the recruiting process , and provides us with large sets of data. I’m going to let you in on a little secret: You don’t need to be a math major or a data geek to make sense of the hiring numbers, calculate ROI, or mak
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The Investigative Recruiter
JUNE 23, 2014
'How to Recruit the Right Executive. I have recruited top executives and technologists for the past decade and a half. Over that same period of time, I have also made hires to my own team. I can tell you with absolute certainty that one of the most devastating mistakes a business can make is picking the wrong person for the job. Every hiring executive I know – myself included — has made bad hires.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 25, 2014
'I think I missed a meeting, but somewhere along the way I was tasked with ensuring that the TempWorks Software customers would have a viable solution to administer the Affordable Care Act. I think solving world peace would have been a preferable assignment. As I started down this journey I talked to insurance companies, lawyers, people at the American Staffing Association, and a large number of our customers.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 22, 2014
'Me with Tempworks CEO, David Dourgarian, in front of the former Manpower office where my Dad and I wrote the original Tempworks in 1974. The building is now occupied by a striking public labor union. I made it out to California this last week and visited the office at 24th and O St. where my Dad’s temp agency, a Manpower franchise, started in 1974.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 26, 2014
'They dumped all the agency programmers a month after I started my software contract with Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques (SITA) in 1982. It was a decision that came from Paris, fallout from the 1982 recession. A lot of those dumped contractors were layered up. They came in through an agency that in turn provided them through a general contractor, and SITA itself was essentially billing out their time back to Air France and Lufthansa who in turn were funded by their go
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Staffing Talk
JUNE 25, 2014
'Indeed buys MoBolt to make it easier for employers to accept job applications from smartphones [ERE]. White House memo gives federal workers the right to request flex work & get an answer within 20 days [Federal News Radio]. Minor league baseball player sues Major League Baseball for better share of pay, citing “poverty-level wages” [Mother Jones].
Staffing Talk
JUNE 26, 2014
'GDP fell an astonishing 2.9 percent during Q1 – much worse than forecast [Business Insider]. Applications for jobless benefits fell by 2,000 last week; still near post-recession low [Market Watch]. Today’s World Cup match will cost $390 million in lost wages, but Adecco says watching will boost morale [News OK, Jacksonville Business Journal]. Facebook looks just like the rest of Silicon Valley after release its first diversity report [CNN Money].
Staffing Talk
JUNE 23, 2014
'LinkedIn launches first standalone iOS app, LinkedIn Job Search [First Post]. Obama calls for an end to “Mad Men”-era family policies [Washington Post]. Staying at the same company for more than two years means you’ll earn 50% less over your lifetime [Forbes]. Why does Symantec’s COO put his World of Warcraft achievements on his resume? [CNN Money].
Staffing Talk
JUNE 27, 2014
'NLRB scrambles to revisit hundreds of decisions after Supreme Court rules Obama appointed three members unconstitutionally [WSJ]. Globally, there are now 145+ online staffing platforms. Together, they process $1.4-1.6 billion annually [SIA]. Apple, ARM, and Qualcomm are aggressively poaching IBM’s chip designers [Apple Insider]. Ikea is adjusting wages for cost of living, from $8.69 to $13.22 an hour [CNN Money]. 51% of employers reject candidates due to social media posts, up from 43% in 2013
Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch
Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.
Staffing Talk
JUNE 21, 2014
'The Eggplant disavows any similarity between its reporting services and those of The Onion. Previously unemployed, John Smith received five job offers since the Lerner Excuse Act went into effect. Although Lerner does not nullify any single regulation, it does allow anyone to ignore federal labor law under excuses like my-I9s-got-deleted. Employers are creating more than four million jobs under the Lois Lerner Employer Excuse Act, according to a new study by Dog-Ate-My-Homework Research Institu
Staffing Talk
JUNE 24, 2014
'Canada limits access to its Temporary Foreign Worker Program, along with tougher penalties for broken rules [Int''l Business Times]. When it comes to temps, who’s the boss ? [Business Week]. Many women in midlife are leaving the work force just as they are reaching peak earning years [NY Times]. Tulsa’s Elite Workforce warns Whirlpool Corporation after 22-year-old temp sends gruesome bomb-threat email [KJRH].
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