ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A thought occurred to me last week after a meeting with one of our clients — why don’t more organizations use employee assessments ? Here at ExactHire, we use and promote the use of assessment tools for many employee issues. Among those uses are hiring, team building, succession planning and 360 degree feedback for performance reviews. Then it hit me…most people (and therefore organizations) see these tools as “tests”, not assessments.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 13, 2011

As a Vice President running a growing manufacturing company, it’s not uncommon to have 2-3 staffing agencies stop by my office on a daily basis and perhaps one or two annoy the heck out of me by trying to slip in the backdoor with a cold call or lame generic email. I think our current record in one day is somewhere between 6 and 8. Fortunately, I have a wonderfully patient receptionist to smile and take their information, occasionally blocking and tackling for me when I walk through the lobby a

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

By Rob Wu, Founder, CauseVox. Your supporters love your nonprofit and the work that you do. Many of them want to raise funds for your nonprofit or cause, but don't know how to approach it. We know it's a real struggle to fundraise effectively when you're not a professional fundraiser. We're with you and want to help your supporters become the best fundraisers possible.

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Jobvite

JUNE 15, 2011

I love photos of people. Before the Internet, I was a print designer for advertising campaigns, and I learned a lot about lead generation and imagery. When we wanted a positive direct mail piece, we … Continued.

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Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

Interviews

Hiring Thing

OCTOBER 30, 2011

'You might have noticed the button the front page has our HiringThing mascot peeping out from behind. It''s a great way to add some personality , and it didn''t take long to whip up a little javascript to get this done.

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ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Over the span of each of your careers, I’m sure you can pinpoint at least one time in which you had a very unfortunate, if not comical, recruitment experience with an organization. That is, the company made some major blunder while recruiting you…for example, during an interview or a follow-up communication. If so, I invite you to comment and share your experiences, though please keep the organization anonymous to protect the innocent.

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ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2011

You may recall from “Part 1” of this story the emphasis I placed on creating and nurturing a recruitment brand for your organization. Because whether or not you address it, you have a brand…so make sure it is a recruitment brand you are proud to support! In this post, we’ll take a quick look at how you may use applicant tracking software to help maintain the recruitment brand you worked so diligently to create.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, here’s a reason to be thankful: hopefully you aren’t working in any one of these ten most dangerous jobs in America. Compiled annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the list for 2011 was recently released (it is compiled from 2010 figures). This list is formally from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CF0I), part of the BLS Occupational Safety and Health Statistics (OSHS) program, and compiles a list of all fatal accidents during the ca

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Staffing Talk

AUGUST 18, 2011

The other day, I read a post by one of my favorite HR bloggers, Laurie Ruettimann, about a boss who told her not to hire certain nurses, because “Chairman hates fat women&# and “you can’t have a fat nurse around here.”. Even though it was years ago, Ruettimann said this “still happens.&# Google was recently accused of such practices.

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Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Staffing Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Productivity is defined as: Doing the right thing (effectiveness). in the right way (efficiency). all the time (occupancy). The only way poor quality can happen is if you do the wrong thing, or the right thing in the wrong way, or if you don’t do the right thing in the right way all the time. It just seems such a waste if you don’t do the right thing in the right way all the time.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It’s great to stay on top of the latest staffing trends. But it’s even better to be ahead of them: to see where the labor market is going, not just where it is today. So what will the market for contingent workers look like a decade from now? And how can staffing firms prepare? I spoke with a few staffing experts and they offer these predictions for the next 10 years: Unemployment will remain high by historical standards.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It is accurate to say that Accurate Temps CEO Jaimie Rios (nee Migliore), and a brother Rob who is COO, and another brother David who is president, have been good stewards of the company their parents Debbie and Tony Migliore began back in 1978. It is also a wild understatement, given the growth the siblings have generated after taking over. The growth continues with a recent expansion of their market reach into Professional Staffing, as well as their geographical reach.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When you are interviewing someone for a job, either for a “permanent” position or temporary one, do you monitor how – and how many times – the candidate uses the words “I” “we” and “they?” Do you have a metric for it? Place much significance in it? Pay attention or care at all? Professor James W.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 10, 2011

At Forum One, we take monitoring and evaluation (M&E) seriously, especially when it comes to measuring the success of digital communication campaigns. While we love data and establishing relevant indicators for initiatives that are sometimes hard to measure, we also love talking about these strategies. At Forum One, we take monitoring and evaluation (M&E) seriously, especially when it comes to measuring the success of digital communication campaigns.

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Staffing Talk

AUGUST 26, 2011

Seven years ago, Melissa Carbonell was on the hunt for the elusive perfect job. “I was contacted by several recruiters promising me not only a job but chocolate rivers and gummy bear trees,&# she says on her website. That may sound enticing, but it was overwhelming for her. “There were massive companies with offices all over the nation and small entrepreneurs working from their dining room tables but they all sounded the same and they all sounded great!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Data is the new black. These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Data is the new black. These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I have an ongoing dialogue with a friend of mine, Lars Leafblad, around such topics as interviewing and finding top talent. He is an open, engaging and inquisitive person by nature, and his position as principal at a retained executive search firm gives him plenty of fodder for fascinating discussions. Recently Lars sent me a list of takeaways from his time in the business, and I want to share them.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Today is National Unfriend Day for Facebook. Started by Jimmy Kimmel, it’s a half-serious mission to cull your Facebook list. As I said, it’s half-serious, but probably a good idea for those of you who use Facebook for business. While I realize many professionals have already made a dichotomy between their LinkedIn contacts and their Facebook contacts, I know a lot of salespeople who have had great results with Facebook, and it’s obviously a great tool for business connections, if used properly.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Full disclosure. I have received packages from United Parcel Service (UPS) before, but have never applied – or been a candidate – for a job at the company. If I was interested though, they sure do make it easy. Especially around the holidays, their peak season obviously. I didn’t have UPS, or this post, in mind when I turned to my Twitter account yesterday.

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Great talent isn’t so hard to find if you know __ to look. What word do you think belongs in that blank space? The word where ? Because we all know looking in the right places is key to finding whatever it is we want. Right? Instead, how about using the word how ? Author George Anders writes in his new book The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else great talent isn’t hard to find if we know how to look.

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Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Welcome back to work. Hope you had a good holiday. Were you one of the 50 million people who watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV by any chance? The retailer turned to social media to promote it and even track it with a mobile app for the iPhone and Android smartphones. Macy’s uses social media, particularly Facebook , to publicize shopping specials and holiday gift guides.

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Forum One

JULY 25, 2011

Here are some of my high-level reflections on CapitalCamp DC this weekend: As always, the energy, interest, and momentum that Drupal continues to gain is so encouraging to me. It's exciting to see the broad ecosystem of interested parties that attribute Drupal as a key factor in their continued success online. Drupal is being used in many important - and varied - ways.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Ok, I admit it. Several times a day I check LinkedIn to find out who is checking up on me. I might watch a You Tube video or two if my mind is really wandering. There are definitely going to be a couple of tweets and re-tweets. And I culled my Facebook friend list as Jeff Reeder suggested while doing research for this post. Time suck? Sure. Does it make me happier AND MORE PRODUCTIVE?!

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Staffing Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This video of Forrester CEO George Colony at LeWeb in Paris lasts only 22 minutes, but it’s got gems on strategy that I’ll bet I’ll look back on in five years and wish I took more to heart. He explains for example how the web differs from the internet (note to earth: the web is not the internet, it’s software we’ve built onto the internet) and how the web may not be the best horse to bet on given that network speed is increasing much less quickly than processor and storage capability.

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Staffing Talk

AUGUST 16, 2011

You’re a decision maker at a staffing firm. You bring in some staffing software reps to see which systems can make your outdated processes faster and more efficient. One of the software providers you interview has a program that you think could help you a great deal, but it’s coming at a 15% markup. So you call the sales rep and say, “Nice, but too expensive.

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Staffing Talk

AUGUST 4, 2011

Have you done any background checks today? How do you know if the company you called is real? Before there was the proposed Fair Employment Act of 2011 , there was The Reference Store. One of the top reasons your candidate isn’t getting hired these days is because he or she is unemployed. The government is trying to rectify this, having introduced a Senate bill prohibiting discrimination against unemployed job seekers.

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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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