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5 Qualities that Make a Good Leader in the Social Media Age

Forum One

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 It suggests that last century’s mechanical models of management have become outdated in today’s more social world, and our challenge now is to create more human organizations that are more open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous.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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Check Out These Vintage Staffing Photos

Staffing Talk

I’m a sucker for old photography. I don’t mind admitting I have a pretty impressive tintype collection at home. I started looking through old pictures of staffing offices, ads, and signs and found a lot more than I thought I would. When looking at these it’s impossible not to be impressed with how far we’ve come today. My personal favorite: the “Don’t Be A Job Hopper” sign drawn by Walt Disney.

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Using Personality Testing in the Hiring Process

Hiring Thing

'A few days ago, I was sitting in a Barnes & Noble in downtown Chicago killing time before I had to get on a flight out of O’Hare and I came across a great book called “Have a Nice Conflict” by Tim Scudder, Michael Patterson and Kent Mitchell. After settling myself at a cafe table, I read through the book and gleaned its primary takeaway.

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Recruitment is NOT Talent Acquisition

Bersin

'In our Lexicon , we define Talent acquisition as “a strategic approach to identifying, attracting and onboarding top talent to efficiently and effectively meet dynamic business needs.” The term Talent Acquisition (TA) is often used synonymously with Recruiting. However, these are two very different things. Recruiting is a subset of TA, and includes the activities of sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessing, selecting and hiring.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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The Temp That Changed My Life

Staffing Talk

I love getting stories like this in my inbox. The woman who sent this to me felt like it was too cheesy for her style — so she asked me to keep it anonymous. I can tell you, however, she means every word of it. = = = = =. I have been in the staffing and recruiting industry for over 11 years now. When I first started off, I was just out of college.

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Do You Play These 8 Mind Games With Your Job Candidates?

Staffing Talk

When it comes to recruiting and hiring people do you find the process a bit of a lottery? Do you feel like it is difficult, if not nearly impossible, to tell in advance whether a candidate is going to turn into a high performer? Leadership and training provider Mark Murphy would like to help you improve your odds, and he has lots of good ideas in his book Hiring for Attitude.

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Why Former Athletes Make Perfect Recruiters

Staffing Talk

It takes commitment, perseverance, and resilience. It takes a willingness to work alone, honing their craft, while friends socialize, play video games, post on Facebook, and contemplate the lint between their toes as they put on a clean pair of socks and prepare to go out for the night. It takes an insatiable hunger to beat their competition. These are the traits of The Athlete.

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Table: Facebook Pages vs. Facebook Groups (vs. LinkedIn Groups)

Forum One

Are you buffudled by the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? I often am. It's the most common question I receive when presenting on social media. Are you often confused about the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? And how they compare to LinkedIn Groups? This post helps end the befuddlement. read more.

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Staffing Companies Aren’t Just Businesses, They Are Life Changers

Staffing Talk

For a couple weeks we have been running reader-submitted real-life staffing stories. We’ve been calling them “True Staffing Stories.” The first two were positive, but the third one highlighted what happens when you aren’t cut out for staffing. Today’s story comes from an intern at a very large staffing firm. This firm has over 100 offices spread out all over the United States.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

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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What Agate Hunting And Recruiting Have In Common

Staffing Talk

I love soccer, playing poker, reading books of all types and creative writing. I also have a new hobby I am pretty excited about: agate hunting. I’ve discovered the joy of the outdoors and the excitement of each new find. My kids and I appreciate spending quality time while we “hunt” agates together and I have found the relaxing pace of this particular activity to be a useful counterbalance to the fast-paced world of executive search, where I make my living.

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Staffing Firms Post Fake Jobs To Lure People In?

Staffing Talk

I was on a national job board site recently and read a statement from a job seeker complaining about this one particular large staffing company with offices in 24 states around the U.S. And then a bunch of other people chimed in from other parts of the country with similar sentiments. This may not be a particularly new phenomenon, or a new criticism, but I’m not seeing the play here.

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Our Salaries Aren’t Huge, Yet We Retain Talent: Here’s Our Secret

Staffing Talk

A year ago I decided to follow in my father’s footsteps by working for his staffing company. I’ve since been doing a lot of training on recruiting, social media, networking, skill marketing, and lead hunting by attending seminars, participating in webinars, and writing recruiting blogs. The hope being that, by the time I hit the sales field, I’m running with all the tools I need to be successful.

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Five Things To Do At Your Next Networking Event

Staffing Talk

Recently I have been attending lots of networking events, and making lots of small talk in the process. These things tend to be cyclical for me, as I may go to a bunch in one month and none the next. But this recent round got me thinking, and doing some research, about how to make these events more successful. Here are five things that work for me: 1) Have a plan.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

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.

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25 Best Towns For Jobs

Staffing Talk

After our “ where to put your next branch office ” post attracted lots of readers this week, including at least one from Mongolia as we found out in the comments, we thought we would follow with the 25 best cities in the U.S. when it comes to jobs. Okay, let’s get one thing established right away. No area of the country is experiencing explosive growth at the moment.

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Shakespeare Does the Three Little Pigs

Staffing Talk

Ever wondered what "The Three Little Pigs" would sound like if it had been written with a more classic, robust command of the English language? John Branyan shows you in this very funny stand-up bit.

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Carol Never Wore Her Safety Goggles …

Staffing Talk

This is a real safety disclaimer poster made by Flinn Scientific and distributed to science teachers across the nation. Now it’s been made fun of so many times that you’ll probably never see anything this ridiculous displayed by your customers.

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The Stupid Question Interview

Staffing Talk

Everyone has a classic “bad interview” story. (And you staffing industry folks could probably write books full of ’em.) And while those are always good for a laugh (or cry), I tend to like one very specific kind of bad interview story: The Stupid Question Story. The internet is full of examples of bad interview questions. Like here and here and here and how about here and, hey, look over here.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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The Ultimate Rejection Letter

Staffing Talk

What do you say to someone, or put in writing, informing them you are not going to hire them for the job they applied for? I think it’s a serious question, and it is one I have written about on this site. And in fact, we received several good comments about the last story I wrote on this subject, so maybe it’s time to revisit it. Not now though.

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Tips for All You Ladies Running Staffing Firms

Staffing Talk

Running a staffing firm can be lonely, and if you’re a woman it’s easy to feel even more isolated. But don’t worry, we caught up with a few women who have dealt with that very thing, and they say if you’re willing to put in the networking legwork, it’s easy to get connected. 1) Connect with the Pros. When Julie Brown, president of San Diego Insurance Staffing , moved from working in the insurance industry to placing workers there 17 years ago, she used professional associations right from the be

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Hire Me. I’m The Best Recruiter. Ever.

Staffing Talk

If someone handed you this résumé looking for a job, would you give it to them or challenge them to a cage match battle to the death? Because I’m pretty sure he’d only give you those two options.

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Help Wanted: Trophy Wife – No Recruiters!

Staffing Talk

Wanted: Trophy Wife. I am looking to fill an immediate opening in my home, as soon as possible. The position will be demanding, but the perks of the job will absolutely outweigh the stresses of the day. The perks include plenty of free time to work out, read, write, shop, get spa treatments, drive around in your “company car,” dabble in some work in your corner office and so on.

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Modernizing Your Benefits: 5 Trends Employers Need to Know and Act On

Discover 5 key trends derived from Gallagher's 2023 Benefits Strategy & Benchmarking Survey data that give employers an evolved perspective on organizational wellbeing. These insights come from over 4,000 US organizations that are navigating benefits and HR decisions so their people and businesses can thrive. Watch the free recording now!

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The Worst Staffing Ad … and How It Actually Worked

Staffing Talk

Over the past few weeks a sports forum called Tiger Droppings exploded with rage because of a 30-second radio ad for a Louisiana staffing company. The combination of an annoying kid, a nonsensical joke, and incessant repetition created three threads and more than 100 comments – all for our comedic benefit. It even inspired some angry LSU fans to contact the staffing company and radio station, pleading them to end it.

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Funny Customer Service Memes From The Interwebs

Staffing Talk

This post comes on the heels of our last article: Customer Service is Dead (And Not Just In Staffing). While searching the interwebs for funny customer service pictures to complement the article, we found so many we couldn’t resist sharing them with you.

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Franchise or Start-Up? People Who’ve Done It Give Their Advice

Staffing Talk

So you want to open a staffing business, but you’re having an internal debate about whether to run a franchise branch or create your own start-up. There’s loads of information online about the pluses, minuses, advantages, and disadvantages of each (see our handy chart), but much of the time that information is coming from franchisor marketing materials and reviews from jilted former employees – one-sided hyperbole that doesn’t tell the whole story.

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You Really Need to Rethink Your Fonts

Staffing Talk

After much heckling from my graphic design friends, I finally took the time this weekend to watch Helvetica , a 2007 documentary primarily about the font of the same name. I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn’t realize how much typeface impacts their everyday life, and even more so for people who make typeface decisions. If you’re a designer, you need to see it.

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Recruiting Guide: How to Navigate the Challenge of Quality Hiring

The level of excess demand for jobs is in decline, but the pressure is still on recruiters to hire the best candidates. Download Resume-Library’s tips for making quality hires, including: Meeting candidate expectations Maximizing your job adverts And more!

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You Can’t Make This Up: More Hilarious Staffing Encounters

Staffing Talk

A recent post that included some great examples of call-in-sick excuses caused several of our lovely staffing professional readers to open up and divulge some of their own recent work she-nanigans. We’ve ordered them in a very deliberate way as to slowly build up to the most ridiculous, so if you’re the impatient type who hates to be teased into anticipation, either start at the bottom or seek professional help.

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What a Recent College Grad Learned From Staffing

Staffing Talk

I graduated from college in 2008. After relentlessly pursuing the “job of my dreams” and coming up empty, I decided to put my dreams on hold to join my parents’ recruiting and staffing company. I had been in and out of the company since my mom founded it many years ago, so the learning curve wasn’t too steep. The jargon and processes almost came as second nature.

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How Three Recruitment Pros Deliver Bad News

Staffing Talk

One candidate you’re trying to place needs to improve her hygiene. Another didn’t get a position he was banking on to end months of unemployment. And a client has asked you to fill a position at a salary that is well below market rate. Being a staffing professional means delivering bad news — while maintaining good relationships with the candidates and clients who hear it.