Staffing Talk is sponsored by TempWorks Staffing Software and Payroll Funding
Gregg wrote the first TempWorks software as a teenager in 1975 with his staffing pioneer father who founded Manpower's technical and payroll operations. Gregg also built an airline software company. Its product, Supertrace, helps keep airline reservation systems running smoothly worldwide.
Contact Gregg at gregg.dourgarian@tempworks.com
If I’m at odds with the reporting done this week by Business Week on Heidrick and Struggles, (see An Executive Search Firm Falls on Hard Times), it’s not because they have repeatedly taken the formerly giant recruiter out to the woodshed for poor performance. Indeed, [...]
http://www.trulia.com/property/3109989996-17403-Locust-Dr-Los-Gatos-CA-95033 I got to spend a lot of time in Los Gatos in the 1990s. It was a nice place then, and I’m guessing it still is based on the $450k valuation you can get on a shack no bigger than the woodshed in my [...]
The image above is from ABC’s lead story on the jobs report this morning in which temp agencies accounted for more than 26,000 of the new jobs. The job climate outside of temp is not doing well. Unemployment would be at more than 11% if [...]
The New Yorker’s current issue has an article up on the power of names (grab it free while you can). Staffing firms take note. Your name, your website domain, and your email address all play a critical role in how your candidates and clients perceive [...]
[I’m just back from 10 days visiting clients and friends in France with my wife. I’ll be posting video, pics and commentary here over the next week or so.] Anyone doubting that France retains its position as the eldest daughter of the Christian family hasn’t [...]
I’m quick to tell The Huffington Post lefties that make it over here to Staffing Talk to whine about low pay and ‘rip-off’ temp firms that they should just thumb a ride up to Mandan or Williston where you can make $20/hr flipping burgers and [...]
Coming soon from an IRS office near you. Wish I could take credit for this, but it’s just a knockoff from the SuperMexican. [an earlier version of this post included the wrong image…Gregg]
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm Perhaps someone can explain to me the difference between a union [...]
I have no idea why the Economist titled this article about an entrepreneur opening a non-credentialed coding school in the heart of Paris ‘Bangalore Sur Seine’. Bangalore doesn’t fit. It’s an infrastructural hell-hole where Fortune 100 companies dump software jobs to when they mistakenly think [...]
Insight of the day: lowering price increases demand I met with a recruiter this weekend and we discussed the bill rates he was getting for Javascript developers here in the Twin Cities. I mentioned that Best Buy (you know, the store where people decide what [...]
Normally I’m just after the math types, but this kid dishes it out Malcolm X style and is destined to change the world. In defense of the teacher who is accused of ‘collecting a paycheck … by handing out packets,’ she’s polite enough as he [...]
Let me get this out of the way right from the start. I really dig Pope Francis. From his washing the feet of women on Maundy Thursday to living in a guesthouse instead of the near-hedonistic papal suites, I find him inspiring. And his frugality [...]
[It is my belief that every business can benefit by marketing and selling better and that newer forms of advertising like a web video can give you that transformational edge that separates you from the pack and helps you win deals. In this post I [...]
“Oh Dad, you’re always trying to draw some political take out of nothing,” was my daughter rebuffing my comparison of Oblivion to a drone-happy federal government whose power is out of control. Ok, I’ll stop there on the politics, but Oblivion design porn begs for [...]
Capuchin monkeys don’t like unequal pay. Nor do dogs, cats, elephants or bears. The video is pretty clear about that. Thankfully, people don’t like it either. That’s why we need fluid labor markets and the staffing industry. Staffing companies act as catalysts to fluidity, and [...]
If you have concerns about the shambolic mess that Obamacare is creating or globally about the coming Keynesian-induced monetary collapse, you have to like Bitcoin or at least what it represents. And wow this video takes me back to my Bohemian days in Nantes and [...]
[I forget how I came across this video on YouTube by a hero of mine. I hope you enjoy it.] In economics, like physics, intuition isn’t always the best guide. I am on your side. You are not on your side. For example, although some [...]
With little notice from the public at large, jQuery released a new version of its popular javascript library. A release dubbed 2.0 deserves note. Few software packages, especially open source ones, mature to a 2.0 version, even in our highly inflated version numbering world. jQuery, [...]
Interview with CEO of ManpowerGroup: What’s next for the job market? [Wall Street Journal] Surge in litigation-related work is prompting one in three lawyers to add staff [PR Newswire] Six Indians arrested for swindling 500 students through a fake campus recruitment agency [IBN Live] Survey [...]
This article was sent to us by Josh Tolan, CEO of SparkHire, a video powered hiring solution that allows staffing professionals to collaborate with their clients around video interviews. It’s no secret recruiters and staffing professionals love passive candidates. These candidates have already proven and [...]
This article was sent to us by Josh Tolan, CEO of SparkHire, a video powered hiring solution that allows staffing professionals to collaborate with their clients around video interviews. It’s no secret recruiters and staffing professionals love passive candidates. These candidates have already proven and [...]
My eight-year-old son and I were doing some landscaping in our yard one day when he paused, looked up at me through squinted, sweat-soaked eyes, and said, “Dad, wouldn’t it be great if we never had to work?” To be honest, I can’t say I’ve [...]
“Just how stupid are you?” That’s likely not a question on the job applications in your office. But a couple of Swedish professors say it should be. And they also say the correct answer for the job candidate is, “How stupid do you want me [...]
