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Vanessa Bostwick is a former corporate recruiter and online recruiting blogger for several well-known blogs. She received her English Writing degree from Loyola University in 2003 and resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Contact Vanessa at vanessaelisabeth80@gmail.com
What does a job description really say? Sometimes when looking at the typical staffing specialist job description, I can barely keep myself from laughing. Recently I snagged a typical, run-of-the-mill staffing specialist job description from a well-known agency. (You could plug this in at virtually [...]
Going once, going twice… These days, you can buy just about anything you want on the Internet. From expensive baubles to cars to an iced cookie shaped like a praying Jesus, whatever your heart desires is just a few clicks away. Thinking about starting a [...]
The icy relationship between Linkedin and job boards took another sour turn today when the professional networking site launched a plug-in called “Apply with LinkedIn.” Companies both big and small can now add the plug-in alongside their own “apply now” button on corporate career sites, [...]
What is the most mind-blowing benefit a company can give their employees? How about unlimited paid time off – a virtually unknown, unheard of phrase that sounds oxymoronic. This holy grail of benefits is real for a growing number of businesses. A little over one [...]
When it comes to choosing your customers, does it pay to be picky? Every staffing agency at some point has to deal with a difficult client. Some clients don’t pay you on time, while others mistreat their temporary workers. Surely you have a customer or [...]
When you envision the New York City party and bar scene, you probably think of hordes of the well-dressed elite flocking together to enjoy trays of decadent food and expensive champagne until the wee hours of the night. But you may not consider the hours [...]
What does a job description really say? Sometimes when looking at the typical staffing specialist job description, it’s all I can do to keep from laughing. I snagged your typical, run-of-the-mill staffing specialist job description from a well-known staffing agency. You could plug this in [...]
Lester Bing hated working at Substandard Staffing Agency. He hated when the phone rang. He hated when the door opened and an applicant came in. And he especially hated when he had to talk to clients. One Monday morning in June, Lester sat down at [...]
The EEOC, champion for the everyman, has taken on one of its biggest cases yet against Global Horizons, a Beverly Hills-based labor contractor. In one of the most astonishing accounts of human trafficking the U.S. staffing industry has ever seen, the EEOC alleges that between [...]
Would you risk your life for your job? Is any job worth risking your life over? Temporary workers stationed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan must have asked themselves these very questions hours into the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. [...]
Could 2011 be a prime year for workplace class action lawsuits in the staffing industry? An increasing number of wage-hour class-action lawsuits have been filed in the past several months on behalf of workers who claim they were cheated out of overtime pay during the [...]
It could be said that receptionists have the most difficult role in the staffing agency. Not only do they need to be capable of doing 27 things at once, they need to be consistently dependable, positive, loyal and discrete – all while paying close attention [...]
Wage and hour lawsuits filed under FLSA are up 10 percent from last year [Staffing Industry Analysts] Jobless claims dip back below the 350,000 mark that analysts say indicates a firming job market [CNBC] One third of Millennials reportedly regret going to college due to [...]
It’s not often that I get the opportunity to chat with one of the many talented developers here at TempWorks (they’re always so busy working on the next new and exciting tech project), but when I do I always come away thinking we just mentally [...]
A couple of days ago Microsoft unveiled a sneak peek at Xbox One, an update on their popular gaming console that is expected to debut later this year (along with rival Sony’s PS4). Seconds after doing so, the internet exploded with rage … and not [...]
I don’t know if it’s because it’s officially blockbuster season and a barrage of superhero movies are lining up, or if I just had too much fun doing the Classic WWF Wrestler post, but today I want to debate which superhero would make the best [...]
What I’ve learned from the media about job-seeking Millennials is pretty unflattering. Apparently, we don’t have a clue how to interview (let alone how to dress for the occasion), and we exhibit all kinds of casual, oddball behavior in professional contexts. Yet paradoxically, the internet [...]
