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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. [...]
In the past month or two, a few Staffing Talk readers asked us to do articles on a specific prompt.* Now, these aren’t the only questions or article requests we got during that time, but in a nice coincidence we could answer these three relatively [...]
Ron Swanson may be a fictional TV character, but the famously deadpan parks department director on Parks & Recreation holds many (albeit exaggerated) similarities to real-life executives: He’s smart, he’s direct, he doesn’t show emotion, and getting his time and attention can feel like a [...]
Daniel Pink is considered one of the foremost authorities on the ever-changing workplace and business management. A few years ago, his book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future was a best-selling guide to preparing for the coming digital age. Now, it’s [...]
If you run a business, handle marketing of any kind, or are just interested in marketing strategies, you should set aside 20 minutes for Seth Godin’s TED Talk entitled “How to Get Your Ideas to Spread.” I’ve embedded the video for your convenience, or you [...]
Your cousin’s best friend’s roommate makes websites for next to nothing, and that company you found in Google searches has made more than 100,000 sites and they promise a turnaround of one week. I know your staffing company is tempted to go that route. But [...]
I recently joined and became active in a few LinkedIn Groups* related to staffing. I was told these were places where valuable discussions and networking take place every day. Where people discuss issues important to the industry, and where we can pose some of our [...]
One of the indelible memories of my life was when, at 16 years-old while watching a Fourth of July rodeo in Livingston, Montana, I witnessed a fatal skydiving accident. So many of the details are clear that it remains a life lesson I come back [...]
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 [...]
You might think the recent fight between Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey (new American Idol judges, for those of you intelligently don’t watch that garbage) couldn’t translate to the staffing industry whatsoever, but of course you’d be wrong. In fact, the obviously scripted fight between [...]
OK, so this really isn’t a list of things threatening your company. (Unless your company is a bunch of cubicles in Thunderdome.) I just happened across a list of workplace safety tips today. And I don’t know about you, but one of three things happen [...]
Nothing good comes from an exit interview. You won’t learn anything you don’t already know and no one wins in the process. That’s pretty declarative. But is true? I came across this blog post by Edgy Conversations’ Dan Waldschmidt that contains the preceding statements. He [...]
VMS and MSP are acronyms that have changed the staffing industry landscape significantly over the past decade and, for better or worse, are here to stay. Good software and well-run programs that are embraced by hiring managers can improve efficiency while reducing costs. Bad programs [...]
A major point in Jim Collins’ bestselling book, Good to Great, goes as follows: “Good to great leaders began the transformation by first getting the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figuring out where to drive it.” [...]
Not only are we supposed to hire people who are not like us, and may even annoy us, but the way most organizations do talent reviews is working against them. So says former Google CIO Douglas Merrill. In this piece I detail the case Merrill [...]
I usually don’t listen very closely when the Chief Information Officers at tech companies talk. After all, they’re usually not speaking my language. But when they discuss hiring and developing talent, I begin to pay attention. And when they recommend actually hiring people who annoy [...]
Authenticity. The degree to which one is true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character. As in a job interview. On both sides of the table. I was recently invited to speak to 200 recruiting and HR pros at the Minnesota Recruiters Conference on the [...]
LinkedIn has a lot going for it. It won the gold medal in 2011’s IPOs and now boasts more than 175 million users. It’s branched out to more than 200 countries and avoided the awkward missteps that have bedeviled its social rival, Facebook. It reported [...]
Hatch Staffing Services sees your Bike to Work Week and raises you a half marathon. Seriously. Almost a third of Hatch staffers ran a half marathon last year. So when they hopped on their bikes last Monday for National Bike to Work Week, that peculiar [...]
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 [...]
“If you can learn the art of making something from nothing in this world, by leveraging the resources of the universe, you will never want for anything because you can always make more.” Those words were uttered by Dr. Rajiv Tandon, or as I call [...]
The Deluge of Negativity Surrounding Email Email is the new pony express. Email is a distraction. Email is for old people. These are sweeping complaints, but they have compelling nuggets of truth under the surface. For instance, while transmitting an email isn’t slow, it often [...]
By popular demand, Staffing Talk has been following every new development the Affordable Care Act can dish out because, as readers like you have made clear, it’s kinda a big deal to staffing. Unfortunately it’s been a little while since we’ve had an update for [...]
