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When I first met TempWorks founder and CEO Gregg Dourgarian it was to discuss Staffing Talk and his reasons for wanting to put some more resources into it. “I don’t want to just be in the staffing software and payroll funding business,” he said, “I [...]
Some people are apparently still putting $199 on their credit cards to become “contract associate recruiters” for HRP Hospital Recruiting Partners in Plaistow, New Hamsphire. And those same people, who haven’t been doing any due diligence, are telling us they aren’t getting what they paid [...]
I recently did something I haven’t done in a long, long time. I applied for a position at a Fortune 500 company…online. And I actually received a prompt response. Yea me. Okay, let’s back up for a just a moment. This wasn’t for a full-time [...]
This was sent to me by an anonymous job seeker. Apparently he had seen one too many staffing commercials on YouTube and didn’t understand why the application process seemed to be so much work for him. He said he wanted a way to write an [...]
We know instantly when somebody has it. And we know when somebody doesn’t. Our brains are programmed to pay attention to whatever someone with command presence says or does. It does not matter much if this person is your doctor, plumber, teacher, or president. Chances [...]
Fox News recently released a poll stating that if President Obama was a CEO at a Fortune 500 company he would have been fired by his board of directors by now. I get that President Obama’s approval ratings are not good, but is being president [...]
You help people get jobs, right? Most of us are comfortable with the notion of finding jobs, posting jobs, finding the right people to fill particular jobs and so on. What if that notion is outdated and antiquated? And if it is, as many think, [...]
Is our language rich enough to describe human talent? Could staffing, recruiting and HR people benefit from a common language that accurately describes each of us using standardized, universally recognized words and terms? As someone who makes his living with words, I am rarely at [...]
I was recently talking about the years I spent as an entertainment reporter with an acquaintance of mine who happens to run an executive search company. He asked me who my favorite interview was, and when I told him, I realized the answer is worth [...]
We couldn’t help but notice how several online job seekers have been wondering if HRP Staffing, which claims to be a staffing firm for healthcare professionals and operates from Plaistow, NH, is legitimate. The website for HRP (which stands for Hospital Recruiting Partners) appears fairly [...]
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 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 [...]
This month, CornerStone Staffing celebrates 20 years of success through the coalescence of its staff, temporary associates and the community in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. It all began with a vision by co-owners Jody and Steve Smith. Steve Smith learned the ins and outs of staffing while [...]
Nesco Resource, which provides staffing services to three key sectors including Engineering and IT, Clerical and Light Industrial and Accounting and Finance, has consistently been in the news lately – and almost always because it’s growing. Since mid-2009, the company has announced acquisitions of PMH [...]
Alter Ego Concierge’s website says that the company helps people find staff “just like them – a second self that will be a perfect substitute when you can’t be there.” But it’s so much more than that. I admit, when I first learned about Chicago’s [...]
It’s a lockout. Sound familiar? That’s this week’s recurring theme for large companies who can’t negotiate fair contracts with their workers. New York art auction house Sotheby’s went this route on July 29 when 43 art handlers/union members were told not to come to work [...]
Duplicity Smith, owner of Double Secret Staffing (DSS), was bent almost double with laughter last week at the news that the FBI was following up on yet another lead in the “mystery” of D.B. Cooper. “I just spoke with him yesterday,” she gasps, barely able [...]
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 [...]
Naked man runs for the woods at a music festival and falls, fractures his spinal column and the staff move him from the woods. The naked man was Daniel Weaver, of Hudson, N.Y., who was paralyzed from the chest down during last summer’s All Good [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to get a call from someone who wants you? An employer who invites you to leave your present career position and go work for them? It’s fun to do the recruiting, but it would also be nice to be the one [...]
How can a staffing firm engage its employees, raise its profile and help make its community a more vibrant place? Teaming up with nonprofits is one way. Partnerships between staffing firms and nonprofits can take many forms. Sometimes a staffing firm works with one nonprofit, [...]
“Neither candidates, nor companies, really know exactly what they want,” opines Bob Norton, a former business analyst turned information systems search and placement firm founder. “From the client side, it’s figuring out the business problem they have, not the laundry list of skills they think [...]
How do you know how good the company is that you are using to perform background checks? If you use a company that has botched the job bad enough you might hear from the authorities, and/or see your company on the evening news. That’s what [...]
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