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TempWorks Recruitment for the iPhone

At the Staffing World conference this last week in Las Vegas, I had the chance to show off our mobile staffing software to visiting prospects and clients.  The fact that the app makes direct use of the WebKit base of the Iphone and Adroid was [...]

TempWorks is proud to be sponsoring the Minnesota Recruiter Conference this Friday.  Here’s the great line up of speakers: Jim D’Amico Recruiting leader, professional comedian and Buckeye fan.  Jim’s expertise is in building, implementing and leading best in class recruiting teams focused on adding value [...]

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B2B needs to learn mobile. That is my number one lesson from Chris learned at the New Marketing Experience conference here in San Francisco. Follow my coverage at http://www.twitter.com/greggdourgarian

David and Laura a Few Years Back

Here’s a belated note of congratulations to my son David, President of TempWorks and Laura Baratto, his fiancée and TempWorks Marketing Manager.  David and Laura have known each other for almost a decade, and I couldn’t be happier to see them formally announce their engagement [...]

TempWorks is currently hiring sales professionals with experience in the VMS space.  I was surprised in my research by the number of companies competing here in the US market according to the sponsor listing from Staffing Industry Analysts. OPTIMUM SPONSORS The Act 1 Group Aerotek [...]

Don’t let any of my kids see this clip.   Great job, Geoff. TRU London Wrap Video from Geoff Webb on Vimeo.

Another day of meeting people doing incredible things at the intersection of social media and recruitment.  Three or four doing iPhone type apps for searching jobs on Twitter.   The UK recruitment market is going through a lot of change, with some significant bankruptcies in the [...]

I’m pretty pumped up about TruLondon, the unconference on recruitment, HR and staffing.  I don’t remember being as excited about a trip to Europe since I studied there when I was 19. The unconference revolution is at hand.  And like the Woolworth Four, you don’t [...]

I’ve written before about James who is an actor and also a serial entrepreneur who did the original development of our original Canadian payroll system years ago. Here is his an excerpt from his gripping account of being in Haiti during the earthquake.  You can [...]

Turkish TV will broadcast two events with genocide historian Taner Akcam this month: 1) TV Channel: TVNET Date: 18 January 2010 Hour: 20:40 (Turkey Time) Host: Ali Bayramoglu, name of the program: DUN BUGUN (yesterday today) Topics: Hrant Dink and his role Turkish-Armenian Relations; Campaign [...]

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I can’t say enough good things about the TempWorks payroll funding team.  Efficient.  Caring.  Intelligent.  Empathetic.  Patient.  Capable of taking on stressful projects and completing them on time and with a smile. The two guys standing beside me and behind the lovely ladies are staffing [...]

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Noted ERE columnist Kevin Wheeler entertained 250 of us at  a recruitment conference hosted by Best Buy this morning. I had a chance to catch up with him at lunch, as well, where he spelled out the inevitable doom of job boards and how that [...]

It’s no secret that Twitter has emerged as the networking place to be for staffing sales, but how can you most efficiently use that platform and avoid a common pitfall of wasting a lot of time? How would you like to get a review of [...]

Once staffing companies begin their online marketing campaigns they soon find, like with any great activity-focused endeavor, that organizational skills become paramount. If you’re not organized, you’ll soon find yourself duplicating efforts and worse alienating the very sales and recruitment communities you’ve worked so hard [...]

I have reserved five free slots for Staffing Talk readers for our seminar tomorrow led by nationally acclaimed negotiation coach Mark Baratto, EVP of Tempworks. 1) What is Negotiation? 2) How to take the lead. 3) Who is VITO? 4) When to say No 5) [...]

Join us for a Webinar on December 8. This 2009 will be the year of the online marketer, and staffing companies that fail to leverage the best practices of online lead generation techniques will be left behind. Your presenter, online marketing technologist Gregg Dourgarian, will [...]

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In my never-ending quest to keep up with the different dimension of staffing software, I attended with 300 recruiters today a conference held at Best Buy here in the Twin City suburb of Richfield.  My friend Nicole Bodem of Arbita was a featured speaker and [...]