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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 [...]
“Yeah, I made a mess of my finances at one point. But even though I cleaned that up a long time ago, my credit history is hurting me when it comes to getting hired.” I recently went back to a meeting of a networking group [...]
Understanding the factors that allow you to recruit – and retain – great employees is critical to business success today, and can even lead to a distinct competitive advantage. Like Gregg and Trevor and Kinzy and everyone associated with Staffing Talk, we are always searching [...]
We’re living in an era of quirky perks, from company climbing walls to gourmet in-house chefs. It seems everywhere you look, a high profile company is one-upping their competitor not with the number of zeroes in their salary (or even their benefits), but with perks. [...]
When was the last time you used a job candidate’s handwriting analysis when making a hiring decision? If your answer is never, you probably don’t live in France. While we typically make most hiring decisions based on resumes, applications, interviews, personality tests and so on, [...]
If you ask industry insiders where staffing is headed over the next few decades, many will look at the trends of recent years and posit that the industry will continue becoming more concentrated. By that they mean the “big boys” (Adecco, Randstad, Manpower, Recruit, etc.) [...]
So this “story” arrives in my inbox the other day about a successful marketing executive who was suddenly persona non grata among recruiters and hiring managers because of so-called “digital dirt” that showed up whenever someone Googled her name. And it goes on to list [...]
The end of recruitment agencies. The end of the job. The end of full employment and what it means to you. The end of traditional job postings. The end of sourcing. The end of the office as we know it. The end of the résumé. [...]
As anyone in the staffing industry will tell you, we are nothing without our clients and associates. Both are important, integral. Without either one, we wouldn’t be in business. Like a giant, ever-changing jigsaw puzzle, it’s our job to match them up with each other, [...]
With The Supreme Court now deliberating one case and starting another, the issue of Affirmative Action is once again a hot debate topic. In this case The Supreme Court debate revolves around college admissions at the University of Texas and University of Michigan, but this [...]
The path to becoming a recruiter is often not straightforward. It zigs and zags, taking detours into sales and customer service before it emerges happily into the previously unknown Land of Staffing. The career lacks visibility – and the kind of nudge that only a [...]
Businesses and organizations spend all this money on the office, and they make people show up there all the time, yet that’s not where the work gets done. What’s that about? Why is that? Those are some of the questions about the workplace asked by Jason [...]
Here at Staffing Talk we very rarely talk about the global staffing realm. Sure, our Staffing News of the Day encapsulates all the major happenings, but our content mostly opts for covering North America. It’s where we are and it’s what we know, so it [...]
It’s long been conventional wisdom that so-called “job hoppers” and the long-term unemployed make bad employees, right? Not so, according to a Q2 2013 Workforce Report by Evolv, a data provider that uses analytics to study employee retention. The report, which you can read here, [...]
When Elance CEO Fabio Rosati first arrived at Staffing Industry Analysts’ Executive Forum last week, one of the staffers on hand spotted his badge and approached him. “So, you’re with Elance,” he said. “You’re the enemy.” Fabio shared this at the beginning of his breakout [...]
“Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home,” reads the memo to employees from Yahoo! HR head Jackie Reses. “We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” The blogosphere and the online universe have pushed back with some [...]
Are you satisfied with your hiring success rate? With the speed at which you find talent? Are you happy with the quality of candidates you are reaching? Do you feel you are getting to passive candidates who are already employed? Attracting top talent is a [...]
Always be recruiting. Do it yourself. Don’t outsource to a professional. The process is just like any other marketing or sales campaign. Now discuss. Yikes! Right? Bryan Burkhart, the person who wrote those italicized statements, joined a software startup when he was 23 and helped grow it to [...]
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 [...]
