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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“I’ve been applying for jobs since 2010,” says an outgoing young woman still searching for that first career job in the field of her college major. “I’ve been shocked by the number of places you never hear back from. You start to wonder, should I [...]
This line at the grocery store is not getting any shorter. When I came in I thought I was only going to get a few things. Now, as I juggle my 14 items (yes, person eyeing me from two people back, I am under the [...]
Recharge your commitment to initiative, creativity and building your business while you meet with staffing professionals from around the country at The Works: 2012 – a Staffing Industry event unlike any you have ever attended. Staffing Talk presents TheWorks: 2012 – What’s Behind What’s Ahead [...]
Let me start by contradicting myself – our government is really good at creating jobs. Confused? Consider this fact – the Office of Personnel Management reports that since the start of the recession the Federal Government has added 275,000 new jobs to the Federal payroll, [...]
Israel’s Surprising Answer to a Looming Talent Shortage With a population almost entirely constituted by theocratic-minded haredim and subjugated and resentful Arabs, the Israel of the near future will most likely collapse like the unsustainable experiment it has always been.” ..or at least so says [...]
It is losing money and market share, but that doesn’t count for much anymore. Taleo just sold itself for a cool $1.9 billion to Oracle. Some things need to be said about this. Suggestion for the developers: call your headhunter. There are a lot of [...]
It’s the time of year when individuals resolve to stop snacking and start exercising — and when forward-looking business owners and managers set goals for the coming year. Some goals may vary depending on the industry in which a firm works, the type of searches [...]
Last week I wrote about the possibly discriminatory but certainly stupid new trend where job boards and employers are requiring that applicants have a job before they can apply. Now I’d like to take my hand at busting another myth, that of the wonderfulness of [...]
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, here’s a reason to be thankful: hopefully you aren’t working in any one of these ten most dangerous jobs in America. Compiled annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the list for 2011 was recently released (it [...]
Full disclosure. I have received packages from United Parcel Service (UPS) before, but have never applied – or been a candidate – for a job at the company. If I was interested though, they sure do make it easy. Especially around the holidays, their peak [...]
In 1897, American author and humorist made his famous remark, “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” after a reporter was sent to investigate rumors Twain had passed. For some time we have been hearing about the death of the job interview, but I [...]
Back in April we brought you a hilariously dangerous picture gallery of OSHA violations that had to be seen to be believed. Now it’s time for the sequel. Because unlike some of the people in these images, we’ll live to fight – or work – [...]
It’s great to stay on top of the latest staffing trends. But it’s even better to be ahead of them: to see where the labor market is going, not just where it is today. So what will the market for contingent workers look like a [...]
The interview with the CEO of a downtown Minneapolis headhunting firm began in rather typical fashion. Questions about my resume. My skills. My hopes. My dreams. But it ended rather atypically! With a sales pitch that included him asking me for money to proceed. Lots [...]
Think you’re entitled to that prevailing wage job you once had? Guess again, because chances are that you aren’t — at least yet. That’s the message from Lani Harless, who has a tough love approach when it comes to helping local job seekers find employment. [...]
Veteran executive recruiter Rick Deare doesn’t mind the term “headhunter.” In fact he even uses it on his Deare Recruiting Solutions website. But he contends that problem solver is a better way to describe what he does. “We have always been tasked with identifying strong [...]
Internet pioneer and permission marketing author Seth Godin wrote on his blog the other day that there are two kinds of recessions. The first is cyclical, pat of the natural order of things, and has a definitive beginning and end. The other kind is permanent, [...]
