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 [...]
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Technology
With each new development in the robotics field, two things happen: 1) we replace low-end workers with machines and a few tech nerds (to program said machines), and 2) we inch ever-closer to The Robot Apocalypse. (See Terminator, The Matrix, Battlestar Galactica, and I, Robot [...]
When it comes to internal hiring, very few staffing websites actually post information about a career in recruiting. This is probably not an oversight; it’s because staffing firms already have a long line of potential employees parading through their offices. And when they find real [...]
I was reluctant to title this post “HTML5 Strikes Back” – after all HTML5 is an open standard, a rebel cause if there ever was one, and nothing like the bad guys in the Empire Strikes Back. Nevertheless, this is definitely a story about striking [...]
We recently worked with a staffing company that had a few basic goals. Create a social media campaign contest using photos Run the campaign on Twitter and Instagram Drive traffic back to their site Seems easy enough, right? Turns out it wasn’t so simple. There [...]
The intersection of IT, government and business. Do you think much about that space, or place? I must admit I don’t, though this post about the tech talent shortage at Microsoft, and the suggestions they propose to solve it, put it on my radar recently. [...]
To be fair, Twitter never promised me or anyone that I’m aware of that it wouldn’t go changing its API more often than a football fan changes his fantasy roster. But they do, and that creates problems for software developers. How are we to keep [...]
Technology is comprised of three basic components: hardware, software and people. That third one might throw you for a loop, but people are what technology is all about. Without people, technology just sits there, directionless and meaningless. How many of you remember using punch cards? [...]
People have been criticizing Facebook because of the IPO fiasco. If you believed the hype that Facebook’s earnings and prospects justified a 100x valuation then you only have yourself to blame. However, much of the data that’s coming outshould give recruiters some pause as well when using social [...]
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 [...]
You may not know the definition of shadow work but you live it every day. Coined by author Ivan Illich, it is the economics of unpaid labor through self-service. For example, when you use the ATM; or do self-checkout at the supermarket; or pump your [...]
Google+ for Business is here whether you are ready for it or not. I’m sure many of you are thinking, “Great, another social media website, I already have a Facebook. Why do I need it?” It seems redundant, especially if you look at it that [...]
If you’re not utilizing mobile marketing, you’re missing out. Did you know four times more people around the world access the web via cell phones than on computers? No? Neither did I. That was just one of the factoids put forth by Steven Rothberg, president [...]
Imagine you are a branch manager and you just got back to the office from a business lunch meeting. You walk into your office and it’s absolute mayhem. Your employees are running around like headless chickens. There are three people in one room filling out [...]
Frenchman Victor Petit made his resume stand out when applying for a creative internship. On the back of his resume, there was a picture of Petit’s face. He’d placed a QR code over his mouth. Recruiters could take a picture of the code, which links to a [...]
In the first half of 2011, numerous state legislatures, the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, and, most recently, SHRM, have been vocal regarding employer’s obligations to verify immigration status. In early 2010, I began a “beta test” on the new E-Verify system at my employer in [...]
When it comes to recruiting highly talented chefs and truck drivers, there’s no better way to do it than a mobile app. Smartphone apps as a recruiting tool is by no means a novel concept. We all know that. But two niche industries – restaurants [...]
Who’ll win in staffing as mobile technology reboots yet again? The announcement today that Google plans to buy Motorola Mobility points to the harsh reality facing the staffing industry today: we’re an industry that connects people in an age of non-stop turbulence in how people [...]
