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 [...]
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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 [...]
This is really happening: Staffing, employment and job hunting are now truly heroic pursuits. You can tell, because they’re being developed into full-fledged video games. We’ve seen signs of this. The Job Search Ninja, for example, helps job seekers navigate through some of the pitfalls [...]
Generation Y: seeking fun and flexible working environments. Loves: being able to take a year off at a moment’s notice and enjoy in-house massage chairs. Recruiters, take note: Millennials not only want those types of jobs, but they want the job hunt to be equally as [...]
This morning I arrived at my office, Red Eye from my coffee shop in hand, looking forward to a calm, paper-pushing kind of day, when I was brutally reminded of events from earlier in the summer when I thought it was a good idea talk [...]
Candidates might tell you in no uncertain terms about their situations: “I can’t afford food for my kids,” or “I can’t pay the rent again this month.” This kind of thing is easy to overlook, especially when every other headline you read tells you the [...]
In a time when most of us are trying so hard to believe in the economy’s recovery, there is nothing like a RIF to slap us back to reality. Just in case you missed it: Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced yesterday that it [...]
The icy relationship between Linkedin and job boards took another sour turn today when the professional networking site launched a plug-in called “Apply with LinkedIn.” Companies both big and small can now add the plug-in alongside their own “apply now” button on corporate career sites, [...]
File this under technology FAIL. Adecco Staffing US, one of the largest recruiting firms in the world, just launched a free iPad app called Workolutions. It’s supposed to “allow employers and human resources professionals access to a wide range of valuable information,” according to a [...]
TempWorks Software announces the launch of the new DayPay dispatcher module as part of its Enterprise staffing software suite. The new module was developed to maximize profit at every stage of fast-response staff assignments involving multiple clients and shifts. The first DayPay module was recently [...]
The government has launched an app to help prove employees earned their wages fair and square. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor launched a timekeeping app so employees can independently track hours they work – regular, overtime and breaks. They can record personal time [...]
