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This article was sent to us by Josh Tolan, CEO of SparkHire, a video powered hiring solution that allows staffing professionals to collaborate with their clients around video interviews. It’s no secret recruiters and staffing professionals love passive candidates. These candidates have already proven and [...]
Ever heard the old saying, “everyone should learn to play an instrument?” How about “everyone should learn how to speak a second language?” These self-betterment arguments have a modern equivalent, which is that everyone should learn how to code. I see it everywhere. Steve Jobs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Interview with CEO of ManpowerGroup: What’s next for the job market? [Wall Street Journal] Surge in litigation-related work is prompting one in three lawyers to add staff [PR Newswire] Six Indians arrested for swindling 500 students through a fake campus recruitment agency [IBN Live] Survey [...]
This article was sent to us by Josh Tolan, CEO of SparkHire, a video powered hiring solution that allows staffing professionals to collaborate with their clients around video interviews. It’s no secret recruiters and staffing professionals love passive candidates. These candidates have already proven and [...]
This article was sent to us by Josh Tolan, CEO of SparkHire, a video powered hiring solution that allows staffing professionals to collaborate with their clients around video interviews. It’s no secret recruiters and staffing professionals love passive candidates. These candidates have already proven and [...]
My eight-year-old son and I were doing some landscaping in our yard one day when he paused, looked up at me through squinted, sweat-soaked eyes, and said, “Dad, wouldn’t it be great if we never had to work?” To be honest, I can’t say I’ve [...]
“Just how stupid are you?” That’s likely not a question on the job applications in your office. But a couple of Swedish professors say it should be. And they also say the correct answer for the job candidate is, “How stupid do you want me [...]
