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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 [...]
“The world’s first dedicated search engine to harness the power of Twitter for job hunting.” That quote comes from London-based TwitJobSearch when describing themselves. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of them until their business development manager, Samuel Lau (@ChairmanSam), began to follow me on [...]
The name change of Peopleclick Authoria to Peoplefluent conveniently comes at the same time the talent management company began promoting a new iPad application. Peoplefluent provides software for talent management, recruiting, vendor management and workforce compliance. The name change is to create a “vision-driven brand,” [...]
Here’s the latest in “thinking outside the box”: Lord Reid of Cardowan, the Former Home Secretary of the UK, has challenged the public sector to start hiring computer hackers. The idea is to develop a world-class security force against skilled hackers who tend toward the [...]
About a month ago, a friend of mine on Twitter spent the entire day threatening to run over a biker who got in her way. It was a good thing she wasn’t job hunting at the time. The Social Intelligence Corporation doesn’t have the same [...]
LinkedIn flexed it muscles today by shutting down API access to developers who were violating services. This includes BranchOut, BeKnown, Visible.me, Daxtra, Mixtent and CRM-Gadget. According to TechCrunch, BranchOut, a social networking app for Facebook, was planning to create a premium enterprise recruiting search tool that would [...]
“Sending resumes just NOT working?” That’s what San Francisco-based One Page Company is asking. It’s a pretty good line for direct response, given the U.S. unemployment figures lately. But it’s also a pretty good question. The One Page Company and its flagship product, the 1-Page [...]
A cartoon example of true genius: Fred Flintstone punches out from his shift at the quarry. He holds out a flat piece of stone (the time card) and it’s strategically bitten by a trained dinosaur (the time clock). If nothing else this shows that for [...]
This may come as a shock to those of you who’ve read my critiques of certain social networking platforms (BranchOut ring a bell?), but one somehow managed to escape my poisoned pen. Incredibly, I managed to find virtually no fault with it. As the story [...]
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, LinkedIn should be reveling in it, for once again, another social networking site is trying to compete for job seekers’ affections. On Monday, the omnipresent job board Monster Worldwide launched a professional social [...]
Federal ruling says Walmart can be sued for being negligent in hiring contractors that employ other people at their distribution centers [Hispanic Business] Yahoo to purchase popular blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in an effort to regain young users [Daily Bulletin] Silicon Valley tech companies [...]
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 [...]
(This post was originally published July 2, 2009.) Amazon is reinventing the book industry with its Kindle product and cannibalizing its own printed book market along the way. You should be thinking the same way about your recruitment company. As much as I’ve been a [...]
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 [...]
