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Today, nearly every recruitment-related company vaunts some kind of online recruitment presence dubbed ‘candidate portal’. This term has become so over-used and to mean so many things that it has become meaningless. Some companies use the term ‘candidate portal’ to refer to a generic website. [...]

The other day, after spending approximately 15 minutes struggling with a simple update to Google’s rain-making Adwords Software, I had one of my web-guru programmers come over to help. This is a guy who develops and works with web software all day long and has [...]

This last week Tempworks unveiled its WPF-based Enterprise staffing software product at the American Staffing Association conference in San Antonio. But the hit of the show was a keynote by Erik Weihenmayer, the blind guy who climbed Mount Everest, about overcoming your fears and not [...]

One thing that makes America great is competition. I once lived in Soviet Armenia where competition officially did not exist and its void was filled by a large mafia-run, black-market. If a competitor encroached, you simply planned a little trip for him – unless of [...]

Hire Dynamics, run by owners Dan Campbell and Jon Neff, is one of the nation’s fastest growing staffing companies. They recently won an Excalibur Technology Award in Georgia for their implementation of our paperless application processes. Here is some background: Complexity of the problem:Prior to [...]

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It’s been a long time since I sat down and read a print magazine cover-to-cover, but Porftolio has done it for me now two months in a row. You can get a sense of their quality with online articles like this one about how Google [...]

Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect for Microsoft, makes the case that .Net Winforms has become a dead platform. What does he mean by that? First, he means dead like in DOS. A dead platform is one not extended by its manufacturer. Microsoft will slowly kill [...]

Kate McCann didn’t kill her Madeleine and if she did do it the Portuguese police, the ever bumbling Policia Judiciaria, are never going to make the charge stick. I lived there for two years while my wife was Chief of Pediatrics at a US Air [...]

Sal was a star branch manager who did more volume than any unit in her company. As it happened she relocated with her husband to Florida, leaving her operation in the hands of a successor to whom she gave three envelopes to open up sequentially [...]

Staffing Industry Analyst is holding their yearly Health Care conference in Chicago from September 24-26. I’ll be there showing off our next generation WPF healthcare staffing software system. This is an open invitation for anyone coming to meet me there for a personalized demo and [...]

Kenexa sues Taleo, and Jason Corsello at the Human Capitalist says it’s because Taleo is eating Kenexa’s lunch. Kenexa’s financial statements make that easy to believe. Suggestion for both of these stuggling Web 1.0 talent-management wannabes: get out of the court room and get back [...]

With so many staffing software products on the market, the new Tempworks ad differentiates us wih the headline ’100% paperless’. We now have clients that operate entirely without timecards, paper applications and the like. One does $35 million in business with a staff of 28 [...]

Pity the global staffing companies. Flush with cash from protected global markets like France they have millions to piss away on goofy ideas from their PR firms. The latest: Second Life, a virtual reality site that despite its puny size in comparison with say World [...]

Monster theft runs rampant. But it’s not just theft by hackers that should scare you. When you post a job on Monster, you draw attention to anyone who may want to profit from it. That could be a hacker, or that could be a recruiter [...]