Five Question Friday

by David Gee January 27, 2012

For Five Question Friday, we turn to Open Systems Technologies (OST), a company established in New York in 1990, and calling themselves “one of the largest, privately held, staffing companies in the world.” Through their brands of Open Systems Technologies, OS Financial, OS Government Services, [...]

Palo Alto Has the Ocean, Des Moines Has Better Looking Women

by Gregg Dourgarian January 27, 2012
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Or “Why the Midwest is the Best Place for a Startup”.   dr01d on Jan 25, 9:27 PM said: The median home price in Palo Alto is $1.25 million. Not only is that a small, old house but it’s over 10x these kids annual salaries.  [...]

Staffing News Of The Day, January 26, 2012

by Staffing News of the Day January 26, 2012

More lockouts as companies battle unions: America’s unionized workers, buffeted by layoffs and stagnating wages, face another phenomenon that is increasingly throwing them on the defensive: lockouts. [truthout] OfficeTeam Survey: Work/life balance, learning opportunities have greatest impact on job satisfaction. [MarketWatch] Apex Systems, Inc., a [...]

Super Staffing Needs For The Super Bowl

by David Gee January 26, 2012

Wanted: thousands of parking attendants, waiters and waitresses, hosts and hostesses, security guards, limousine chauffeurs, shuttle bus drivers, customer service assistants, babysitters, massage therapists and food service workers. Apply online, or in person,  Super Bowl XLVI, Indianapolis, Indiana. Yes, able bodies, and staffing companies, are [...]

Monster Layoff Not Scary for Some

by Gregg Dourgarian January 26, 2012
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Given the news out of Monster yesterday evening, I’m tempted to do another job-boards-are-dying post.  Believe me, it’s tempting. After all,  Monster lost tens of millions in 2010, and that doesn’t begin to count the carnage of acquisitions gone bad, hidden like skeletons in a [...]

Webinar on Employment Law, Thursday, by Manpower’s Mark Toth

by Gregg Dourgarian January 25, 2012
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  I don’t recommend many webinars but when I do it’s the Employment Law one by Mark Toth of Manpower.  He’s an attorney and – astonishingly – easy to understand and funny. It’s Thursday, at 11am, and you can sign up for it here.  Oh [...]

Staffing News Of The Day, January 25, 2012

by Staffing News of the Day January 25, 2012

American workers are spending $1,000 a year on coffee and another $2,000 on lunch, with men and young workers more willing to indulge in a $5 coffee than women or older colleagues, according to a survey of Americans’ workplace spending habits. [Chicago Tribune] Express Employment [...]

Obama Wants to Take Over Your Job Board and Training Business

by Gregg Dourgarian January 25, 2012
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  In case you missed it, the Economist’s feature story this week was on the rise of state capitalism.  If you don’t want to take the time to read it, you can save yourself a bunch of time because our president summed it up in [...]

Why Your Sleazy Competitor is #1 on Google

by Gregg Dourgarian January 24, 2012
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So your staffing firm is the talk of the town.  You have the best recruiters.  The best candidate experience.   The best assessments.  So why aren’t you number one on Google?  And why is it instead that low-balling rugrat on the other side of town? That’s [...]

Staffing News Of The Day, January 24, 2012

by Staffing News of the Day January 24, 2012

Federal Staffing Resources awarded U.S. Air Force Healthcare Staffing contract. The contract, worth nearly $1 billion, runs over five years under which awardees are eligible to seek individual service task orders. [MarketWatch] Owner of a Lowell staffing company pleads guilty and is sentenced for workers’ [...]

Temps Take To The Stage

by David Gee January 24, 2012

I know, I know, if you’ve seen one Japanese play about disenfranchised temp workers, you’ve seen them all. Actually, I saw three of them recently – all together – in a trilogy entitled Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech. One critic described it [...]

Staffing News Of The Day, January 23, 2012

by Staffing News of the Day January 23, 2012

Contract award irks S.D. firms. Area job recruiting agencies say they were surprised and unhappy about Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s announcement two weeks ago that national recruiter Manpower Inc. had been awarded a $5 million state contract. [The Argus Leader] Chamber welcomes Life Style Staffing to [...]

La Tartine Gourmande

by Gregg Dourgarian January 21, 2012
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http://www.latartinegourmande.com/ Every once in a while I come across a blog so nicely done that it makes all the time I spend mindlessly surfing absolutely worth it.  This one came to me courtesy of the BostonVC on Twitter.  It’s by Beatrice Peltre.   Bookmark on Delicious [...]

Women’s Guide to Unwanted Geek Advances

by Gregg Dourgarian January 21, 2012

Terry Jones’ full list of HTTP status codes for women to deal with unwanted geek advances is too good not to post here on a Saturday when you staffing entrepreneurs are supposed to be relaxing but aren’t.   Here are my favorites: 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY 305 [...]

Is This A Kodak Moment For The Staffing Industry?

by David Gee January 20, 2012

After being in the business of capturing and preserving memorable moments for so long, the death of the 132-year-old Eastman Kodak company is a sad moment, but does it hold lessons for the staffing industry? Let’s take a look. First, let’s set the stage a [...]

Staffing News Of The Day, January 20, 2012

by Staffing News of the Day January 20, 2012

Keeping it real. Six tactics for hard-core recruiters in 2012 from Greg Savage. [RecruitingBlogs] “Teamster union officials have conducted an illegal campaign to extract full union dues from these workers wanting to exercise their rights to refrain from formal union membership, even though union officials [...]

Staffing News Of The Day, January 19, 2012

by Staffing News of the Day January 19, 2012

Unemployment numbers good for staffers. [Investopedia] The onetime operator of a Minneapolis temporary-employment agency, Olen Staff Co., under suspicion for hiring illegal immigrants has admitted to cheating the federal government out of more than $425,000 in payroll deductions. Doris Ruiz pleaded guilty in federal court [...]

Three Facebook Trends That Will Impact Recruitment

by Gregg Dourgarian January 19, 2012

Staffing professionals are all over the board as to whether Facebook has any relevance to their business.  One will say nah it’s just for sharing pictures of the kids, another will say she finds her best candidates there.   Personally I’ve recruited some of our top [...]

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