Friday, March 12, 2010

Kung-Fu, Technology and TempWorks Support

March 12, 2010

Adeel Dar
Adeel Dar has been a part of the TempWorks family for about a year, coming on board in March 2009 as a Support Center Specialist. As a Support Center Specialist, Adeel helps customers with any issues that they are having with the software, from WebCenter to the core Enterprise product itself. He also creates new report templates and optimizes existing reports in Access and Visual Studio.

Adeel graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. Before coming to TempWorks he was a test engineer in a manufacturing industry. There, he designed test stations, linked them to databases and reviewed the results, in order to improve the product. He did everything from designing circuits to maintaining a database in SQL and Access.

When asked what he likes best about working for TempWorks, Adeel said, "I enjoy the fun, positive and helpful environment. Even though every job can be stressful, TempWorks is a place where I can learn and accomplish many tough tasks because everyone is ready to help with a smile."

Originally from Pakistan, Adeel now resides in Eagan, MN. When he’s not writing a custom report for a client or troubleshooting, Adeel enjoys watching kung-fu and Samurai movies, music, cooking, working out and learning about new technology.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Half the Cost, Twice the Value

March 11, 2010

[With conference season coming up, I’ve been honing my elevator pitch.  In my experience you can’t practice that pitch enough, and every little improvement can make a big difference.  What do you think of this last effort?]

TempWorks drastically reduces the cost of employment by eliminating all paper and all efficiencies from the employment process. From recruitment to payroll, from fringe benefits to time keeping, we can cut your costs in half. 

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Minneapolis: HR’s Most Intensely Innovative City

March 10, 2010

With the densest population of Fortune 500 companies in the United States it’s no surprise that Minneapolis/St. Paul also represent HR’s most intensely innovative metro area.
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming at TempWorks Paul DeBettignies aka the Minnesota Headhunter and @MnHeadHunter, and point guard for unconferences and tweet-ups that bring together HR innovaters such [...]

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How Are UK Job Boards Branding Themselves in the USA?

March 10, 2010

No doubt a selfish question since I’m doing the opposite – trying to make TempWorks staffing software collateral have that home-spun feel for our British prospects.
It’s not easy.  The Brits use words like ‘vacancy’ instead of job opening, and that’s just the start.  Every country has its uniquely colloquial expressions for day-to-day topics like jobs.  [...]

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The Oscars of Business Software: Best Dressed

March 8, 2010

If there were Oscars for business software, who would win best-dressed?
The conventional wisdom would go with Apple or Google based apps, not Microsoft.  In fact most design buffs pay little attention to Microsoft’s MIX designer conference that it holds each year in Las Vegas.  Truth be told, as a public, we just don’t think [...]

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Temp Staffing Industry Upturn in France

March 8, 2010

http://www.lefigaro.fr/emploi/2010/03/04/01010-20100304ARTFIG00509-l-interim-amorce-un-veritable-redemarrage-en-france-.php

At TruLondon I had the chance to meet many staffing executives from the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France, all three of which were reporting an upturn in hiring.  All three offered projections that handily outmatched those of our hospitable but nevertheless more pessimistic British hosts.
But it was France of that offered the brightest [...]

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Staffing Executive Forum: Escaping from Commodity Hell

March 8, 2010

The upcoming Staffing Executive Forum will feature a session by Greg Palmer on business strategy in a turbulent staffing climate.  His will focus on ways to differentiate, grow and increase margins.  Greg’s company is the publisher of temporary labor market forecasts, including the current one that anticipates a dip in temporary staffing demand in [...]

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How to Brand a Paperless Employment Software Product

March 7, 2010

This weekend I met with Brandon Johnson, the lead developer of our paperless employment product, DocCenter, and he shared with me the color scheme for the next release. 
I’m not a guy to normally pay much attention to color, but I was struck by how attractive the background and the fonts worked together, not [...]

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Personal Branding: Selecting the Right Blog Platform

March 7, 2010

With Staffing Talk nearing its five-year birthday I was struck by how little the Google Blogger platform I was using had evolved.  When I originally chose it I figured that since Google was behind it they would make it mainstream, that if it didn’t have best features it soon would.  Little did I realize how [...]

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Recruitment Business Strategies Learned from Mark Twain

March 7, 2010

“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:
“No – no – I reckon it wouldn’t hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly’s awful particular about this fence – right here on the street, you know – but if it was the back fence I wouldn’t mind [...]

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