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Whether you’re pitching your services to a potential client or coaching a candidate on interview strategies, your interviewer will likely get very similar plugs from your competitors. To rise above the noise, you need to make what you say more memorable than all the other [...]
Even with unemployment high, lots of good jobs are going unfilled today because of a widening skill gap in America. Staffing companies are in an ideal position to bridge that gap. There are staffing firms that create solutions to train and re-tool workers to meet [...]
One candidate you’re trying to place needs to improve her hygiene. Another didn’t get a position he was banking on to end months of unemployment. And a client has asked you to fill a position at a salary that is well below market rate. Being [...]
“I get all of my clients through referrals. Word of mouth is all the marketing I need.” Those words didn’t come out of my mouth, nor would they. I tell people they need tools and channels and content and process and stuff. No, this was [...]
Finding a new job may be at the top of your employees’ New Years’ Resolutions list. A recent Right Management Survey highlights that most employees want to leave their current position. Even more alarming: the percentage was just as high last year. Here’s the key [...]
Okay, I got the memo. We are in the midst of a busy holiday season. Our time is precious. We can count the days – and the hours – until the Christmas/Hanukkah break. And if I wasn’t on your radar/agenda/to-do list for a while, it’s [...]
As a Vice President running a growing manufacturing company, it’s not uncommon to have 2-3 staffing agencies stop by my office on a daily basis and perhaps one or two annoy the heck out of me by trying to slip in the backdoor with a [...]
“Does Better Productivity Kill Jobs?” That was the headline of a TIME magazine blog I read and set aside last winter. It also happened to coincide with a lecture I just attended by productivity expert and sometime Staffing Talk contributor Tor Dahl who says high [...]
We all hate to fire someone, though Donald Trump seemed to relish the role and George Clooney got pretty good at it in Up In The Air. It’s definitely safer to say we all hate to be fired. But sometimes it’s simply not our fault, [...]
Want free, useful data about job postings in your line of business, in your area? Overall trends in specific jobs, year to year or month to month? Average salary for a specific job in a specific place? Who your competitors are looking for, and at [...]
During peak periods – around the holidays, tax season or over the summer – it’s critical that businesses can easily manage the addition of temporary employees and quickly get them up to speed. And from recruiting and training to offboarding, seasonal employees can put your [...]
Hi! I’m Amy Bingham, and I’m an 18-year veteran of the staffing industry. I spent more than a dozen years with Spherion in field and corporate roles learning the business from soup to nuts and winning many awards and trips for beating my numbers along [...]
“Monkeys with machine guns.” That’s how international search consultant Claudio Fernández-Aráoz refers to many in the search and recruiting business. Of course that statement is a slight bit inflammatory, so I should quickly follow it up by saying what he means is that hiring managers [...]
There is a huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam, but some people just don’t seem to get it. I rarely pick on just one company, when so many have absolutely no idea how to market themselves via e-mail. But I’ll make an exception here, as [...]
Productivity is defined as: Doing the right thing (effectiveness) in the right way (efficiency) all the time (occupancy). The only way poor quality can happen is if you do the wrong thing, or the right thing in the wrong way, or if you don’t do [...]
There are literally hundreds of reasons to build an intranet for your staffing firm. I obviously can’t list all of them here, but I will share with you a few first-hand stories of how an intranet completely changed one staffing company for the better. Let [...]
Job search coaches are guilty of telling people to try unique ways to job hunt, to make yourself stand out from the competition. Are you willing to hire the candidate who conveys his skills on a sandwich board? Or is it just a waste of your [...]
It’s easy to find scores of how-to articles on making a good impression in the interview and how to score your dream job. Most of it is common sense. But what if you don’t want a full-time, permanent job? Life’s full of things to do, [...]
Atrium Staffing vs. Manpower. [CNN Money] Workers can’t sit out of office politics game. [Life INC.] SourceRight Solutions appoints Karen Turner as Vice President of Product Development and Strategy. [MarketWatch] Steve Sossamon joins HastonWilliams as Executive Search Partner. [PR] US labor agency cites Hershey distribution [...]
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 [...]
Whether you’re pitching your services to a potential client or coaching a candidate on interview strategies, your interviewer will likely get very similar plugs from your competitors. To rise above the noise, you need to make what you say more memorable than all the other [...]
Mark Toth takes on the hopelessness of love contracts. Does anyone have a different take? Excerpt: HR: Hello, Greg. Greg: Hello. HR: I heard you’re dating Marcia. Is that true? Greg: No, actually I’m dating Alice. HR: Oh, really? I thought Sam was dating Alice. [...]
Let me start by contradicting myself – our government is really good at creating jobs. Confused? Consider this fact – the Office of Personnel Management reports that since the start of the recession the Federal Government has added 275,000 new jobs to the Federal payroll, [...]
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