Posts Tagged ‘change management’

Death To Job Fairs: 5 Reasons To Kill This Overrated Recruiting Tactic

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 by Tim Giehll

Preparing for your latest job fair?  As you spend a full day frantically packing your signage, gathering your business cards and concepting your booth game, your savviest competitor has already reached out to six candidates – each more qualified than you will meet at your fair.

How did they do it?  By realizing long ago that job fairs are a dying recruiting tactic and evolving their strategy.

Below, find five reasons job fairs are overrated:

Staffing MSP Services Kills Need For VMS Firms

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 by Tim Giehll

For awhile now there have been two camps of thought concerning how to best help Corporations improve the management of their contingent workforce spending.  At first, there were stand alone VMS (Vendor Management Software/Service) companies that applied technology to this business issue,  Over time the large Staffing firms jumped in and through their MSP (Managed Service Provider) offerings and the acquisition of some of the VMS technology companies, they have been able to effectively help their largest corporate clients better manage the flow of contingent spending.  Who is right and who is wrong ???

VMS Hell from a staffing industry point of view

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 by Tim Giehll

First of all, I have to give full credit for this post to the Californai Staffing Association.  The information written by them below is one of the BEST descriptions of what staffing firms many times deal with when they interact with a corporate VMS.  It is important for all parties; 1) the corporate client, 2) the VMS/MSP and 3) the staffing firm to better understand the  common frustrations of interfacing with a VMS environment.  Happy Reading !!!

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CAPTCHA

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 by Tim Schram

If you don’t know what that is, please let me save you the trouble of Googling it. It’s based on the word ‘capture’ and is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”

According to Wikipedia, CAPTACHA is a challenge-response test used in computing to ensure the response is not coming from another computer. You’ve all seen it. It’s that little block of text that’s typed in by what’s assumed to be a “human” versus another computer.