Posts Tagged ‘staffing’
Monday, August 1st, 2011 by Tim Giehll
It’s that time of the year again! College grads are hitting the workforce, and their prospects look better than the rest of the population’s.
According to a recent article on ere.net (a helpful source of recruiting news), the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Hiring Index reports a recent jump in both recruiting and hiring of college students.
The article also states that these bumps counteract a recent downward trend. Below are a few more details from the article:
- The outlook for college hiring in 2011 was 13.5 percent higher than the outlook in 2010.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 by Tim Giehll
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: LinkedIn is a great tool for recruiters!
The company has a bunch of products that can help any recruiting professional make the most of the world’s biggest professional network.
Fortunately a lot of LinkedIn’s material is free and you can find out more in the following 3 links. If you check out their Corporate Recruiting Solutions Resources page, for example, you’ll find dozens of whitepapers, webcasts, brochures, and datasheets about recruiting in general and LinkedIn in particular. The Webcast page has a list of upcoming webcasts (nine in June alone). The blog is also quite good.
Continue Reading:
LinkedIn Kicks A@@
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 by Tim Giehll
You use your connections, recruiting software, and interview skills to land the perfect candidate. Then, a year or two later, he or she leaves, following another great opportunity. It’s a recurring nightmare (and occasional reality) for recruiting and staffing professionals everywhere.
What can be done about it? The short answer: pay attention to all top performers. The long answer involves five ways of encouraging that helps to keep great employees sticking around:
Thursday, April 21st, 2011 by Tim Giehll
I have twice used my discussions with my daughter to inspire blogs. Her and I frequently discuss the ways in which the worlds of business and the world of art and literature coincide. Not too long ago, we related this back to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and then Romeo and Juliet, and how lessons learned from that could apply in both words. Today we’re taking some more advice from the greatest playwright of our time and applying it to the business world of recruiting, because what Shakespeare taught us about love and war, he can also teach us about business and our candidates. Today’s topic: King Lear.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 by Tim Giehll
Type “screening applicants with social media” in your Google box sometime. You might be surprised by the results. I certainly was.
I had expected to find lots of pages with a title like “Five Tips for Using Social Media When Hiring.” I found some of those, of course, but I found a lot – and I mean dozens – of articles and blog posts on legal issues surrounding hiring via social media. And I thought the world of staffing software was legally complicated…
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 by Tim Giehll
Recruiting software – and recruiting strategy in general – needs to make the leap into the mobile age sooner than later.
The reason for this is simple: recruiters need to go where the candidates are. Thirty years ago, candidates routinely looked at the classified jobs section of the newspaper every Sunday. Now, they check their mobile devices every hour. And the numbers are staggering: over 4 billion mobile connections worldwide and over 500 million texts sent across mobile devices every day in the U.S. alone. (Do you have other statistics? Send them via a comment and I’ll post them.)
Thursday, January 13th, 2011 by Tim Giehll
Although I could have done a year-end retrospective in December like everyone else, I wanted to wait and see the last unemployment number first. Unfortunately, the number – 9.4% — wasn’t what anyone was hoping to see. Analysts and commentators everywhere, still eager for any small bit of good economic news, seemed to unilaterally pounce on the number as a sign that things are improving slowly. That’s probably true, but it’s not too hard to find analysts who remain pessimistic. And since the country started out 2010 with an unemployment rate of 9.8%, it’s hard not to be pessimistic myself. No matter how you cut it, 9.4% still represent about 14 MILLION unemployed Americans.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 by Tim Giehll
What is the best way to determine the real salary expectation of a job seeker or current employee? First, do NOT assume anything !!
This is an especially pertinent question in a time of high unemployment. Because of the number of job seekers out there, employers can offer lower-than-usual salaries to prospects. If staffing services don’t help their job seekers have realistic and workable salary expectations, they will find it hard to make placements.
A recent article in HirePlateau, an information hub for recruiters and other staffing professionals, provided some important insights for the staffing professional:
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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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
Today’s business buzz is all about Cloud Computing. With rapid progress in the technology sector, there are new ways to enhance productivity, while cutting costs substantially for the long term. Plugging into the Cloud promises to eliminate the need for costly on-site servers, complex installed software, backup worries and disruptive and expensive upgrades.
Cloud Computing is currently the most sought-after technology for many industries – the staffing and recruiting industry is no exception.
And for good reason.
Cloud Computing Explained
It’s that time of the year again! College grads are hitting the workforce, and their prospects look better than the rest of the population’s.
