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How To Write A Great Job Description
When it comes to attracting a top candidate to your organization, the job description is a crucial element. Write a great one and it will catch the eye of a much wider pool of potential hires. Write a boring one and watch ideal hires click right on by. Whether you are looking for a candidate on your own or with the help of a staffing firm, taking a little time at the outset to craft a compelling job description can save so much time down the road. Not to mention make the process much more pleasant. Here’s how to do it:
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How a Staffing Company Can Help You with the Affordable Care Act
Get ready business owners. The Affordable Care Act officially goes into effect in 2014. Do you know how to respond? Many business owners are starting to have conce s about being able to afford new staff members or even continuing to support existing members of their own team because they’re worried about the burden of additional healthcare insurance and penalties that can be charged. You may not have considered this option, but involving a staffing company in your business can head off problems and set your mind at ease. Here are some specific ways a staffing company can help:
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Introducing the “Super-Temp”-- a New Era in Staffing
Superman, Superwoman, Supergirl – they swoop in at the last minute and save the day with their specialized skills and willingness to help. Now the “super” tag is being applied somewhere new – to temporary staffing. If you haven’t already heard of the “super-temp,” you will soon. It’s a new phenomenon that’s gaining traction because more and more people are choosing a career that gives them more freedom.
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5 Ways to Keep Gen X Engaged in Your Business
Generation X are the latchkey kids all grown up. As the children of workaholics, they came home from school, unlocked their own doors and babysat themselves until someone eventually came home. This has developed two strengths for them. They are incredibly self-sufficient and they have no desire to make their work their priority as their parents did.
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5 Ways To Get A Millennial To Work For You
Hiring and keeping someone from Generation Y can be a challenge. Their idea of a job, a career and the loyalty to both is completely different from the generations before them. This generation does not want to be tied to a desk and required to have “face-time” at the office. They do not understand hierarchy in an organization because everyone working together makes more sense.
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Bringing on a Temporary Worker – 5 Steps to Success
Bringing on a Temporary Worker – 5 Steps to Successr By Catherine Lang-Cline As the economy develops and business picks up, many companies are choosing to add staff through temporary workers. It’s a way to manage the workflow with less risk than bringing on permanent employees that might not be needed in the long-term. But if you’ve never used temporary staffers before, figuring out how to make the best use of them can be a little daunting. Here are five tips to make sure your staffing investment will pay dividends for your business.
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Temp Workers are the Cool, New Workforce
Temp Workers are the Cool, New Workforcer By Catherine Lang-Cline So it seems that business are starting to see work again. During the recession everyone grew lean and cut overhead in the form of staff. Now it might be time to bring people back. Here’s the thing, in that window of time while businesses were struggling and people were laid off, the workforce has changed entirely.
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Temporary Staffing - You Get What You Pay For
Temporary Staffing - You Get What You Pay Forr By Catherine Lang-Cline Who doesn’t love a bargain? Everyone loves a bargain as illustrated by the popularity of coupons, rebates, sales and deal-of-the-day email services. With everyone being budget conscious both at home and at work, it is probably a fairly wise thing to do. Who has ever bought something at a very reduced price only to find out the product was terrible or it in the long run, cost you even more money?
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We Want to Know the Good and the Bad
Recruiters can go to great lengths to get the right person into a role. Resumes are collected, people are interviewed, discussions take place and selections are made. Once the job is filled, the recruiter has huge hopes that they’ve made the perfect match and that everything is moving along swimmingly for all involved. Sometimes people think this point is the end of the process, but it is not. Feedback is very important to the success of a client’s current project, future projects and the relationship between the client and the staffing company.
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Where Is All the Good Talent?
Everyone is aware that productivity has been a challenge these last few years for businesses and people alike. With consumer confidence now picking up, more people are getting back to work. In some cases, the best people were never out of work. Now you may find yourself in a position to finally add some headcount. That headcount could be in the form of temporary staffing or full time staffing. You place some ads and talk to people about who is looking for work and it seems like everyone is already working. Where did everyone go?
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5 Signs It’s Time For A Career Change
Making the decision to change your career can be a difficult one. Especially if you’ve been in your profession for years and feel that it’s part of who you are. But there are some signs that it might be time to think a little more fully about your work situation, and perhaps make the leap into something new. Here are five indicators it’s time for a change:
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Job Search Blunders – Five Networking Mistakes
As head of a job placement firm, I’ve seen a lot of do’s and don’ts when it comes to finding a job. Networking, while a powerful strategy for landing a new career opportunity, can be done in such a way that it limits your chances rather than expands them. Here are five of the most common networking blunders and some strategies to correct them.
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