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An article in USA TODAY this week explained that the difficult economy is causing companies to hire more temporary workers. The article also states that those temporary workers are staying “temporary” employees longer. This stresses the the point that consultants and freelancers are an important part of the current economic situation. Check out the article at the link below.

Click link to view article.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-07-07/temporary-hiring/56071760/1#.T_yR99sMhSA.email

An article in USA TODAY last week presented an interesting point about the job market. Even with a high unemployment rate companies are having trouble filling positions with qualified employees. Heavy Layoffs in many companies HR departments and at some staffing agencies can cause qualified job candidates to be mistakenly screened out due to the inexperience of the recruiter. One way the fatigue and inexperience of the recruiter can affect you chances at getting a job is because the job description too vague or detailed and is hard to understand what type of candidate the hiring manager wanted. Another common mistake happens when a recruiter is using very specific keyword searches when searching for a candidate. Sometimes in being specific they are loosing out on many great potential candidates. A recruiter can also miss out on many great candidates …

An article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago reveals that April has been the hardest month for jobs since December. The uncertainty of what is happening in Europe as well as the election year are creating fears among many companies with job openings. The article explains that it is not that companies don’t have jobs available, they are just in no hurry to fill them with less than perfect people. Click the links below to read more.

If you are a subscriber to the WSJ click on the link to view the article
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405270230444140457748077135…

If you are not a subscriber to a google search for “Jobs Get Posted, Few Get Filled”

Recently we have had a couple of candidates rejected for a brand new reason: they have a poor web presence. Some of our clients are now  looking at a candidate’s Twitter account and Facebook pages. They want to see how passionate a potential new hire is about the use of social media. They want to look at how adroit they are at using it in general and in promoting their own brand. They can also infer about the account’s length of use.

So do yourself a favor, take a look at all your online public accounts and consider what a stranger would think about your professional side after eyeing them. If it is a bad or incomplete picture, fix it. It could cost you more than you think.

State of Hiring: More companies holding out for “right” employee
Here is an interesting perspective from Manpower regarding the difficulty of hiring and
how firms are responding to this shortage of candidates:

Hiring Survey: More companies holding out for “right” employee
By: Michael Oneal
Tribune Reporter
May 29, 2012

More than a third of all employers globally are facing a shortage of skilled workers, but
they are reluctant to hire until the right people come along, according to an annual
survey by Milwaukee-based Manpower Group.

The survey showed that 34 percent of employers are having difficulty filling jobs but 56
percent of respondents said they are making due with fewer workers — a bad sign for the
hiring market.

“Talent shortages are endemic but employers have gotten used to doing more with less
and hesitate to hire until they see demand and can find talent with the specific skills they
need,” said Manpower Chairman Jeffrey …

Our clients and candidates ask us all the time, “what’s happening out there?” And, “are we busy?”

Right now, the answer is a resounding YES. We are very busy in several areas.

1. Traditional Placement in Integrated Marketing Communications[IMC] is finally getting back to a healthy level. Agencies of all types and their clients are so stretched for people that when they need to hire they need to hire immediately; particularly in digital.

2. We have developed a M&A practice. A number of agencies have retained us to help them locate smaller or complimentary agencies to help fuel their growth more quickly than if done organically. This could be an acquisition or a strategic partnership.

3. ConsultantzCommunity.com . Our Consulting/freelance website is rapidly taking off. Over 300 consultants are connected to one another and visible to over 70 clients who have delved into the site, posted jobs or mined the site`s database for candidates to fill temporary …

As you might imagine, we get a great deal of resumes and business solicitations every day. A few through the mail, some imbedded in an e-mail, some as attachments and some as URL’s to a Linked in profile.

After all these years and everybody carping on the need for perfect written communications, here is a tally sheet of some no-no’s I have received this month:

Name of past employer is misspelled 1

Personal mailing address misspelled 1

Spellchecker error (two=too; no=know) 2

Formatting errors (name over-printing the address) 2

Orphan pages (nothing on the last page) 2

Not spelling my name or the company correctly 1

In this day when we text everybody, not many people care about spelling or punctuation; just the communication…..it is between friends. I have no issues with that.

I do care about first impressions in business where one is dealing with someone new. A typo in a cover letter or a proposal is like …

It is another new year. The pressure is on to develop new resolutions. What a joke; why not just reprint last years. Maybe I am being too hard on myself. A great deal did happen in 2010 that impacts 2001. And I have learned at least one life lesson: about “stuff”.

Last year we decided to downsize from a five bedroom house that we had lived in for over a dozen years into a three bedroom ranch. By any calculations of square footage, our new house was about 60-65% smaller. A great deal of “things” could not make the trip. Here are some lessons I learned.

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This is how long it’s been since I’ve written. I sent this article to Tony from Peter Bregman at the Harvard Business Review on Aug. 3. It’s a great little piece about doing the work that’s important to you, and cites some stats from several studies showing how much time people spend working.

It also mentions the two top regrets people say they have about their lives when they’re lying on their deathbeds. Do you know what they are?

I suppose the old cliché’s are accurate. Be true to yourself. You work to live; you don’t live to work. …

Of almost every marketing services company I know, particularly the integrated ad agencies are going through some agonizing staffing questions today. For each question there is no easy answer. Today I will list them; in the future I will try to answer some of them.