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“Oh Dad, you’re always trying to draw some political take out of nothing,” was my daughter rebuffing my comparison of Oblivion to a drone-happy federal government whose power is out of control. Ok, I’ll stop there on the politics, but Oblivion design porn begs for criticism. Take the surface computer that the lovely Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) uses to chat with her spoofed mother ship controller, Sally (Melissa Leo). It’s flat, and …
Continue reading: Oblivion and the Future of Using Technology in the Wrong Way »
[I saw this email below from a client that Susan sent out this morning and have to agree that working with Maggie is a lot of fun. I actually had the chance to work on an tension filled problem with her last week and was impressed on how she kept her cool and sense of humor. --gregg] I was cc’d on the following email this morning. Great job Maggie! From …
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Casey Kraus, our VP of Sales, put out the internal email below on the great work Mike Binder has been doing for us. Never one to leave a kind word left unchecked, I’m compelled to kibitz. Staffing software sales is a hard thing, but after-sale onsite software training can be even harder, and it’s something Mike has excelled in. Invariably you are meeting up with the client at their most …
Continue reading: Buy From Mike Binder »
Apologies to our customers for some voice mail issues we’re fighting right now. We converted to a new phone system flawlessly last month but backend issues at our provider have been causing voicemail issues this week and are still lingering. If you don’t get a call back from a voice mail, it could be that your message has been unretrievable. Please don’t hesitate to recontact us. Looks like …
Continue reading: Press 1 for Dead Air »
When my Dad started his temp company in 1974, it made sense that he would make tech staffing the core component of his business. After all, he had spent the previous 15 years opening up engineer staffing offices around the country for Design Service and Manpower. But he didn’t do it that way, something I thought odd although at age 16 I had neither the ability nor the chutzpah to …
Continue reading: How to Get Your Commercial Staffing Company Started in Tech »
Like me you may have missed Dalyce Brell, VP of Corporate Training at Tempworks, during the last two weeks. I caught up with her today, her first day back from vacation, and found out what she had been up to. The American Kennel Club held its national agility championship in Tulsa, OK, and Dalyce placed very well among the 409 contestants. I watched this video of Dalyce and realized that …
Continue reading: TempWorks Training Goes to the Dogs (video) »
I’m struck by three powerfully disruptive influences on staffing software and the recruitment space. The first is mobile. The second is the web. And the third is distributed database technology. These forces are affecting other industries as well, however, competition makes recruitment among the first to embrace disruption. Only the oldest of industries (like, um, gambling and pornography – notice how quickly Twitter’s new video service, Vine, got blitzed by …
Continue reading: Three Trends in Staffing Software »
I had the chance to have a beer with Staffing Industry Analyst’s Hugo Traeger a few weeks back. It was sub-zero here in Minneapolis, but it was Hugo, the Californian, who warmed up the conversation with the comeback story of the Executive Forum, his firm’s yearly conference of industry captains. It was only a couple years back that I was mistakenly convinced that in-person shows were going the way of …
Continue reading: The Revival of the Staffing Industry Executive Forum »
But given what’s going on with Oscar, I’ll settle for the Hayward Cross Country Marathon. Best of luck Maria and Bracy.
I’m struck by three powerfully disruptive influences on staffing software and the recruitment space. The first is mobile. The second is the web. And the third is distributed database technology. These forces are affecting other industries as well, however, competition makes recruitment among the first to embrace disruption. Only the oldest of industries (like, um, gambling and pornography – notice how quickly Twitter’s new video service, Vine, got blitzed by …
Continue reading: Three Trends in Staffing Software »