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Ella Koscik, CEO & Owner of MDI Group, one of the nation’s top professional services firms, will be among a select group of the staffing industry’s top CEOs discussing “What’s Next for Staffing?” on March 18 in Miami during the 2009 Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) Executive Forum.  The discussion, moderated by SIA managing director Ron Mester, will look at how the economy is affecting the industry and the positive role staffing can play in making companies more efficient and profitable.

What:

 Keynote CEO Panel: What’s Next for Staffing?
Date/Time:   March 18, 2009, 2:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Where:    Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami

Panelists:
•   Ella Koscik, CEO & Owner, MDI Group
•   Jon E. Barfield, Chairman and President, The Bartech Group
•   Tig Gilliam, CEO, Adecco North America
•   Jonas Prising, President of the Americas, Manpower
•   Moderator: Ron Mester, Managing Director, Staffing Industry Analysts

The staffing industry continues to evolve rapidly, with new ways of serving customers and new services. This session will engage top CEOs from some of the industry’s largest and most successful staffing firms in conversation and discussion.

The discussion will look at:
•   The ongoing impact of the economic crisis on the industry
•   The changing landscape facing the market
•   The important role staffing plays in enabling a more flexible and efficient workforce for organizations
•   Career and skill development for workers

“It’s vital for professional services firms to adapt quickly to these economic challenges and to demonstrate the value that contingent staffing offers companies as they struggle to remain competitive,” said Ella Koscik, CEO, MDI Group. “I’ve attended the SIA Executive Forum for five years, and am honored to be invited to participate in this panel with my peers.”

OptimalResume.com, an innovator in online career services used at more than 600 career centers nationwide, is now offering its private label virtual career platform to the human resources community to help streamline corporate outplacement efforts. At a time when companies and HR departments are facing unprecedented challenges, the need for cost-effective outplacement services for transitioned employees is essential.

Optimal Resume is a customized, scalable solution that can provide transitioned employees at all levels with 24-hour access to a complete suite of self-directed career tools for creating resumes, cover letters, ePortfolios, video introductions and professional networking websites. Job seekers can practice interviews with a state-of-the art virtual job interview practice module, as well as conduct career research and assess their marketable skills.

“Optimal Resume fills the gap between traditional severance and outplacement services,” said David McNasby, COO of Optimal Resume.com. “We can help organizations that are facing significant layoffs reduce their overall outplacement liability while maximizing the delivery of outplacement services.”

Optimal Resume helps job seekers create a compelling presentation of their skills and abilities, facilitating rapid workforce reentry and promoting more efficient and useful interactions between job seekers and outplacement professionals. Through this service, employers can maintain connections with transitioning personnel in a rapidly changing business environment.

“Our solution empowers displaced employees by providing them with vital tools to make the best impression possible,” McNasby said. “Offering Optimal Resume to exiting employees of all levels is a clear demonstration of corporate goodwill that has a tremendously positive brand impact.”

Hiring a new employee is a difficult task where technical skill sets are important. Candidates are required to have a depth of skill that cannot be determined by a resume or an interview and many organizations struggle with determining the skill level of potential employees for technical positions. Many times managers do not posses the technical skills necessary and having staff test technical skills does not always lead to consistent or reliable  assessments of skill levels.  Simple Certification Manager provides organizations with a standard method for determining skill levels before an employee is hired.

Simple Certification Manager utilizes computer based testing to test skill levels at all levels from beginners to expert.  All tests are based on industry certification testing.  Organizations benefit by having a consistent measure of technical abilities of their applicants.

Simple Certification Manager is a great tool for both Human Resource departments and recruiting firms. Setting up tests take only a few minutes and after the testing a full evaluation of each question and answer are presented to the organization. This allows potential employers to determine the test takers strengths and weaknesses before employment begins.

Managing expenses can be a concern for many organizations today. Simple Certification Manager is offered in a simple to use unlimited use subscription allowing organizations to test applicants while managing costs. Available tests cover many different areas from accounting software such as Excel to development languages such as PHP. Organizations can also have custom tests built to better meet their needs.  Simple Certification Manager is available at www.SimpleCertification.com

Emerald Software Group, a leading publisher of business process driven workforce management solutions, announces today the release of version 2.0 of its Universal Onboarding product. The new version incorporates more business rules and logic for state tax requirements, provides more options for integrating with companion HR systems such as recruiting and HRMS, introduces new features for generating offer letter templates, and offers more features in federal employment verification among many new capabilities. Emerald Software’s Universal Onboarding, or UOB, is designed to meet all the universally common transactional onboarding requirements for employers in the United States; Emerald also offers employee onboarding capability for other countries and in any language supported by browsers.

“UOB 2.0 is a significant expansion of our base in paperless hiring,” said Emerald Software Vice President, Jay Torrence. “We have expanded support for integrations and greatly expanded support for ever-changing rules in withholding tax forms. If I only had this technology when I was an HRIS director, we would never have had to worry about employee forms accuracy.”

Emerald Software, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, is a pioneer in applying true business process management technology to real business challenges, particularly those in workforce management. The company’s AllegroHR Suite includes functions for paperless new employee onboarding, the industry’s only employee lifecycle based materials requisitioning, personnel action notices, and a full suite of employment verification services. The company’s website is http://www.emeraldsoftwaregroup.com

As budgets shrink in the face of the hard economic times most companies are facing training dollars, now more than ever, have to be spent with the best return on investment.

First look for a training program closer to home:

While some seminars may only be presented in specific cities there are thousands of seminars that are offered in smaller cities than New York or Chicago. Seminar sponsors like Skillpath, Fred Pryor and National Seminars, to name just three, offer their programs all over the United States and Canada. The odds are that you can find one of these seminars within driving distance - saving travel expenses.

Save travel expenses by booking more than one seminar:

Should you have no choice but to send an individual to a seminar only presented in a distant locale check what other seminars are being presented around the same time frame that offers needed skills and schedule one of those. It will combine travel costs and double your training dollar.

Bring the seminar to a location of your choosing:

Check around your company and see if other departments have the same training needs.
Why not get a group of attendees together and arrange for the seminar sponsor to bring the course to you - saving on travel expenses for the larger group. Presentations for groups of 15 or more are very cost effective and can even save you money on individual participation costs for the same program had the participants attended a public session. You can even check with companies in your area to see if they need the same training and offer them the opportunity to attend your “in-house” session. You can even defer some of the cost to you while they share the expense of instructor travel.

Is there a webinar that you could “attend”?
Many of the seminar companies are now offering webinars of the same seminars they present as live training events. While you may not get the same interaction as a live presentation it is a cost-effective way to get the training you need.

SeminarInformation.com offers a database of over 360,000 seminars and conferences. Users of the website www.SeminarInformation.com (http://www.seminarinformation.com) can find a seminar, date and location, read the complete brochure and enroll online or toll-free at (877-736-4636)

. Seminar experts are available to answer questions, assist with registrations or make recommendations.

The SeminarInformation.com website lists seminars from over 600 sponsoring organizations including Skillpath, National Seminars, Fred Pryor, Cross Country Education, Linkage, Learning Tree International, the American Management Association, Lorman, Federal Publications, Cornell, UCLA and ESI to name just a few.

Employers who wish to grow their sales by hiring good sales people can use a potent sales assessment tool from Dan Joy, Inc. The company’s sales assessment tools go above and beyond just a psychometric test. Online career businesses can add a lucrative revenue stream and increase their profits by incorporating sales assessment tools into their career website, resume website, job board, job bank, resume database or employment portal for automated sales applicant screening and sales assessment testing. For a limited time only, employers can get 10 FREE Sales Assessment Tests at http://www.danjoy.com/

Many employers are deluged with sales resumes, but have no way of knowing who can really sell. So, they often tend to hire someone with whom they “feel comfortable”

, who is “like them”, who “looks good”, or has “industry knowledge”. None of that necessarily means that the person can actually sell. The JOY Sales Tests ™ can help reduce subjectivity and guesswork, and help employers make more objective hiring decisions.

Here’s why The JOY Sales Tests ™ are different, and better than Psychometric Tests:

1. Accurate: The JOY Sales Tests ™ go above and beyond the mundane psychological and personality tests by testing for Total Sales Ability ™ — the actual street smarts of professional selling. They test for Sales Prospecting Ability, Objection Handling Ability, Sales Closing Ability and much more.

2. Efficient: Employers save time, and avoid interviewing any non-candidates. Robust 2-Step sales testing protects against candidate substitution.

3. 1-page Report Card: Clear, concise and easy to understand 1-page Report Card for each sales assessment test (compared to the unwieldy test reports of other sales assessment tests which can run into up to 20+ pages per candidate).

4. Convenient: The fully integrated online system organizes, tracks and saves the sales testing progress, scores, etc., even for a large number of candidates.

5. Seamless Integration: The sales assessment tools can integrate with existing sales resume databases, applicant screening and candidate evaluation systems.

Employers can get 10 FREE Sales Assessment Tests at http://www.danjoy.com/

This report includes eye-opening research on common hiring practices that are counter-productive and crash hiring success rates.
By reading this report you gain insights from more than 25 years of hard-won experience. You will come away with easy-to-apply, practical tips on how to conduct more effective interviews with better results.
Here are 13 topics addressed in this report, which provide fresh viewpoints and answers, as novel as they are effective.

What you will find:

1.   What is the “money pit” of the corporate world?
2.   What did a survey of 52 companies reveal about the cost of an executive hiring mistake?
3.   How many lost work-hours on average does a company squander when a poor executive hire is made?
4.   What are the 2 most consistent mistakes companies make in executive hiring? (And how to overcome these.)
5.   What did a Big 10 University discover about the accuracy of current interviewing practices? (You may be shocked at the results.)
6.   Is the job interview, as we know it, dead?
7.   What shift of viewpoint do you need to know about and execute in order to improve your hiring results now?
8.   What is the one major disadvantage you have when you sit down to conduct an interview?
9.   What single, critical factor do you need to know to improve your hiring “batting average” right now? (Get this one right, you’ll watch your success rate soar–get it wrong and find your time/efforts wasted.)
10.   Learn why one company’s recruitment “slam-dunk” turned into a last minute loser and how to avoid this mistake. (Case study)
11.   What will increase your recruitment ROI right now?
12.   What is the one axiom of hiring that you need to know now to make your negotiations more successful?
13.   Regarding the candidate mind-set, what is the inverse relationship you must be aware of before you enter into a salary negotiation?

In this report, you will find answers to each of these questions. So, you will come away with increased knowledge, but also with practical, how-to information you can implement in your organization immediately, to improve your hiring results, immediately!
Although this report is geared toward executive-level hiring in technology fields, the information can be applied at all levels of any organization.

We are offering this report free to you and exclusively from this site. You simply need to complete the registration below to receive your copy of this Free Report.

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Also, you may send an email to info2@boyle-associates.com

About: JP Boyle & Associates is an Executive Search firm that serves emerging technology manufacturing in medical devices, life science, biotech and nanotechnology, and among other growth organizations across the United States. These companies contact us when they need to make a change in or augment their existing executive team in order to achieve their immediate and long-term goals.

FINDING HEROES: An Approach To Attracting And Retaining Human Capital, by author and executive entrepreneur Larry A. Dillon, provides innovative concepts for personnel managers to implement when both seeking potential employees and keeping exceptional ones.

The strategies throughout the book give insight to the interviewing process from both sides of the desk and covers the interviewer’

s role as it fosters an understanding of the interviewee’s expectations.

Finding Heroes can be utilized as a daily business tool that teaches self confidence and the ability to maintain control of the interview. It provides comprehensive and effective recruiting ideas that will benefit any company seeking to attract and keep their most valuable asset — their employees.

Source: PRLog

Long Beach, CA - Immigration Solutions, a leading US business immigration legal service provider and consulting firm, is pleased to announce its new package of Employer Compliance Solutions and Services for employers that hire foreign personnel in industries such as: Hospitality, Restaurant & Beverage, IT, and healthcare, amongst others.

With administrative enforcement efforts being increased and broadened in scope, and  Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) in fiscal year 2007 securing more than $30 million in criminal fines, restitutions, and civil judgments -  why wait until:

•   The government notifies your company that it is to produce all of its I-9 forms and related documents for audit …

•   Or, the government notifies your company that it is to produce all of its H-1B public access files and related documents for audit …

•   Or, your company receives a Social Security No-Match Letter,

“The trend toward increased scrutiny of immigration employment practices will likely continue in the foreseeable future,” said Leslie Davis, President & CEO of Immigration Solutions. “So for now, it’s imperative that employers place their attention on several important areas that require knowledge, training and compliance.”

As the workforce becomes more global in scope, employers are increasingly learning that it is essential to understand and effectively adhere to immigration compliance laws and regulations, specifically as it pertains to the following areas:

I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form. This is the mechanism for employment verification compliance  for every worker that an employer hires.  If the documents are not presented within a particular period of time, the employee must be removed from the payroll (though it is permissible to suspend the worker rather than terminating the worker all together).  We work with our clients on how to fill out the I-9 form, how to perform re-verification of the I-9, how to maintain and comply with immigration regulations, and how to create a customized Compliance Program.

SSN No-Match Letters. A Social Security “no-match letter” is a
notice sent by the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) to employers and employees to inform them that the employee name or Social Security number listed on an employee’s W-2 does not match the SSA records.  Immigration Solutions works with the employer to walk them through the process of analyzing whether or not there has been false documentation presented, how to respond to the notice, or whether to retain or terminate the employee, etc.

E-Verify. E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees.  We educate our clients on the pros and cons of on-line checks for new hires and the use of new technologies and inform them of state requirements.

H-1B/LCA Compliance. We provide mangers with the tools to manage compliance with public access file retention and provide guidelines for reducing violations and lowering risks of penalties.

Pre-Merger & Acquisition Due Diligence. While a closing may be a cause for celebration at a company, it can also be the cause of a nightmare for a company since it can instantly render all completed I-9s for an acquired company invalid.  We work with our clients to analyze successor liability and responsibilities, evaluate past and current immigration casework for all employees, internal controls and historical risk factors.

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Immigration Solutions works proactively with its clients to provide comprehensive assistance in developing and maintaining best practices necessary to assure compliance with USCIS, ICE, SSA and DOL regulations.

Employer compliance is becoming more complex and enforcement (investigations and audits) is increasing. In order to effectively deal with these issues and avoid the very severe consequences for non-compliance, employers must take the time to develop a strategy and be prepared in advance with an Immigration Compliance Program.
Immigration Solutions will customize such a program for their clients and will provide onsite or telephonic training, consulting, and document auditing in all of the areas mentioned above, as well as provide ongoing compliance updates.

For more information on our services, please contact: info@immigrationsolution.net

Source: PRLog 

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