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Uber Enters the Staffing Business

Small Business Labs

Uber betting that their technology will provide value to workers, the companies that employ them and the staffing agencies that place them.    For businesses, Uber says they can provide a broader pool of potential temp workers and simplify the hiring and payment of these workers.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

Success

Subsequently, he temped as an illustrator for a big ad agency, where he learned early versions of Flash and code-based animation. “I (They’d misheard his birth name as José. No problem. Spanish-speaking colleagues took his calls, and in exchange, he did sketches of their babies and dogs.) I saw the opportunities for play in art.”.

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Establishing a Digital Presence

Recruit CRM

recruitment agency to build presence on the internet. By digital presence, I mean that your organization and information about jobs that you are working on must be discoverable online. I will dedicate a separate article later to the choice and use of technologies by a recruitment agency. This is just a precursor.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: How to Move from Temporary Work to a.

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, January 19, 2010 How to Move from Temporary Work to a Full-Time Gig When I was in high school I landed my first holiday job working at a small J.C.

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What can we learn from watching the Crystal Ball?

Job Advice Blog

Companies are hedging their bets by hiring temps instead a steady workforce. Most of them are expressing the negativity that currently exists in the labor market. Since the early ‘80s, the US economy has been taking longer to regain all the jobs lost in a downturn”. It mentions also that 26% of working Americans have “non-standard” jobs.

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. Liz Said on February 8th, 2010 at 11:10 pm I’ve hired students from my local college with pretty good success Richard French Said on February 11th, 2010 at 5:47 am Thanks for sharing this valuable information !

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Answering Reader Mail: Transitioning to a Hollywood EA

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The flip side is to try to get a job directly as a writer’s assistant, at a talent agency as an EA/script reader, or be an assistant to a creative executive (Executive Producer, Producer, etc) or the story department. Here is more information on my other blog posts that might be useful to you.