Global Recruiting

Today’s guest blogger is Martin Snyder, Main Sequence Technology. Founded in 1998, Main Sequence Technology creates talent acquisition technology solutions wherever and however organizations are built. PCRecruiter is the solution of choice for thousands of third party recruitment, corporate, and outsourced staffing teams across economic models and around the world. PCRecruiter provides comprehensive CRM and ATS functionality converged into database, voice, and email interfaces to empower recruiters to do what they do best with accessible, cost effective technology. Main Sequence is proud to serve the NPA organization and our many individual NPA affiliated customers. To learn more, please visit www.pcrecruiter.net.

Greetings to the NPAworldwide community in this unsettled autumn of 2017. It’s a pleasing task to create some content for NPAworldwide; I hope you find it modestly informative and entertaining.

To the PCRecruiter sub-community: a simple thanks and a simple report from Cleveland; we are energized and productive despite the mystifying collapse of our baseball team and the un-mystifying second place finish in NBA basketball. We don’t talk about football, much. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Rob Proudfoot with Apex Global Recruiting Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Apex Global Recruiting provides recruitment solutions primarily in the area of sales and sales management. Rob is currently serving as a member of the NPAworldwide board of directors, with responsibility for Canada.

A few years ago I was sitting at my desk here in Vancouver thinking about how to increase revenue in my small recruitment firm. I was contemplating increasing fees, increasing placements, perhaps exploring adding contractors to the mix, etc. This is likely something every recruitment firm owner has grappled with at some point. Read the rest of this entry »

Manpower has released its quarterly hiring outlook survey. Nearly 60,000 employers in 43 different countries were asked to answer, “How do you anticipate total employment at your location to change in the three months to the end of December 2017 as compared to the current quarter?” In this iteration of the survey, hiring is expected to increase from current levels in 42 of the 43 countries. Switzerland is expecting to see flat hiring. This marks a momentous occasion: For the first time since Q2 2008 and the Great Recession, there are NO negative net employment outlooks in any of the surveyed countries. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Rick Maré with JXT. Rick is the founder and CEO of JXT, the number one provider of cloud-based digital marketing solutions for recruiters and corporate recruiters. Rick has coached thousands of recruiters, empowering them to take their businesses and careers to the next level. Connect with Rick on LinkedIn.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the new standard affecting the ways organisations protect the personal data that they hold on individuals, will be implemented on 25 May 2018.

This law will affect nearly every business in and out of the European Union (EU). Even if you are an organisation based outside of the EU, the GDPR’s effect is far-reaching and will have an impact on your business. Read the rest of this entry »

Our guest blogger is Gregg Whitt with Professional Personnel Associates in Clemson, South Carolina. Gregg is a longtime member of NPAworldwide, currently serving on the board of directors. Professional Personnel Associates provides recruitment services in the technical, engineering, manufacturing, professional, and management fields across the United States. Read his thoughts on engaging passive candidates below.

I have been in the recruiting industry now for over 35 years, and have seen many changes. Job boards have been popular for candidate sourcing for a number of years, but recruiting passive candidates has never gone out of style. Now, just as then, passive candidates in many cases are already contemplating their next career move. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Eric Snethkamp, global channels & strategic alliances manager for SafeGuard World International. For nearly a decade, organizations around the world have relied on SafeGuard World for their global HR needs, specifically around payroll and employee compliance. SafeGuard World is an Alliance Partner of NPAworldwide.

In international business, compliance can seem like a minefield. It is layered with complexities spanning employment and payroll practices where regulatory missteps can have serious implications. Consider the following scenarios that often unfold when companies set up shop in foreign countries: Read the rest of this entry »

Recruitment of engineering talent is becoming increasingly more competitive. The global financial crisis and the dramatic impact on manufacturers is a memory for most at this point. The search and selection of the best engineering talent has become a race to be first to the best engineering candidates with a lucrative offer. As this demand for talent continues, more companies in need of engineering talent will begin to look globally, use independent recruiters vs in-house resources, and start looking at developing their own training and talent pipelines. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Amanda Davies, managing director for ISV, a TEAM Service Provider. ISV supports recruiters (in-house and consultants) and HR professionals worldwide with their candidate testing and screening process. ISV, part of Dillistone, is best known for its online testing software, FastPath and the new ISV Online.

Candidate experience – it became a topic of the moment a few years ago and shows no sign of going away. In fact, it could easily form part of Recruiter Buzzword Bingo (along with its friends ‘big data’, ‘war for talent’ and ‘uberisation’). Candidate experience has earned its place, though. It makes perfect sense to think about your candidate’s journey. Read the rest of this entry »