Global Recruiting

Our guest blogger is Taufik Arief from People Search Indonesia, PT, based in Jakarta. People Search Indonesia, PT serves top multinational, local conglomerates as well as start-up companies in ASEAN, and successfully recruits top and mid-level executives for their clients. Taufik is currently serving on the NPAworldwide board of directors.

Coming to a networking event (club) is a continuous  investment made by people in the business community. It’s a channel for business development, brand and reputation building as well as socializing. Achieving a positive ROI for participating in this kind of activity is important for everyone. Following are 5 tips to boost and sustain your ROI from business networking. Read the rest of this entry »

Twice each year, we survey the members of our global recruitment network to benchmark past results and predict future results. I’m pleased to share the latest results of our business barometer benchmarking survey today. NPAworldwide has more than 500 member locations across six continents. The business barometer asks members to report on all of their recruitment activity, not just the split placements made with other NPAworldwide members.

Some background data about the survey respondents:

• For 65% of respondents, the majority of their business is conducted in North America
• 23% primarily conduct business in Australia/New Zealand
• The remaining 12% report the majority of their business occurs in Asia, Latin America, or EMEA
• More than 70% of respondents focus on both clients and candidates; 17% exclusively work with clients to fill openings and the remaining 12% exclusively provide candidates for other recruiters’ job openings

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Jon Guidi is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Hirabl, a Big Data startup known for its “Fee Catcher” reporting service. Jon founded Hirabl to ensure recruiters get paid for the hard work they do, and have the tools necessary to grow revenue at their agency. Prior to Hirabl, Jon was CEO of HealthCare Recruiters International, a leading US recruiting firm. He previously spent 10 years with Morgan Stanley and UBS in sales and trading, leaving UBS as a Senior Vice President. He lives in California with his wife and 2 daughters.

Us recruiters are a transactional bunch. That’s not meant in a negative way, we just have to be in order to enjoy sustained success. We need to be able to converse, influence, sell, counsel, advise to ultimately get two moving parts (candidate and client) to align and form a bond (a placement). Then we move on to the next one… Read the rest of this entry »

ManpowerGroup has released the results of its newest quarterly hiring outlook. For the upcoming quarter, some 59,000 employers located throughout the Americas, AsiaPac, and EMEA were surveyed about their hiring plans. In 42 of 43 countries, employers are planning to add to their payrolls in the next quarter. Twenty-one countries indicate an improved hiring outlook compared to a year ago. Globally, the most robust hiring outlooks are in India, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. A few highlights from the survey are included in this post:

The Americas

• The quarterly hiring outlook is strongest in the US, thanks to the continued confidence in the leisure & hospitality sectors. Other opportunities are expected to be strong in both wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and utilities.
• Job seekers in Colombia will see favorable hiring in agriculture, manufacturing, and services, as well as in finance, insurance and real estate.
• While the outlook remains negative in Brazil, it is improving both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. Perhaps this is a signal that the job market is beginning to rebound after declining steadily since 2012.
• Considerable quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year growth is expected in Canada in the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors.

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Today’s guest blogger is Jackie Torr, director at TEAM. TEAM is the largest network of independent recruiters and employment service providers in the UK. Some of the best talents in the industry are members of a national network providing solutions to all your staffing needs. NPAworldwide and TEAM have a long-standing partnership in place to support the needs of our members.

The Brexit referendum results are in. Whilst there were some initial concerns amongst the membership for the immediate future, the discussions and expert legal advice obtained at the regional networking meetings that followed helped to reassure that it’s business as usual. Great Britain finds itself in a position to forge new relationships around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Laura Schmieder of Premier Placement Inc., specializing in manufacturing especially engineering, operations, supply chain, sales and marketing roles globally. She currently serves on the NPAworldwide board of directors.

Last week when discussing a new search with a new client’s hiring manager, I was struck by how much the workplace has changed over the past 35 years I’ve been recruiting. This search was for a team leader (used to be production supervisor) who would “own” the product line – meaning this person wouldn’t be responsible for just one shift but all three shifts that produced the product…not directly as they would work through other team leaders on each shift, but in reality they would have to be available 24/7. They wanted someone who could listen, be authentic, coach, mentor, persuade, a critical thinker, high energy, drive, enthusiasm – it used to be that everyone wanted someone who had been a military junior officer and knew how to command respect! Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know what your feeds have been looking like this week, but mine have been chock-full of recruitment news. Below are five of the most interesting stories I’ve seen this week:

Massachusetts Bans Salary History

The governor of Massachusetts signed a law on Monday that prohibits employers from asking candidates to supply salary histories. The intent of the law is to reduce pay gaps between men  and women. The new law also requires employers to determine the value of a job when setting salaries. Furthermore, employers will no longer be able to stop employees from discussing their salaries. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve seen a nice uptick in business this year, so for today’s post I thought I’d share some of the hot recruitment sectors we’re seeing.

For starters, total placement activity for NPAworldwide has increased approximately 25% compared to a year ago. This is the first year of combined data since merging with the National Banking Network in 2014, so it’s not surprising to see the growth. This is especially true since accounting / banking / financial services recruitment activity is up more than 350% compared to a year ago. The NBN network specialized exclusively in these recruitment sectors. Read the rest of this entry »