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1. 50 Technology Tips for Staffing Professionals Ph.D. in Math Minor in Quantum Physics ASA Technology Advisory Subcommittee Eric Edelstein, Ph.D. CIO, SVP Operations Nelson Family of Companies Contact: eric@StaffingTechnologist.com
2. Disclaimer! All opinions are purely my own – right or wrong No intention to advise on or promote purchases Your mileage may vary – tools mentioned may not fit your business needs Omitting a reference to a tool should not be interpreted as indictment @StaffingTechno
3. The Blog Follow @ StaffingTechnologist.com Tips & Techniques Links to Tools Contact me with your Questions @StaffingTechno
4. Culture of Technology Create a Culture of Technology & Innovation @StaffingTechno
5. Use Internal Technologists Vital if you want to be innovative! Form a Technology Advisory Committee: People from across your organization All business roles Wide span of age groups Be inclusive & open minded Note: Your front desk receptionist may know more about the hottest, latest social media platform than your CIO @StaffingTechno
6. Synchronize Technology & Business Really important! Train IT & Support in your business Train your IT leadership in Staffing, Recruiting, & Sales All IT & Support staff should work a desk once a year for a week Job sharing, not shadowing, is vital, easy, and builds relationships @StaffingTechno
7. Outreach TRANSFORMATIVIVE Creates continuous improvement! Quarterly field Interviews by Corporate Review all feedback quarterly: Scores + Issues + Successes Cover all departments: F&A HR IT Ops Marketing Facilities Training Recurring Question: “What will make us more competitive?” - Especially new hires! @StaffingTechno
8. Interpersonal Skills for Techies Commit to working with IT & Support staff on Communication Skills Do NOT compromise here Emotional Intelligence Training/EQ No divas! Ensure cross training Set expectations & follow through Listen & confirm! Everyone is in sales Engagement is key Strategic partnerships - why & how Technologists must be marketers & sell technology @StaffingTechno
9. Eric’s Top 3 Business Books The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni Emotional Intelligence by Bradberry & Greaves Cy Wakeman’sReality Based Leadership
10. Vendor = Strategic Partner Technology & Service Vendors should be Strategic Partners. Be involved in their company: Roadmap Product Development Sales Marketing Hiring Bring them clients and they’ll bring you new features. @StaffingTechno
11. ATS Selection Process Vital that the field selects the ATS, NOT Corporate and NOT a few individuals Goal: The entire company selects the ATS [34 reps across the company] Determine business requirements from SMEs in the field Create RFP [15 pages to 28 vendors] Score responses and select demo candidates [9] Score demos by ATS Selection Committee with 2nd Round for top 3. 1st Place: 87% - eRecruit 2nd Place : 54% 3rd Place : 48% Pitch to board based on ROI[100%: unanimous decision] Implementation: Focus on Engagement, Participation, & Communication. @StaffingTechno
12. Communication & Collaboration Evolution @StaffingTechno
13. Google Drive for Collaboration Drive.Google.com Tools: Spreadsheets - Grouping, Formulas, Graphs, Charts Text Documents Presentations Features: Editable from mobile devices Supports simultaneous edits Auto-sync copies to desktop Note: A free Google account is required @StaffingTechno
14. SharePoint Features & Uses One of the most under-utilized tools Project Management Workflows Wikis Dashboards & Reporting Forms Tasks Data Lists & Spreadsheets Document Generation HTML Pages Document Libraries Search Among All Above @StaffingTechno
15. QUIZ: Device Wars Quiz question 1: How do you decide? Technology Advisory Committee. Quiz question 2: What’s the right choice? There usually isn’t one. Smart phones – iPhone vs. Android phones vs. Windows (who knew!) Pads & Tablets – iPadvs. Android tablets, pen vs. finger Laptops – Apple vs. Windows, laptop vs. tablet Faxes, Scanners, & Copy Machines vs. All-In-One Projectors vs. Smart Boards Desktop– hardware vs. virtualized Servers – self run, purchased and managed hosting, pure cloud
16. QUIZ: Device Wars Moral: Listen to your coworkers, hear their ideas, decide, and deliver! (every time) @StaffingTechno
17. Training Excellence Learning is active, NOT passive! @StaffingTechno
18. Suggested Trainings Consider offering selected training… As career development to candidates To clients as a service Boolean searching Pipeline development techniques Interviewing skills Word Excel Sexual harassment Your phone system Your ATS Your sales process @StaffingTechno
19. Tools for Staffing Tools for Sales & Marketing, Sourcing & Recruiting, & Staffing Our Business @StaffingTechno
20. Key to Successful Email Delivery Very easy& important Monitor your perceived email credibility AllAboutSpam.com/email-server-test Keep up on whether your email is: Going to spam Blacklisted Greylisted
21. Corporate Websites & Blogs Keep content fresh! CMS Platform, e.g. WordPress Google Analytics On every page, on every piece, on every campaign Findability: Ensure your site is set up for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) & Speed SEOSiteCheckup.com Viewability: Ensure your site looks and works right, even across different browsers BrowserShots.Org jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator validator.w3.org @StaffingTechno
22. Mobile: Responsive Website vs. App Responsive Website Pro Customizes itself to each device Works great on desktop or phone Takes advantage of some available features: Geolocation, etc. Affordable for smaller companies Longer shelf life Con Doesn’t have access to all phone hardware (e.g. Camera) (But that’s changing…) App Pro Cool Looks great Makes use of the mobile device Top of the line experience Con Doesn’t replace website for desktop Different app for each device and each model Mobile Updates -> App Updates Very costly to maintain @StaffingTechno
23. Card Readers and importers Business Card readers are a great time saver: Take picture of card on smart phone Tool reads the text electronically (OCR) Person’s Name Contact info Company Name Stored in website and on phone Export contacts to spreadsheet for import into ATS/CRM Example: CamCard for Apple, Android, Windows, Blackberry
24. Credit Check Key Points: Majority of bad debt due to not performing credit check Automation helps ensure compliance Collections & the field should partner on the credit check process Three of the main competitors in the electronic credit check space: DNBi – Industry standard, but expensive Experian – Good for well established larger companies Cortera – Great for small companies and start-ups When to do credit checking: During qualification of prospect At time of first order – PRIOR to fill @StaffingTechno
25. Sourcing Prospects from Job Postings Fundamental technique Job alerts for Biz Dev Create Job Searches to get Email Alerts for postings in your niches Each morning, add those job posting contacts to your prospect list Indeed.com is a very powerful tool for this purpose Note: If you post to a niche board, not picked up by Indeed, you’ll want to create job alerts there, too. @StaffingTechno
26. Trick: Email Rules for Prospecting Good trick! Save InMails with LinkedIn! Get a list of email naming rules for your prospects and clients Ask your sales & recruiting teams Example:If Joe Briggs is at Nelson, his email will be: Jbriggs@Nelsonhr.com Create an Excel master spreadsheet that generates the email address from First, Last, and Company name Share this list with your whole company and keep it updated! @StaffingTechno
27. Mobile Apps for Navigation Real-time updates from other drivers Where are the police? Where are the accidents? Where’s the cheapest gas? Create custom maps with client overlay @StaffingTechno
28. Mobile Apps for Dictation Talk instead of type Siri(iPhone) GoogleVoice for Android Dragon Dictation, otherwise @StaffingTechno
29. Verify Emails! 32bit.com/email-verifier.html @StaffingTechno
30. Sourcing Find the right person for the right job FAST! @StaffingTechno
31. Boolean Search Resources Bookmark & favorite this go-to resource booleanblackbelt.com Read anything and everything by Glen Cathey: Find anyone’s email address How to find people on G+ Find developers who are top rated by peers @StaffingTechno
32. Boolean Search Trick - Proximity Who knew? Proximity Search: Searches for pages and people with words that are near each other LinkedIn & Bing: Use the “near” expression Example: Look for Eric Edelstein – “Eric near:2 Edelstein”Find me, even if I’m listed as “Edelstein, Eric”, “Eric Elliot Edelstein”. Example: Look for people who are currently working with Java“current near:6 Java” Google: Use the “AROUND” expression (must be all caps) Example: “Barack AROUND(2) Obama” @StaffingTechno
33. Automated Pipeline Development Advanced pipeline development Automate sourcing to develop your pipeline - as opposed to just-in-time sourcing Nightly automated searches against job boards and social media Import only new people Review the imported talent each morning Note: Few are fully doing this - competitive advantage for fill ratios and time to fill. A few providers are: Daxtra with eRecruit TalentHook @StaffingTechno
34. Intelligent Searching & Matching The future of search Resume parsing Years of Experience Skills synonyms Semantic over Boolean Search (e.g. eRecruit, Monster SeeMore) Priority of terms based on count Synonyms Proximity of terms Particularly helpful for professional staffing Matching based on similar candidates Very helpful for both professional and temp desks @StaffingTechno
35. Social Media Guidance Bookmark &favorite this website SocialTalent.co Blog and Tools @StaffingTechno
36. Social Media Contact Search Tools Social Discovery & Search Tools TalentBin.com for Social Discovery & Search Gravitosity Search social media for contact info by skills & experience Search LinkedIn beyond your network – finds email, phone, and name @StaffingTechno
37. Sourcing with Facebook Master this! Graph Search – Disruptive new technology @StaffingTechno
38. Sourcing with Twitter Falcon – Chrome Plugin for Social Discovery Look at list of people from Twitter and it finds other social media presence TacticsHR: Find people on Twitter
39. VMS Automation Make VMS orders more profitable Requisition Notification Requisition Routing Timecard Import Live in your ATS, not logging into multiple VMSs Benefits: Scorecard: Fill Ratio, Fill Rate & Quality Higher GP- Lower OpEx Example of Vendor: VMS Express by The Code Works @StaffingTechno
40. Time Reporting & Compliance Make sure you know what you’re doing Avoid lawsuits around compliance You need to verify: Lunch tracking Break tracking Exempt/non-exempt classified employees Night shifts accuracy Fair time rounding Federal overtime law compliance State by state overtime laws @StaffingTechno
41. Electronic Time Capture Anything & everything you can do helps Web based time entry - From your ATS Mobile app time entry - From your ATS Web punch clocks with GPS location tracking(!) - E.g. ePay Physical time clock/punch clock – Cellular or Hard Wired to Network - E.g. ePay, TimeClockPlus Phone System Punch in/out (IVR = Interactive Voice Response) - E.g. Twilio Mobile Text Message Punch in/out (SMS) - E.g. Twilio @StaffingTechno
42. Efficient Paper Timecard Processing Just plain cool! Where paperless is not possible: Timecard faxes are stored as images ParaScript’s ICR engine extracts data - including confidence level ParaScript connects to eRecruit (ATS) for data validation Operations verifies time Export timecards into eRecruit with image attached for invoicing
43. Productivity Remember: Create a culture of technology. All roles. All the time. Period. @StaffingTechno
44. Outlook for Time Management The other most underutilized tool Never lose an email Update people on when to expect follow-up How: Sort emails with flagged items atop. When an email comes, handle it or flag it. Always. It shows up under tasks with a due date of today. Before leaving each day, set the due date for any tasks due. If you are pushing out a date, let people know the new due date. @StaffingTechno
45. Projectify! Focus on the business, not recreating the wheel Create Project Templates for Processes Opening a New Branch Internal Hiring Process Branch Audits RFPs Tools: SharePoint Project Template - With task assignments, email workflows & custom data lists Excel MS Project @StaffingTechno
46. CMS: From Documents to Websites Make the information usable You know all those documents you create that no one reads? Publish it as a Website using a Content Management System (CMS). WordPress SharePoint Wiki Possible Uses: Employee Handbook & Policies Job Aids & Training RFP Repository Features: Search by keyword, category and tag (like a blog) Custom views by role or job function Easy to keep up-to-date Mix and match text, pictures, & video @StaffingTechno
47. Automated Reference Checking Great for candidate marketing of professionals 67% of clients prefer to be contacted via email Powerful summary for skill marketing of candidates References move into Lead Gen Example: Checkster
48. Email Social Search Use it before it’s gone Xobni For Outlook, Gmail, Android, iPhone Particularly useful for Sales, Marketing, recruiters, and Sourcers Acquired by Yahoo. Currently available through July 2nd, 2014. @StaffingTechno
49. Fuzzy Lookup Excel plugin Amazingly helpful tool Remarkable free Excel tool for matching similar data Not only will it provide suggested matches, it tells you the confidence % of the match It’s like VLookUp for near matches Search on “Download Excel Fuzzy Lookup” @StaffingTechno
50. Phone & Text Blasts Your doctor uses this. So should you! Interview reminders Timecard reminders Job availability calls Timecard Entry with IVR Satisfaction Surveys Examples of tools: Twilio (includes IVR and SMS responses) Call ‘Em All (includes survey responses) @StaffingTechno
51. Recap @StaffingTechno Top Strategic Tip: Create a culture of technology & innovation Create a wide technology committee Technology staff must work a desk for a week every year Technology outreach Engage by over communicating
52. Now, you take it from here…. Eric Edelstein CIO, SVP Operations Nelson Family of Companies StaffingTechnologist.com eric@StaffingTechnologist.com @StaffingTechno