In the course of the staffing portion of our business, occasionally we are asked to be part of a VMS (vendor management system) program. While we normally decline the business at that point, for a variety of reasons we have chosen to be part of a few of these over the years. Nearly every time I regret being convinced that this next account will be different. Now I will say, with my finance background, I get the logic that managing rogue spend is important and a system can be a good way to do… Continue

The challenge that job seekers face in today’s world is very similar to that of most sales/marketing types, namely:

• It can be very difficult for you to differentiate yourself
• You often have 30 seconds or less to make that first impression
• Invariably these and other reasons make it relatively difficult for the person you meet to truly remember you…

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If I wasn’t already excited about the potential for 2010 to be a better year, the start of February cemented it. Three mega-deals were announced the first week of February by Monster, Manpower and Spherion,respectively.

Details on each here:

• Monster &…

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