Freelance Work: The Changing Face of EmploymentWritten by Jesse S. Somer
No more working for same company for fifty years. Freelance work is becoming more and more prominent. On-line you can find work or someone to do a job. Check out www.guru.comThe world sure is changing, and if you look at job employment you will see what I mean. Let's just go back to our grandparent's generation, even though I'm sure if we went back further we would see very different structures of work in tribal periods of our history. Our grandparents usually found a skill, and then used that one skill to work for their whole career. An example is my grandfather who was a salesman for same suit company for 44 years. There is nothing wrong with this. His job was secure; he knew there would be a superannuating fund when he retired, and that there would always be food on table for his family. These days in 21st century things have changed, and they are still changing rapidly as we speak. Nowadays it isn't strange for a person to have around five completely different career paths in their lifetime. You might think that job security is much lower, but there are new types of jobs emerging everyday with advent of modern technology. Older people can go back to schools and be educated in totally new areas that are greatly desired in society. One of greatest changes in recent times is fact that a lot of people are now working for themselves as freelancers from home. Society is still getting all necessary work done, but structures in which individuals pursue their dreams and goals in their areas of interest have changed completely. If you are working at home for your own business, you sure don't have old hierarchy of bosses watching over your every move, judging your worth, and threatening you with dismissal. People
| | The Recruiting Truth...Time Is Not On Your SideWritten by Mike Magnotta
In today's marketplace things are constantly changing and so are needs of just about each and every organization. Whether your company is growing organically or inorganically, whether your company is growing domestically or internationally or for one reason or another you just have pain, your organization must be in a position to attract top talent and attract it quickly! But attracting it is only first part of equation. The bigger problem is what you do once you attract talent to your organization. Stop for one second and think about what you have going on, how crazy your day is and what you think can be put off. More than likely you have multiple positions you are recruiting for. You may be using an outside agency to assist you or are doing it all in-house. In either case, all too often a good candidate is lost due to time it takes to get them through screening and interviewing process. Think back and try to remember how long it took you to make your last hire and what it cost you to do so. Let's eliminate process of getting resume, which is a difficult and timely task in itself. Focus solely on amount of time it took to do an initial screening of candidate and you were in a position to make an offer. In a perfect world, process should take no longer than 30 days...45 days max. Unfortunately, it is very rarely happening in 45 days anymore and you are paying for it in a lot of ways. The biggest hit... you end up losing an A+ candidate to a competitor. Why? Don't kid yourself into believing they are not interviewing elsewhere! In recruiting business, TIME KILLS ALL DEALS!
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