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Hiring Horrors with a Happy Ending

By Chuck Smith, NewHire
10/28/2008 - 3:30pm
Ready, Aim, NewHire , Creative Recruiting Practices , Hiring & Retention

Chuck Smith, NewHire

Chuck Smith may be the only temp ever who bought his temp agency.

With a Master’s Degree in hand and few job prospects in 1988, Smith answered a classified ad looking for skilled workers placed by New Office Temps. On his second temp assignment, he was sent home from the job on his first day because “the old geezers expect a skirt outside their door.” Twenty years later, Smith is the owner and president of New Office/NewHire, the Chicago-based recruitment process outsourcing firm which developed the NewHire™ Candidate Management Software.

New Office continues to serve the Chicagoland area with temporary staffing. Nationwide, NewHire provides customized recruiting products and services to businesses of all sizes.

Chuck Smith is a sought-after speaker and expert on recruiting practices. He has a bachelor’s degree in American Literature & Religion from The George Washington University and a master’s degree in Religion and Literature from the University of Chicago. He and his wife have lived in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood for over 20 years where they are both active in the community. They have a 19 year-old daughter and a 14 year-old son.

Our clients estimate that NewHire has cut their recruiting costs by over 60%. To find out how NewHire can save you time and money, contact us at sales@new-hire.com.

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This Halloween, make it a goal to see the resume for what it is: a zombie, a monster, a ghoul, and a ghost left over from the Industrial Revolution. We are now in the Information Age and the resume is outdated. Let’s put up a grave stone, “RIP. Here lays the resume, a nightmare for employer and job seeker alike.”

Why? They pile up like bodies and swamp inboxes worldwide. They lie to get their way. And worst of all, they can highlight irrelevant experience while hiding the stuff you really care about.

Few things are more terrifying for even the most experienced HR executive than a group of resumes. Who among us doesn’t dread their stench and their time-stealing ways?

Perhaps this is one horror story with a happy ending though.

The NewHire suite of software and service offerings is a stake in the heart of the resume vampire. Our HR Heroes have customized tools in the NewHire pre-employment application which instantly identifies the qualified candidates from the pack. Our clients access their candidates’ answers anywhere they have Internet access.Best of all, they can implement a fair and consistent screening process to identify the Best Available Talent while putting the resume zombie on ice – storing it away in case you ever need to access it in its original form.

So let the doom and gloom of the global financial talk end with Halloween.Sure, corporate layoffs are on the rise and hiring freezes are rampant, but thousands of companies are doing just fine, thank you. And the smartest companies have realized there’s no better time to identify and hire top talent than when the competition is struggling and the workforce is flooded with qualified people.

If you want see NewHire in action, check it out online or give me a shout (877) 923-0054 and I’ll take you on a private tour.

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