April 26th, 2012 → 5:40 pm @ Bryan May
Do you remember back in 1975? The price of gas was @ 52.9 cents per gallon. Two of the top hits that year were Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. For those not around yet, please join the others and read on….
What was the average age of your workforce back in 1975, 1980 or later? What is it today? Yes, we are dealing with an aging population in the industry – and the ongoing challenge of finding qualified personnel is not going away!
The question of the day and really, the question you need to ask yourself every day is: What are you doing for your company to find more qualified job seekers? The aging trend and retirement of skilled, experience workers is only going to accelerate. Here is a link to a great article focusing on the challenges we all face in recruiting highly skilled personnel.
Oil Industry braces for labor shortage
BirdDog customers are already “on board” the bus! They are using our customized services to build a better pool of candidates. At the same time they are strengthening their diversity outreach, word-of-mouth referrals and using an ATS to better categorize applicants by sorting, scoring and documenting their disposition in the interview process. And more updates and timely services are coming soon to our online customers.
Come join the other companies who have already jumped on the bus and are “enjoying the ride.”
For questions, contact Doug Woolf, Sr. Advisor @ 515-473-9211 or doug@birddoghire.com.
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April 25th, 2012 → 3:27 pm @ Carissa Crittenden
I ran across an article this morning about some tips on how to use LinkedIn to its best advantage. The article is fairly short and sweet, so if you’re interested I’ll let you check it out for yourself.
As we always say at BirdDog, people drive business success, and one of the best way to find those people is by networking. LinkedIn provides a phenomenal tool for doing just that, so give this article a look-see and put a few things into use to help grow your business – and your network.
Just remember one thing when you hit slide nine – that’s one area where BirdDog can offer more cost-effective solutions.
Without further ado, here it is: How To Make The Most Out Of LinkedIn
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March 27th, 2012 → 4:22 pm @ Bryan May
“I was very pleased with the outcome of the FasTrack sourcing and screening project we purchased from BirdDog. I liked the way the project worked and there wasn’t a rotten resume in the bunch. They all had something listed that was relevant to our open position. I also liked the look and feel of the web-based applicant tracking software. Overall, this was a very cost effective solution for our talent acquisition needs – I will continue to work with BirdDog in the future!” Jack Clift – DVL Automation
March 26th, 2012 → 8:41 am @ Bryan May
“Finding and recruiting great people is a very difficult process for any company. The BirdDog team was very responsive to our needs and helped us locate a candidate to hire.” Giovanni Natale, Advantex Solutions
March 15th, 2012 → 7:29 pm @ Bryan May
“Upon implementing the BirdDog system, we immediately noticed a significant increase in the ‘reach’ of our job postings. This was evident not only in the number of qualified candidates applying, but also an increased number of views, which allows Ryan Companies ongoing exposure to candidates that may not be a fit today, but down the road.” Dan Miller, Ryan Companies US, Inc.
March 8th, 2012 → 4:52 pm @ Bryan May
What plans do you have to deal with the Labor Shortage in the transportation industry? Most would say “What labor shortage, how can there be a labor shortage with unemployment numbers so high?”
The Facts
The baby boomer generation is moving toward retirement like a tidal wave. Estimates of federal workers at retirement age or eligible to retire in the next few years are as high as 53 percent.
“There are more than 250,000 unfilled entry-level positions in the construction and transportation industries today”.
The Labor Department reported that seasonally adjusted initial claims fell 2,000 to 351,000 in the week of Feb. 25. The four-week moving average, considered a more accurate gauge of labor market conditions, dropped 5,500 to 354,000, the lowest since March 2008.
Jobless claims slip to four year low – MSNBC.COM
How would your business be affected if you couldn’t fill your skilled positions? Maybe you already know the answer! The shortage of skilled labor and the changing job seeker habits for locating new career opportunities, are forcing contractors to become more creative in their hunt for talent.
There are four top influencers of hires and the top employers have this nailed…..referral networks, social media networks, company website career pages and internet job boards top the charts according to a study by CareerXRoads.
If you don’t want to be left behind trying to deal with the leftovers, you’ll have to change the “status quo”. Change your habits and different results are sure to follow. At BirdDog, we believe great people drive business success and recruiting is getting harder than ever! Implement a diversified, “always on” strategy today.
Hunt-Track-Fast….BirdDog
Tom Schrandt – Sr. Employment Advisor to the Stars!
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March 6th, 2012 → 9:41 am @ John von Harz
The proliferation of credit checks for hiring decisions is at risk. The practice has come into vogue the past few years for employers looking to screen out individuals who have gone bankrupt, or otherwise have low credit scores. Lawmakers in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, and Washington have ruled against the practice, citing a 2010 study by the Society for Human Resource Management that concluded only 9% of employers saw a good credit report as one of the most important factors in hiring, behind more important factors such as experience, specific skills and a favorable interview. The concern of lawmakers is the relevancy of credit checks when a bankruptcy could be due to unrelated considerations such as medical bills or an unexpected layoff.
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March 6th, 2012 → 8:35 am @ John von Harz
BirdDog announced today the Company has completed an interface between the Company’s candidate record and the employee record in Sage Timberline Office. Users of both systems can now align the fields in their online application form with both of their BirdDog and Timberline databases, and transfer data between those systems. The solution will eliminate duplicate online and offline processes, paper and pdf application forms, and minimize the manual data entry residing behind offline processes and paper and pdf application forms. This is an especially painful process for contractors who experience high turnover, high velocity hiring, and remote site hiring, and will automate the companies affirmative action compliance.
To view the press release annoucing the partnership please click here:(BirdDog Sage CRE Release 2/13/2012)
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March 1st, 2012 → 1:29 pm @ Bryan May
“The BirdDog FasTrack works. Finding and screening candidates is a real time intensive task. We liked FasTrack’s ability to narrow down the candidates and the additional notes that were provided from the candidate scoring process. It was a huge time saver.” Rachel Gibson, Gibson Heating & Plumbing
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February 29th, 2012 → 9:49 am @ Tom Mileham
“We began using BirdDog because we were expanding nationally into markets where we did not have a presence and needed an easy resource to quickly identify candidates in those new markets.
Since we made the move to BirdDog we’ve been able to easily diversify how we build our candidate pool. We are able to attract some great people and have been able to seek out candidates with various skill sets in a very easy manner and have made 27 hires through BirdDog in 2011. We love the flexibility of the system and that we can change our direction easily based on our needs, easily adjust focus fast so that we can continue to grow into the markets we are targeting.”
Zach Wingerter, Deem, LLC
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