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If you’re good at using ATS (Click here) and have a desire to connect job seekers with employment, a career as a staffing and recruitment professional may be the thing for you.

Staffing, recruitment and placement professionals are often viewed as the most visible and important part of human resources. According to an article by HRGuru, this is because staffing is the first entry point of prospective employees to the company.

Recruitment professionals may be responsible for: creating a company staffing strategy, sourcing candidates, screening and conducting preliminary interviews of candidates, conducting background checks, and communicating decisions and compensation information.

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Those considering Arizona government jobs can look forward to serving in a challenging and changing political arena.

Phoenix serves as the state capital and home of the state legislative branch. That branch is made up of the state House of Representatives, which has 60 members, and the state Senate, which has 30 members. Arizona is split into 30 legislative districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.

According to Wikipedia, all legislators are elected to two-year terms and are limited to serving four consecutive terms, although there are no limits on the total number of terms a legislator can serve. Republicans currently hold the majority of seats in both the Senate and House of Representatives.

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With so many different HR software options on the market, providers have to constantly update their features so that they can stay competitive. In the process of doing this they often add new features so that can better address the needs of their clients. According to a recent press release, one leading applicant tracking system provider has done just that.

myStaffingPro recently announced that they have updated their Hiring Manger Quick Response (HMQR) by adding new scheduling capabilities. On top of giving HR professionals the ability to request and receive information and feedback on applicants, hiring managers will now be able to seamlessly mange the scheduling of interviews.

“Before we had HMQR we had difficulty getting feedback on candidates from our managers and the rest of the interview team,” one myStaffingPro client, Sarah Conroy of Penobscot Bay Media, was quoted as saying in the recent press release.

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One recruiting software company is making it easier for trucking companies to find job candidates.

Tentstreet, which supplies services designed to help truck fleets manage human resources and driver pools, is offering a small business edition of its software. According to Truck News, the Basic Version, which is available free-of-charge, provides fleets with 200 or fewer trucks with basic functions needed to improve driver recruitment.

“Hundreds of thousands of drivers have used this technology, which was previously available only to the larger carriers,” Craig Johnson, chief executive officer of Tenstreet, said in the article. “Now anyone can use it, and we decided now would be a great time to make this available. That’s because we are doing this, in part, to support the smaller carriers that need a better way to recruit drivers but can’t afford it in this down economy.”

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With unemployment on the rise, the employment market is oversaturated with people hoping to find work. Because of this, many hiring managers are finding themselves overwhelmed with resumes. This means that they are wasting valuable time on the wrong candidates, when they could be attracting the right ones.
In hopes of helping HR departments do just this, recruiting software provider VCG recently announced the newest addition to their line of products, Pointwing version 1.4. This program is expected to make attracting new workers easier and faster, both of which HR mangers will be happy for.

One of the new additions to Pointwing 1.4 is a Job Publisher application, which many users will be pleased with. Instead of taking the time to handle each individual site, this recruiting software speeds up the process by announcing available positions on multiple job boards at the same time. This not only increases the amount of exposure that each job gets but also saves much needed time.

Resumes from applicants who choose to apply online are then immediately available in Pointwing. The applicant tracking portion of this recruiting software then enables the user to search through candidates using a variety of parameters to find the best matches for their companies. In addition to this, the user is able to monitor each job board’s performance and ROI.

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A recent survey of applicant tracking system users showed that many aren’t using the systems to their full potential.

The survey, completed by participants at the 2008 Taleo World User’s Conference, asked respondents to explore their practices regarding the candidate experience, tracking and reporting on 120-day turnover, according to an article by Talent Management.

The results found that 72 percent of respondents don’t know the cost of on-boarding for their highest-turnover position and 86 percent of respondents aren’t asking candidates about their online employment application experience.

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