It is interesting to observe certain management teams come up with numerical benchmarks that are not tethered to reality. A contract recruiting team is a tight group where the success of each individual heavily depends on the success of every other individual. The way most contract staffing agencies work is that the sales people are responsible for bringing job orders and recruiters are responsible for bringing candidates.

Imagine a scenario where a recruiter was told to fill a certain quota by finding candidates but without having a corresponding job order for those candidates. It gets better.

Imagine there is no sales strategy.

Further, imagine that the management is trying to sell offshore and web development deals that have no bearing on the recruiter quota at all.

What? Are you confused yet?

Question: Did the management effectively set up recruiting for total failure? Yes.

Question 2: Would recruiting be correct in describing the management as delusional and completely out of touch with reality? Yes.

Question 3: If the sales people do not sell contract staffing services which are the basis of the quota in the first place, how is the quota not pulled out of thin air?

Question 4: Would it be the right thing to cut recruiting and leave the management responsible for the setup? No, cut the whole team if you’re going to cut anyone.

Sounds like a delusional dream coming from someone straight out of a psychiatric ward.

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Article Title: Want to build your own website?
Author Byline: Amit Puri is the Managing Consultant at Sandbox Advisors. He has over 10 years of business, career services and HR related experience, with companies such as Bain & Co, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Sandbox Advisors is based in Singapore and provides career management/advice, job search, interview, resume and HR consulting services in Asia.
Author Website: Thinking about starting a website for yourself or your company?

With the tools available today, this can be very very easy. Unless you have very specific requirements, need some custom programming or have a large project in mind, I would recommend the DIY approach as opposed to hiring an expensive web designer. All you need to know is one magical word – “Wordpress”. Here is what you need to do to get started. These are broad steps which will provide a roadmap to work with and details of exact procedures will be available through installation wizards and support documentation given by various providers. - To get started register the domain name and you have in mind with one of the good/cheap providers (GoDaddy, BlueHost, JustHost and so on) and also sign-up for a hosting package - Setup Wordpress from your hosting account. There will usually be a prominent option/tab for this - Pick a Wordpress theme. These are ready-made templates which you can customise fairly easily, to get the layout, colours, etc. that you want. There are some excellent themes available depending on your needs. Have a look at this website for a listing of some of the good providers - http://www.premiumwp.com/ - Install the theme on Wordpress and customise as per requirements -Get your plug-ins. These are applications that can add lots of features to your website such as spam check, search engine optimisation, opt-in forms, contact us forms, advertisement management, forums, live chats, media galleries and much more. Some of the essentials ones I recommend and which are useful for most websites are – Akismet, All in One Adsense and YPN, All in One SEO Pack, Easy Contact, Dean’s Permalink Migration, Google XML Sitemaps, ShareThis, Subscribe to Comments and Yet Another Related Posts Plug-in. There are some very specific plug-ins available to meet demands of various users, so make sure you search Wordpress and Google to see what’s out there - Start creating your pages and posts That’s it! It really is quite simple and you need more time than specialised expertise. In case you want help on any of the aspects listed above, post a job on elance/guru and hire a reasonably priced freelancer to set it up for you. It won’t cost much and they can also be used to add new features/applications to your theme.

Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.

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Back to the NAVY SEALS story. I really did not think that any American would froth at the mouth quite so much at the opportunity to denigrate the US Armed Forces, but I was wrong.

Just like the idiots who threw garbage and screamed obscenities at soldiers returning from Vietnam, so the leftist loonies are getting out the tar and feathers for the American soldiers of today.

It will be with open arms that these psychotic liberals welcome Islam to America and sadly for them they will be the first to be executed by the murderous Islamists.

And the NAVY SEALS that they helped charge will not be around to save them.

Only the sickest scum bag can dishonor the military for what politicians put them through. Most of these scum bags don’t have the balls to join themselves.

ISLAM is not a religion of Peace. Never was, never will be. Get it?

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fox-host-outraged-navy-seals-charged/

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An “eye for an eye” so went the Code of Hammurabi and so goes the Penal Code of Sharia Law. A hand for theft, and a stoning for rape, and death for converting out of Isalm.

The argument for such punishment is that it’s hard to steal without a hand or to rape if you are dead. What if you are falsely accused and condemned to die for something you did not do?

How many innocent people will lose their lives or be marked for life? We have come a long way from the days of Hammurabi, alas, Sharia still metes out the cold justice of the desert 1400 years ago.

It would be a sad day for democracy and justice if even a hint of Sharia were ever allowed in a Western Democracy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576066/We-want-to-offer-sharia-law-to-Britain.html

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I find it outreagous that there are fellow Americans out there who will take offence at someone wishing them the wrong holiday greeting. Why should it be Happy Holidays when it’s really Christmas that the vast majority of Americans celebrate? Be proud of the fact that we are predominantly Christian nation which defends the rights of minorities to the detriment of its own traditions.

When the Communist took power in Russia one of the things they did was create a state with the ultimate political correctness by banning religion. Thousands were deported and killed as a result of this PC campaign, the only problem was that it didn’t really work.

Christmas moved several days to be celebrated on December 31^st. The Christmas tree became the New Years Tree, Santa became Grandpa Frost, and the elves became hot blonde the Snow maid. Meanwhile everyone still hated the Jews and the occasional pogroms did not decrease in frequency.

Is our obsession with diversity creating a bland and overly PC nation similar to the Soviet Union? I’m afraid at the very left end of liberalism lives Communism…

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Czech President Klaus: Global Warming Not Science, but a ‘New Religion’

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/18/czech-president-klaus-global-warming-science-new-religion/

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If you have the right connection, I’m sure global warming will put a lot of cash in your pocket. If you are an ordinary American, you are screwed.

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Iran seizes oil well in Iraq near border

Published: Sat, December 19, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m.

http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/dec/19/iran-seizes-oil-well-in-iraq-near-border/?newswatch

Iran seizes oil well in Iraq near border

BAGHDAD — Iranian forces crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well just over the two countries’ disputed border, Iraq’s government said Friday, prompting a protest from Baghdad and providing a dramatic display of the sometimes tenuous relations between the wary allies.

The incident could trouble Iraq’s drive to attract the international investment needed to develop its beleaguered oil sector, analysts said, and it raised questions about the two countries’ ties, which had improved greatly after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

According to Iraq’s deputy foreign minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, Iranian troops crossed into Iraqi territory on Thursday and seized oil well No. 4 in the al-Fakkah oil field, located in Maysan province about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. The oil field is one of Iraq’s largest.

Did I recently make a prediction about the course of events in Afghanistan After the US pulls out? I did. I’ll now make a short update by predicting of what will happen in Iraq if and when we ever pull out. Actually if the reader has any intelligence the article above will adequately illustrate what exactly will happen.

Iraq will become a vassal state of Iran just as Lebanon is forever held hostage by the Hezbollah (Iran).

Just wait.

On the other hand, if Israel were to knock out all of Iran’s nuclear reactors one day our job would be much simplified.

We did Iran a tremendous favor by upsetting the balance of power in the region when we so ill advisedly took out Saddam. I’m sure they will repay the favor.

Unfortunately, we will reap what we sowed. And very sadly no one seems to learn from history, not even Defense Secretary Robert Gates who has a PhD in Russian and Soviet History. How very sad indeed.

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Staffing is a business those idea has been tried and proven many time over the last 30 years. The business is a service provider that enables business to cut down on the time it takes them to build a qualified pipeline of employee and contract candidates. The value added of such a staffing agency is that it reduces the cost for the company to acquire new labor by eliminating sourcing costs, benefits and on boarding procedures, and the need to hire costly internal recruiters. The model also allows client companies to tap into pools of labor that would otherwise be off limits to them.

The staffing models work on two main premises contingency and retained. Contingency is often used for contract and perm recruiting of low to senior level employees while retained search is often used for C level employees. Contingency assumes that the agency will search for the candidate and produce a hirable employee before any payment is made. This is attractive to the company because it loses nothing if the search is not successful but maximizes its own chances of seeing a good candidate. Retained search requires a company to take a certain percentage of the fee upfront.

The scope of this company will be to search for low to high level employees on a contingency basis. This is the model employed by many staffing agencies and is risk free to the client which eliminates certain barriers to entry.

A contingency based staffing company makes money by charging its clients fees for producing successful candidates. For permanent placement the agency charges a percentage of the salary, usually 20-25% of the final negotiated salary. If placing contractors, the client agrees to pay a certain amount per hour for the contractor and the agency takes the difference between the contractors’ hourly rate and the amount the client agrees to pay.

The market environment at the beginning of 2010 is perfect for the establishment of a staffing agency for several reasons:

1. Many small staffing companies and a large number of recruiters, anecdotally nearly 50% have left the business during the previous two years. Those companies that survived had to make large cuts in staff and consolidate resources to stay viable. Those that did not lost money or closed
2. Information Technology is one of the largest growth sectors that will make it the avant-garde of the recovery. Everyone needs IT without which business cannot grow.
3. The Recovery will come in the next 6 to 18 months. We have already seen a technical recovery in the growth of the GDP. Staffing companies have begun to hire recruiters and sales people to take advantage of the opportunities that will open in the next 6 to 18 months.
4. Right now is the best time to start because the new agency can begin to build a foundation of client contacts and be in position to exploit these contacts when companies begin to grow.
5. The start-up costs and cash flow requirements to keep a small staffing operation going are extremely low. Back office functions such as accounting, pay roll, and employer of record are outsourced and staffing and recruiting functions are given priority and all effort goes to developing new and existing client relationships.

The staffing company will target clients who are least likely to be able to staff operations efficiently on their own. This means that company’s between $5 and $100 million dollars including startup that can explode into lucrative accounts and established companies that have unpredictable IT development needs and may need to augment their staff with contract or permanent employees. Client companies will be dynamic companies that are seeking to take advantage of efficiency brought by an experienced staffing company.

Right now is a unique opportunity to get into the $100 billion dollar recruiting market. Having the right tools in the right hands can mean the difference between a lucrative fall out and a missed opportunity. Given the right tools this agency will deliver a success full outcome through tenacity, experience, and passion.

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