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Creating Success and Happiness; Putting The Right People, In The Right Roles

Last Thursday, the CEO of one of the most successful businesses in the world announced his resignation. Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple is signing off to a new era. Jobs has been on sick leave since January of this year and has told the press, “"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know."

Steve Jobs has given businesses, technology and this country so much. He has been called, "the world's magic man." But why is it that he has been so successful? Well, Jobs makes his path the triumph very clear in his 2005 commencement speech for Stanford University, he will not settle, and he will always love what he does.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

Working just to work does not achieve the success and happiness that we all strive for. But how do you find that drive? Where can you look to start a new career path? One that is right for you and creates success and happiness? What is the process in shifting the entire distinction of "work" from somewhere to go and something to do, to one of engagement, productivity and mutual returns?

KeenHire Talent Management specializes in aligning the right people for the right roles with the right companies. We work with our candidates to maximize their strengths, secure the job they want and integrate into their new role with power and ease.

Although right now you need a job, a paycheck and a sense of stability, in a few months reality will set in and you will be left with the question…”Is this the right place for me?”  If the answer is no, the hunt starts again.  The more times you take the wrong job, the more yourself esteem diminishes, your motivation drags and your income lags.

At KeenHire, we work with our candidates to evaluate your career goals, your core differentiators and your winning formula that helps you efficiently and effectively strategize your career search process to select the best fit and eliminate the rest.

 

By: Emily Eastman

 

Recession Over, After Shock Still In Effect: Retain and Obtain Top Talent

Though the most recent recession was said to of ended over a year ago, the nation is still feeling the effect of the aftershock in the work place. Companies are rethinking their hiring processes, and using this post recession economy to retain their top talent as well as nurture their key contributors’ development. 

Economists are saying that the employment-population ratio is currently a more accurate illustration of the labor market than the unemployment rate. The Labor Department estimates that “there are 6.6 million people who want a job but have left the labor force for one reason or another. That's the highest reading in 17 years, and an increase of 1.9 million since the start of the recession.”

This mass exodus of talent on all spectrums is occurring in the aftermath of this recession. Therefore, swarming around right now is the mass storm of resumes overflowing employers as people start looking to leave their current jobs.

Last month, only 58.1% of Americans age 16 and over were employed, a significant drop from before the recession and the lowest since 1983. With a drop like this in employment, the economy is urging employers to redirect their hiring in the post recession economy. Companies must think out of the box, creating talent pipelines that have call to actions.

Now is the time for job seekers to be proactive in searching and becoming future employees. It's time for companies to rethink workforce strategies, and open up to new hiring process to reduce employee turnover before the talent supply chain disappears. 

Time is of the essences, prepare your talent strategies to retain and obtain the first round pick at top talent, and create an unstoppable workforce.

 

By: Emily Eastman

Reference: August 8, 2011 Worse than you think By Chris Isidore

Accounts Payable Specialist Position Now Open! Milwaukee

You are a self-starter with great analytical skills, a minimum of an Associate’s degree and 6 months to 1 year of practical accounting experience.  You are a bright, accurate team player with a can do attitude. You enjoy a fast paced role with multiple competing deadlines that combines your education and work experience in Accounting and Finance.

You are excited about being in a high volume Accounts Payable role where you are processing a large amount of invoices, posting entries in multiple and diverse general ledger accounts and a being involved with a variety of special accounting & finance related projects.  Reporting to the director of Tax & Treasury is a plus for you.

We are Duncan Solutions, a growing global leader in the parking solutions industry; we are headquartered in downtown Milwaukee and have multiple branch offices throughout the United States.  We are a midsized, growing corporate headquarters with a hardworking dedicated finance team, a comfortable office setting, a convenient downtown Milwaukee location, great benefits and a stable long-term business offering.

As Duncan’s Accounts Payable Specialist, your primary focus is processing vendor invoices for a multimillion-dollar organization of a successful and growing business.  You are very organized and have great attention to detail.  You enjoy working with a team of accounting professionals where your work supports in the completion of accurate and timely month end financial statements.

Duncan Solutions offers more than 70 years of industry leadership serving local government clients and their on-street parking management programs.  With intelligent, integrated products and services, Duncan Solutions is transforming the entire parking and enforcement industry.

Job Requirements 

• 6 months to 1 year minimum accounting experience
• The ability to process a high-volume invoicing (contributing to 2000 invoices processed per month)
• Cutting/processing checks (contributing to processing 1500 checks per month)

 

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Advancing Citrix Systems Administrator Now Open! Milwaukee

You are a high achieving Citrix Systems Administrator with strong analytical and excellent organizational skills. You are a subject matter expert who has designed, implemented and improved the performance of the Citrix Infrastructure within an organization that relies heavily on the Citrix platform.

You enjoy wearing many hats, being the go to person and pitching in on the technology team when and where needed.  You enjoy a highly responsible role that requires you bring leading edge knowledge and ideas to the table. Whether it is working with Netscaler design, configuration, ticket resolution or providing on-going maintenance; your attitude is “I need to do what ever it takes to keep things working!"

We are Duncan Solutions, a growing global leader in the parking solutions industry. In this key contributor role within our technology department, you bring huge influence in how to best implement emerging products, services, protocols and standards of the Citrix infrastructure, and ultimately on how we improve operating excellence and increase profitability.

You are looking forward to joining a highly competent technology team and working for a company that provides a software solution to organizations that depend on server up time. 

Duncan Solutions offers more than 70 years of industry leadership serving local government clients with on-street parking management programs. With intelligent, integrated products and services, Duncan Solutions is propelling the entire parking and enforcement industry into the future. We offer the right candidate a highly visible position, a team of people committed to efficiency, a long-term career path and excellent benefits.

 Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of and experience troubleshooting (2nd and 3rd level) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 running XenApp 4.5 and higher.
• Experience with Microsoft Terminal Services licensing and maintenance Citrix Licensing and maintenance. 
• Citrix Web Interface design/support.
• Experience with Citrix Access Gateway.
• Experience with Citrix virtual desktops Experience with virtual machines and Microsoft HyperV. 
• Experience with Microsoft HyperV server administration.
• Experience with Microsoft server operating system administration.
• Experience with the use and implementation of enterprise monitoring and management frameworks. 
• Hands-on software and hardware troubleshooting experience.

• BS/BA degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent experience.

 

Start Your Long Term Career Today! Click HERE to apply!  

Take Your Career To The Next Level! Get Certified In Workforce Optimization!

The CERS is designed to take you, as a successful industry practitioner, and make you even better - way better - in your clients' eyes. This is accomplished by immersing you in content that is much more strategic in nature than anything NAPS has previously offered.

NAPS CERS TRAINING

September 21 & 22

Las Vegas

Two-Day Certification, under $1,500.

To Register Click HERE!

You emerge from the certification process with a much greater appreciation of the talent management issues our clients face.

The Course Work:

• The Entire Employment Life Cycle
• Workforce Planning
• Sourcing and Recruitment
• Screening, Hiring, & On-boarding,
• Compensation strategies, & Succession planning
• Generational differences, Employee engagement, & so much more!

Ultimately as a personnel consultant, you become astute at understanding key workforce optimization strategies that are critical in positioning you as a strategic business partner.

The credential is comprised of required reading followed by a mandatory 2-day immersion course, designed to dig deeper and explore how one might apply this body of knowledge in a real-life setting.

Through the exposure to this broader spectrum of this body of knowledge, you are much more empathetic to, and hopefully aligned with, the long-term goals of your customers. As a result, you are better armed to deliver long-term value and avoid the perilous commoditization traps to which your peers all too often succumb.

 

Workforce Strategy 3.0 - Position Your Company As a Leading Place To Work

With a rocky economy, emerging industries on the rise, four generations in the workforce, Sr. level leaders on the verge of retirement or redeployment and a sea of talent management issues knocking at your door, it is time to start thinking about how your company will maximize it’s return on your people investments.

KeenHire’s Workforce Strategy 3.0 Webinar empowers employers to take a new look at their human resource processes and their approach to Talent Management, Recruitment, Performance Management, Employee Engagement and Key Contributor Employee Retention.

Sign Up FREE

September 6, 2011

10:30-12:00 PST

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The number 1 trend that has a major impact on the workplace is workforce optimization, specifically is key contributor recruitment, utilization, succession planning and retention. 

We delve into your company's employment, recruitment and retention issues. We will dispel the myths and uncover critical issues that affect your company’s ability to attract and retain the right people in your key contributor and next level leadership roles.

  Walk Away With…

1. Hands on experience in uncovering the Real Cost of Employee Turnover and the impact that it has on your ability to achieve your corporate strategic objectives.

2. Knowledge about the organizational development methodology for assessing your company’s real human capital needs.

3. The competence and capability to improve your company's ability to attract, select, engage, manage and retain your mission critical, key contributor and next level leadership talent.

4. Power to develop a winning employer value proposition with several practical employee retention strategies and employee engagement initiatives.

5. The ability to forward your company’s revenue by incorporating the Talent Mindset into your everyday management and people practices. 

The Expert

Margaret Graziano is a torchbearer in the Staffing and Recruitment industry. Her visionary ability, astute knowledge of full life cycle Talent Management and her tenure in the field, positions her far ahead of the Human Capital innovation curve. In the early 2000's Graziano shifted her mindset from recruiter working to make a placements to consultant committed to building extraordinary workforces. She added a talent management division to her staffing operation, adopted a world-class Conscious Hiring and placement process and significantly invested in her own personal and professional development. She utilizes her certifications in Organizational Development, Behavioral Interviewing, Psychometric Assessment usage, Role Analysis and Employee Retention to create curriculum and programs that elevate KeenHire's customers' ability to hire and retain the right people.

The Society of Human Resource Management reports that 6 of the top 10 Workplace Trends are directly related to talent acquisition, selection & retention, don’t be a part of that number.

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Customer Service Specialist Wanted! LA

You are a customer service team leader who thrives in a fast paced environment where you have the core responsibility for quality assurance, task management, and escalation. You are a self-starter who appreciates inspiring a team to perform customer service core functions and processes at the highest level.  You have experience in report generation and account reconciliation and have the ability to shift gears midstream to correct issues and problems and ultimately serve the customer.

You thrive in an environment where clients and business leaders expect weekly reports to be compiled completely, accurately, and on time. You enjoy a key contributor role that combines your customer service background with a lead role motivating staff members and ensuring quality. You have 5 years of experience working as a customer service lead in a high volume call environment, where you emphasized hiring top-notch customer service staff.

We are mid-sized regional office of a global corporation offering parking solutions to municipal entities throughout the United States. We are seeking a dedicated team player that is comfortable working with a variety of customer service lead responsibilities, ranging from hiring and coaching to handling escalations with the utmost care and respect. We often work on tight deadlines and all need to pitch in. 

Your experience with customer service in a heavy inbound call environment where you were dealing with financial transactions, hiring, coaching, motivating, and leading a team moves you to the front of the candidate pool.

Duncan Solutions offers more than 70 years of industry leadership serving government clients throughout the US.  With intelligent, integrated products and services, Duncan Solutions is propelling the entire parking/toll way enforcement and collection industry into the future.  We offer great benefits, a very stable business offering and a convenient Inglewood location. 

Job Requirements 

• 5 years of successful customer service staff supervision cash handling
  
  
• Must pass a background check.

New HR Admin Role Now Open! Chippewa Falls WI

You are a friendly, reliable and confidential administrative professional with a can do attitude who enjoys providing high-quality HR service in a fast paced industrial work environment.  You enjoy a role that utilizes your administrative skills, HR experience, employee relations and payroll processing. You are a passionate, solution-oriented individual who is eager to help employees resolve personnel /benefit related issues with grace and ease.

As EDI’s HR Administrator, your primary focus is maintaining up-to-date HR data as well as supporting and servicing the employee population.  You are very organized and have great attention to detail.  You enjoy working with in a role where your work supports the accurate recording and filing of HR and employee documents.

We are EDI.  We began as a machine shop with four people in a small town in the Midwestern United States in 1971. Today, we are a global force. As the leading manufacturer of flat extrusion dies, coextrusion feedblocks, and slot die coating heads in the world, more than half of our product is delivered to customers outside the United States.

You have an Associate’s degree and 2-3 years of administrative experience in Human Resources preferably in a manufacturing or plant setting.  Your background working in processing of employee records & payroll, being a go to internal HR service contact and your desire to become PHR certified places you at the top of the candidate pool.

EDI provides innovative solutions with state-of-the-art design techniques, sound engineering principles, and world-class manufacturing methods.  Through our growth, our focus to provide value, quality, and dependable service has held true.

Job Requirements 

• 2 years HR Administration
• Payroll
• HRIS

 

World-Class HR Director Role Now Available! Chippewa Falls WI

You are a dynamic HR professional with a can do attitude who enjoys implementing Best HR practices in a company hungry for improvement.  You are looking to support a company that utilizes all of your expertise and knowledge in HR & Talent Management in a manufacturing environment and gives you the authority & creativity to apply what you know to make a real difference in their ability to scale.

You are excited about an opportunity to be in the lead HR role where you directly impact the organization’s ability to scale.  You are a passionate trendsetter who prides yourself on your commitment to excellence and maximizing your company’s return on its employee investment.

About EDI:  We are EDI. We began as a machine shop with four people in a small town in the Midwestern United States in 1971. Today, we are a global force. As the leading manufacturer of flat extrusion dies, co-extrusion feedblocks, and slot die coating heads in the world, more than half of our product is delivered to customers outside the United States

EDI’s Director of HR has three main focal points - Personnel Management, HR Compliance and Talent Strategy.  One of your first initiatives will be refining and implementing HR policies and processes that improve effectiveness, efficiency and compliance; both domestically and internationally.  As the department manager you set the structure for offering a 1^st class HR service response to every level of employee; as well as high-level guidance and coaching to Managers and Executives.  Most importantly, you are responsible for setting the foundation for EDI to scale four times in the next five years.

EDI provides innovative solutions with state-of-the-art design techniques, sound engineering principles, and world-class manufacturing methods.  Through our growth, our focus to provide value, quality, and dependable service has held true.

Job Requirements 

Experience:  You have a Bachelors’ degree and ten years of HR Generalist/Talent Management experience and at least three years of HR Management experience in a manufacturing or plant setting. You have deep domain expertise in all elements of contributing to a high impact Talent Strategy; including and not limited to Workforce Planning, Comp & Benefits, Recruitment and Hiring Employee Development, Key Contributor Retention and Performance Management - for plant, office, and executive personnel.

Cutting Edge Talent Analyst Position Now Open! San Jose

You are a full life cycle recruiter who loves what you do! You experience yourself as a person who operates with a high level of integrity, and you want to work in an environment that rewards your high quality standards and precise candidate recommendations. You are an analytical and service-minded professional with a solid and stable work history, 5 years of expertise in recruiting, and 3 years of selection-based hiring and recruitment process efficiency. You have well defined organizational and planning skills and a strong desire to make a difference for people in their careers, lives, and workplaces. 

As a KeenHire Talent Analyst you are a key staff person responsible for quality assurance and for delivering in Top Grading and Recruitment initiatives on time and within budget. 

You pride yourself on your solution-oriented behavior; your critical thinking skills and your excellent follow up and follow through as well as your highly effective talent evaluation and matching skills. You enjoy a highly productive, fast paced work environment where you have to juggle multiple priorities daily to meet your customer and candidates’ needs. You thrive in a role where you are the ultimate quality assurance person responsible for making an organizational impact, achieving quality standards and strengthening customer relationships. 

We are KeenHire Talent Management; we provide the next generation of recruitment and retention solutions to growing organizations where hiring the RIGHT mission critical, key contributor and leadership talent for the right roles is imperative to their success. We are growing and need the right person to work as an integral part of our team and act as a key contributor in this very important Recruitment, Project Management and QA role.

The ideal opportunity for you is one that you are challenged at every day, where you get to continually learn new concepts, skills and processes and one that allows you to work with a team of committed individuals who are out to make a difference and shift what is possible in the workplace.

You enjoy working in an upbeat, inspiring office with a committed team. You are excited about the monthly opportunity to travel and grow your career. The ideal role for you for you allows you to play to your strengths, be a ‘go to’ team member add value and make a difference for your customers and peers. 

Job Requirements 

• 5+ years full cycle recruiting
• 3 yrs selection-based hiring and recruitment process efficiency 
• Excellent phone voice
• Persuasive communicator
• highly attuned analytical skills
• MS Office

Get excited about a career with KeenHire! Click HERE to apply now!