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Jim Essey Inducted Into the Staffing 100 “Hall of Fame.”

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After being named to the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) Staffing 100 list five times, SIA has named Jim Essey to its Hall of Fame. Only 39 Staffing Industry Executives have ever been named to this list.

About the Staffing 100 Hall of Fame

When Staffing Industry Analysts “Staffing 100 list” was created in 2011, it was to honor a group that found people jobs, and even accelerated the process of finding a job. This unranked list was a call-out to those influential leaders.  Several years later, it was discovered that there are a group of people who made the list each consecutive year. The Staffing Industry Analysts wanted to give that group, who have made a lasting impact on the world of work, taking the staffing industry to great heights as exhibited by their illustrious careers, special recognition. Thus, the Staffing 100 Hall of Fame was born.

What makes these people stand out to their peers and the ecosystem? Here are a few commonalities:

  • Pursuit of Excellence: This group works hard every day trying to raise standards for the people in their companies, the talent, and customers. It’s about learning, innovating and being able to put new ideas into practice.
  • Empower Others: It’s more than the bottom line. It’s about inspiring their teams and their clients to take those steps that can help others. It’s about finding the right solutions for the right group, be it a program, a job or technology.
  • Persistence: The workforce solutions ecosystem is a dynamic ever-evolving environment. The path to success is just arduous, it keeps changing. Mergers, acquisitions, needs of the customer, innovation, new models all go to creating a vibrant but changing space.
  • Integrity: Being ethical is essential to the image and success of this industry, and it inspires others to do likewise.
  • Strong Leader: As seen from this list, these professionals are industry leaders using their experience and knowledge to elevate the industry.

To view the entire list of inductees for the Staffing 100 Hall of Fame click here.

 

About Jim Essey

Since joining the TemPositions Group of Companies in 1985, Jim has focused the firm on developing a number of niche businesses, heading each with industry experts. Through his efforts, TemPositions has become one of the nation’s largest regional staffing firms, and one of the true full-service staffing companies in the market today.

Jim sits on the boards of the American Staffing Association, the New York Staffing Association, and the American Brain Foundation. He has also been elected Chairman of the American Staffing Association (ASA); has served as Chair of the National Chapter Leadership Council and President of the New York Staffing Associate (NYSA), and currently serves as Chair of the ASA Legal/Legislative Committee.

Jim holds a BA from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), a General Course degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from Harvard University.

To learn more about Jim Essey and The TemPositions Group of Companies, click here.

 

 

TemPositions Logistics Acquires Assets of Access Staffing Light Industrial Division

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For Immediate Release
Contact: Jason Danzi
212-916-0853
jdanzi@tempositions.com

 

NEW YORK, March 9th, 2018 – TemPositions Logistics, a division of The TemPositions Group of Companies, one of the country’s oldest and largest regional staffing firms with operations in the New York Tri State area and Northern California, has acquired the assets of the Light Industrial Division of Access Staffing. TemPositions Logistics specializes in providing assemblers; driver’s helpers; general laborers; inventory clerks; machine operators; mailroom staff; maintenance workers; picker/packers; shipping and receiving, stock, storeroom and warehouse staff; and other similar workers to the Tri-State area.

The internal staff of the Access Light Industrial Division, including Joanathan Neira, Melissa Riquelme and Ana Uribe will be joining TemPositions Logistics, and relocating to the TemPositions offices at 20 Broadhollow Road in Melville, NY. Fran Baker has been appointed Managing Director of the division.  Phone numbers will remain the same.

“This acquisition expands our capabilities in this segment, allowing us to better service our existing customers.  In addition, the state-of-the-art systems we have developed internally will bring a higher level of service to the Access Staffing Light Industrial client base.” said TemPositions’ President/ CEO, James A. Essey.

The transaction will offer current Access clients TemPositions’ award winning suite of electronic tools which makes doing business so much easier versus competitors, including online ordering, electronic time capture and approvals, automated billing, and 24/7 reporting.  Besides technology tools, previous Access Staffing field employees will be offered TemPositions’ expanded benefits package including paid vacations and holidays as well as ACA compliant health coverage.

About TemPositions

The TemPositions Group of Companies is the New York tri-state area’s leading provider of temporary, direct hire and temp-to-hire staff. Since 1962, TemPositions has built an award-winning reputation for unprecedented service to both employees and clients. Multiple specialized divisions offer applicants a wide range of assignments in fields including office administration, computer networking/IT, light industrial, legal, accounting and finance, human resources, design/creative, hospitality/special events, health care and teaching. The Company is headquartered in New York and services the New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Northern California markets through various offices. www.tempositions.com

 

Tips for an Awesome Skype Interview

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The rise of technology has added a new element to the job search: Skype interviews. While in-person interviews are preferred, Skype interviews increasingly grow more common. According to ERE.net, 80% of companies with more than 10,000 employees use video interviews, and for good reason. Skype interviews make things easy. They enable job seekers to cut down on travel and allow interviewers to save time. While video interviews may seem more relaxed, as you can conference within the comfort of your own home, they should be taken seriously. An interview, after all, is your one chance to demonstrate your skills to an employer. You may only get this one opportunity, so you need to make it count.

Tips for an Awesome Skype Interview

Connection
Live video uses a large amount of data at one time. As a result, Skype lags often, making it difficult to communicate with the interviewer. To fix this problem, find a place with an excellent WIFI connection. While Starbucks has free WIFI, it won’t cut it for this interview. Stay at home, and invest in a premium wireless router.

Camera
As the idea of a video interview is for the interviewer to see your face, you should ensure that your camera is high resolution. Resolution is the amount of detail able to be processed by a camera. In other words, the higher the camera resolution, the better your interviewer will be able to see you. High resolution cameras are 720p and greater. Thus, if your laptop’s built-in camera is less than 720p, consider investing in a high-resolution webcam.

 

Lighting
To further improve your image, select a space, for your interview, with an abundance of natural light. Ensure the light is direct, angled toward your face, rather than the sides or the back of your head. Light from the background will cause your face to blur, whereas a direct angling will highlight and sharpen your facial features.

Professional Attire
Assuming only your upper body will be on display, during your Skype interview, you may be tempted to wear your favorite sweatpants. Resist this urge, and instead dawn professional attire from head to toe. You may need to rise at some point during your interview to gather a paper or to fix your equipment. What then? Be prepared. Take the extra precaution and dress for success.

Clean Environment
You will be on display in the foreground of your camera, of course. But, what of the background? Your environment matters. Your interviewer will take notice. Ensure the room is tidy. After all, an organized room depicts an organized life.

Audio
It’s easier to make an impression in person, because you can use physical contact. Via video, however, you are limited. The best way to make an impression here is to focus on the conversation. As such, you need to ensure that the interviewer can hear you. Oftentimes, the quality of built-in laptop microphones is poor at best. It’ll pick up background noise and make it difficult for the interviewer to hear you. Instead either use a professional microphone or a pair of headphones which can focus in on your voice.

Call the Interviewer
Instead of having the interviewer call you, call him or her instead. If you call the interviewer, you can set the overall tone of the interview. This is the perfect way to show that you are confident and in command right away.

Look into the camera
A key tip to keep in mind, during your interview, is to keep eye contact with the camera, rather than your computer screen. This will demonstrate your confidence and certainty to your interviewer. In this case, keeping eye contact with the camera is the same as keeping eye contact with the interviewer. Yes, it’s awkward, but do it anyway. Eye contact, when you’re online, is just as important as it is face to face.

Learn How to Ace a Job Interview with These Free Online Courses

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Ace Job InterviewsTerrifying, nerve-raking, and anxiety-inducing – the job interview is the most intense aspect of the job-seeking process. Trapped in a small room, without escape, you must sit face-to-face with a stranger, whose sole job is to critique the entirety of your employment history via your resume and conversation. Perform poorly during the interview process and lose the opportunity to further your career. Do well during the interview process however, and gain a new, potentially life-changing opportunity.

An interview, at its core, is merely a conversation between two individuals. Therefore, if one can master the art of conversation, one can master any job interview. To become a true master of conversation, one must learn numerous concepts relating to human behavior, voice projection, and negotiation. If you look to learn new skills, check out a website called Coursera. Coursera is an online e-learning website, which hosts thousands of free classes, taught by professors from top universities such as Yale, Harvard, and Stanford. Here are the skills you need to learn for your next interview, and the free, online courses you can take to improve your interview game.

Salary Negotiation

https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills

Not only do you want to do work you love, but you also want to do work which pays what you believe you are worth. Getting the salary which you deserve, however, may not be so simple. You want the job and the pay, but you also know that, if you’re too aggressive or too passive, you won’t get either. The key then is to find the balance between the two worlds. In this course, you’ll learn how to put strategy behind your ideas which you can use to get the salary you desire. This course teaches how to devise a negotiation strategy, frame persuasive arguments, and use arguments against yours to your advantage. Most importantly, you can work with the other students taking this course to better refine your negotiation skills.

Personality

https://www.coursera.org/learn/personality-types-at-work

The more you connect with the interviewer, the better the chances you can convince him or her that you’re right for the job. To connect with someone, you need to have a deep understanding of your own personality and how it relates to the personality of the other individual. This course teaches you about the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Big five Personality test. These assessments are the top-rated personality tests in the world. Taking the tests will enable you to uncover why you think and act in certain ways. The course will explain the different personality types, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and how your personality type can work with other personality types to attain goals. To be able to identify the personality type of an interviewer would better enable you to overcome the initial fear of the interview, and delve straight into constructive conversation.

Rhetoric and Persuasive Speaking

https://www.coursera.org/learn/persuade-speech

Interviewers want to know that you are passionate about your work and confident in your abilities. To demonstrate your passion and your confidence, you need to understand how to speak with conviction. This is a public speaking course in which you’ll learn how to express your thoughts with a certain sureness that’ll come across as charming and engaged. You’ll be taught how to organize your thoughts into compelling arguments, tools to effectively make points, and, most importantly, how to deliver your words in a powerful, assured style.

Strategy

https://www.coursera.org/learn/successful-interviewing

Before you enter the interview, you should learn about the company. The more you know about a company, the more you can understand how to add value to it. You’re task is to prove to the interviewer that you will be able to provide exceptional return to the company, through your hard work and prior experience. Preparation is key, and this course will teach you how to properly research companies before the interview. The core of the class is to show you how to plan for your long term career and then how to make the best possible impression. In it, you will learn to create a strategy you can use to ace your interview.

In Closing

So there you have it. While this is not an all-in-one comprehensive list of all the sources available online to help you with your job interview skills, this is a great start. It’s not only applicable to job interviews but to various situations you may encounter in your daily life. A job interview could be the first step in what may be a life changing endeavor. The difference between doing great or performing poorly can really be the difference in obtaining that job you always wanted. Also, the difference between a good job interview and a great job interview could mean thousands of dollars in salary. Higher education provides you with the knowledge employers are looking for to offer you that dream job. Unfortunately, most schools don’t provide the education on how to get it.

Corporate Team Building Activities in NYC – A Complete List

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Company or Corporate Team Building has earned a reputation of having a fun factor just shy of a root canal. And with good reason. Few of us can say in all honesty that hotdog eating contests and egg balancing games are worthwhile investments. After all, that money could be better spent on, say, salaries. Yet we’re here to challenge any preconceived notions you may have that team building has to be embarrassing, ridiculous and/or a waste of time. To the contrary, New York City is a playground for adults, one so rich in team building opportunities that you could be forgiven for not realizing that you’re on the clock when you’re participating.

From espionage to athletics, there are plenty of engaging team building activities within New York City for your corporate team. With all the fun bound to happen, it’ll be easy to wonder why you’re getting paid.

Consider this list as a go-to reference for team building activities that are sure to evoke high-fives instead of eye-rolls. When your team is ready for laughter, learning, and connecting, NYC has you covered.

Puzzle-Solving, Code-Cracking Team Building

Team Building Activities in NYC

Flex your cerebral muscles while having fun with team building challenges that require you to work with your teammates to solve puzzles and crack codes. These types of activities require groups to work together in engaging ways, all the while practicing the type of problem-solving necessary on the job. They also have the added benefit of utilizing different ways of thinking so that everyone winds up feeling successful.

Where can you get your puzzle-solving, code-cracking fun on in New York City?

Escape the Room You and your team are locked in a room for 60 minutes. Through a series of interactive puzzles and clues, you must try to escape. Rooms accommodate up to 10 people at a time. Note that if you don’t reserve the entire room, people you don’t know might be part of your game.

info@escapetheroomnyc.com or call 347-954-9160

Mission Escape Games Like other escape rooms, Mission Escape Games places you and your teammates in a room for an hour. You must inspect the room for clues, collaborate together to solve the puzzles and break out of the mission within the allotted time.

missionescapegames@gmail.com or call 347-903-8860

The Great Gotham Challenge Not only will you learn all about your teammates in this race around Manhattan, but you’ll also learn about the city’s history. Participants seek out and decode a series of interactive clues in this large-scale competitive puzzle game.

gamemaker@greatgothamchallenge.com

Scavenger Hunt Team Building

Corporate Team Building Activities

Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts Think you know New York City already? Chances are, going on a scavenger hunt through the area will bring new surprises. Explore the city’s museums and historic neighborhoods with a scavenger hunt that pairs sleuthing with silliness. Additional twists are available, such as challenges to add culinary treats or humor. Watson Adventures handles groups anywhere in size from eight to 500 and can last from 90 minutes to two hours.

Call 1-800-656-0713

New York City Team Building With multiple scavenger hunts available, there is no shortage of clever ideas offered by New York City Team Building. Many of the hunts are based on a television show, such as Urban Fear Factor and The Amazing Chase, although there are other creative choices, including Play it Forward and Random Acts of Kindness.

Call 1-877-713-7238

Physical Team Building

Corporate Team Building Activities

Whirliball It’s hard to beat the site’s own description: ” what other sport so capably combines bumper cars, jai alai, basketball and drunkards?” Your team can enjoy riding adult-size bumper cars while tossing a ball back and forth and trying to make baskets. Sound fun? We think so!

Call 773–486-7777

Throwback Fitness Few work environments facilitate fitness; unless you are a construction worker or aerobics instructor, chances are high that you spend more time sitting than standing while on the job. Throwback Fitness throws a wrench in that standard routine by offering old school games that incorporate serious workouts and fun. Think tug-o-war and dodgeball to get an idea.

brian@throwbackfit.com or call 610-844-5364

Zog Sports Bring new insight into your team with collaborative sports that can be brought to a park, a gym, or your office. By combining sports with team building, you’ll have a chance to see colleagues in new ways.

info@zogsports.com or call 646-467-5298

Charitable and Philanthropic 

Corporate Team Building Activities

The Leader’s Institute Pairing corporate team building with charity work, The Leader’s Institute will have your group learning new skills, working together, and helping one of many local causes. Choose from a variety of activities, such as building bicycles for kids, designing a golf course with food for a local food bank, or build teddy bears for firefighters to give to children who have been traumatized.

info@leadersinstitute.com or call 1-800-872-7830

Charity Team Building Offering fully customizable projects for your team building adventure, Charity Team Building encourages corporate groups to work together in many different ways. Activities range from making care packages for deployed military members to building wheelchairs for a local or global organization.

Learning

Whoever said that school was boring hadn’t met these challenges yet. Each activity blends learning with hands-on activities so that everyone on your team can play — and learn.

Brooklyn Winery Depending on your group’s preferences, there are different options to choose from. Participate in wine blending, fuse blind wine tasting with trivia and label making contests, or become wine detectives where you learn to identify wines based solely on their sight, smell, and taste. Larger groups may enjoy a blind wine pairing game where everyone must seek out the right person in the crowd to complete their wine pairing.

Call 347-889-7100

The Paint Place Whether you want to go to their studio or meet at your own, The Paint Place features large group parties where an artist guides you to craft your own original piece of art. Every painter receives a 16″ x 20″ blank canvas, an apron, paints, and brushes, plus instruction.

info@thepaintplaceny.com or call 212-799-0112

Paint & Sip Studio Sip on an adult beverage as you learn how to paint a whimsical picture with your colleagues. Whether you are a beginner or a painting aficionado, you’ll be able to channel your inner Picasso to the delight of those around you.

info@paintandsipstudiony.com or call 917-509-6613

My Cooking Party For corporate cooking classes and culinary competitions, My Cooking Party is the kitchen to visit. For groups interested in an Iron Chef-style competition, they can try Battle of the Bites. There, teams choose from drawers of mystery ingredients and then whip up the tastiest Hors D’oevres. Alternately, you can participate in Shop, Drop, & Roll, which is a cross between a game show and a scavenger hunt, or The Dinner Duel, wherein teams compete to create a feast without using any recipes.

info@mycookingparty.com or call 212-686-2433

Common Pitfalls for Company Team Building

Corporate Team Building Pitfalls

To successfully compete in today’s marketplace, business leaders must harness the strengths of every team member. They must build teams that are unflinching in their ability to achieve and sustain momentum. Notably, they must instill the belief that the team is unstoppable.

Unfortunately, all too often, leaders and managers believe that a simple round on the go karts will do the trick. This can lead to one of several pitfalls: disengagement, embarrassment, and/or no progress. Here are a few tips about how to avoid the common pitfalls that can stem from teambuilding activities so that your efforts are applauded rather than arraigned.

  • Neglecting to include the senior management staff: One of the critical factors in determining team success is the team leadership skills of senior management. Well-versed in their own management or technical skills, many people at the executive level have — to put it nicely — become rusty at teambuilding. The Solution? Include everyone in the teambuilding activities.
  • Making team building a one-time affair: It is through team collaboration that innovative ideas are formed. Leaders who are inclined to skip over teambuilding activities are less likely to push their team past barriers to team success. As such, management should find opportunities for collaboration whenever possible. This includes the big events — such as those listed in this article — and smaller, more focused activities, such as brainstorming and collaboration on projects.
  • Keeping Disruptive Dan on the team: By its very name, teambuilding activities are intended to strengthen teams. If there is a person on the team who continually disrupts the flow of learning and collaboration taking place, they should be shown the exit. Keeping these people on the team leads to a lack of trust in management that it can take care of and lead the team.
  • Permitting meeting madness: Just because it is a fun activity, should not mean people disregard all decorum. If managers allow employees to arrive late, spend time on their Blackberries, and let a few people hog all the airtime, it sends the message that such activities are a waste of time.

How Temp Agencies Can Help Recent Grads Find Employment

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You’re finished with your studies, but now the real challenge begins: finding a job that allows you to apply that pricey degree. Many recent graduates stumble and have a harder time finding their dream job than they thought they would. According to Money magazine, it takes the average graduate from three to nine months to find a job after college. Depending on your field and the local economy, it can even take longer than that. However, you can shift that average in your favor by going to a temp agency first. Temping can benefit your longer term job search in many different ways.

Get Career Experience

One of the things that can stand between a recent grad and a great job is experience. If you have never held a real job, your resume will look a little slim when compared to those with a longer history. Looking for temp jobs in your industry, even if they are not in your specific field, can help you get some job experience to fill in the gaps in your resume.

Plus, you’ll get experience relevant to the job you eventually want. No matter what field you are in, learning to juggle multiple tasks and learning on the fly can be of value. This is a skill that transfers. Just being in the workplace and getting used to the rhythms of a full-time job can prepare you for your permanent position and help the transition into that job go more smoothly.

Make Connections

The ironic reality of job hunting is that most jobs are never listed. No matter how much time you spend on job sites and classified ad pages, you’ll never see listings for some of the best positions. Instead, they are offered through internal channels; the average job-hunter will never find out about these openings because they’re filled through word of mouth. This can make it especially hard for someone right out of school to find a good position.

However, when you start temping, you start meeting people. You will get a chance to show off your work ethic, your problem-solving skills and your people skills to potential employers. If the people who you work for and with see that you are an asset in the workplace, that will go a long way toward building trust.

Even if the company where you are temping is not hiring, you may come into contact with people who know businesses that are. These coworkers may hear about openings through the grapevine, which they will then pass on to you.

When you are temping, it’s vital to make an effort to get to know people and form relationships. These relationships can help you find out about all of those unadvertised positions that may just be perfect for you.

Wait for the Job You Really Want

If you have student loans, then you know that you only have six months before you need to start paying them back. Most grads don’t want to move back in with their parents for long. If your folks are helping with the costs of an apartment, you probably already know that they can’t do that forever. Because of this, getting a steady paycheck is a high priority.

For some people, the need to start earning money right away can lead them to take any job in their field, even if it does offer the work that they want, or the pay and benefits they need. Then, once they’ve taken a full-time job, they can be stuck. They may feel that it’ll look bad to jump ship too quickly or that they don’t have time to look for new jobs at all.

When you add temping to the mix, however, you are able to stretch your search for the perfect job as far as you need to. The paychecks will help you keep the lights on and your student loans up to date. And, the flexibility of temping means that you can carve out days for interviews when you need them.

You’ll Learn That It’s Easier to Find a Job When You Have a Job 

Job-hunting brings yet another apparent paradox: employers are far more likely to choose candidates who are currently employed than those who do not have jobs. According to a report on NPR, many employers say that they feel more comfortable hiring someone who is working. They say that these applicants look more responsible. They like the fact that this workers was an attractive hire for their current company.

When you list your current agency as your employer and share the skills you have been acquiring, you will find that you look a lot better than an applicant who has a huge gap after graduation.

Turn a Temp Position Permanent

In some cases temp positions are offered because an employer needs extra help dealing with a backlog of work. In others, the position is offered to temps because a current team member is on leave. The third reason for most temp positions is that a permanent employee has left and the boss wants to try out a few people in the position before filling it. Do well as a temp, and the job could be yours.

In some cases, employers who are impressed with a temp’s performance will go so far as to create a new position at the company for them. People who make their own way like that get to guide their careers in the direction they want from the start.

Working with temp agencies has a million upsides for recent grads who are just beginning to feel out the working world. At a temp job, you’ll learn about life in the office and get the information that will help you decide where you want to be later on in your career. If you are graduating soon or just got out of school, look up the temp agencies near you. It’s a chance to get your bearings in the workplace and jump start a successful career.

Additional Resources for Graduates Looking for Employment

LinkedIn
One of the better places to start is with LinkedIn. While not a traditional job site, it is one of the most valuable. You should carefully construct your profile for optimal results. If not, now is the time to build one and perfect it for the job search.

Indeed
Indeed is one of the single largest sources of job postings online. Highly recommended it’s a job aggregator, meaning it draws postings from company websites, other job listing sites, jobs posted in niche industry websites, jobs posted in online classifieds, and other places like TemPositions.com!

StartJobs.net
StartJobs offers a seamless user experience by using a unique algorithm allowing users to find the perfect career fit within a certain radius.

After College
Their vision is to help every college student and recent graduate discover their career path. In their 15 year history, AfterCollege has become the largest career network for college students and recent graduates.

Grad Staff
GradStaff serves as a career matchmaker, helping companies find the ideal fit for open entry-level positions, while also helping recent college graduates discover how their transferable skills and abilities translate into the workforce.

College Recruiter
They help college, University students and recent grads find internships, entry-Level jobs, and careers.

Cool Works
Cool Works gives recent grads the chance to embark on experiences that enhance their lift and the lives of others, change the way they interact with the world and connect them with amazing places they may want to live.

 

Sources:

http://blog.advancedresources.com/how-temp-work-can-help-your-career/

https://www.totaljobs.com/careers-advice/content/10-benefits-of-temping-074

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/16/131367533/some-will-only-hire-if-you-already-have-a-job