Stars Who Make Workway An Outstanding Organization

This Thursday I would like to take a moment to thank some of the stars who make Workway an outstanding organization.

First off, is the category of contractors. The employees who perform fabulously and professionally are essential to the organization and it is individuals like Danielle Nicholson in Las Vegas who help us to outshine the competition. Danielle’s recent assignment, as brought to my attention by her market manager Deon Haynes, was overseeing a convention and her supervisor took the time to email and tell us about her wonderful work:

I wanted to write you a quick note while I had a moment. Danielle and the Workway staff are great! Having Danielle here was awesome and all I had to do was share my vision of how I wanted things to go with her and she just made it happen. She also had the staff on radio which was an excellent idea! Thank you so much for having her as our supervisor and for providing excellent service. I look forward to working with Workway again! -Monique Campas, Events Coordinator, The Mike Ferry Organization

Thank you, Danielle, for surpassing expectations! There are many agencies and I am grateful that you choose Workway!

Next I would like to acknowledge a team of recruiters across the nation who have worked together to staff Real Estate Auctions at REDC. David Beach, account executive in Ft. Lauderdale writes:

Workway has had the privilege of providing staff to Real Estate Disposition Corp. for the past several years. REDC is the largest Foreclosure Auction company in the nation. Workway's success with providing qualified staff and service to REDC has enabled us to be a main staffing provider for REDC. Workway also provides staff to several national Real Estate Title Companies that work onsite at the REDC Auctions. We are proud of our success and appreciate REDC and our Title Company clients to reach out to us for assistance with staffing.

What David does not mention is the hours and dedication that he and his team, led by Stephanie Lawrence, put in to help make these auctions a success and that they employed over 150 individuals during a two week period! Thank you to all of Workway for kicking in when needed and thank you, Suzanne Brown at REDC for your confidence in allowing us to be a main provider of staffing to your company.

As the economy recovers and evolves; staffing agencies, cilents and contractors play a large role in demonstrating flexibility in putting America back to work. Each player is essential and I am fortunate to be involved as Workway plays our part. We are writing history and it is nice to do so as a team!

Diane Prince Johnston
Principal, @Workway

Title Assistant Staffing Help Wanted Ad Turns to 14 Years of Placements and Lots of Connecting

In 1996 we ran ad an in the Sunday Los Angeles Times.

Title Assistant needed immediately. Send res. PO box xxxx, El Segundo CA 90245

Three lines cost $120.00 and after weeks of business planning backed by no experience we had set to open a temp agency. Title Temps would specialize in title insurance personnel and would solve the problem of the Southern California title industry in the 90's where bi-monthly lay-offs and rehires were the norm. The cyclical nature of real estate, the volume of transactions performed in our region and the highly technical skills required to complete the policies made this a perfect niche for contingent labor and we would show them why.

Business plan written, we submitted the ad, kept our day jobs and waited to see if anyone would respond. Besides an initial meeting with Chicago Title's Human Resources Director who had to listen to us anyway because my dad was on their board of directors, it was the first action put out to the community. Would anyone actually believe in the remote likelihood that we could get him a job?

Exhilarated by the possibility of starting up a business and touched with trepidation of never receiving a single piece of mail, I checked the post office every lunch until one day it was not empty and set in the middle of the bronze colored rectangular box was a lone #10 envelope type written and addressed to me and it made me cry. Someone had answered and, however slight it was, the connection touched me. It gave me encouragement and strength and attached a human element to our plan which to that moment only existed on paper. Someone wanted us, or at least needed work, and that evening after step aerobics class (original Reeboks with the straps), I prepared two weeks notice and quit my job.

Fourteen years later, hundreds of title assistants having been placed and eons away from ads in print, I wake up in the morning and check to see who's following. Sometimes it's business, sometimes personal and occasionally a fashion designer who I have mentioned online. It is still about the connect; in business and in life and there is nothing like the feeling when someone listens. Fourteen years ago we would submit a classified and wait for the mail truck. Now we are conversing all over the web and feedback streams throughout the day. Fortunately I don't cry over each reply but every connection sure feels good.

NB: I have not found a suitable a synonym capturing the connotation of "connection." Merriam-Webster: association, bearing, kinship, liaison, linkage, relation, relationship, correlation, interrelation, materiality, pertinence, relevance; bond, link, tie; affiliation, alliance, union; likeness, resemblance, similarity.

Diane Prince Johnston
Principal, @Workway

Hire Friday Workway Top Candidates

Hire Friday is a grassroots movement created by Margo Rose who hosts a blogtalkradio titled "Compassionate HR" and who teaches job seekers to, "think like a recruiter when embarking on their search." Margo asks the online community to view Friday from the eyes of an unemployed friend with a "family to feed and a mortgage to pay." Through her efforts of "paying it forward" by urging "kind people" to encourage unemployed friends to introduce themselves via online social platforms, Margo has gained a large following in the UK and in Canada and word is spreading fast to Americans out of work.

Through Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, Margo empowers the unemployed of all industries around the globe to promote themselves and she asks those with jobs to help find placements for those in need. Workway is an agency and recruiting is a feel-good industry when done right. We get paid to place candidates and we are fortunate enough to be successful in the business of finding people jobs. I salute @HRMargo in her commitment to selflessly create a worldwide referral network; commend her for the dedication that it takes to educate individuals about social Internet platforms and appreciate her for the inspirational posts on digital marketing, human resources and conversational media at hrmargo.com. Hats off to you, Margo and I am pleased to participate in recommending a fabulous candidate on #HireFriday which goes something like this:

#HireFriday Sr. Wintel Engineer/Storage Admin, Irvine, Orange Cnty CA, Fortune Experience/Enterprise Environment, HP/VMware ESX @aboulala

Thanks, Margo; Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

Diane Prince Johnston
Principal, Workway