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Nowadays, the number of companies hiring contract workers and temporary employees is skyrocketing.

Geoff is featured once again on Biz TV’s Guru Gab segment this week unraveling misconceptions and providing helpful pointers for hiring temporary staff.

Please take a moment to watch the segment right here and keep these tips in mind when hiring your next temporary worker.

“It can take a while to land the right full-time position, and in that time, job seekers need, and should, stay active. The smart job seeker will look for contracts and consulting possibilities to keep them engaged in the workforce, build networks, and make money.”

Geoff was interviewed recently by Sun Media on contract work and why it’s a good time to hone your consulting skills. He was quoted in an article by Joanne Richards of Sun Media released late yesterday. Click through here to read the article: Hone your consultant skills.

With workforces facing tighter staffing budgets, resulting in a skyrocketing demand for contract and temporary workers, recruitment companies have to re-think the scope of their services. Enter Bagg Professional, the first in a new era in recruitment with a service specifically designed to meet these changing trends in hiring.

Launched today, Bagg Professional offers an innovative, holistic, approach to recruiting by providing temporary specialists-on-demand and hard-to-find high-achievers to maximize every staffing dollar.

“There’s no turning back time to pre-2008,” says Jackie Chua, head of Bagg Professional.  “The new business reality is lean and focused.  Canadian companies today are looking for experienced, hit-the-ground running professionals who can jump in and fill multiple short-term roles as needed to suit limited staffing budgets.  Similarly, full-time candidates need to show more flexibility and initiative than ever before.”

Bagg Professional answers today’s realities with an exacting recruitment process that matches candidates with the company’s overarching needs and culture.

“We don’t just think about how to fill an empty chair, we think about how that particular chair fits into the bigger picture.  That’s the starting point for our match-making, whether it’s for a full-time, contract or temporary placement,” explains Ms. Chua.

Bagg Professional takes the unprecedented step of quarterbacking all full-time, contract and temporary placements within a company for across-the-board consistency.  For this new approach, which requires close relationships with both clients and candidates, Bagg Professional has implemented a low client to recruiter ratio.

“We’re all about quality over quantity,” says Ms. Chua. “It’s not about numbers at Bagg Professional.  We’re operating in a new era where the emphasis must be on maximizing the impact one person can make on a company—and that applies to us as recruiters, as well as to our candidates.”

Bagg Professional falls under the auspices of multiple-award winning The Bagg Group, a recognized leader in recruitment for 40+plus years, having placed almost 60,000 people in  full-time, contract and temporary positions over its history.

Bagg Group CEO, Geoff Bagg, notes, “We’ve maintained our leadership position by continually evolving to stay in sync with trends fuelled by changes in the economy.  Bagg Professional is one more example of how success doesn’t happen by looking at what was, but by looking differently at what is.”

Jackie Chua has been General Manager of The Bagg Group since 2000.  Currently The Bagg Group operates Bagg Professional, Bagg Technology Resources, Turn Key Staffing and Bagg Managed Resources.

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In case you missed it, Geoff Bagg was featured on BiZ TV’s Guru Gab segment earlier this week encouraging us to be curious, not concerned, about the gap on the resume and talk to the candidate about it - catch the segment here!

After all, one day it could be us showing a gap on our resume – and we too will come back stronger and better than ever.

Geoff Bagg sat down with BiZ TV for the latest Guru Gab segment to highlight the questions you should be asking as a hiring manager.

Check out the segment right here!

At The Bagg Group, we know how important it is to make the right hire, so we don’t take anything for granted – not even the questions we ask. Improve your questions, and you’ll find candidates will give you back answers that will help you make a more informed hiring choice.

This just in: Biz Tv has now posted the second business expert ‘Guru Gab’ capsule with Geoff Bagg. The segment, entitled ’5 Tips to Great Recruiting,’ can be found right here for
your viewing pleasure.

At The Bagg Group, we have placed almost 60,000 people successfully in our 40+year history. We’ve recruited people for full-time work, contract work, part-time placement. And time and time again, we’re asked: how do we get it right?

If you missed President Geoff Bagg on CTV’s Canada AM on Friday, January 4th, check out the clip here to see Geoff discussing the hot jobs of the future and what job areas to avoid.

President Geoff Bagg recently appeared on City TV News, discussing the holiday bonus landscape, giving/who gives the most during the holiday season and seasonal employment/jobs created this time of year.

If you missed the segment, be sure to catch it here!

Calling all general laborers, production and assembly line workers, and packaging operators!

We have immediate long term opportunities available for positions in the Keele and Steeles area. Perfect for anyone living near York University looking to work a long term General Labour position.

Interested? Please register at our job fair!!

When: December 11, 2012

Time: 9:00 AM

Where: Lawrence Square Mall (Lawrence & Allen)
700 Lawrence Avenue West – Suite 440 (4th Floor)

Please bring: Your resume, SIN #, 2 professional references, and 2 pieces of photo identification for registration.

If unable to attend please email your resume to AWIresume@bagg.com or call 416-640-5313, 416-847-0114, or 416-847-4978.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Attention general laborers and light industrial- production and assembly line workers!

We have immediate long term opportunities available for positions in the Keele and Steeles area. Perfect for anyone living near York University looking to work a long term General Labour position.

Interested? Please register at our job fair!!

When: November 27-30, 2012

Time: 8:30am-5pm

Where: The Bagg Group Markham Branch
3000 Steeles Ave. East, Suite 100 (North-East corner of Woodbine and Steeles)

Please bring: Your resume along with 2 pieces of photo identification for registration.

If unable to attend please email your resume to AWIresume@bagg.com or call 416-640-5313, 416-847-0114, or 416-847-4978.

We look forward to seeing you there!