The biotech firm Invitrogen has formed a new in-house team with the mandate of filling at least 10 executive (director and above) searches this year that … Read more
Bringing Outside Search In
Down on the Biopharma
Four hours of driving to and fro last night’s HR Strategy Forum was worth it, because the HRPS affiliate serves you up a higher-level audience than … Read more
Finding Darth Vader
Chris Murdock, executive sourcer & knowledge manager, Yahoo!, shared some of his thoughts on popular sourcing tools today at the NAER conference in … Read more
Jobs Near the Northern Shore
If someone’s looking for a job right now, they’d probably not want to be looking in Michigan, a state infamous for its high unemployment. Nor … Read more
Feds Issue New Disabilities Report
With government employment rates of people with some disabilities headed in the wrong direction — downward — the U.S. EEOC issued a report … Read more
Turnover vs. New Jobs
Nate Swanson of ThinkEquity Partners came out with a bullish report about Taleo, saying that the company is signing a lot of four-year deals, where … Read more
Tomorrow’s Otto Man: Strategies to Steer Drivers Back on the Yellow School Bus
You’ve heard about the stepped-up recruiting practices trucking companies use to address the shortage of truck drivers. Well, some of their gains are … Read more
Intuit’s Secret Sauce
Ning and AIRS, CareerMole and Google: these are a few of Intuit’s favorite things. Intuit is the maker of Quicken and TurboTax with more than $2 … Read more
Look for Ways to Measure the Right Brain
Daniel Pink’s work has been called a “miracle” by Tom Peters, while Tom Friedman has called A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will … Read more
Chinese Turtles and Rednecks
Ray Zhang knows something about the Chinese talent hunt. The HR director for PepsiCo in China gets calls from headhunters himself almost every other … Read more