By Fran Melmed Employees and employers are set to see double-digit increases again this year. I’m not sure that’s a shocker anymore. It’s certainly not … Read more
Jobs Report Preview: It’s Still Pretty Ugly Out There
By John Zappe It’s jobs report week in the U.S. and so far the news is not encouraging. For the first time in eight months the economy lost private … Read more
The Unpaid Internship Dilemma: Everyone Loses in This Crackdown
By John Hollon Pardon me while I shed a few tears for the end of college internships as we have known them. The recent post here on TLNT by labor attorney … Read more
The Noncompete Issue: California Ruling Complicates Life for Employers Everywhere
By Peter D. Holbrook In 2000, a Court of Appeal held that an employer cannot lawfully make the signing of an employment agreement that contains an … Read more
It’s Always Sunny for Female Executives in Philadelphia
By John Hollon Who would have thought that Philadelphia would be the one place in America where female executives would get a fair shake? Or as … Read more
RPO 2010 – Part 2: An Inflection Point…What’s Next?
Part 1 of this article ended with the following position; “So I think that 2011 will look a lot like 1999, when RPO firms were called “project recruitment” … Read more
Not Mind-Blowing, But “Gee Whiz” At Tech Show’s Awesome HR Session
HR Tech introduced six companies to a comfortably large gathering of HR professionals and techies Thursday afternoon in Chicago, who gathered to see the … Read more
HR Tech Day 2: The Great Debate Over Human Capital Management
Define “Best of Breed.” That’s rhetorical, but think about it because it illustrates a point about the direction of HR software that was … Read more
The Ups and Downs of Recruiting Entrepreneurism – Part 1: Critical Choices
As recruiters, we are entrepreneurs. Even for those of us who are employees, we are still entrepreneurs. Since our industry is incentivized, we get paid on … Read more
What Recession? No Downturn at “Largest HR Tech Show in History”
Lucky that the recession ended last year, otherwise it might hard to explain all the shoppers here at the annual HR Tech show in Chicago. I met a guy this … Read more