Two proposals from the Federal Office of Contract Compliance Programs, now open for public comment, seek to require federal contractors and their subs to … Read more
Dice Survey: Tech Demand Pushing Up Salaries, Fill Time
Tech hiring is tough and it’s only going to get tougher, says a new report from Dice.com. The IT specialty job board said its survey of IT employers … Read more
Treat All Candidates as Passive to Increase Your Quality of Hire
There’s an old adage that you should treat candidates as customers. Somehow this has been forgotten in the current era of high unemployment and slow job … Read more
Nurse Turnover in Hospitals
About 82 percent of U.S. hospitals say their annual RN attrition is between 1 and 20 percent, with an average rate of about 14 percent. Those numbers … Read more
Post a Job This Week? Your Hire Has Probably Already Applied
The early bird catches the worm. Mom and Grammy knew that, as did the English four centuries ago. Hardly a surprise, then, that a study of 6,600 hires … Read more
RecruitingBlogs Is Up For Auction
Update: The length of the auction was shortened after this article was posted. The auction now ends on June 22. RecruitingBlogs.com is up for auction and … Read more
On Facebook, Home Depot Is an Open Book as it Expands its Recruitment Branding
Home Depot has quietly been expanding its use of Facebook in online games and recruitment advertising on people’s profiles, meanwhile operating with … Read more
Job Growth: Lots of Optimism, But No Certainty
Bewildered about the direction employment is taking? Join the club. Between the official reports, the private ones, and all manner of surveys, you can … Read more
PeopleAnswers Behavioral Onboarding Can Help New Hires Get Off to a Better Start
As important as the first days of a new job are to an employee, onboarding is the unglamorous stepchild of the hiring process. Paperwork has to be filled … Read more
Bleak Jobs Report Ticks Up Unemployment Rate
The U.S. added a mere 54,000 non-farm jobs last month, the lowest number in eight months. The unemployment rate ticked up to 9.1 percent. This … Read more