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
HR Jobs, Searches on the Rise
Private industry job growth may have stalled last month, but HR jobs continued to grow. New job trend numbers from Indeed.com show that human resource job … Read more
Go South, Young Man
Texas Adds Over 700,000 Jobs The line was “Go West, Young Man” — and it was true for a long time. That’s where the money and the jobs were: … Read more
Economists Lower Job Estimates Following Disappointing ADP Report
If you haven’t already heard about today’s jobs numbers from ADP, well, to paraphrase Bette Davis, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s … Read more
Proactive vs. Reactive Approaches to Your Business and Talent
Have you thought about how much it costs to fix a problem after the fact vs. preventing it from happening in the first place? In a February 2011 McKinsey … Read more
Staffing Firms Rally to Fight Off Disclosure, Fee Limits Bill
A coalition of labor unions and immigrant workers organizations is pushing a bill in Massachusetts to overhaul the state’s staffing industry. If … Read more