Interstate Bakeries Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off 1,300 workers and quit the bread market in Southern California. This decision will see the closure … Read more
Business Leads Entry-Level Jobs; Base Pay Stays Modest
The top five industries for entry-level workers, according to MonsterTRAK, will be filled by graduating students with diverse interests and unconventional … Read more
Monster Spam, By the Millions
Money was the motive in the Monster data mash, analysts say. Patrick Martin, a senior product manager with Symantec, the company that first discovered the … Read more
Dow Chemical Adds Social Networking as Latest Recruiting Tool
Like a tether that binds current and past employees, The Dow Chemical Co. is hoping its soon-to-launch in-house social networking plan will build real … Read more
WAHBoom! Job Fairs, Niche Boards Vie for Older Workers’ Attention
Older workers — many self-employed and working part time — are not anxious to leave the labor market. That’s why think-tanks like The … Read more
CFO Shuffle at Kelly, Resources Connection, Salesforce, Monster
Kelly Services announced that its executive vice president and chief financial officer of nearly 10 years, William Gerber, will retire at the end of the … Read more
TMP Revisits Virtual Job Fairs on Second Life
Don’t look for Time magazine to be one of the employers vying to get onto TMP Worldwide’s virtual recruiting hot spot on Second Life, TMP … Read more
Monster Powers Ahead Globally
Lost in the announcement last month that Monster will lay off some 800 workers was the amazing news of the company’s rapid growth abroad. For at … Read more
The Housing Crisis, the Economy, and Their Impact on Recruiting
Over the course of my nearly 40-year career in human resources, I have witnessed almost a dozen recruiting booms (where recruiting budgets ballooned) and … Read more
Country-Fried: First Magnus Succumbs to Mortgage Mess
The First Magnus Financial Corp. website isn’t sugar-coating anything these days. A visit to the company’s revised one-page website shows a … Read more