Recruiting and retaining good truck drivers has long been a challenge for the trucking industry, where employee turnover rates average near 30 percent. Yet … Read more
New Program To Spur Construction Recruiting, Bring Jobs to Gulf Coast Region
Business Roundtable, an association of 160 CEOs of large American corporations, is rolling out a broad-based effort to recruit and train up to 20,000 new … Read more
Monster Media Deal Portends Recruitment Classified Battle
There was once a time when Monster.com’s agenda to transform the way employers and job seekers connected went largely unchallenged. Then along came … Read more
A Recruiter Returns to Work in a Very Different Lebanon
Two weeks ago, Irene Bedoyan settled down for a good night’s sleep. The next night, in her Beirut office on the 13th floor of a staffing firm called … Read more
A Portrait of a Recruiter in a Few More Years
The world of the traditional, reactionary recruiter is gone. The traits that characterized the 20th century recruiter are summarized in the table below, … Read more
Management Consulting Firms Top Survey of Best Student Recruiters
The value of consulting advice may be in the eye of the person writing the check. But it seems corporate recruiters would be well served to follow the … Read more
It’s Their Space
MySpace, blogging, texting. If you don’t have a true understanding of these words and how they’re influencing today’s candidate pool, … Read more
Drugstore to Hire People With Disabilities Through New Recruiting Website
The nation’s largest drugstore chain has launched a new recruiting website to hire people with disabilities for its future distribution center in … Read more
What You Need to Know About What’s Happening in the Pre-Employment Assessment Market
Over the past several years, an increasing number of companies have begun to realize the potential revenue to be gained from selling pre-employment tests … Read more
Job Searches Taking Longer
It’s taking longer to find a job, according to John A. Challenger, CEO of an outplacement firm. The 3.6-month median length of a job search last … Read more