BranchOut announced today that it got $25 million in new funding, raising the total investment in the professional networking service to $49 million, and … Read more
Walmart Cuts Down on Clicks With New Career Site
What if you set out to change the business world and found a company with endless opportunities to do it? That’s the first question Walmart asks … Read more
Retiree Re-Staffing Can Help Ease the Coming Brain Drain Crisis
What’s old is new again, as companies rediscover retiree re-staffing as a way of retaining the experience and skills of their Baby Boomer workers. … Read more
White Truffles Come With Today’s Dot Jobs Update
Regular readers of this roundup, and of ERE, will be so very not shocked to know that there is a new website calls itself the “eHarmony of … Read more
Engagement Ranks High as HR Challenge
Employee engagement ranks high on the list of human resource challenges, yet fewer than half the companies in a survey by SHRM and Globoforce said they … Read more
Blip or Omen? Divining the Significance of the March Jobs Numbers
While all eyes last week were focused on the disappointing March job numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report contained a curious blip … Read more
LinkedIn Adding Features, Touting Early “Pipeline” Success
LinkedIn is introducing something it calls “Targeted Updates” and “Follower Statistics” with a select group of early release … Read more
Best Practices for Managing Offshore Recruiting Teams
The Value of Offshore Recruiting Teams Corporate recruiting departments and staffing firms have a continual need to lower costs while increasing recruiting … Read more
What the Monthly Jobs Numbers Mean For Search, Staffing, 3rd Party Firms
Friday morning the government reported that in March, the U.S. economy added only 120,000 new jobs. That was a surprise to economists and labor analysts, … Read more
March Jobs Gains Are Smallest in Months
The U.S. economy added 120,000 jobs last month, the smallest gain since October and well below what economists predicted. However, unemployment … Read more