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Naked man runs for the woods at a music festival and falls, fractures his spinal column and the staff move him from the woods. The naked man was Daniel Weaver, of Hudson, N.Y., who was paralyzed from the chest down during last summer’s All Good [...]
“The interview and hiring process is just like writing code. If you have bad specs at the start, you’ll end up with something flawed at the end.” When you speak with Bob Norton, founder/principal at Franklin Key Associates, as I did recently, you get lots [...]
As if the staffing industry didn’t already face enough challenges… Roger Brown is an ace recruiter with an elite agency in Oslo. He specializes high-end searches and would have had no problem snuffing out the problems Yahoo had last week with its ex-CEO Scott Thomson. [...]
Online recruiter Monster updates its résumé. [The Wall Street Journal] CTPartners says preventable errors brought down Yahoo! CEO and Directors and offers five ways to avoid a Yahoo! Disaster. [MarketWatch] Help Wanted (unless you’re over 50). [The Wall Street Journal] Legal issues abound in telecommuting. [...]
Bloomberg BNA Publishes 2012 Edition of “Preventing Sexual Harassment and Other Workplace Harassment: A Fact Sheet for Employees” [Market Watch] The golden rule of cold-calling. Don’t. [Recruiting Blogs] EmploymentGroup names Robert G. O’Hare Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. [Market Watch] Lofton has been named [...]
Reflecting back, advancing forward: Kforce celebrates 50 years in business. [MarketWatch] Monster Worldwide Inc has drawn importance from a number of possible buyers, including private equity company Silver Lake Partners, though at least one would-be suitor, Linkedin Corporation, has planed not to hunt a contract [...]
Taking some blame, Yahoo CEO also throws top valley recruiting firm, Heidrick & Struggles, under a bus with a seriously damning accusation. [Business Insider] Randstad US, LP to pay $60,000 to settle EEOC disability bias suit. [EEOC] Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to [...]
You’ve heard now former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is the latest resume creep right? His official Yahoo and eBay bios said he had a a degree in computer science. He does not. But did you know he is blaming the discrepancy on an executive placement firm? The recently deposed [...]
Ok everyone is commenting on the Time magazine cover, and since nothing impacts staffing more than the availability of talent we need some voices here too. First things first. CNN claims the kid is a three-year-old. If so, I predict a great career in the [...]
New jobless claims drop for second straight week. [L.A. Times] Edgerton Inc. and Monroe Staffing Services have both donated $1,000 to support the inaugural 5K Trail Run at Great Hollow Lake, planned for Sunday, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m. Proceeds will benefit Project Warmth. [Acorn [...]
Kelly Services profit beats on higher North America demand. [Reuters] Pro Staff acquires Eastridge Group’s Houston operations. [PRWeb] Heads Apart announces a new kind of executive search firm. [Virtual Strategy] Interim HealthCare announces expansion plans in New Jersey. [MarketWatch] Signature Consultants celebrates 15 years in [...]
Adecco beat first-quarter profit forecasts as robust results in North America and Germany helped offset weakness in its biggest market, France. [Reuters] CDI Corp’s profit beats expectations. [Reuters] TempWorks promotes Mari Kautzman to COO. [TempWorks] SCM Talent Group, LLC announced that the company is expanding [...]
I guess a lot of people are going to see this film.
With an initial public expected to raise more than $10 billion and award the social networking juggernaut a market cap close to $100 billion that makes even Google’s IPO pale in comparison, there is no shortage of investment advisor’s promoting Facebook’s stock. “Many people want [...]
Gavlick Personnel Services in Kingston closed abruptly Thursday. The business was no longer profitable because of the high cost of unemployment and workers’ compensation insurance, Norm Gavlick, the president of the staffing firm, said Friday. [Citizen’s Voice] Comments on new proposed form I-9. [TALX] Reviewing [...]
You read that right, sexual harassment is technically legal in France right now. The decision made by France’s highest constitutional body to repeal their sexual harassment law leaves alleged victims without legal protection until a new law is created. They also threw out all pending and [...]
I don’t cotton to Texas personally (too hot, like much of the South) although I love to visit friends in Houston and take in its many ethnic restaurants. These policies are created by a legislature that meets every other year and perhaps that is important [...]
Cartoonist Peter Schrank of the Economist gets to the essence of the socialist victory in France today: it’s not fun to pay off one’s debts. Pierre of France like Willem of Holland behind him want the spending party to go on indefinitely. And François Hollande, [...]
Naked man runs for the woods at a music festival and falls, fractures his spinal column and the staff move him from the woods. The naked man was Daniel Weaver, of Hudson, N.Y., who was paralyzed from the chest down during last summer’s All Good [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to get a call from someone who wants you? An employer who invites you to leave your present career position and go work for them? It’s fun to do the recruiting, but it would also be nice to be the one [...]
How can a staffing firm engage its employees, raise its profile and help make its community a more vibrant place? Teaming up with nonprofits is one way. Partnerships between staffing firms and nonprofits can take many forms. Sometimes a staffing firm works with one nonprofit, [...]
“Neither candidates, nor companies, really know exactly what they want,” opines Bob Norton, a former business analyst turned information systems search and placement firm founder. “From the client side, it’s figuring out the business problem they have, not the laundry list of skills they think [...]
How do you know how good the company is that you are using to perform background checks? If you use a company that has botched the job bad enough you might hear from the authorities, and/or see your company on the evening news. That’s what [...]
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| Amn Healthcare Se | 6.22 | ||||
| Analysts Internat | 3.80 | ||||
| On Assignment, In | 16.37 | ||||
| Barrett Business | 20.08 | ||||
| Command Center In | 0.365 | ||||
| Compass Diversifi | 12.29 | ||||
| Cross Country Hea | 4.00 | ||||
| Cdi Corporation C | 17.92 | ||||
| Dice Holdings, In | 9.97 | ||||
| Heidrick & Strugg | 16.81 | ||||
| Kforce, Inc. | 13.79 | ||||
| Kelly Services, I | 12.75 | ||||
| Korn/ferry Intern | 13.81 | ||||
| Linkedin Corporat | 104.95 | ||||
| Manpowergroup Com | 35.95 | ||||
| Michael Page Int | 353.10 | ||||
| Monster Worldwide | 8.52 | ||||
| Randstad Holding | 22.815 | ||||
| Rcm Technologies, | 5.80 | ||||
| Resources Connect | 11.70 | ||||
| Robert Half Inter | 28.21 | ||||
| Sfn | 0.00 | ||||
| Trueblue, Inc. Co | 15.55 | ||||
| Volt Info Sci Inc | 7.06 |
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