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The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) increased by .05 percent during April, following an increase of 1.66 percent in March. The uptick reflects the prognosis for sluggish growth in employment and follows a disappointing report on private sector job growth from ADP. [MarketWatch] AMN [...]
Every day I go to LinkedIn to find out who has been looking at me, or for me perhaps. Recently I discovered that a staffing and recruiting entrepreneur from California had been on my page. It seems he liked the trophy wife Craigslist ad story [...]
When Facebook humor doesn’t do it for me, I turn to our the messages left on our mobile CRM by our staffing and funding sales staff. Spoke with [obscured], daughter having a baby instead of launching a staffing biz, probably less painful.
Name change to ManpowerGroup becomes official. [The Business Journal] The EEOC is in the process of setting new guidelines on discrimination in the workplace as it relates to employees with disabilities. [Bloomberg] Illinois Senate Committee considers minimum wage hike from $8.25/hr to $10/hr. [CIProud] How [...]
The Financial Times put out a great article online today about the perfect salesman (it’s a free read for the moment so grab it while you can). Don’t be put off, ladies, by the sexist title which I can only imagine came from the “souk” [...]
Kforce reports quarterly revenues of $268.4 Million from continuing operations. Total Revenues Increased 13.5% year over year. [MarketWatch] Robert Half Survey: fewer employers reimbursing staff for continuing education costs. [The Sacramento Bee] The 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit will take place on May 23, 2012 [...]
NLRB Quickie Election Rule Now In Effect; Here’s What It Means. [TLNT] The Great Search for Talent – Hiring for SEO Skills Reaches New Highs. [Wanted Analytics] How on boarding helps develop your future leaders. [Monster Thinking] Randstad U.S. Employment Report: employee confidence dips slightly [...]
What do you say to someone, or put in writing, informing them you are not going to hire them for the job they applied for? I think it’s a serious question, and it is one I have written about on this site. And in fact, [...]
Randstad Canada introduces Randstad Sourceright and launches its expanded specialty divisions. [Digital Journal] Insperity, Inc. reported first quarter net income of $13.9 million, a 58.0% increase over the $8.8 million earned in the 2011 period. Diluted earnings per share increased 63.6% to $0.54 from $0.33 [...]
Happy Monday! It has been a while since we have run photos of people performing chores and doing work that should make you appreciate what you do for a living…whatever it is you do for a living. And just to make things a little more [...]
Charles Aznavour once said that every generation finds the next generation’s music crazy (‘sauvage’), That indeed is the feeling I get from my son’s latest guitar cover. Also, I have no idea what Parkway Drive nor its romance is or was or why it would [...]
Hire Velocity expands leadership team with New Director of Sales Amy Miller. [MarketWatch] On Assignment reports First Quarter 2012 results. Record quarterly revenues up 29% year-over-year and 3% sequentially. [MarketWatch] Joulé Staffing Solutions runs for the Warriors. [Joulé Staffing Solutions] Walt Morgan joins LBMC Strategic [...]
Fun read this week in the New Yorker: “The Hand on the Shoulder” by Ian McEwan. It’s a free read right now online. It’s a cold war era love story about an older man, a Cambridge professor, and a younger woman that he inducts into [...]
Staffing agencies in France can now place young people into apprenticeships with client companies. The new law to promote vocational training was approved last summer, but just took effect this month. Employees of staffing agencies can accompany young apprenticeship candidates in their search for an [...]
Kavaliro will attempt to break a Guinness World Record by building the tallest tower of peanut butter jars. The stunt will serve as the kick-off event for the company’s quarterly food drive called “Fueling the Community.” [Seminole Chronicle] Atrium Staffing ranked among 50 fastest growing [...]
If you own your staffing company or work for one in which stock ownership is an important aspect of recruitment and retention of key employees, then you might find as I did this lecture by Fred Wilson helpful. Key takeaways for me: Good fences make [...]
Happy Administrative Professionals Day! Celebrate with TV & movies’ top assistants. [New York Daily News] Would you hire a weekend drunk? [Dear Evil Skippy] Robert Half International reports first-quarter financial results. [Money News] Nine countries where everyone has a job. [24/7 Wall St.] Young men [...]
Wanted: Trophy Wife. I am looking to fill an immediate opening in my home, as soon as possible. The position will be demanding, but the perks of the job will absolutely outweigh the stresses of the day. The perks include plenty of free time to [...]
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 [...]
| Adecco N | 38.62 | ||||
| Amn Healthcare Se | 6.23 | ||||
| Analysts Internat | 3.8001 | ||||
| On Assignment, In | 16.33 | ||||
| Barrett Business | 20.19 | ||||
| Command Center In | 0.35 | ||||
| Compass Diversifi | 12.3306 | ||||
| Cross Country Hea | 4.00 | ||||
| Cdi Corporation C | 17.99 | ||||
| Dice Holdings, In | 9.97 | ||||
| Heidrick & Strugg | 16.91 | ||||
| Kforce, Inc. | 13.785 | ||||
| Kelly Services, I | 12.80 | ||||
| Korn/ferry Intern | 13.85 | ||||
| Linkedin Corporat | 105.045 | ||||
| Manpowergroup Com | 36.06 | ||||
| Michael Page Int | 353.10 | ||||
| Monster Worldwide | 8.53 | ||||
| Randstad Holding | 22.815 | ||||
| Rcm Technologies, | 5.99 | ||||
| Resources Connect | 11.73 | ||||
| Robert Half Inter | 28.27 | ||||
| Sfn | 0.00 | ||||
| Trueblue, Inc. Co | 15.65 | ||||
| Volt Info Sci Inc | 7.19 |
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