Adecco Workplace Insights Survey: 2012 Outlook on Jobs & the Election. [AdeccoUSA]
Homebuilders who delivered best customer experience honored with 2012 Eliant Homebuyers’ Choice Awards. The Eliant awards are presented annually by San Clemente, CA-based Eliant in partnership with Real Estate Temps. [Market Watch]
MAU Workforce Solutions, a staffing and recruiting firm in Augusta, GA, has hired Laurie Herron as a Recruiter in Greenville, SC. [Greenville Online]
Roughly a third of U.S. workers netted a pay raise last year. [Huffington Post]
Tower Legal Solutions announced the addition of its 10,000 square foot state-of-the-art document review facility at 129 West Trade Street, already open and providing clients with contract legal services. The new facility can accommodate 300 document reviewers and will also house Tower Legal’s internal staff. Charlotte’s real estate holdings were expanded to keep pace with the demand by its corporate and law firm clients for cost-effective legal staffing and managed review services for document reviews and foreign language translations. [PR]
Smart Source Inc. announced the company has spun off TecDirect as a separate business entity. SmartSource will continue to operate as a technical staffing and recruitment organization that works directly with IT solution providers to satisfy staffing requirements. The TecDirect online self-service database of 12,000 IT field technicians helps technology solution providers identify technical professionals that can deliver on-site services to end-user customers. [MarketWatch]
CBIZ, Inc. has scheduled a conference call for Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. to discuss the Company’s financial results for the fourth-quarter and year-ended December 31, 2011. CBIZ will release its financial results before the market opens the morning of February 16, 2012. At that time, a copy of the release will be available on the Company’s web site at www.cbiz.com. The call will be webcast in a listen-only mode over the Internet for the media and the public. The link to the webcast can be obtained at www.cbiz.com the morning of the call. [MarketWatch]
Integrity Staffing promotes three, adds marketing hand. [Delaware Online]
Chicago-based accounting and consulting firm Blackman Kallick is pleased to announce that Timothy Bowling, Toni Diprizio and Jill Elden Rorem have been elected partners in the firm, effective January 1, 2012. Jill Elden Rorem, 38, was elected Partner in Blackman Kallick Staffing Services. Jill leads both the ProjecTemps LLC legal staffing department as well as direct-hire placement of legal, administrative and financial professionals. [PRWeb]
AmLaw 200 firms are expecting to create and fill 375 new eDiscovery and litigation support positions in 2012 – generating an additional $42 million in compensation in the upcoming year, as noted in The Cowen Group’s 2011 Salary and Talent Landscape Report. According to the survey, 57% of the market intends to hire additional staff in 2012.This excludes replacement hiring activity that is typical within the industry. In real terms, compensation numbers will likely be even higher, as nearly all firms anticipate modest salary increases in 2012 across all positions. [PRWeb]
Nearly all of New York’s top executive recruiting firms maintained or slightly increased their local staffs in 2011. Recruiting leaders said they are honing their specialized expertise, especially in life sciences and technology. [Crain’s New York Business]
SIS International Research has released its Talent Management Trends 2012 White Paper on Industry Trends in Human Resources Recruitment and Talent Management, based on the findings from a recent qualitative industry trend study across the United States among senior HR executives. Today’s Human Resources departments are being pushed in new directions, due to the continued jobless recovery, the expectations of the emerging Millennials in the workforce, as well as the introduction and refinement of new technologies. Companies are increasingly moving to online assessments, believing them to be less costly and time-consuming. In addition, corporate branding is becoming an integral part of the application experience. As a result, social media and mobile platforms are becoming an important tool to attract applicants. [MarketWatch]
How to Be Happy at Work: If you’re unhappy at work–or anywhere else, for that matter–it’s because you’ve made yourself unhappy. There’s an easy way to change that. [Inc.]
In a decision that workers’ compensation experts say is good for Texas employees and employers alike, the Supreme Court of Texas issued a unanimous opinion on January 27, 2012, that bars negligence claims against policyholders. The Port Elevator-Brownsville v. Casados case reversed a previous judgment from the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals and rendered judgment for Port Elevator. [MarketWatch]
New NLRB pro-union posting requirements for private sector employers. [mondaq]
