Employment levels in Silicon Valley remain positive and are expected to increase or remain steady throughout the second half of 2011, according to West Valley Staffing Group’s Economic Forecast Survey.
The ClearedCandidates.com aerospace, defense and intelligence industry online resume database and job board announced today that Employer Users grew by over 90% in Q2 2011, over Q1 2011. The President of ClearedCandidates.com, Ms. Elise Bell, stated that the http://www.ClearedCandidates.com resume database and job board expects Job Seeker Users and Employer Users to continue to grow rapidly in the second half of 2011.
New job demand dropped back across a range of job sectors, including Accountancy, Financial Services and Customer Service, while Banking jobs continued their five month decline from February’s high point. Demand for new Public Sector staff remained flat, close to half its level when the Index began.
Song Woo, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lighthouse Management Group (LMG), today announced that Chris Haro has joined LMG to help launch their Technology Practice. This marks another key appointment to enhance LMG’s growing reputation as one of the best staffing and recruiting firms in Silicon Valley.
HealthcareSource®, a leading provider of talent management software solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced record bookings for the second quarter which ended June 30, 2011 as the adoption of its suite of products, Position Manager®, Performance Manager®, TestSource®, Physician Recruitment Manager®, and Interview ManagerSM, continues to be strong.
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (Nasdaq: CCRN) today reported revenue of $126.0 million in the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, a 3% increase sequentially from the first quarter of 2011 and a 7% increase from revenue of $117.8 million in the prior year quarter. Net income in the second quarter of 2011, which benefited from a lower than expected effective income tax rate due to discrete items, was $1.6 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, as compared to $1.2 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, in the same quarter of the prior year. Cash flow from operations for the second quarter of 2011 was $10.0 million.
The unemployment rate in the Chicagoland area continues to hover between 9-10%, creating a highly competitive job market with hundreds of candidates applying for every open position. Advanced Resources LLC, a locally based staffing firm and talent solutions provider, has announced that they are the first to introduce CareerClip digital video technology in the Chicagoland area.
Water Street Healthcare Partners, a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it has expanded its team of senior executives and investment professionals. The firm has appointed three vice presidents to support its growing group of health care companies, including: Hilary Dexter, Greg Robitaille and Mike Brennan.
Applico, a custom mobile app consulting and development company for Fortune 500 firms and consumer brands, announced today that it has launched a new service designed to help existing clients and any other companies recruit internal mobile professionals. The company, which itself has been adding mobile designers, developers and strategists, is leaning on its expertise in finding the best and brightest in the mobile industry and lending that expertise to companies in need of in-house support. Applico has grown its staff by more than 300% since the start of the year.
Web start-up JobVirtue has announced today the launch of the new and vastly improved version of its website, which boasts a range of innovative and useful features specifically for employers and job hunters. From design to content, every aspect of the website has undergone a complete overhaul for a better job search/candidate search experience.
Harvey Nash, the global professional recruitment and IT outsourcing company, has been announced as a finalist in this year’s Orange National Business Awards as the Grant Thornton Mid-Cap Business of the Year.
OTS is proud to announce the release of a major release for one of our recruiting software client from UK. This includes sub-releases of over 85 release candidate builds that includes over 200 bug fixes and 15 new features, which includes the support for the Windows 7 and windows server 2008, with in the period of last one year. The client further looks forward to announce a Press Release for the software, in the coming days. With this release the users will get new features and bug fixes with a user friendly brand new user interface. This release is an important milestone for the client company.
Corporate recruiters and staffing agencies placed more than 2,300 new online job ads for Marketing Managers with social media skills during June 2011, according to WANTED Analytics™ (www.wantedanalytics.com), the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. With a 71% year-over-year growth, Marketing Managers are now commonly required to have these new skills.
The Locate Jobs Network, one of the world’s largest networks of niche job boards, has expanded its Diversity Hiring Channel and now offers over 200 niche job boards dedicated specifically to diversity hiring. With an array of top-level and industry-focused niche job boards presenting employment opportunities for minorities, women, veterans and other groups under-represented in the workforce, the Locate Jobs Network is providing targeted online job posting and diversity hiring resources for employers and recruiters who are struggling to find productive recruiting channels for their diversity hiring campaigns.
Fabric, an international recruitment consultancy focused on the media and marketing sectors, has opened its doors in Johannesburg under the leadership of Jacqueline Rose. Fabric also has offices in London and Dubai.
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