With the ever-growing popularity of Facebook – there are now more than 500 million members – and its worldwide reach, many employers use Facebook as a tool to gauge future and present employees. As a result, many students feel the need to portray themselves in a different way in order to avoid judgments from employers, other students, and even their families.
Providing employees to employers on a temporary or third-party employment basis is a big business today, one involving numerous staffing and temporary employment companies of all sizes and specialties — and millions of employees. The American Staffing Association (ASA) is a trade association for this business sector.
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Nuclear techs or elevator repairmen? How about power plant operators or funeral directors? Urban planners or high school art teachers?
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Organizations interested in updating and improving their current talent acquisition efforts will have an exciting opportunity to see the newest talent acquisition technologies up close and in action at the 2011 HR Demo Show.
Temporary healthcare staffing firm Pinnacle Staffing Group plc has appointed Dr Peter Gregory, named as its next chief executive, as a main board director.
Employers have posted over 133,000 new online job ads for marketing managers over the past 90 days, a 54% increase over the same period last year. Hiring demand for marketers has hit a 4-year high, up 224% over its recessionary low in April 2009.
When the internet first opened for business, companies quickly got into the act of setting up their own versions of online stores. After all, they couldn’t let Amazon have all the fun. Nowadays, you just can’t be competitive unless you have a strong internet presence. This is creating an entire generation of computer savvy users.
Overseas business is booming at Michael Page (up 8.5p to 525.5p). The recruitment firm is reaping the dividends of its early expansion into Latin America where it set up business 11 years ago ahead of competition, chief executive Steve Ingham said.
In the early days, Employco played fast and loose with job titles. Ten years ago, the founders of the company, an HR consulting firm and insurance provider, decided that heavyweight titles would lend credibility to their new venture and help land customers. A company isn’t a company without a CIO, they figured. And with cash tight, doling out a few lofty titles served as a low-cost way to attract smart employees–and keep them around.
There is no doubt that tech hiring in the Boston market is hot, hot, hot – perhaps not quite at the overheated nature of Silicon Valley, but we are beginning to approach some of the same extremes seen on the West Coast. Many are now calling this a “Talent War” in the Hub.
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A financial adviser shortage is likely to be coming and is an emerging problem for the industry and investors, Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) executive Kent Christian said Thursday.
GLOBAL recruitment firm Hays yesterday reported strong growth everywhere except in its home UK market where public sector recruitment is down by more than a third in the latest quarter.
Just one year after the release of the Apple (AAPL) iPad , more than 15 million people are now proud owners of the mobile tablet device. While emailing, web surfing, playing games, and reading e-books top the list of user activities on an iPad based on a survey conducted by NPD Group, companies are also integrating the iPad into their daily operations.
Express Employment Professionals of Corpus Christi earned top honors at the staffing firm’s 28th annual International Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla., according to Henry A. Eidenmuller, Corpus Christi Express franchisee.
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