NEW YORK, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — America’s hiring managers and recruiters are forecasting healthy job growth for the remainder of this year, according to a new survey by Dice Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DHX), a leading provider of specialized career websites for professional communities. Slightly more than half (51%) of employers and recruiters anticipate hiring more professionals in the second half of 2011 than in the previous six months. These survey results suggest the U.S. labor market remains on a favorable trajectory, particularly when the stronger levels of hiring experienced in the first half of the year are taken into account. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, private sector employers have added more than 200,000 jobs per month this year.
Companies expecting a step-up in hiring in the next six months represented a broad spectrum of industries, including energy, technology, telecom, media, internet, distribution, financial services, consulting and retail.
PRLog (Press Release) – May 30, 2011 – Commenting on the deal, Roderick Smyth, CEO of Arithon said “after an exhaustive search for a comprehensive online timesheet software systems we were excited to find a product with the caliber of tempsheets.com. This deal represents an exciting opportunity to offer a range of new temp management services to our clients, and clearly move Arithon forward as a leader in online recruitment software”
TempSheets.com is an online, fully hosted, Software-as-a-Service offering which provides clients with an easy and efficient way to log staff times, schedule temps availability and get sign off from their clients. This product streamlines the processing and approval of timesheets creating significant savings in the administration and payment of temporary staff.
NEW YORK, NY — MAY 31, 2011 – Hodes iQ, the award-winning talent acquisition and management solution from Bernard Hodes Group, has been featured in Bersin & Associates latest research report, Talent Acquisition Systems 2011.
Bersin & Associates is a leading research and advisory consulting firm focused on enterprise learning and talent management. The Talent Acquisition Systems 2011 report features over a dozen solution providers in the marketplace and includes core strengths, product offerings and market differentiators for each.
GAINESVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A report published by independent firm Forrester Research positions SumTotal® Systems, the global leader in complete learning and talent management solutions, as a “Leader” in the categories of Learning, Performance and Integrated Learning and Performance solutions.
The Forrester Wave™: Talent Management, Q2 2011, places SumTotal as a “Leader” based on evaluations of the company’s current offerings, strategy and market presence. The report affirms SumTotal’s strategy and states, “SumTotal gives customers a strong performance product to go with the vendor’s already robust learning product.”
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A recent survey conducted by Randstad, a global provider of HR services and the second largest staffing organization in the world, found that 33 percent of American workers feel overqualified for their jobs. Only 3 percent feel under qualified and 65 percent feel they are appropriately qualified.
In its latest Work Watch survey, Randstad probed workers’ feelings around being prepared for their current jobs and gauged their interest in learning new skills required for future on-the-job challenges and responsibilities.
“It’s surprising that 1 out of every 3 American employees feels over-qualified in their job,” said Jim Link, Managing Director of Human Resources for Randstad. “The data suggests that U.S. workers are less challenged by their current jobs. It also raises questions about how this will affect employee turnover and retention as the job market recovers.”
As recruiters, we present the best we have of the applicants for the req and wait to hear what the verdict is from the executives responsible for making the final hiring decision. But how seldom we listen to the undercurrent about the slate of candidates so that we get a true feel for how well things will work out. Some don’t understand the term “undercurrent.” It’s the perceptions of the support staff who will have to work with the candidate day in and day out of every working day.
(PRWEB) May 29, 2011 — While it may seem that the primary purpose of Human Resources is to handle policy and payroll, that is not the case for company leaders who understand the strategic value that HR contributes.
A recent article posted on the Society for Human Resource Management website discusses the various types of HR tasks—transactional, tactical and strategic—and considerations for staffing HR in-house or outsourcing.
MCLEAN, Va. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Military.com, a business unit of Monster Worldwide, Inc. launched a new and improved Veterans Career Center, the latest step in a long-term commitment to connecting veterans and jobs.
The enhanced Veterans Career Center features broader application of the Military Skills Translator, a unique online tool that helps decode military jobs into civilian equivalents and information about upcoming Career Expos that help match veterans and employers. The enhancements also include faster page loading time and improved navigation.
This session will look at which truths about ‘candidate experience’ recruitment professionals today hold self evident, and whether candidates (even if not created equal) are “endowed with certain, unalienable rights” when it comes to the talent selection process. This virtual “town hall” meeting will feature a dialogue (and discourse) between some of our industry’s most influential thought leaders, each representing a key stakeholder in crafting, and delivering, a meaningful candidate experience.
CHICAGO, May 26, 2011 — After months of slow, almost imperceptible job growth, private-sector payrolls are finally beginning to grow at a more significant and accelerated rate. However, one group continues to struggle with finding employment: the millions of Americans suffering from long-term joblessness. Their plight poses the biggest obstacle to continued job growth and could threaten to stall the recovery, according to one employment authority who offered some strategies to re-ignite one’s job search.
