Alternative Hiring Strategies Dedicated Virtual Employee Is Replacing Full-Time In-house Employment

Wilmington, DE — (SBWIRE) — 12/21/2011 — Since hiring fresh in-house employees can be definitely cost-prohibitive, the next best – and cheap – alternative is to outsource. Not to freelancers but to full-time dedicated remote employees, who cost a company nothing more than their salary.

Luckily, the outsourcing industry has now helped the ubiquitous freelancer evolve into what is known as the remote employee or the virtual employee. This remote employee scores over an in-house employee in more ways than one.

Management Concepts and the Society for Human Resource Management Team Up to Offer New HR Training Curriculum for the Federal Government

Tysons Corner, VA (PRWEB) December 14, 2011 — Management Concepts Inc., the nation’s leading provider of practical, effective training to the federal government, today with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), today announced a joint effort to develop and offer new HR training curriculum specifically tailored for federal agencies.

Through this collaboration, HR professionals in the federal sector will have access to newly developed SHRM courses designed specifically for the federal sector HR professional. Management Concepts will deliver the new course material through highly-effective instructor-led federal government training programs.

Jobs Report: Current Employees Searching For New Jobs – How Employers Can Keep Their Top Performers from Walking Out the Door

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 21, 2011 — In the sea of relatively neutral economic news last month, the Department of Labor monthly Jobs Report stated that the number of people who voluntarily left their job increased from 967,000 in September to 1,070,000 in October, up from 845,000 a year ago. While talented employees are out looking for other opportunities, recent research from TNS Employee Insights shows that organizations are spending more time trying to identify ways to keep their top talent from walking out the door.

SkillSurvey Ranked as 116th Fastest-Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™

Wayne, PA – October 19, 2011 – SkillSurvey®, Inc. announced today that it was named to Deloitte’s 2011 Fast 500™ list for North America and to the companion Fast 50 list for Greater Philadelphia. SkillSurvey, the inventor and leading provider of Web 2.0 reference-assessment solutions, ranked number 116 among the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies in North America and it also ranked number four among the top 50 of those companies within Philadelphia.

Globoforce Announces New Workshop Series to Help HR Leaders Transform Company Culture

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. & DUBLIN, Oct 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Globoforce(R), the world’s leading provider of SaaS-based employee recognition solutions, today announced a four-city U.S. tour in Atlanta, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. “Building Your Culture of Recognition” is a new series of workshops designed to help HR leaders achieve stronger, more unified company cultures that drive bottom-line business results.

Led by renowned employee recognition and rewards expert, Derek Irvine, the workshops will show HR leaders how some of the most admired companies in the world have built their cultures through employee recognition. Drawing from Globoforce’s proven methodology, research, and best practices, Derek will demonstrate how employee recognition can achieve dramatic increases in employee engagement and transform a company’s culture.

Cvlynk Announces New Service That Radically Simplifies Profile and Résumé Sharing

Palo Alto, California 10 October 2011. Cvlynk.com, a web site that simplifies the process of finding and sharing professional profiles, announced today that it has released its one-step connection service to the public. Cvlynk uses patent pending connection methodology, coupled with Personal Digital Indexes™ and gives individuals a powerful new tool to manage their personal profiles.

What’s Your Talent Acquisition Strategy?

Ask a TA leader to describe his or her talent acquisition strategy and you might receive a response that involves a long, blink-filled, blank stare.

But, you can’t really blame them. Who has time to build a TA strategy? What, with hundreds of reqs open, hiring managers demanding candidates, employees clamoring for promotions, HR partners gunning for better quality hires…and then there’s measurement and technology and branding and vendor management.

Google is the World’s Most Attractive Employer

Stockholm, September 29th 2011— Based on the preferences of over 160,000 career seekers, with a business or engineering background from the world´s 12 largest economies (based on nominal GDP), Universum releases the global talent attraction index: “The World’s Most Attractive Employers 2011”. The index, split in the business category – preferences from business career seekers – and engineering category – preferences from engineering career seekers – reveals the current level of attractiveness that companies have as employers – and therefore their potential to lead the world of tomorrow.

The Business of a Law Firm: Understanding the C-Level

For many years, law firms were administered by the lawyers themselves – often through part-time managing partners or management committees. As firms grew bigger and operational demands increased, law firms started to use non-lawyer administrators to take care of these details. Over the past decade, as competition increased, technology evolved and pressures for cost and operational efficiencies became greater, law firms began to introduce non-lawyer leadership in areas like finance, administration, human resources, technology, marketing, professional development and training, and strategic planning.

Work Picked Up in July per the Intuit Small Business Employment Index

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Small businesses were busy in July. They grew employment by hiring 50,000 people and significantly increased both hours worked and compensation.

These are among the results of this month’s update of the Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) Small Business Employment Index, covering the period between June 24 and July 23. The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.2 percent in July, equating to an annual growth rate of 2.9 percent.