Hiring

How Much Does It Cost To Hire Right?

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Return on Investment, ROEI.Com, Hiring Tips, Small Business News and Trends, Hiring, Hr, Human Resources, Return on Employee Investment, Small Business News

Employees are the lifeblood of almost any company. They’re the group of people that work collectively -- often behind the scenes -- to ensure that e...

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Krugman's Macroeconomic Rants

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Coordination Failure, Great Recession, Hiring, Paul Krugman, Stimulus, Recession, Great Depression, Politics News

Let's coordinate a mass rehiring of workers on a voluntary basis by asking all large and medium-sized employers to increase their employment by 5 percent.

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Healthy Roads, Healthy Schools: A Look Into the Effects of Transportation Infrastructure

Christopher Cordingley | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Public Health, Jobs, Hiring, Infrastructure, Education, Thesis Project, Thesis-Project, Health Care, Transportation, Public Transportation, College News

This study examines the correlation between development of public transportation, increased access to health care, decreased absenteeism, increased secondary graduation rates, and increased workforce health and productivity.

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One Sign The Housing Market May Be Starting To Rebound

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: The Sunshine State, Housing Bust, Video, Unemployment Rate, Hiring, Homeowners, Transunion, Credit Reporting, Mortgage Delinquency, Mortgage Payments, Business News

LOS ANGELES -- The percentage of U.S. homeowners behind on their mortgage payments dropped in the first three months of this year to the lowest level ...

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That's A Lot Of Job Openings

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Government Sector, Job Openings, Video, Unemployment, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, T. Rowe Price, Labor Department, Jobs, Hiring, Financial Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON -- U.S. companies in March posted the highest number of job openings in nearly four years, a sign that hiring could strengthen in the comin...

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Attacking Business = Hating America

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Investment Banks, JPMorgan Chase, Banks, Hiring, Jamie Dimon, Economic Recovery, Business, Parties, Business News

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took the opportunity at Monday evening's Fortune 500 dinner to hail American business and trash its critics. Speaki...

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Small Business Hiring Slows In April: NFIB

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Small Business News and Trends, Hiring, Unemployment, Nfib, Small Business Hiring, Small Business News

(Reuters) - Hiring by small businesses slowed in April, but there was an increase in the number of employers planning to create new jobs and those rep...

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How To Get A Job In The Digital Age

Michael B. Junge | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Hiring, Job Search, How to Get a Job, Job Interviews, Digital Jobs, Books News

The internet has fundamentally changed the way employers hunt for talent, and the more companies depend on resume boards, search engines, and social networks, the more these tools become a necessary part of a job search strategy.

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Why Small Business Owners Are Hesitant To Hire

AP | JOYCE M. ROSENBERG | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Small Business News and Trends, Small Business Jobs, Hiring, Jobs, Small Business, Small Business Hiring, Small Business News

NEW YORK -- Ken Levien has no plans to hire more people for his real estate project management company in New York. He says his business has only abou...

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The Surprising Reason Productivity Is Falling

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Unemployment, Worker Output, Inflation, Economy, Labor Department, Jobseekers, Employment, Capital Economics, Hiring, U.S. Worker Productivity, Recession, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON — U.S. worker productivity fell from January through March by the most in a year. Stronger hiring at the start of the year was partly...

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Hiring Slows On Main Street

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Small Business News and Trends, Small Business Jobs, Hiring, Video, Small Business, Intuit, Small Business Hiring, Small Business News

(Reuters) - U.S. small business hiring slowed considerably in the April and employees saw a reduction in their hours, an independent survey showed on ...

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What Does It Take To Build A Great Team?

The Huffington Post | Rieva Lesonsky | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Hiring Tricks, Building a Staff, Promotions, Survey Says, Building a Team, Small Business News and Trends, Hiring, How to Hire, Employee Training, Video, Small Business News

You’d be nuts to pay more for something that performs worse, right? Then maybe the next time you need to hire, consider promoting from within. Exter...

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The Top 13 States For Startup Jobs (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Small Business, Video, Startup, Startup Jobs, Technical Jobs, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Jobs, Hiring, Slidepollajax, Engineering, Small Business News

Startup fever is spreading. The number of startup jobs posted online in 2011 jumped 23.5 percent from the year before, according to StartupHire.co...

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Companies Have Cash, Won't Share

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Job Market, Mergers and Acquisitions, Companies, Employment, Dealmakers, Hiring, Corporate Spending, S&P 500, Mergers, Deals, Video, Business News

Companies around the world have tons of cash and talk all big about how confident they are about the economy, and yet they're sitting on their hands w...

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U.S. Multinationals Hiring At Much Faster Rate Overseas: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Workforce, General Electric, Walmart, Multinational Corporations, Ikea, Overseas Hiring, Unemployment, Microsoft, Hiring, Globalization, Caterpillar, Consumer Spending, Race to the Bottom, Video, Business News

U.S. multinationals are hiring. They're just doing a lot of it overseas these days. Multinational firms based in the United States expanded their w...

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Why Your Job Ads Aren't Working

Liz Ryan | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Hiring, Career, Recruitment, Talent, Employment, Business News

It's a new day in the talent marketplace. Employers who treat their job applicants like valued collaborators win in their competitive spaces, and employers who insist on talking down to talent and addressing them like livestock will get the more-docile-than-talented new hires they deserve.

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The 10 Hardest-Working Towns In America

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Claritas and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hiring, Total Cereals, Compensation, Worker Productivity, Mri, Corporations, Wages, Parade, Business News

With relatively few Americans in the workforce, those who do have a job are working harder than ever these days. But which city’s got its nose press...

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Are The Talent Wars Heating Up?

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Hiring Survey, Job Market, Small Business News and Trends, Hiring, Unemployment, Job Survey, Right Management, Small Business News

While the unemployment rate still sits at 8.2 percent, nine out of 10 U.S. employers are finding it difficult to fill open positions, according to a s...

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Iran Agrees To Talk, So Oil Prices Fall

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Video, US Allies, Jobless Rate, Oil Industry, U.S. Economic Recovery, Iran Nuclear, Reuters, Oil Prices, Hiring, European Union, Iran, Ben Bernanke, Newedge Brokerage, Petromatrix, Business News

* Iran nuclear talks to be held in Istanbul * U.S., allies want end to high-level enrichment * Disappointing U.S. jobs d...

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Mild Winter Weather Might Have Made The Economy Look Better Than It Is

The Washington Post | YLAN Q. MUI | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: March Jobs Report, March 2012 Jobs Report, U.S. Economy, Jobs Report March 2012, Labor Force, Unemployment, Monthly Jobs Report, Hiring, Jobs Report, Job Growth, Winter, Weather, Job Creation, Winter Weather, Video, Business News

As most Americans basked in the warmest, sunniest March in half a century, economists stared at the skies with dread: Could good weather portend ba...

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Small Business Hiring Hits Highest Level In A Year

Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Small Business Jobs, Hiring, Small Business News and Trends, Small Business, Small Business Hiring, Small Business News

(Reuters) - Small businesses created the most jobs in March in about a year, a survey showed on Thursday, bolstering expectations of a fourth straight...

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What Is That Job Ad Trying to Tell You?

Liz Ryan | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Hiring, Career, Job Search, Job Ad, Employment, Jobs Hunting, Finding a Job, Job Interview, Money News

Here's my list of five red flags most often seen in job ads -- the five clues that the employer behind the ad may not be as talent-aware as we could hope for.

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Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords? Perfect!

Liz Ryan | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Hiring, Career, Facebook, Talent, Employment, Facebook Passwords Employees, Facebook Passwords, Business News

How paranoid would an organization have to be, to doubt its own managers' instincts so severely that it doesn't trust them to hire smart people without resorting to KGB-type snooping tactics?

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Why Poaching Star Employees Might Not Be The Best Idea

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Hiring-Trends, External Hiring, Job Performance, John Thain, Hiring Source, Salary, Business News, Jobs, Hiring, Pay-Scale, Study, Business News

Companies in search of high-performing workers shouldn't look much further than their own offices, according to new research. Workers hired from o...

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For Long-Term Unemployed, Hiring Bias Rears Its Head

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Older Workers Unemployment, Long-Term Unemployment, Economy, Employment, Older Workers, Hiring, Business, Recession, Hiring Bias, Business News

HARTFORD, Conn. — Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lo...

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