These are the times that try recruiters’ souls. Even the best of them. With corporate recruiting activity continuing to surge, many corporate recruiters say they are busy keeping up with their organizations’ robust recruiting objectives, let alone working to fill the jobs that were the most difficult to staff over the summer months, and which may... [full article »]

Corporate employers would be wise to offer interesting work, regular recognition and rewards, and clear advancement opportunities to recruit top talent because job seekers value traditional benefits and personal growth over increasingly common corporate citizenship and diversity programs. That’s according to the findings of a global recruitment survey released by Accenture, which polled more than 4,100... [full article »]

West Coast employers should be particularly mindful of how location impacts the market pay for a great number of professional positions, as San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Seattle all rank this year among the top five employment markets with the largest salary differentials from the national median pay for the same jobs in... [full article »]

Bruce Murray believes he’s struck on something that every recruiting services provider needs to direct its business development efforts — a barometer that measures which companies are hiring, which are leading the pace in recruiting, and how much they’re spending to attract new talent. That’s why his New York-based company, Corzen, Inc., a provider of recruitment... [full article »]

Corporate recruiters and human resources professionals plan to spend more on online talent channels and less on print classifieds while they begin to explore the impact of attracting job candidates from social networking sites. That’s according to the results of the first comprehensive national study of recruitment advertising effectiveness, which reveals that most corporate recruiters find... [full article »]

Salaries are predicted to rise by an average 5.9 percent worldwide next year, or nearly 2 percent above inflation, an early indicator that companies are preparing for a global competition for top talent. While the average pay in nearly two-thirds (63%) of the 60 countries — including the United States — surveyed by Mercer Human Resource... [full article »]

Despite uncertain economic conditions and lower-than-average pay increases in other industries, staffing and recruiting professionals’ compensation is on the rise, increasing more than 10 percent in two years. “As the economy grows and demand for high-quality workers increases, many companies turn to the recruiting and staffing industry for assistance, therefore driving demand for recruiting and staffing... [full article »]

The population of southern California is booming and the demographic shift is forcing the region’s law enforcement agencies to step up their recruiting efforts and compete for talent more like a business to keep pace with increasing demand for their services. Both the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are recruiting... [full article »]

One Cessna Aircraft Company executive has described the challenge of fulfilling orders for its business jets and several new models of aircraft as something like a gardener?s: continually planting seeds and then having to rush around to collect lots of blooming flowers. These are good days for Wichita, Kansas-based Cessna, which plans to deliver 300 business... [full article »]

The $45 million acquisition of TMP Worldwide’s recruitment advertising operations marks the second such move by purchaser Veronis Suhler Stevenson to tap the projected growth in corporate spending on workforce expansion. Last year, the media-focused private equity and mezzanine capital investment firm made its initial venture into the recruiting sector of the human resources market by... [full article »]

Corporate employers are generally divided on the question of whether a long-anticipated shortage of talent will soon emerge and stress their growth plans. While most companies have seen some signs of a talent shortage, 39% report no such indications. At the same time, one-third of organizations have already taken steps to update selection and recruitment criteria.... [full article »]

Who better to build Monster Worldwide’s Asia Pacific operations than an experienced marketing manager who helped expand one of the world’s biggest brands with a swoosh across the Pacific Rim? That’s the notion that moved Monster Worldwide to recruit former Nike executive Tony Balfour as president of its Asia Pacific operations, a newly created position the... [full article »]

More than half of private and public companies have increased their employee benefits for recruiting and retention purposes over the last six months, according to a recent nationwide survey of hiring managers, recruiters, and human resource professionals. But unlike the flashy perks and glitzy giveaways some offered in the frenetic late 1990’s, companies are now... [full article »]

A combination of issues is reshaping the war for healthcare talent in the American Southwest. If the scarcity of healthcare talent wasn’t enough of a challenge, consider how a spate of recent deals that has resulted in the sale or closure of hospitals and California laws that regulate minimum nurse staffing levels have stressed the region’s... [full article »]

As special interests pressure the U.S. Senate to lift the cap on H-1B visas, a computer programmer advocacy group is filing complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice against more than 300 IT services employers whose ‘Help Wanted’ ads it believes discriminate against American citizens, denying workers here equal access to U.S. jobs. The Summit, New... [full article »]

Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski has instituted an immediate hiring freeze for the state government because of the several million dollars Alaska is losing in taxes and royalties every day resulting from BP’s decision to shut down the Prudhoe Bay oil field to stem pipeline corrosion. BP has since announced plans to keep the Western half... [full article »]

Executives with Bank of America say they’ll recruit to fill 1,300 jobs across several lines of business — mostly in Massachusetts and Rhode Island — by the end of 2006 to make good on a pledge about overall New England employment made more than two years ago.? The bank will recruit new personnel for its Boston-based... [full article »]

A new, three-pronged campaign by Abbott Diagnostics aims to educate hospital professionals and young people about the life-saving work of medical laboratory scientists while giving med tech schools the resources they need to recruit the next generation of lab talent.? The company’s ‘Labs Are Vital’ recruitment, education, and awareness initiative is built around a million-dollar equipment... [full article »]

Just weeks after a Conference Board survey found that pay increases for most salaried workers will stay below four percent, a new study by Mercer Human Resource Consulting confirms employers’ caution on worker pay increases despite continuing business expansion and a relatively buoyant economy. [full article »]

The continuing evolution of the recruitment classified advertising business has opened up a number of strategic options for both newspapers and online recruiters, turning competitors that once would have been seen as strange bedfellows into sensible business partners.? Fresh off the news that Monster has entered into a strategic alliance with the new owner of The... [full article »]