Recruiting and retaining good truck drivers has long been a challenge for the trucking industry, where employee turnover rates average near 30 percent. Yet while trucking company recruiters and HR teams have made their recruitment pitches more attractive and their retention policies more effective, serious challenges persist. Now, a new study by management researches at... [full article »]

Business Roundtable, an association of 160 CEOs of large American corporations, is rolling out a broad-based effort to recruit and train up to 20,000 new construction workers in the Gulf Coast region by the end of 2009 to help continue the region’s recovery from last year’s hurricanes. “The massive challenge of reconstruction in the wake... [full article »]

“This is going to shake some people up. We’re really excited about it. It’s an unprecedented move.” That’s how Frank Vaculin, CEO of Spoke Software, a provider of online business contact information, describes his company’s decision to make its database of more than 30 million accessible free of charge for individual salespeople, marketers, recruiters, and... [full article »]

There was once a time when Monster.com’s agenda to transform the way employers and job seekers connected went largely unchallenged. Then along came CareerBuilder.com, backed by a group of powerful newspapers unwilling to cede their recruitment advertising business to the Monster phenomenon. Now, apparently in a bid to compete with a powerhouse CareerBuilder and grow... [full article »]

The value of consulting advice may be in the eye of the person writing the check. But it seems corporate recruiters would be well served to follow the practices of three global management consulting firms that have topped WetFeet’s eighth annual State of Student Recruiting survey. Some 3,055 undergraduate students and MBAs at top-tier colleges... [full article »]

A recent McKinsey survey revealed that almost half of all Baby Boomers expect to work past the age of 65, and a recent Merrill Lynch study found that 76 percent of boomers don?t anticipate a ?traditional? retirement. But the McKinsey research found that only 13% of retirees have actually worked as long as they had... [full article »]

The nation’s largest drugstore chain has launched a new recruiting website to hire people with disabilities for its future distribution center in Anderson, South Carolina, beginning next summer.? Walgreens has launched the site to describe jobs that will be available at the future Walgreens distribution center and is designed to be accessible by people with... [full article »]

Yves Lermusi says his decision to leave his post as president of Taleo Research after seven years was prompted in part by a Gallup poll that found that employee disengagement is costing U.S. employers some $300 billion per year. That’s why employers should be taking a closer look at how they’re attracting and then filtering... [full article »]

The Greater Philadelphia region has a lot of good things going. For starters, it has a growing labor market, a booming corporate real estate sector, and a steady stream of foreign investment. It also has 83 colleges and universities, a large concentration of pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, and the nation’s second-best air passenger-rated big... [full article »]

The business of recruiting is constantly fluid. As your organization’s human capital requirements expand and contract with the business cycle, so too does the labor market as recruiting, compensation, and retention variables shift to balance talent supply with talent demand.? Tracking the effectiveness of recruiting programs has become an organizational mandate because of the implications... [full article »]

American college graduates are equally discerning when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of corporate career websites as their European counterparts. But one recent research effort suggests young American job seekers are far less likely to be swayed by employment opportunities they find online because some of corporate America’s most respected companies have failed to... [full article »]

“A tighter and more competitive labor market” has forced an increasing number of Massachusetts employers to reexamine their pay practices, work harder to attract new recruits, and retain the well-performing workers they already have.? That’s according to the findings of a survey by Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth’s largest employer association, with more than... [full article »]

Two out of five companies do not disclose employee diversity information, according to a survey of 3,100 senior human resources executives by Novations Group, a consulting and training organization based in Boston. Thirty-eight percent of companies regard their diversity metrics as proprietary and keep them confidential, while 35% provide such data just to concerned groups,... [full article »]

Nearly two-thirds of the employers polled in a recent Bernard Hodes Global Network research initiative support employer branding initiatives, but less than one quarter of them have metrics in place to measure the effectiveness of such programs on recruiting and retention.? “The study reveals that a key driver for employer brand development is the need... [full article »]

While a just-released SHRM survey reveals that rising healthcare costs are employers’ chief concern, a growing number of insurers and corporate recruiters are voluntarily increasing their investment in a form of workplace productivity insurance.? That’s because the mounting problem of employee identity fraud has evolved from an individual’s personal financial nightmare into a full-fledged personnel... [full article »]

Members of the Society for Human Resource Management have plenty of business in Washington regardless of whether they’ve traveled to the nation’s capital this week to attend its annual conference. The society’s governmental affairs unit is mobilizing members to get involved in the growing immigration debate before a new law could force employers to screen... [full article »]

These are extremely busy days for aerospace, aviation, and defense recruiters, and if the pace of hiring for those closely tied industries is any indication, they may rank among the best employment markets for engineers and recruiters alike for years to come.? The promise of working with state-of-the-art technology to innovate in areas ranging from... [full article »]

Besides a donut and coffee, Boston-area customers of Dunkin Donuts are getting a reminder that the simmering nationwide debate over illegal immigration is starting to become every employer?s business. Some customers are now being greeted by signs that read: ?We follow the law! This company hires lawful workers only.? Dunkin? Brands, the parent company of... [full article »]