More workers than there are people in all of Miami were put out of work in June, a development that surprised economists and sent U.S. financial markets into a tailspin. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 467,000 jobs were lost last month, pushing the unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, a 26-year high. A Bloomberg survey... [full article »]

The U.S. Supreme Court today gave employers some guidance today on the use of assessment tests, saying the results of these tests can not be ignored simply because they have an adverse impact on a protected group. Ruling 5-4 in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano, the court’s majority said just because a disproportionate share of... [full article »]

A cryptic post on the Chad suggests DirectEmployers Association may be ending or at least limiting the use of its job listings by other job boards. Calling the mass distribution of job postings “problematic,” Chad Sowash, VP of business development, says DirectEmployers will be changing its terms of service in a way he expects will not... [full article »]

LinkedIn named a new CEO today, as expected tapping its president former Yahooer Jeff Weiner for the job. Reid Hoffman, a LinkedIn founder and its first CEO, moved out of the CEO job he re-assumed in December after a company shakeup. Hoffman will become a full-time executive chairman. Weiner’s chief focus, according to a report on... [full article »]

At a time when one of America’s largest newspapers is worth perhaps $1 — assuming it can be sold at all — is there any likelihood that the print industry’s single largest revenue category will ever even come close to approaching the $6, $7, and $8 billion glory days of a decade ago? [full article »]

The new Vault came out of the vault this morning, and while it bears a family resemblance to the old site, it’s got deeper content, greater breadth, easier navigation, and enough improvements big and small that collectively they make the site more useful to more job seekers at a time when they need it most. “Today,... [full article »]

You have to wonder what a recruiter looking at Daniel Seddiqui’s resume would think. Here’s an economics major from the University of Southern California who hasn’t held a job for longer than a week since graduating in 2005. On his website he admits, almost eagerly, that he went on 40-plus interviews and didn’t land a single... [full article »]

When Jack Gross lost his title as claims administration vice president with FBL Financial Group Inc.’s Iowa Farm Bureau division he saw it as a demotion, even though he kept his salary and his responsibilities. Then he started receiving poorer job evaluations. Two years later, Gross was demoted and his job given to a younger... [full article »]

New age dads are embracing some old-school ideas about gender roles, according to a CareerBuilder survey out just in time for Father’s Day. More than two-thirds of the working fathers with kids younger than 18 at home say they would prefer to work even if the family could afford to have them be Mr. Mom. If... [full article »]

Here’s a question I bet didn’t come up at the Social Recruiting Summit on Monday: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend? What prompted this question (which I encourage you to comment on at the end of this article) is Hunch. That’s right, Hunch, a dot-com that launched out of beta on Monday. It’s... [full article »]

Bucking an industry trend caused by the recession, Cytiva Software, maker of the SonicRecruit line of talent management software, has posted a first-quarter increase in revenue while reporting its smallest loss in at least five quarters. The Canadian company, which trades on the Venture Board of the Toronto Stock Exchange, reported today that it lost $148,000... [full article »]

We interrupt today’s wall-to-wall social media coverage to bring you this bit about something old school in the way of promotion: The human billboard. We’re not talking here about the sandwich sign guys or even the athletic sign spinners you see on street corners pointing to check cashing businesses, tanning salons and new home developments. (Though... [full article »]

LinkedIn became easier to use last week, quietly introducing a new user interface for Boolean-challenged recruiters that we suspect even top-tier sourcers will welcome. The change is so subtle that unless you’re a regular LinkedIn searcher, you might not even notice the addition of Dynamic Refinements (the official product name) to LinkedIn Recruiter. But now that... [full article »]

ERE’s first Social Recruiting Summit gets underway Monday, appropriately enough, at Google world headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. That it’s a sold-out conference should be no surprise, considering the virtual stampede of recruiters to social media. Surveys in just the last month from Jobvite, Arbita, LinkedIn and others show the fascination recruiters have with... [full article »]

A class action suit has been filed against Kenexa alleging the HR technology provider and RPO firm mislead investors in 2007 by not disclosing problems it was having with international sales and with its RPO business. The action, brought in federal court in Pennsylvania by Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, claims that between May... [full article »]

Dice has bought its way into the health care job market, acquiring AllHealthcarejobs.com for cash and stock worth about $3.76 million. Announced today, the purchase is the first for the company since 2006 when it acquired eFinancialCareers and JobsintheMoney. Those acquisitions, earlier ones of the security job site ClearanceJobs.com, and Targeted Job Fairs, and now AllHealthcarejobs,... [full article »]

Talk about win-win. There’s a job networking event tonight in San Francisco where everyone comes away with at least a new pair of designer jeans. !IT Jeans is giving away jeans that retail for around $65-$70 a pair to everyone who shows up with proof they’re unemployed and proof they tweeted or posted to Facebook about... [full article »]

One of the largest employers in the world has embraced cloud computing for HR in a way so big that Siemens AG will have one of the largest, if not the largest, enterprise cloud computing deployments in the world. The lucky beneficiary of the German electronics and electrical engineering giant’s decision to replace its multiple talent... [full article »]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics surprised economists when it reported that job losses in May slowed dramatically over the previous months. The 345,000 job loss was the lowest since September and about half the rate of the previous six months. The number was 180,000 less than a Dow Jones Newswires survey of economists predicted. It was... [full article »]

Experienced companies with HR and IT professionals who have been through a system acquisition process before probably won’t find much help at CompareHRIS. But for the thousands of companies whose employee management system consists of file folders and outsourced payroll, the site is as good a place as any to start when the time comes... [full article »]