Talent acquisition leaders from private-sector companies aren’t the only ones trying to recruit more people with finite resources. The U.S. Navy Recruiting Command has given management and technology consulting firm BearingPoint a contract to improve its recruiting efficiencies, in an effort to meet future hiring quotas for uniformed personnel and officers. With demand for military... [full article »]

Goodwill Group Inc. announced it would close an unprofitable day labor staffing unit on Wednesday, in an attempt to return the company to profitability, according to reports filed by Reuters and Daily Yomiuri Online. The move follows a series of scandals at the company including the arrest of three Goodwill employees earlier this month for... [full article »]

Workforce planning uses a blend of hard data, human intelligence, and management intuition to accurately forecast upcoming recruiting needs. While the process is vital, a challenge to forecasting efficacy is general economic trends that don’t always jive with the labor market trends. This can make projecting employee retirement or turnover rates and swings in the... [full article »]

Will flexible employers be the ultimate winners in the war for talent now that gas prices are in the stratosphere? Employers offering transportation subsidies, telecommuting options, and virtual office arrangements may be wooing the best and the brightest candidates right now, even without the highest salaries and biggest relocation budgets in the marketplace. “It isn’t... [full article »]

At Herman Miller, 1,300 of the company’s 6,000 employees are water carriers. The designation comes from American Indian tribal life, where the role of the water carrier was vital because carrying water to fellow tribe members sustained life. Water carriers are invited to join an elite group of employees when they reach their 20-year anniversary... [full article »]

At VistaPrint they don’t know the meaning of the term technology bust. VistaPrint reinvented the printing industry in 1995, by bringing printing and marketing services online for small businesses and the result was billion dollar growth. Austin Cooke, vice president for global recruiting, was charged with supporting the company’s rapid growth when he accepted the... [full article »]

How many people do you know that are three feet six inches tall and don’t have an allergy to rubber? Casting director Miranda Rivers hired 5,000 people for 20,000 roles for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and most of them had to have round eyes and round cheeks. And if that wasn’t tough... [full article »]

How much power does the U.S. President really have? In this election year, Dr. Gene Stanaland, president of GSE, Inc. and ERE Expo keynote conference speaker, says you really have to understand the power of the presidency, because most legislation gets revised by Congress and rarely resembles its initial form when it’s finally passed. So... [full article »]

Are you a twitterholic? Twitter is a social networking site that connects family, friends, and co-workers and shares knowledge between them. Your questions from the ERE Expo sessions will be shared with the group you select and so will the answers. Now, instead of whispering your questions to your neighbor, you can share your learning... [full article »]

A new acquisition, the slowing economy, increased competitive pressures, or plummeting sock prices. There’s a good chance your business felt the impact from one of these major events in the past year. But did your company have a workforce plan in place that anticipated the event’s impact on human capital? The most likely answer to... [full article »]

The bankruptcy filing of Ensemble Chimes Global in Los Angeles on Jan. 9 leaves the users of staffing services through the company’s vendor management system with some unresolved issues. However, the greatest learning opportunities for staffing clients may come in the long term, as all of the issues surrounding the bankruptcy come to the surface,... [full article »]

Gwen Brooks, director of Staffing and Records at Ohio University, has learned that there’s more than one way to eliminate process redundancy and drive cost improvement through the hiring process. If you can’t drive process change before automating, perhaps the technology will enlighten users and serve as the wake-up call for instituting change. When the... [full article »]

The mortgage industry suffered massive layoffs during 2007, leading the way in job reduction among all industries with more than 100,000 job cuts. While word of job elimination is generally unwelcome news, the recent worker reductions in the cyclical mortgage industry may provide an opportunity for talent-hungry recruiters entering 2008 with positions to fill and... [full article »]

Financial services firm Edward Jones has partnered with 100 Black Men of America, Inc. in a collaborative effort designed to raise awareness of the firm’s career opportunities within the African-American community, and to provide financial education programming in communities where both organizations have a presence. The goal is to offer more choices to investors who... [full article »]

The 153,105 job losses sustained in the financial services sector in 2007 failed to spill over into the broader job market, according to a recent report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The firm’s report on December job losses preceded tomorrow’s release of the government jobs report for last month. December job cuts were... [full article »]

CEOs of larger public companies not only receive greater total compensation for their responsibilities, they have more “skin in the game” than their counterparts at smaller publicly traded companies, according to a report on executive compensation released today by The Conference Board. The report precedes a release of a 2008 study, which reveals that CEOs... [full article »]

The good news: recruiters should see an increase in applicants with college degrees and high school diplomas; the bad news is that those applicants might not succeed on the job. A study conducted by Wonderlic, Inc. reveals a steady decline in the cognitive ability scores associated with specific education levels. The analysis compares a decade... [full article »]

Pharmacy professionals are still in high demand. The aging population and the growth in prescriptions are just part of what is fueling the need for pharmacy personnel and driving wage increases. Although the rate of salary increase for some positions, such as retail staff pharmacist, has slowed, other pharmacy positions are experiencing pay increases that... [full article »]

JWT, the specialized communications firm which partners with clients such as: Microsoft, Starbucks, Boeing, AT&T Wireless, Nissan, and Compaq, announced that it has changed its name to JWT Inside. The name change coincides with a shift in the firm’s strategic positioning and an internal structural change. JWT, which has been known for its communications programs... [full article »]

Need to fill some open positions? Try spending more time networking and less time surfing the net for candidates. Actively working contacts, including employee referrals and candidates recommended by family and friends, will maximize your time and energy and produce more new hires. That’s according to the results of a recent online workplace study, conducted... [full article »]