The trends. Capital Spending, Unemployment, Domestic Production, More
< Permanent > Newly booked executive search assignments increased by 23 percent in the first quarter of 2002 compared to the fourth quarter 2001 < Staffing >
Top performing franchise operator appointed CEO of U.S. for International Staffing firm.
< HR/Corporate > Only 64% of surveyedHR Execs have a formal pay-for-performance system. < Consulting/IT > All Segments of IT Services will continue to experience slower growth rates in 2002
< On-line Recruiting > On-line Recruiitng continues to show strong growth < Service Providers > Expertise was particularly valuable in helping us establish procedures that apply the same standards to all applicants for similar positions Industry News Top Execs Worry About Talented Workforce
"Attracting, developing and retaining a talented workforce" is the number-one issue keeping their CEOs awake at night, according to respondents of a new survey by THINQ Learning Solutions, Inc.
Those
CEOs, together with other top executives (COOs and presidents),
are most likely the chief sponsors of their company's e-learning
initiatives, according to the survey. Meanwhile, 89 percent
of respondents said e-learning is considered "mission
critical" to their organization.
The
HR-XML Consortium, the global nonprofit organization dedicated
to creating data interchange standards for human resources,
has approved a background checking standard.
The specification supports the generation of background-check
requests using data sourced from
HR systems or from applicant-tracking and similar recruiting
systems.
Yahoo
pulls its e-recruiting Resumix division out of HotJobs and
integrates it with enterprise offerings for new corporate
hiring service
According
to a hiring survey conducted by MRI, demand for
mid-to-upper level managers,
high-level executives and professionals persists.
Personnel
Group of America Reports First Quarter Results
recruited to International Staffing firm, charged
with growing Outsourcing division
Word of mouth beats job boards & newspaper advertising
More than half of human-resource professionals - 55 percent - rate "word of mouth/networking" as the best way to recruit high-quality applicants, according to an online poll conducted by HRnext and its sister site, BLR.com.
Human resources solutions firm's commitment to total quality management -- combined with ISO9002 certification and innovative approaches to Internet recruitment and behavioral screening spawn growthOn-line Recruiitng continued to show strong growth in 2001 according to IDC report
The majority of recently surveyed Human Resource executives participate in high-level business planning at their companies, but only half (55 percent) say they do a good job of linking their company's strategy to compensation and benefits program. Among the other key survey findings, 62 percent said their companies do not have a formal succession planning program and 68 percent said their companies have no corporate retention strategy. Only 64 percent said their companies have a formal pay-for-performance system.
