Retiring at 80
A recent Wells Fargo survey of 1,500 Americans between the ages of 20 and 70 reveals that 20% of them believe that they will "need to work until at least age 80" to live comfortably into retirement. Scary? No, you say, since it's only 20% and hopefully not you--even though almost all of the rest say they expect to work into their retirement years. Well, today it's "only" 20% and...
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Why Recruiters Want to Ignore HR
"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself." -Lao Tzu Why Recruiters Would Rather Bypass HR Can't we all just get along? There's a constant tension, push and pull, between agency recruiters and HR generalists. Agency recruiters and HR people constantly demonize one another. Agency recruiters are some of the most persistent human beings on the planet. They're...
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Absence Management Systems Save Companies Money According to Recent Study
OCI provides companies data integration and software services that assist with risk management. A recent scientific study by OCI shows how businesses can save millions of dollars per year by utilizing an absence management system. OCI studied a group over a period of time, keeping track of results when the employer did not have any absence management program, when they did have one, and when they...
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AdPerfect Partners With TweetMyJobs For Social Media Job Distribution
Advertising solutions leader AdPerfect, has partnered with TweetMyJobs, the social job posting and distribution engine, to create an integrated social media recruitment channel. This partnership will allow AdPerfect clients to efficiently distribute job postings to targeted jobseekers across Twitter, Facebook, web, and mobile devices. According to the President and CTO of AdPerfect, Steve...
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Twitter Chat for HR Professionals Set for December 2nd
HR professionals will benefit from a Twitter chat called "#HRTechChat" that will be hosted by TalentManagementTech.com and Hrmarketer.com on December 2, 2011 at 2p.m. E.T. Utilizing B2B marketing software, the Twitter chat will be held twice a month and will feature news and discussion in the human resource technology field and its influence in the business world today. The topics for the...
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Free Guide by the NLRB Teaches Employers about Social Media Policies in the Workplace
A new employer guide entitled, "Can I Fire This Twit Over That Tweet? Social Media, Labor Law and the NLRB," is now available from Customer Expressions (CEC) software, i-Sight, to inform employers about policies and procedures in regards to the use of social media in the workplace. The guide will assist HR managers in understanding social media labor laws and what behaviors at work constitute...
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Broadbean Technology Grows in the USA
Due to significant growth in the USA, Broadbean Technology has relocated to a new office in Newport Beach, California. Providing online recruitment and job distribution software for job postings, candidate sourcing online, and applicant response technology, Broadbean is well known to staffing companies, recruiters, technology vendors, and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)...
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HRO Today Magazine's Baker's Dozen Survey Ranks Employment Background Investigations (EBI) Among the Top Providers
HRO Today Magazine's Baker's Dozen Ratings has ranked Employment Background Investigations, Inc. (EBI) as one of the top thirteen providers in regards to employee screening services. The customer satisfaction survey ranked each company's quality of service, range of services offered, and ease of geographical reach. This is the fifth year EBI has been ranked among the top thirteen...
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HR and Business Support Firm Assists Companies Who Want to Expand into Asia
Tiger-Consulting, with a firm commitment to help companies expand into Asia, now offers support for customers in 12 Asia-Specific countries, including Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Each company is provided a consultant and a team that offers as much support as needed to set up the company, hire employees,...
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HR Outsourcing Now Available to 70 Independent Insurance Agencies in California Due to Merging of PDP and United Valley Insurance Services
Payroll Data Processing (PDP) has now partnered with United Valley Insurance Services, thereby making it possible for PDP to offer outsourcing services to more than 70 independent insurance agencies and their customers in California. Independent insurance agents today are experiencing a professional challenge. According to PDP's president, Davi Volpi, "In recent years, the national payroll...
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Free Workforce Planning Webinar for Today's Economics to Be Hosted by Mercer and IHRIM
The International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) will host a free webinar entitled, "Why Workforce Planning matters in Today's Economic Environment," on December 7th, 2011 between 11 am and 12 noon, CST. The economic recession has brought about a conflict between the long-term needs and the short-term requirements of companies with respect to the workforce....
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Business Employment Dynamics (BED) Releases 2011 First Quarter Job Gain vs. Job Loss Results
The Business Employment Dynamics (BED) provides data for the change in job numbers over time by tracking statistics in private business units from one quarter to the next. The following results are for the first quarter of 2011. There was a decrease of 671,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2011 for opening and expanding private sector companies in comparison to the previous quarter....
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