It seems like the holiday season gets marketed earlier with each passing year. This year, I had barely closed the door on my last trick-or-treater when I started seeing and hearing ads announcing that the holiday season, or rather shopping season, had arrived!

HR needs to stop leading and start following.

Recruitment verticals aimed at freelance and part-time workers are steadily gaining popularity in Turkey with a host of new sites joining the market.  This article is only available to AIM Group clients. Please subscribe now or log in to view. The post Freelance marketplaces on the rise in Turkey appeared first on AIM Group.

The online staffing firm Wonolo have closed a big money deal this week, taking their total funding up to a huge $60 million. The latest funding round comes in the form of a $32 million series C led by Bain Capital Ventures. This comes after their last series B funding round in April, $13 million […]

Japanese tech-focused staffing firm En-Japan Inc. (TSE: 4849) reported a considerable 41.9 percent year-on-year increase in its net income to 4.81 billion yen ($42.5 million U.S.) for the first half ended Sept. Each of its job sites continued to maintain higher growth. This article is only available to AIM Group clients. Please subscribe now or log […]

In addition to mass quantities of turkey, pecan pie, and cold beverages being consumed on Thanksgiving this week in America, it’s the perfect time of the year to dishonor the year’s biggest jive turkeys. In no particular order, here we go:

Student-temping site Qtshe.com has launched a new mini-program on AliPay, the fintech affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA). Originally created by Tencent for its WeChat social network in 2016, the mini-program concept has recently been taken up by Alipay, as well as by search giant Baidu. Launched in early October, the Qtshe.com mini-program is already seeing […]

Google might disagree, but LinkedIn is the gold standard when it comes to people data. There are a lot of sourcing tools that beat their chest about the tens of millions of resumes they have, but at almost 600 million professional profiles, LinkedIn is only overshadowed by Facebook, which doesn’t really do professional profiles, or […]

You need the right People Analytics Leader in order to build an effective and strategic people analytics function. This person is the key evangelist and visionary for data-driven decision making, and ensures the use of people analytics always delivers values to the business.

As 2018 draws to a close, employers are looking to the next wave of labor and employment laws and regulations that will take effect in 2019 and beyond. On January 1, and throughout the coming year, employers across the nation must address a host of new or amended federal, state, and/or local obligations. This article […]

A roundup of deals, product announcements and other news from the HCM technology community. This week: some earnings and a new Gartner summit.

“Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat on their way to success.” – Tom Peters, American business writer In the business literature, especially in articles written by academics lacking practical experience, you occasionally see tut-tutting about those who just “throw mud at the wall and see what sticks” in […]

Kronos introduced an enhanced Workforce Dimensions HCM that includes responsive design, embedded analytics and an AI engine.

“How do you handle it when you are now supervising your former teammates?” is one of the top five questions I get when teaching supervisory skills.