One program offers hires a year off to work on service projects.

Wow, that was fast. Michael Goldberg took over as executive director of DirectEmployers on November 7, 2016. ‘Along with his enthusiasm and desire to innovate, he brings over 25 years of human resources and talent acquisition strategy experience to the Association,’ the company announced in a release at the time.

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Economists polled by Reuters expected the number to come in at 195,000. In March, private payrolls were revised down 6,000 to 194,000.

Rather than simply grumble to himself or complain to others, a St. Louis man aggrieved by a company’s failure to hire him took another approach. Jevons Brown packaged up cat feces and sent it through the mail.

Popular sites like Upwork are bringing freelancers and companies together. LinkedIn is getting into the game with Profounder. It’s definitely trending.

Without federal legislation, employers might as well as colleges and universities are continuing to pry into the personal lives of their employees and students.

This week, HR’s most dangerous podcast takes on a variety of topics, starting with “period leave,” avoiding most of the landmines this topic invites and much, much more.

Ratedly, the app that automates the process of monitoring anonymous employee complaint websites, announces the launch of its recruitment advertising agency solution. Agencies can access the new product at http://agency.ratedly.com. “We knew a product for ad agencies would have to be developed soon after we launched the company,” said Ratedly founder Joel Cheesman. “Big employers […]

Toxic employee behavior can wreak havoc on your business and bottom line.  Whether you think there are problem employees working at your company or you just want to learn how to spot the behavior, here are some traits to look for and what you can do when one of your employees is bringing down the […]

Monster bought 2 companies this week. And when I say bought, I mean something akin to finding enough loose change in the couch to buy a pizza and some breadsticks. As ERE’s John Zappe revealed about the deal, “it isn’t large enough to trigger a disclosure filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.” The financial […]

Monster’s Joanie Courtney looks back at a year’s worth of BLS reports, which showed 2015 was a year of stability. Will 2016 be much different?

Thanks to changes being made to LinkedIn’s API, Job Change Notifier is shutting down. Here’s the company’s note to users: Over the past two years, Job Change Notifier has helped LinkedIn users collectively track over 20 million connections, notifying users whenever any of their connections changed jobs. Unfortunately, LinkedIn is about to make a change […]

In case you missed it, LinkedIn had a really, really bad earnings report recently. How bad? The once highflying stock has plunged to around $100-a-share from $195.