FAQs for Evaluating a Staffing Firm, Part 1

Our favorite thing is working with clients over a long period of time – getting to know their business inside and out, strategizing with them about the staffing approaches that serve them best, and just getting to know them as people. Having an established relationship with a staffing firm that “gets” you and your business can erase a lot of headaches. Not all staffing companies are created equal, though, so it’s important that you look before you leap.

By Zoran Basich

Though the economy is recovering more slowly than most Americans hoped, start-up CEOs are seeing blue skies ahead for the coming year—and CEOs of venture-backed companies are the most cheery of all.

By Lauren Weber

Plotting a new career move? New forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may provide clues about the fastest-growing fields this decade.

Assuming a full-employment economy with an unemployment rate of 5.2% by 2020, the BLS expects total U.S. employment to rise 14.3% over the current decade, resulting in 20.5 million new jobs. The projections are based on expected labor force participation, the assumed unemployment rate and estimated housing starts, among other factors.

A GUIDE TO CIRCUMVENTING POTENTIAL EMPLOYMENT LAW LANDMINES

By Mike Maslanka

Employment law often makes no sense. Because of its counter-intuitive nature, up is down and down is up. So let’s play “lawsuit or no lawsuit” and match our wits versus the law.

Wanna Get Fired? Do These 10 Things

Written by David Gee

February 3, 2012

25 Best Towns For Jobs

Written by David Gee

February 2, 2012

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