Employers face heightened performance risk — from lower productivity to higher inefficiency NEW YORK, July 11, 2012 — As doubts reemerge about the strength of economic recovery in the U.S., a new Global Workforce Study by global professional services company Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW) reveals that almost two-thirds (63%) of U.S. workers are not…
Jamie Spriggs, of ConnectYourCare is honored to be selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Maryland 2012 award. HUNT VALLEY, Md., July 9, 2012 – ConnectYourCare’s founder and president, Jamie Spriggs, was honored recently by Ernst & Young for entrepreneurial excellence. Spriggs was among the finalists named for the…
July 17, 2012 — Scottsdale, Ariz. — WorldatWork research on sales compensation practices consistently finds that a majority of organizations struggle with setting fair and accurate sales quotas to effectively incent their salesforces. Accurate quota setting was a major incentive compensation issue cited in the “2012 Sales Compensation Practices Survey for the High-Tech Industry,” conducted…
Reviewsnap, the leading cloud-based performance management software solution, is pleased to announced that its appearance at the SHRM 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition resulted in unprecedented interest in its Web-based performance management software solutions. The conference, which took place in Atlanta, Ga., during the last week in June, drew just over 13,000 human resource practitioners…
Employees can now showcase their skills and ambitions, find career opportunities and build connections, making it easier for them to succeed and for their companies to retain great talent Mountain View, CA — July 17, 2012 –UpMo, the first-ever enterprise talent network, today announced the launch of its exclusive internal network, available to all employees.…
COLUMBIA, MD—July 17, 2012, the audit behavior of Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has changed dramatically in the last year. Gone are the days where OFCCP took a quick look at basic affirmative action data, and if nothing raised a red flag, they were gone and the audit closed. As an agency of…
WAYNE, Penn. — July 17, 2012 — SkillSurvey®, Inc., a provider of reference assessment solutions, will discuss new possibilities in online reference-checking in their July 25 webinar, “The Evolution of Reference-Checking into a Strategic Hiring Solution” from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST. Research from SHRM shows that 96 percent of human resources professionals check references,…
COSTA MESA, Calif., July 17, 2012 — GreenJobInterview today released a survey to determine current practices among recruiters and hiring managers in the use of live video use for the recruiting process. The brief survey, available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GreenJobInterview2012, asks those involved in the recruiting and hiring process questions such as: – What types of video…
Kansas City, Kan.— According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans filled more than 3.7 billion prescriptions in 2010. Because the rate at which individuals developing chronic health conditions continues to increase, the expected decline in drug costs comes as little comfort to utilities employers who are largely footing the bill, as an overwhelming majority still…
ST. LOUIS — WHO: Stacie Young, talent measurement consultant, and Gerry Groe, managing director of Business Development for TALX assessment division, pan, a leader in online assessment and talent management systems WHAT: Will share their extensive workplace assessments expertise as they deliver two concurrent sessions at the International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC) 2012 Conference. Young…