Recruitment / Staffing

Achievers Wins Best Place to Work Award

By HR Vendor News | December 5, 2012

San Francisco and Toronto, December 5, 2012 – Achievers, the leader in employee recognition and rewards software, is honored to receive gold awards for Best Place to Work and Technology Department of the Year in the 2012 Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry…

InterviewStream is Acquired by Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation, Begins New Era in Nine-Year History

By HR Vendor News | December 5, 2012

Waco, TX / December 5, 2012 – InterviewStream, the company that invented video interviewing, has begun a new era of expansion and product development with its acquisition by Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation (BHESC), a firm with over $10 billion in managed assets that provides educational funding to students. The nine-year old provider of video…

Violence in the Workplace: An Age Old Problem Leads to New Solutions

By HR Vendor News | December 5, 2012

A man did not take his dismissal from his employer well. Fired for drinking heavily, he wandered his office in a drunken haze, carrying with him letters naming co-workers who he felt had wronged him and outlining his plans to either shoot them or chop them up violently. This was not an unplanned act as…

BraveNewTalent Webinar to Share Talent Community Facts and Fundamentals

By HR Vendor News | December 4, 2012

Palo Alto, California / December 3, 2012–BraveNewTalent, the leading social platform where organizations build talent communities around relevant topics that attract, engage & develop their next-generation workforce, will host a webinar titled Talent Community Facts and Fundamentals on Wednesday, December 5, from 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PST). Online communities…

Announcement of Winners for 2012 Thomas Awards of Excellence

By HR Vendor News | December 4, 2012

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 4, 2012 – Thomas International is hosting a premier event today, celebrating its first annual Client Awards of Excellence. The Awards will be honoring this year’s award winners, whose impressive and creative achievements in applying the Thomas tools into their processes have made a significant impact in their businesses. The winners…

HealthcareSource acquires NetLearning

By HR Vendor News | December 3, 2012

WOBURN, MA – December 3, 2012 – HealthcareSource(R), the leading provider of talent management software solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired NetLearning, a leading provider of learning management software and content for the healthcare industry. The combination of HealthcareSource and NetLearning results in the first company to provide a complete,…

Insala Webinar to Discuss the Importance of Mentoring During the Onboarding Process

By HR Vendor News | December 3, 2012

Insala, the global leader in Web-based mentoring software and services, announces it will host a webinar on mentoring for onboarding. The webinar, “Designing a Mentoring Program to Improve Onboarding,” is scheduled and accepting registrants for Tuesday, December 4, 12:00 to 1:00 PM EST Formal mentoring programs have been proven to support onboarding by giving employees…

Webinar: Return on Talent Investments Is The Neglected Metric at a Surprising Number of U.S. Companies

By HR Vendor News | December 3, 2012

Atlanta, Ga., December 3, 2012–The need for employers to make data-driven, cost-effective business decisions has never been greater yet 56% of them are failing to measure the return they’re receiving on one of their most critical investments: talent. This is just one of several notable findings from ACT Bridge’s 2012 survey of U.S. employers, which…

HealthcareSource Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Talent Outcomes Conference by Focusing on the Love of HR

By HR Vendor News | November 30, 2012

WOBURN, MA & ORLANDO, FL. – November 30, 2011 – HealthcareSource, the leading provider of talent management solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the successful conclusion of its 10th Annual User Conference, Talent Outcomes, held at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, Lake Buena Vista, FL. For three days (November 7-9, 2012), participants from…

Who's Got Your Back?

By HR Vendor News | November 29, 2012

Cleveland, OH, November 29, 2012–It’s well established that a background check plays a critical function in identifying and hiring the best employees. On the flipside, however, that same background check is only as effective and reliable as the screening provider conducting it. So how do organizations sort through the marketing claims to identify the best…