Screening / Assessment

Background Screening Expert Jason B. Morris Presents Roadmap to Legal Landscape at Florida State HR Conference in Orlando on August 27

By HR Vendor News | August 23, 2012

EmployeeScreenIQ (www.employeescreen.com) president and chief operating officer, Jason B. Morris will present, “An Expert’s Guide to Navigating the Minefield of Recruiting and Employment Screening Laws,” at the 2012 Florida State HR Conference and Expo in Orlando, FL on Monday, August 27, 2012. The HR community will learn how these laws affect their use of background…

TALX Expert to Share Best Practices for Ensuring I-9 Compliance

By HR Vendor News | August 21, 2012

ST. LOUIS — WHO: Gordon Middleton, legal compliance specialist for TALX, provider of Equifax Workforce Solutions. WHAT: Will present a session at the 2012 HR Florida Conference & Expo titled “Automating I-9 Processes: Best Practices for Ensuring Compliance.” WHEN: The conference will be held from Monday, August 27, 2012 — Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Middleton…

TALX Partners with PetroED to Deliver Verified Exams for Oil and Natural Gas Industry

By HR Vendor News | August 20, 2012

Carmel, IN and Houston, TX – TALX, provider of Equifax Workforce Solutions, today announced that assessment division, pan, has partnered with the world’s leading petroleum industry eLearning provider, PetroED, to offer validated eLearning assessment services via pan‘s network of more than 600 North American proctored testing center locations. As eLearning-based oil and natural gas certification…

PeopleScout Partners with InterviewStream to Add Video Interviews to its Recruitment and Hiring Solutions

By HR Vendor News | August 15, 2012

Bethlehem, PA / August 15, 2012 — PeopleScout, the world’s leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) with over 220,000 annual job placements, has chosen InterviewStream to employ its live and pre-recorded video interviewing solutions. The Chicago-based company is incorporating InterviewStream’s branded video interview technology into its end-to-end RPO solutions and is already experiencing significant…

iCIMS Partners with LexisNexis® to Enhance Talent Platform

By HR Vendor News | August 15, 2012

MATAWAN, N.J. (August 15, 2012) — iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions for growing businesses, formally announced today its new relationship with the leading global background screening provider, LexisNexis®. iCIMS will now offer LexisNexis as an additional Background Screening option available with its flagship product, the iCIMS Talent Platform. With…

Select International Recognized as One of Western Pennsylvania's Best Places to Work

By HR Vendor News | August 14, 2012

Select International was recently named one of the Pittsburgh region’s best places to work by the Pittsburgh Business Times for 2012. The award program was created in 2005 and honors companies that deliver an outstanding work experience. More than 170 companies applied and were evaluated based on results gathered by online employee satisfaction surveys. The…

CERTPOINT Systems Proves That L&D Brings Real Business Benefit

By HR Vendor News | August 9, 2012

Publishes white paper showing the impact of learning August 9 2012. Roslyn, NY. It has always been important for the L&D function to show its impact on the organization. In the current unforgiving economic climate, it is essential. With budgets currently tight, spending on learning and development has never been under closer scrutiny. How can…

Employee Engagement Rises as Key Strategic Priority for US Executives

By HR Vendor News | August 8, 2012

TalentKeepers Reports Comprehensive Results from its 8th Annual Talent Engagement and Retention Trends Report for 2012 Winter Park, Florida — August 7, 2012. TalentKeepers, Inc. reported in its 8th annual Employee Engagement and Turnover Survey Report that 81% of US companies are seeking to impact performance and profitability by making employee engagement a strategic business…

Select International Named One of Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies

By HR Vendor News | August 8, 2012

The Pittsburgh Business Times named Select International to its Pittsburgh 100 list, which ranks the fastest-growing for-profit companies in western Pennsylvania. This is the fourth time that Select International, a global provider of employee assessments and hiring solutions, has been chosen as a Pittsburgh 100 award winner. The 2012 awards were based on revenue growth…

La Quinta Inns & Suites Strengthens Brand, Improves Hiring Quality and Reduces Turnover with Pre-Hire Assessments from Assess Systems

By HR Vendor News | August 8, 2012

DALLAS—August 8, 2012— LQ Management L.L.C. saw reduced turnover and experienced greater hiring confidence after partnering with Assess Systems to deliver pre-hire assessments for front desk positions to its 820 corporate and franchise hotels. As La Quinta clearly defined its core values, the organization recognized a need to ensure they were attracting and hiring front…