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Faster Hiring Cycles and New Hire Salary Spikes Indicate Recruitment Activity is Up
Waiting to hear from a prospective employer? Well, no news is not good news in today’s job market. More and more, if you’re going to land the job, you’ll hear sooner rather than later. That, says new research, is because companies are looking to hire faster than last year. The new survey report released by…
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IT Hiring on the Rise, Survey Suggests
According to the 2010 IT Hire Intelligence Survey conducted by Monster.com, an online career and recruitment resource on behalf of technology services provider Technisource, the majority of survey respondents said they are confident that their company’s performance will improve across the same time period. Among the key findings, 76 percent of respondents have confidence that…
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Service Businesses Adding Jobs, Report Says
After months of a jobless recovery, the job market appears to finally be heating up. Private sector employment increased by 55,000 jobs from April to May on a seasonably adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report, created by HR and payroll outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing in partnership with Macroeconomic Advisors. Goods producing…
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HP Enterprise Services Business to Cut 9,000 Jobs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) will cut 9,000 jobs in its HP Enterprise Services Business division, the company has announced, as the result of a data center consolidation to move its infrastructure onto its own Converged Infrastructure product lines. The workforce reduction, which comes two years after HP announced its acquisition of IT services firm EDS, will consolidate…
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Professor Claims Substantial Conflict in Visa Workers Research
A University of California professor refutes claims made in a recent University of Maryland study that H-1B visa holders make more money than U.S. technology workers. Professor Norman Matloff dissects the wage numbers used, finds what he claims are critical omissions and discusses his own studies and others which found the majority of H-1B visa…
