Hungarian hacker gets 30 months for extortion plot on Marriott

Hacker demanded a $150K job, free hotel room and the right to work whenever he wanted Computerworld - A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by...

Legal Alert: Title VII Record-Keeping Requirements Extended to GINA

Executive Summary: In a final rule published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on February 3, 2012, the agency has extended the record-keeping requirements imposed under Title VII...

Report: Failed drug tests leave jobs open

Connection between drug abuse, joblessness part of state report’s findings. There are more than 80,000 job openings in Ohio, but employers say finding enough workers who can pass drug tests to...

Morning Bell: Federal Workers Overpaid, and CBO Agrees

Here’s some news that federal bureaucrats in Washington — and indeed around the country — don’t want to hear: According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report (http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12696) released this...

Cities where women earn the best pay

San Jose tops the list, followed by San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Can where you hang your hat shape the size of your salary? Absolutely. U.S. job markets vary drastically by...

Facebook Timeline Looms: What You Need to Know

Soon Facebook users who have been avoiding the social network’s Timeline feature (http://www.pcworld.com/article/240400/facebook_adds_timeline_feature_and_supercharges_apps.html?tk=rel_news) won’t be able to stave it off any longer and will be seeing their profiles change considerably....

Kitzhaber, Oregan and other State Officials face a Disabilities Act class action lawsuit

Disability Rights Oregon, Oregon's protection and advocacy system, filed a class action federal lawsuit under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) alleging that undue segregation of people...

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The Socialization of Recruiting

If you have been a recruiter for any length of time you know that the industry is evolving at the speed of the internet. When I started recruiting we relied on newspaper ads to push our jobs out to the public and cold called prospects over the telephone to pull them in to interview. We also did a lot of networking… old school networking.

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2012: Ready…Set… HOLD!

jeremyeskenazi I love this time of year. Now that we’re through the year-end buildup, talent acquisition professionals look bright-eyed to industry trends to see the latest and greatest to execute their 2012 plans. Like every other year, there have been predictions and promises about where we’re going, so I’m taking this opportunity to share my predictions. I don’t have a crystal ball, but after 20 years in this industry, watching the patterns and taking the journey, more than a few of my inklings have rang true, and some have certainly not…

HR and internal recruiters, YOU need to lift your game too

gregsavage There has been a great deal of criticism of Agency recruiters lately, quite a bit of it from me.

But a recent theme is emerging where Corporate HR managers and internal recruiters have launched some scathing attacks on the process followed by recruiters. A recent blog, Dear John, from Katie McNab being a case in point – albeit a very constructive and fair one.

A Better Way to End Employment-Based Country Quotas

carl chusterman Limiting each country in the world to 7% of the 140,000 employment-based (EB) green cards granted each year is just plain stupid!

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How Do You View the World?

danielbloom To begin with on this first day of a brand new yea, may I wish you and yours a great new year.

I was reading the local newspaper this morning and a column by Bill Maxwell caught my attention. The column was entitled "White doubt reserved for black professional and it dealt with an effort of the local school district to enhance the number of black teachers that are hired.One of the members of the school board who is white is quoted as saying after the effort was announced who said the effort should be to hire quality over numbers.

H.R, Employers, Recruiters - are you familiar with the O*Net Resource Center?

onet logo The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations.