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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

Advos

Leading Staffing and Recruiting Firm – Murray Resources – Announces Merger of Firm’s Two Recruiting Brands. GHR Announces National OccuVAX Staffing Partnership. Related: Americans quitting their jobs at fastest rate since 2001 — and that’s a good thing. Carepoynt Closes $2M Seed Funding Round. Sign up now.

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INTERVIEW: Dave Ulrich on How To Win the War for Talent

HR Bartender

The term “war for talent” was first used in 2001 in a Harvard Business Press book by the same name. While each person’s experience is unique and valuable, it is useful to rely on large data sets to see trends individuals might miss. It refers to a competitive landscape in recruiting and retention.

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HR, Training and the ‘Gig’ Economy

HRExecutive

a labor market analytics firm, grew to 32 million from just over 20 million between 2001 and 2014, rising to almost 18 percent of all jobs. Surveys, including one by the advisory firm Staffing Industry Analysts of nearly 200 large companies, point to similar changes. Houseman, a labor economist at the W.

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3 Reasons Conversational Technology Should Be on Your Radar

HRExecutive

At the recent Oracle Modern Business Experience event, I was able to see one of the latest HR tech solutions that is intended to leverage these trends, and it got me to thinking just how massive the impact and potential these kinds of tools may have in the next few years and how HR leaders need to be prepared. Advertisement.

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ASA’s Annual Economic Analysis of 2020: 5 takeaways

COATS Staffing Software

By Lynn Connor, COATS Staffing Software. The American Staffing Associations annual economic analysis or “playbook” of 2020 is very well done, complete with charts and graphs, figures and key takeaways. The economy and employment trends have been altered in many ways this year. A decent and continued upward trend.

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People Analytics and HR-Tech Reading List

Littal Shemer

Together, these trends are shaping a new era of distributed and digitally enabled networks of workers where the work comes to workers instead of the workers going to work. Human Resource Excellence: An Assessment of Strategies and Trends Edward E. Huselid (2001). Lawler and John W. Boudreau (2018).

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Steve Boese: Coronavirus and the challenge to HR everywhere

HRExecutive

11, 2001, and the subsequent fallout from those events have been the global crisis to which the current pandemic has most often been compared. At the end of August 2001, just 11 days before the attacks, the unemployment rate in the US was 4.9%. The attacks of Sept. I think in part that comparison is apt. While Sept.