Updated August 4, 2014 Employers are scrambling to find ways to avoid the dreaded “employer mandate” of the healthcare reform law, but those who think independent contractors are the answer should be aware of the danger of using independent contractors to avoid Obamacare….

Ok, so you’ve made the contract placement and your candidate has been working for a couple of weeks.  Now what? If you have outsourced their employment to a contract staffing back-office, there’s really not anything else you HAVE to do,…

If you have been in the recruiting industry for any length of time, you are probably familiar with what is known as the “unemployed mindset” – the tendency of employers to prefer currently employed candidates over those who are unemployed. This mindset…

While employers across the nation are grumbling about healthcare reform, you may just end up rejoicing if you are working the healthcare niche. A recent Staffing Industry Analysts report predicts that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better…

Everyone who is anyone is offering their predictions for what the biggest trends in recruiting and hiring will be in 2013, so we figured we might as well throw our hat in the ring.  Based on what we have read…

Everyone makes mistakes, but when it comes to hiring, those mistakes can be quite expensive. Citing a CareerBuilder survey, J.J. Keller reported that 69% of businesses experienced a bad hire in 2012. Forty-one percent estimated the cost of that bad hire to…