You would think with all the workers still out on the unemployment line, it would take companies less time to fill a position. But recruiters recently told The Wall Street Journal that it is taking hiring managers up to four…

The First Quarter 2011 edition of Contracting Corner, ”The Perm Recruiter’s Contracting Resource,” is now available online. This issue focuses on a dramatic shift that has occurred in recruiting in the past year where primarily direct-hire recruiters have starting offering…

The times they are a-changing, and so are the workers previously known as temps. A recent article by The Ithaca (New York) Journal talks about the rise in temporary hiring, stating that U.S. employers added 300,000 temporary jobs in 2010….

Some of the most frequent questions we get at Top Echelon Contracting revolve around the proper classification of workers: When is it OK to classify them as 1099 independent contractors? What are the ramifications of misclassifying workers? When should they…

A couple of weeks ago, we reported about how, as executive hiring in general increases, executive temping is becoming more popular, allowing companies to audition potential hires or to provide temporary help while they find the right people to fill…

There is a good article on Yahoo! News that reports on the growing pratice we blogged on several months ago about companies requiring candidates to be currently employed, a trend the article calls a “growing form of hiring discrimination,” but…