United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) appears to be on a big technology kick lately. Earlier this week, we reported on the agency’s proposed advanced registration system for filing H-IB petitions. Now the agency is pursuing technologies aimed at…

Yes, the recovery has been slower than many people anticipated… but what does that mean for the recruiting industry in terms of job orders?  Sure, the floodgates haven’t opened up, by any stretch of the imagination, but what are recruiters seeing out…

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed a new rule that could prove to be a time-saver for businesses seeking to file H-1B petitions in the coming years. H-1B visas allow employers to temporarily bring in foreign workers in…

A while back, we did a few blog posts on how recruiters placing contractors are using social media to aid their recruiting efforts. Most of the recruiters we work with have found LinkedIn to be the most useful social media…

The Department of Labor (DOL) recently recovered more than $219,000 in back wages and liquidated damages on behalf of 44 workers who were misclassified as independent contractors, providing a real-life example of how serious the government’s crackdown on misclassification is….

The recent trend we have reported on where companies refuse to consider unemployed candidates for their job openings has now caught the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While the practice of preferring currently employed candidates is nothing…