Spencer Stuart sues departed exec, Korn Ferry (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Crain’s Chicago Business reports Chicago executive search firm Spencer Stuart sued Francois Truc, who left Spencer Stuart in December, and fellow executive search firm Korn Ferry, the firm that hired him this month. According to the suit, together Truc and Korn Ferry “are attempting to dismantle...

Another year, another lottery likely for H-1B visas (Bloomberg BNA)

Today marks the first day employers can petition for H-1B visas for fiscal year 2018, which starts Oct. 1, 2017. Bloomberg BNA reports the number of petitions has outstripped the number of visas in each year since 2013, prompting a lottery to determine whose petitions get processed. And there’s no...

Voca is new name for Hire Investment, adds former ManpowerGroup exec

Hire Investment, a national staffing firm based in Rochester, Minn., changed its name to Voca, effective today.

The name change will be implemented across the company’s services throughout 2017.

“The new name – Voca – was the result of reflection and discussion surrounding where we started as an...

ISM manufacturing index’s growth rate slows in March

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in March but at a slower pace than February, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for US manufacturing, released today. March’s index reading was 57.2, down from February’s reading of 57.7, which was...

Hiring pros, candidates, unsatisfied with recruitment processes, Allegis Group survey finds

Only 30% of hiring managers, 22% of talent acquisition professionals, and 41% of candidates are satisfied with their recruitment processes, according to findings from Allegis Group’s Global Talent Advisory Survey.

Thirty-eight percent of employers cited attracting quality talent as their top recruitment...

GEE Group to ring NYSE closing bell

GEE Group Inc. (NYSE MKT: JOB), the Naperville, Ill.-based staffing provider, will ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

“We are celebrating our new name, GEE Group, which incorporates our specialty units focused on higher-margin professional staffing services and human resource...

Hiring for marketing professionals to increase

Marketing hiring growth continues to increase this year following year-over-year growth of 19% in 2016, according to a study released by McKinley Marketing Partners.

Hiring managers planning to hire more marketers jumped to 44% this year from 28% in the 2016 survey. Almost half of hiring managers, 49%,...

People: Vector Technical, Barrett, Paychex and more

Vector Technical Resources, an IT staffing firm serving the Washington, DC area, appointed Hector Velez as COO. Before joining Vienna, Va.-based Vector, Velez co-founded and served as executive VP of strategic business development at HireStrategy, a staffing firm in the mid-Atlantic region.

Barrett Business...

Illinois temp worker bill moves step closer (WRSP)

An Illinois bill that would prohibit requiring workers to pay for their own background and criminal checks as well as require the same working conditions as traditionally hired workers passed out of committee and is moving to the house floor, WRSP reported. The bill is HB 690.

The PB&J implementation and the MSP (Staffing Industry Review)

Suppliers are the peanut butter to the managed service providers’ jelly and the staffing buyers’ bread, Kaitlyn Ortega writes in a Staffing Industry Review article. Ortega, MSP program manager of CBRE, recently went through an MSP implementation as a buyer of staffing services and offers advice on...