People: AESC, Texas Association of Staffing, Cielo and more

The Association of Executive Search Consultants announced appointments to its 2017 global board of directors, which consists of elected officers from each of AESC’s three regional councils: Americas; Asia Pacific and Middle East; and Europe, Israel and Africa.

• Krista Walochik, Talengo/The Global...

Phishing scam targeting staffing firms, other employers (The National Law Review)

Human resources and payroll should advise employees in their departments to be on the lookout for the latest tax season phishing scam designed to steal employees’ tax related information and Social Security numbers, The National Law Review reports. The IRS issued an urgent alert to employers regarding...

Google sues Uber over self-driving cars (Recode)

Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving car unit, is suing Otto — the self-driving trucking company co-founded by former Waymo employee Anthony Levandowski and quickly acquired by human cloud firm Uber — for allegedly stealing the company’s proprietary design for its laser-based radar system. Recode...

Freelancer net revenue rises 37% in 2016

Online staffing platform Freelancer Ltd. reported net revenue rose 36.6% in 2016 to AUD 52.7 million (US$38.1 million). The Sydney, Australia-based firm reported the number of jobs posted rose 33% from the previous year to a total of 10.6 million.

Canadian staffing index rises on more working days

The Canadian staffing index rose 4% in January from December and was up 6% when compared with January of 2016. The index, which measures staffing activity in Canada, rose to a reading of 100 from a reading of 96 in December.

“The January index value was up 6% compared to the same month last year,”...

Survey finds 67% of engineers likely to explore new job opportunities

As demand for engineering talent grows, employers will increasingly struggle to hang on to their best and brightest, according to the Focus on Engineering report released by Experis, a division of ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN).

Sixty-seven percent of engineers surveyed said they are likely to explore other...

Optimum Talent names regional president

Optimum Talent appointed Peter Zukow to the new role of president of Central Canada. The Montreal-based firm provides executive search, leadership assessment and development and career transition and outplacement services. Optimum Talent recently reorganized its business by regions — Western, Central,...

Shift in hardest-to-fill jobs by sector, ASA index finds

Physician assistants, food service managers, tellers and sales engineers ranked as the hardest occupation to fill by sector in the US, according to the American Staffing Association’s fourth-quarter skills gap index released today. The quarterly index tracks hard-to-fill occupations in the US.

These...

Jobless claims average falls to lowest level since July 1973

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 241,000, last week, down 4,000 from the previous week’s average, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Department of Labor. This is the lowest level for this average since July 21, 1973,...

After the Executive Forum: What lies ahead — The Staffing Stream

Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2017 Executive Forum held last week in San Diego attracted more than 1,200 attendees. Subadhra Sriram, Staffing Industry Analysts’ editor and publisher of media products, takes a look at some of the informational highlights of event in a new blog post on The Staffing Stream...