'Uber for kids' shuts down

Shuddle Inc., a San Francisco-based human cloud ride-sharing service that transports children in a chaperoned fashion, ceased operations today.

“Over the past two and a half years, we have seen that supporting busy families with safe, reliable, and familiar transportation services is critical to helping...

Alaska posts highest jobless rate; Arkansas, Oregon hit record lows

Alaska posted the highest unemployment rate among all states in March at 6.6%, according to data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Illinois and West Virginia closely followed at 6.5% each.

The District of Columbia also had a rate of 6.5%.

South Dakota and New Hampshire had the lowest...

People: Field Nation, Command Center, Frontline Source Group and more

Field Nation, a freelance management system provider, appointed Chris Heim to its board of directors. Heim is currently CEO of HelpSystems, a 400-person infrastructure software company located in Eden Prairie, Minn. He previously was CEO of Axium Software, Amcom Software and HighJump Software. Heim also...

NextGen Information Services names president

NextGen Information Services Inc., a national staffing and consulting firm, named Lori Eaton president of the firm, effective immediately. Headquartered in St. Louis, NextGen provides IT and professional staffing and recruiting.

Eaton took over the president role from company founder Carmen Jacob, who...

Beige Book: Staffing firms report positive results

Labor market conditions continued to strengthen in late February and March, according to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report released Wednesday. Results were mostly positive for staffing firms.

The Beige Book, a collection of observations from the 12 federal regional banks, provides a snapshot of...

Dearth of finance pros with big data analysis skills

Finance leaders face significant shortages of accounting and finance professionals who possess the technical and nontechnical skills required for data analytics initiatives, according to research released by Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI) and the Institute of Management Accountants.

When building...

Jobless claims average fall, initial claims at 42-year low

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 265,000 last week, down 1,500 from the previous week’s average, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Department of Labor. The average for the previous week was revised slightly downward....

WorkFusion robot startup automating corporate jobs — Web

Tech Insider reports crowdsourcing platform WorkFusion is striving to land a chunk of a $5 trillion to $7 trillion opportunity for the automation of knowledge work.

‘Must have’ career readiness competencies for grads

Employers deemed four career readiness competencies — critical thinking/problem solving, professionalism/work ethic, teamwork and communications skills — to be between “essential” and “absolutely essential” in the college graduates they are looking to hire, according to a survey conducted...

Physicians generate $1.6 million a year for hospitals, survey finds

A single physician generates an average $1,560,688 a year in net revenue on behalf of his or her affiliated hospital, according to the Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey released by Merritt Hawkins, the physician search division of AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS). This is up from...