Shared responsibility for workers’ skills gap, ASA survey says

Institutions — schools, employers and government — all share responsibility for the skills gap in the US, according to the results of an American Staffing Association Workforce Monitor survey. However, individual accountability is also a top factor contributing to the challenge.

Three out of four...

Staffing firm becomes ‘social enterprise’ (Staffing Industry Review)

UK-based recruitment firm Cordant Group makes a paradigm shift and transforms itself into a social enterprise, Staffing Industry Review reports. “Companies that claim that label, in the form of Community Interest Companies, as they exist in the UK, agree to devote at least two-thirds of profits into...

By 2022, one-fifth of workers will rely on AI to do their jobs (TechRepublic)

AI is expected to replace low-level, routine work, but it will also play a role in higher-level jobs in the future, TechRepublic reported, citing a report by Gartner. By 2022, one in five workers engaged in primarily nonroutine tasks will rely on AI to get work done, and AI is poised to create 2.3 million...

Strongest Q1 hiring outlook for US in 10 years; global employers positive: ManpowerGroup report

US employers reported the strongest first-quarter hiring outlook in 10 years, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released today by ManpowerGroup Inc. (NYSE: MAN). The US ranked among the strongest outlooks for hiring among 43 countries surveyed in the report. Other countries with...

Staffing provider Belcan acquires CDI’s aerospace and industrial equipment business unit

Engineering consulting and staffing provider Belcan LLC acquired the aerospace and industrial equipment business unit of CDI Corp., a Philadelphia-based provider of IT and engineering staffing. The deal includes certain related aerospace staffing contracts.

The transaction closed Dec. 11; terms were not...

EmployBridge co-founder and CFO Shawn Poole to retire

EmployBridge co-founder, executive VP and CFO Shawn Poole will retire from his role at the Atlanta-based industrial staffing firm on Jan. 31, the company announced yesterday. He will remain active with EmployBridge, assisting with the transition of his duties and as a strategic advisor to CEO Tom Bickes...

MBO Partners names two execs as senior VP and CFO

MBO Partners, a provider of independent contractor engagement solutions, named Linda Mann as a senior VP and Chris Mack as CFO. Both appointments took effect in early November.

Mann will lead a newly-formed business unit targeting MBO’s direct-to-talent offerings and expand its enterprise direct sourcing...

Jury convicts Tennessee staffing firm exec on tax charges; money used for cars and mortgage payments

A federal jury in Memphis convicted staffing executive Mark Stinson on Dec. 8 of tax charges, the US Department of Justice reported. Stinson and his wife, Jayton Stinson, operated a staffing company in Memphis, but failed to pay $2.8 million in withholdings and other employment taxes. Jayton Stinson...

Word of the month: Float pool

“Float pool,” is defined by this year’s edition of Staffing Industry Analysts’ online Lexicon of workforce solutions ecosystem terms as pool of workers most commonly used in the healthcare sector for supplemental staffing of clinical nursing positions — sometimes referred to as a nurse bank....

Majority of supply execs say hiring difficult, but wages not up

A majority of manufacturing and nonmanufacturing purchasing executives in the US reported having difficulty hiring workers to fill open positions in the last six months, but a majority also said they didn’t raise wages for new hires, according to a report out today by the Institute for Supply Management....