Fastaff, U.S. Nursing add exec

Healthcare staffing providers Fastaff LLC and U.S. Nursing Corp. announced Avi Khilnani joined the two companies as executive VP and will lead business development efforts. 

Fastaff provides travel nurse staffing while U.S. Nursing provides staffing during labor disputes.

Before Khilnani left...

Advanced Clinical expands clinical operations leadership

Advanced Clinical added two members to new positions on its clinical operations leadership team. The Deerfield, Ill.-based clinical development organization provides global services, including clinical staffing.

Advanced Clinical appointed Cheryle Evans to senior VP, clinical and medical operations, effective...

Midsize companies struggle to find recruitment ‘sweet spot,’ survey finds

Midsize companies struggle to find the sweet spot in recruitment, according to the Recruitment Sweet Spot survey released today by Beyond and Red Branch Media.

Twenty-four percent of midsize companies reported they lack budgets for advertising, 28% said they lack budgets for compensation negotiation and...

Uber adds app features for drivers (TechCrunch)

Uber rolled out new app features for drivers on its new driver-focused “Behind the Wheel” blog, TechCrunch reports.

Lyft CBO on millennials and corporate travel: ‘Attitudinal shift’ — Staffing quote of the week

“I would definitely say that there is a shift in attitudes, and we are seeing that predominately out of the millennial generation,” said David Baga, Lyft's chief business officer, in a discussion on Bloomberg West about Lyft's focus on corporate travel. “In the next four years they are going...

AMN buys medical coding firm Peak Health Solutions

AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the largest US healthcare staffing firm, acquired health information management services company Peak Health Solutions.

Peak Health Solutions provides remote medical coding and consulting solutions to hospitals and physician medical groups nationwide. The company...

ManpowerGroup to acquire Ciber Netherlands in $25 million deal

ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN) is set to acquire the Dutch business of IT solutions and staffing provider Ciber Inc. (NYSE: CBR).

Ciber Netherlands and its 400 employees will transition over to ManpowerGroup. The transaction is expected to close in mid-June, following regulatory approvals. Transaction terms...

Command Center acquires Hancock Staffing

Command Center Inc. (OTCQB: CCNI), an industrial staffing provider, acquired substantially all of the assets of Hancock Staffing.

The transaction closed June 3, and Command Center paid for the acquisition with cash on hand.

Hancock Staffing operated branches in Little Rock, Ark., and Oklahoma City. The...

Economists lower GDP projections in new NABE survey

Economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics lowered their growth projections for the US economy in 2016 and 2017, the association announced today.

The forecaster’s median forecast in the new survey is for inflation-adjusted US real gross domestic product to grow at an annualized...

Staffing company founder dies

The founder of Chicago-based temporary staffing provider Labor World, Alan Schubert, died June 1.

Schubert began his staffing career in 1965 at Nationwide Staffing in Chicago and opened Labor World with Lou Morelli and Larry Schubert in 1974. The company initially provided day labor industrial service,...