AMN names new role, president of leadership and search solutions

AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the largest US healthcare staffing provider, named Kelly Rakowski as president, leadership and search solutions, a new role within the company.

Rakowski will lead AMN’s interim leadership, physician permanent placement, recruitment process outsourcing...

ShiftPixy to reschedule earnings release

Human cloud platform firm ShiftPixy Inc. (NASD: PIXY) is pushing back its scheduled earnings announcement to a new date that the company says it will announce shortly. The Irving, Calif.-based company was scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings yesterday.

In its announcement on the delay, ShiftPixy...

Murray Resources merging its two brands

Murray Resources, a Houston-based staffing firm, is merging its two brands — Murray Resources and Kingwood Personnel — and will officially begin operating as one company under the Murray Resources name. Murray Resources acquired Kingwood Personnel in May 2015.

“With both Murray Resources...

People: Amerit, Staffing 360, Hudson, Diversant, RGP, Marcum, Nextaff, Capital Alliance and more

Amerit Consulting, a division of Evergent Group, appointed Ian Wagemann as president and CEO. He replaces founder and Chairman Gary Herbold, who retired after 16 years and will fully transition out of the role by the end of this year. Wagemann most recently was the founder and CEO of V.E.T....

US independent workforce rises 2.2% this year to 41.8 million: MBO Partners

The US independent workforce — which includes consultants, freelancers, contractors, temporary and on-call workers — will rise to 47.8 million over the next five years, representing a 2.6% annual growth rate, according to MBO Partners’ new "2018 State of Independence in America report."...

Getronics buys IT solutions and staffing firm Pomeroy

IT solutions and staffing provider Pomeroy announced that it was acquired by Getronics, a global information and communication technology integrator owned by Bottega InvestCo S.à r.l., whose founder and majority shareholder is Brazilian-American entrepreneur Nana Baffour. Getronics has nearly...

IT job growth ‘underperforms’ amid shortage of talent: TechServe Alliance

The number of IT jobs in the US edged up 0.04 in June from May to a total of more than 5.3 million, the TechServe Alliance announced. While IT job growth had historically outperformed the growth rate of the overall workforce, the shortage of IT talent is causing the sector to underperform, according...

Digital tools, development opportunities critical to employee engagement: Randstad US

Employees’ engagement is greatly influenced by the amount and quality of digital tools and development opportunities at work, according to the “Workplace 2025: The Post-Digital Frontier” study released today by Randstad US.

The report found digital tools now play a leading role in employee...

Background screening companies HireRight and General Information Services combine

Background-screening companies HireRight and General Information Services joined under common ownership, the companies announced today. The firms called the transaction a merger.

The transaction, described as “common ownership,” closed today, and terms were not disclosed.

The combined organization...

Jobless claims average down, initial claims fall 18,000 in holiday week

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 223,000 last week, down 1,750 from the previous week’s average, the US Department of Labor reported. The previous week’s average was revised upward by 250.

The four-week moving average decreases the volatility of...