July 20, 2007

THIS ISSUE'S NEWS THEME:
Hiring! Firing!


Top five hiring mistakes small businesses make

"You can't expect great employees to find you. You have to develop a recruitment and hiring strategy to identify, target and reach them. Once you do this, you'll greatly improve the caliber of your job candidates, lower your recruiting costs and ultimately produce better business results."

Employers expect to increase hiring in third quarter

CareerBuilder.com, the nation's largest online job site, and USA Today have released the results of their latest survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, tracking projected hiring trends for the third quarter of 2007.

Recruiting the best talent in a competitive environment

In these days of acute shortages of trained and experienced professional personnel, in an era of intensive competition between firms for superior personnel, it's startling to see recruiting techniques that may have worked in the depression years, but are certainly not up to the needs of today's accounting firms.

Job market great for accounting grads

The demand for accounting graduates is increasing, salaries are rising, and there aren't enough grads to fill the vacancies. Can you spell f-u-l-l e-m-p-l-o-y-m-e-n-t?

10 Signs that your job may be on the line

Everyone gets fired at least once in their career, it seems, but how do you know if you're next? Consider these 10 signs that the end may be near.