This year, 54 percent of large U.S. businesses that laid off employees in the past year want to rebuild their work forces, but some will have trouble finding the skilled workers they are looking for, according to a recent study by Accenture. Because of this gap, many employers will likely consider an alternate option to gain skilled workers: rehiring former employees.
Employees may be rehired for very different reasons. Maybe they were laid off due to a company’s financial situation, but not because they weren’t a valued employee. Or perhaps they …

Look at any “best places to work” list, and you’ll notice that most of the companies listed tend to share the same four employee benefit offerings, SHRM’s Steven Williams pointed out during his presentation on employee benefit programs for the organization’s annual conference in San Diego last month: 1) Health care; 2) Work/life balance; 3) Unique or unusual benefits; and 4) Leave. 
It should come as no surprise that companies that offer these types of benefits would be considered great places to work.  Unfortunately, with the economy the way it is, and health …

The last thing you might expect to hear when walking into a presentation about how to inspire creativity from your employees is: “Tell your employees to think inside the box”…and yet, that’s pretty much the advice Disney’s business program consultant, Scott Milligan, had for the audience when he presented at SHRM 2010 in San Diego last month. 
“We tell our cast members to think INSIDE the box,” Milligan boasted to the audience of HR professionals during his presentation, “Disney’s Approach to Inspiring Creativity”. (“Cast members,” by the way, is Disney’s term for employees.) After all, he reasoned, …

It’s hard to resist a job offer like this: Help the environment by joining the cleanup efforts of the BP oil spill and make $40 an hour, plus transportation, room and board.
That’s exactly what was promised by a couple of businessmen in mid-June to nearly 500 members of a the Yakama Nation tribe in Toppenish, Wash., some of whom quit their jobs in anticipation of a four-day bus ride to the Gulf.
Unfortunately, the bus never came, and now tribe officials and consumer advocates in the state suspect the whole venture …

We know that job hunts can be as tiresome as full-time jobs. We want to simplify your search as much as possible, so each week we are featuring a list of open jobs in each region of the country. Last week we gave you a list of companies hiring in the Midwest, and today we have a list of the Northeastern companies hiring.
Remember you can click on the state, position or company name to get more information or see more opportunities.
Vermont
Volvo Group – Local Account Manager
NWN Corporation– Novell Administrator
New York
BLOOMBERG – Datacenter Engineer
Leukemia & …