Manpower is buying recruitment-outsourcing vendor CRI, a Los Angeles company that CEO Ladd Richland has kept somewhat under the radar. view article »

A new Bullhorn research report - Transform Your Recruiting Practice from Good to Great -   highlights best practices in using candidate sourcing tools and compensation that divide the staffing and recruiting industry's top performers from the laggards. Some of the key best practices revealed in this report include how to become embedded in social networks to source candidates, and using Pay for Performance. view article »

Talent Technology Corporation announced its Resume Mirror  Extraction Engine has been picked by itzbig to improve the user experience for both job seekers and recruiters on its network. view article »

Personified, the talent management and consulting subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com, has released a new Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) guide and a Staffing Industry Front Office guide to help employers navigate the ever-changing world of recruitment technology. The guides provide unbiased, side-by-side comparisons of ATS and Staffing Technology functionality.

Each guide costs $350 and can be ordered here.

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HireAbility.com launched an interactive landing page, www.talenttrader.net, that gives the staffing industry access to the latest recruiting news, trainings, networking opportunities, job postings, candidate searches, and the only placement center available requiring no administration fees for agency members. view article »

Bullhorn has experienced 29 percent growth (1,761 new users) among direct hire staffing and recruiting professionals so far in 2008, compared with the same period in 2007. view article »

Monster and staffing software vendor Bullhorn today unveiled a new online recruiting platform named PowerSource, based on Bullhorn’s new Integrated Resume Search technology. PowerSource combines real-time posting, shared apply and integrated resume search to enable faster, better quality placements.

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