Via Garner Research …
Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will total over $14 billion for the enterprise application markets.
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Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009
Posted in SaaS, Statistics, hirebridge on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
America’s Hot Jobs (and Not Jobs)
Posted in Statistics, hiring, job seekers, recruiting, resources on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via The Daily Beast …
With unemployment over 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the careers with the best—and worst—prospects. The results: the 10 high-growth and 10 worst-growth jobs out there.
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What’s the best method to use for referral source tracking?
Posted in Statistics, applicant tracking, best practices, sourcing on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are many opposing opinions and theories regarding how to accurately track the true referral sources with regards to how candidates arrive at corporate career centers.
Dr. John Sullivan’s recent article, Determining the Correct Source of Hire: the First Step in Recruiting Excellence, (ERE.net website) addresses these issues and points out what it he believes is [...]
The Growing Talent Crisis: Challenges and Solutions
Posted in How To, Statistics, applicant tracking, best practices, employee retention, hiring, job boards, job seekers, productivity, recruiting, sourcing on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via CareerBuilder.com …
Employers throughout the world are increasingly struggling to keep pace with expanding hiring needs. A recent workforce planning study conducted by Aon Consulting for one of its clients showed that nearly 60 percent of its key knowledge workers and leaders would need to be replaced in the next five years.
But, demand for talented [...]
Ride The Next Hiring Boom
Posted in Statistics, hiring, recruiting on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Forbes.com …
Once the recession ends, there could be a hiring boom. Using jobs numbers as an indicator to get in to an investment has worked before.
The national unemployment rate in July was 9.4%, down slightly from 9.5% in June. A theory is emerging that there will be a hiring boom once the economy gets [...]
What You Need to Know About the May Jobs Report
Posted in Statistics, hiring, recruiting on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From US News & World Report …
A flurry of conditionals has couched their “flickers of hope” and “green shoots,” but government officials may finally have their chance to speak with unobscured optimism.
The Labor Department reported Friday that employers cut 345,000 jobs from their payrolls last month, a bad sign in nearly any economy but this [...]
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list
Posted in How To, Statistics, applicant tracking, best practices, compliance, hiring, recruiting, screening on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via MercuryNews.com …
A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant.
That revelation could be significant in light of this week’s disclosure that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating [...]
ADP Says U.S. Companies Reduced Payrolls by 491,000
Posted in Statistics, hiring, payroll on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Bloomberg.com …
Companies in the U.S. cut an estimated 491,000 workers from payrolls in April, indicating the worst of the recession’s job losses may have passed, a private report showed today.
The drop in the ADP Employer Services gauge was smaller than economists forecast and the fewest since October. March’s reading was revised to show a [...]
IDC Eyes SaaS Opportunities
Posted in SaaS, Statistics on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From InternetNews.com …
The Software as a Service business model is changing the way software is purchased and deployed by enterprise customers, experts told an audience of technology professionals here at the IDC Software as a Service Summit earlier this week.
Subscription software has been available on the Internet for years. What’s new is the willingness of [...]
Where The Jobs Are, Spring 2009
Posted in Statistics, hiring, job seekers on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Forbes.com …
Thanks to last year’s strong harvest of apples and the jobs that followed in juicing, packaging and shipping, Yakima, Wash., has the strongest employment outlook in the country for the second quarter of 2009, according to a quarterly survey by employment services firm Manpower.
“This is an agricultural base, a huge apple-growing region,” says [...]
