Does Your Company Culture Attract Greatness??

Why do companies as disparate as Google, Southwest Airlines and Zappo’s get such great reviews from their employees? How do they attract top candidates? Easy. They’ve worked hard to develop company cultures that epitomize strong values, a modern work ethic that includes fun, and service above all.

If you want to appeal to the top-drawer candidates that apply to these popular companies in droves, it’s time to think about what your company can offer. Has your company defined its core values? Created a distinct corporate culture? Have you expressed these values on your web site or in your job listings, where candidates can see them?

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Staffing Firms Add Jobs in October

Seasonally adjusted employment data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that staffing firms added 15,000 new jobs (0.7%) from September to October. In a year-to-year comparison, temporary help employment for the month was 7.9% higher than October 2010.

U.S. nonfarm payroll employment added 80,000 jobs in September, largely driven by employment increases in the private sector. Modest job growth was reported in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, health care, and mining. Government employment continued to decline. The overall unemployment rate dropped slightly from 9.1% to 9.0%.

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