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How recruiters can navigate a split labor market in 2025

HR Brew

Since she started recruiting for HR positions in 2007, Laura Mazzullo, founder of East Side Staffing, has seen the HR function endure three particularly bad years: 2008, 2020, and 2024. Its not a great time to be a white-collar job seeker, Mazzullo previously told HR Brew.

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HR Outsourcing Trends and Statistics SMBs Should Know

Extensis

In contrast, businesses with larger HR departments were more likely to outsource executive recruiting, DEI, and staffing. The value of a PEO Business leaders outsource HR functions to simplify their operations, but sometimes that outsourcing leads to the time-consuming process of managing multiple vendors.

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Cloud reshaped HR from a paper-pushing function to a data-driven powerhouse critical to business success.

HR Brew

But when HR and people pros look to cloud, they should see a comprehensive global network of servers storing data and running applications that has empowered the HR function in the new millennium. In the early 2000s, HR had predominantly relied on paper-based processes , outdated legacy systems, and manual data entry.

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Disney’s New Chief Human Resources Officer, Sonia Coleman

Heyyy HR!

Sonia Coleman joined Disney in 2008 and has steadily climbed the ranks, showcasing her expertise in human resources management. She worked there from 1992 to 2004, playing key roles in strategic HR leadership during transformative years for the company. She continued to grow in HR, taking on several strategic roles until 2008.

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Companies Continue to Invest in HR Technology to Manage Workforce, Towers Perrin Report

Insperity

Although survey respondents expressed mixed views on the effectiveness of certain technologies, particularly around talent management, technology investment overall remains a clear focus for organizations in 2008. Clearly, this is a signal that the priority for 2008 and beyond is in driving companies’ growth and people agendas.”.

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Everything HR Needs to Know About Blockchain

HR Bartender

However, the first blockchain wasn’t put into practice until nearly 15 years later, in 2008, with the launch of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. I’m sure you realize, just like I did after speaking with Jessica, that we’ve only just scratched the surface of blockchain technology and the value it can bring to HR and business.

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HCI [VIDEO]: HR’s Big Moment: Leading the Way Forward with People Analytics

Perceptyx

How Will HR Lead into 2021? If the Great Recession of 2008 was the CFO’s big moment, the current COVID-19 pandemic and the social justice movement is the CHRO’s. Data-based decisions about people, culture, and the new workplace normal will enable the organization to not just weather the storm, but succeed.