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Online job boards and third-party search firms may be losingout to social media when companies search for new employees,based on June 2010 research.

Nearly three-quarters of companies surveyed were using socialnetworks for recruiting, and 58.1 »

Its Importance Goes Beyond Reducing Travel Budgets, Survey Says »

Business managers will continue to seek out alternatives to travel provided by technology in 2010, according to the “2010 Corporate- Travel Spend Plans & Tactics” study conducted by Kotler Marketing Group and the Association of Corporate Travel »

The top business drivers for Web conferencing have always been to save on travel budgets and to increase trainers’ reach.

Companies around the world report that the current economy is having a bigger impact on recruiting, hiring and developing employees in 2010, reported in the “Global Assessment Trends Report” authored by Dr. Sarah Fallow and Dr. Andrew Solomonson.

“In 2009, employers gave increases of only 2.1 percent,” reports Joseph Kilmartin, managing director of compensation consulting at Salary.com.

Like most investments in 2009, corporate learning and development (L&D) spending dropped sharply in 2009, according to “The Corporate Learning Factbook 2010: Benchmark, Trends and Analysis of the U.S. Training Market.

Executives around the world are working longer hours, taking on additional responsibilities, and experiencing higher levels of stress, according to a McKinsey Quarterly survey.

CEO is on Facebook 31%

Social networking is part of business & operations Strategy 30% »