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Tough Economic Times Ratchet Up Need for Investing in Employee and Leadership Development Services

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Learn why employee and leadership development programs are a top priority at successful companies – especially in tough economic times – the difficult questions CEOs and business owners must consider surrounding performance management, and the role an HR organization must play in ensuring that learning and development initiatives connect with the success of the business.

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Study Reveals Challenges and a Tight Hiring Market Ahead

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

How are the unemployment statistics and other challenges in the current U.S. economic downturn impacting companies’ efforts to find and capture job candidates? What are the trends regarding retention? What is a crucial component of a corporate recruiting strategy these days? RPO firm Hyrian conducted a study and shares the findings, its corresponding insights, and examples of success in hard-to-fill positions.

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How Service Management Software Solutions Enhance Outsourcing Relationships

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Currently, a growing number of enterprises expect service providers to use service management tools, especially those aligned to ITIL v3 best practices in managing services as a business. This article discusses the trends around uses and benefits of such tools, their differences in value and approach, and how the tools enhance even the soft relationship skills in an outsourcing arrangement.

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How a Money Management Firm Benefited from Outsourcing Its HR to a PEO

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity firm, is operating in today’s uncertain financial markets. Instead of doing strategic work, the CFO found he lost whole days dealing with employee problems, since he was also responsible for HR, too. Outsourcing to ADP TotalSource not only saved time but also gave the firm’s employees more benefits, which became a great recruiting tool.

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Growing Nationally With A PEO Partner

John Harney, Business Writer

When the government agencies award a contract to IT vendors, they expect them to ramp up staff in a hurry. But carrying staff to potentially service a big contract is as cost-prohibitive as maintaining a large human resources department. That was the challenge for EMCO Technologies, a small Louisiana IT company. It hired Administaff to pick up the HR load so it could land more federal contracts and expand nationally.

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How One Manufacturer Grew Its HRO Over Time

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

ABB Inc., a technology manufacturer, grew by acquisitions. In 1995 ABB wanted to create a single culture with centralized processes and policies. It decided the best way to do this was outsource. Its first step: centralizing its 401(k) plan. Today, 13 years later, ABB has outsourced many of its HR processes to its original supplier: Fidelity HR Services.

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