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PrideStaff Makes ClearlyRated’s Best of Staffing® Client and Talent List

PrideStaff, a leading national staffing franchise organization, today announced they have each been named to ClearlyRated’s 2013 Best of Staffing® Client and Talent List. Presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, the fourth annual Best of Staffing list provides the only statistically valid, objective, service quality benchmarks in the industry and reveals which staffing agencies are delivering [...] Read More

The Top 5 Pain Points in Performance Reviews (And How To Solve Them)

Most everyone dreads dealing with performance appraisals. Let's be honest: performance reviews are a pain in the you-know-what. Employees don't like them and HR aren't fans either--45 percent of HR leaders didn't think reviews were good gauges of a worker's performance, compared to last year's 39 percent, according to a poll by the Society of [...] Read More

Human Resource Challenges for 2013

Want to make a big impact on your company--and your career--in 2013? Then it's time to put your human resources to the test. It's time to challenge your organization to do more, do it better, and really make the most of your human resources function. Are you ready? Here are 30 HR challenges for you. [...] Read More