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Retention is the most significant challenge facing college recruiters today; however, despite research suggesting that pre-hire assessments can dramatically improve employee retention and the hire quality, only 29 percent say they actually use assessments to influence their college recruiting decisions, according a recent survey conducted by the National Association of...

The rate of new business start-ups fell in 2010 to the lowest point on record, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Ken Levien has no plans to hire more people for his real estate project management company in New York. He says his business has only about 85 percent of the amount of work it can handle because the building industry is still hurting from the recession.

A survey of private companies by payroll provider ADP on Wednesday signaled a slowdown in hiring two days before the government issues the April jobs report. Yet ADP's report is causing few economists to scale back their forecasts for Friday.

Payroll processing company Automatic Data Processing Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal third-quarter net income rose 7 percent as the number of employees on our clients' payrolls increased and it added new business.

Industrial employment in Mississippi grew by about 0.5 percent over the last 12 months, amounting to 694 additional jobs, according to the 2012 Mississippi Manufacturers Register, an annual industrial directory by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, lll.