GLC Associates said this week it has launched a recruitment process outsourcing solution with the aim of connecting job seekers with Atlanta jobs and helping companies recruit talent.

The company said the new solution is flexible and cost-effective.

“We have incorporated over a decade of best practice service solutions into one of the nation’s leading RPO programs,” said Lorin Cone, GLC Group’s President and CEO. “Because of this, we’ve been able to recruit and retain some of the highest caliber recruiters in the industry, giving us the resources to quickly recruit only the best talent,” he continued.
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A local company has secured a key hire for operations jobs in Atlanta.

The hire will oversee all production operations at Multi-Pack Atlanta’s two facilities.

Frank Garrett’s emphasis will concentrate on three key areas: Productivity, Safety, and Quality.
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A new merger between Equifax and eThority could lead to new human resources jobs in Atlanta.

Equifax said this week it has completed its previously announced acquisition of eThority. The company is an innovative provider of workplace and other analytical software that brings powerful, easy-to-use data interaction and reporting to business enterprises of all sizes. Financial terms for the transaction were not disclosed. eThority is now part of TALX, Equifax’s workforce solutions business unit.

TALX, provider of Equifax Workforce Solutions, a leader in human resource, tax and payroll-related services, is based in St. Louis. TALX holds a leadership position in automated employment and income verification as well as unemployment cost management. TALX provides over 9,000 clients, including three-fourths of Fortune 500 companies, with Web-based services focused in three employment-related areas: hiring, pay reporting and compliance. Hiring services include assessments and talent acquisition, onboarding, and tax credits and incentives. Pay reporting services include, paperless pay and W-2 management. Compliance services include employment and income verifications through The Work Number, unemployment cost management and I-9 management.

Equifax is a provider of consumer and commercial information solutions, providing businesses of all sizes and consumers with information they can trust. We organize and assimilate data on more than 500 million consumers and 81 million businesses worldwide, and use advanced analytics and proprietary technology to create and deliver customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Equifax operates and has investments in 17 countries, and is a member of Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500® Index. Its common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX.

A new survey just published reveals that companies are increasing their efforts to hire for Atlanta jobs.

The city’s small businesses helped lead hiring and salary trends in the South in September and bucked the nation, according to SurePayroll’s latest Small Business Scorecard.

Small businesses surveyed in Atlanta reported a 3 percent increase in hiring and a 1.6 percent rise in paycheck size, according to SurePayroll, a Glenview, Ill.-based provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) payroll processing for small businesses. In the South, the only region with hiring growth, the number of employees went up 0.4 percent and payrolls notched up 0.5 percent, while nationally, hiring was down 2.7 percent and salaries dipped 0.4 percent. (more…)

Two important educational institutes in Georgia have received a big grant to fuel the creation of IT jobs in Atlanta.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Gwinnett Technical College, part of the Atlanta Health Information Technology (HIT) cluster, have been awarded a $1.65 million grant to enhance the state’s capabilities in this sector. The initiative is part of the federal government’s Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a tri-agency competition initiated to support the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters. The Atlanta HIT cluster’s proposal was one of 20 selected from 125 applicants.

The news is big for those looking for Atlanta jobs.

The collaborative program, designed to quickly create jobs to fill demand in Georgia’s expanding HIT cluster, provides a commercialization pathway for the supply-side and training for the workforce on the provider side. The initiative also engages traditionally underserved businesses throughout the state’s economically distressed areas via technical assistance resources.

“Our ultimate goal is simple – to achieve higher-quality, lower-cost and more patient-centric health care throughout Georgia,” said Steve Rushing, director of HIT initiatives at Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), who will serve as the general advisor for the integrated project plan. “Through extensive collaboration and partnerships, this initiative leverages existing resources to boost job creation through technology deployment, and thus economic development.”

The HIT proposal is funded by the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Atlanta Development Authority (ADA) will assist with financing coordination on the SBA Scope of Work.

“ADA will focus on identifying and coordinating financing sources such as small business loans and equity from angel and venture capital firms to enhance this initiative,” says Brian McGowan, president and ADA CEO. “This grant will greatly expand our region’s capacity to create jobs and establish a global competitive edge in a highly sought after innovation cluster.”

In-kind donations and support for hiring program graduates have also come from the HIT industry and information technology providers. In addition, the Georgia Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Business Center will play a key role in identifying eligible and formerly underserved small businesses to participate in the program.

A new survey out predicts that hiring for jobs in Atlanta will slow in the fourth quarter.

The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey published Tuesday shows 20 percent of the metro Atlanta companies interviewed plan to hire more employees from October to December, while 10 percent expect to cut jobs.

Other metro areas that will possibly see a decline include Long Island jobs.

According to the seasonally adjusted survey results, the Net Employment Outlook for Quarter 4 2011 is +7%, up from +6% during the same period last year and down from the +8% Outlook during Quarter 3 2011. While the Outlook is positive overall and marginally ahead of one year ago at this time, the one point quarter-over-quarter drop is the first decrease, although slight, in nine quarters.
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A new index is taking a look at executive jobs in Atlanta and whether or not they’ve increased per the economy.

Managerial recruitment activity showed a gain of 9.4 points in August, following a downward slide over the past three months, according to the new CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index. The August 2011 Index, which measures managerial hiring activity online, has risen to 107.6, a mere 5.3 points higher than it was a year ago in August 2010.

“The effects of the current economic uncertainty may not be fully understood until later in the year,” says Jay Martin, COO, JobSerf. “Though the gains in August are welcome, the current economic climate could delay actual hiring decisions.” (more…)

One company in the Georgia area has decided to end the summer with a bang and boost Atlanta jobs.
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The number of small business jobs in Atlanta increased 2% in June, according to SurePayroll, a provider of payroll services.

Across America small business jobs are down 2.3% with pay also down, while in Atlanta jobs are up by 2% and pay is up by 1.6%.

This is positive news for the metro area, since dismal unemployment numbers came out across the board regarding other cities nationwide.
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A talent management company has released a hiring solution set to change the integration of Atlanta jobs.

SHLPreVisor, the global leader in talent management solutions, today announced it will unveil the cross-platform integration and availability of its most popular pre-hire and post-hire solution sets at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2011 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 26-29 in Las Vegas. Now, clients all over the world have seamless access to the most comprehensive range of assessment solutions to support their talent acquisition and mobility strategies - for all job levels in more languages and countries than delivered by any other talent management provider.
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