This is a guest post by Dan Fisher. Dan is founder and managing director of the Menemsha Group, a provider of sales training and consulting services to the IT staffing industry. He blogs about IT staffing sales best practices. You can reach Dan on LinkedIn and Twitter.
A recent study found that SME’s are investing in big data at faster rate than larger companies. Mobile devices and social media are prompting businesses to leverage big data to boost competitiveness.
This is a guest post by Mike O’Neil. Mike is the mastermind behind Integrated Alliances U, an e-learning LinkedIn Sales Training Program. Mike O’Neil is The LinkedIn Rockstar™, Forbes Top 25 International Social Media Power Influencer and internationally acclaimed LinkedIn authority.
The worldwide spend on enterprise application software is expected to total $120.4 billion in 2012, a 4.5 percent increase from the $115.2 billion spent in 2011.
This is a guest post by Mike Cleland. Mike is president of Charted Path, a management consulting firm to the staffing industry. He blogs about strategy and business management for staffing. You can reach Mike on LinkedIn and Twitter.
It is projected that over 58 percent of companies plan to use temp employees over the next few years. Temp work will no longer be limited to administrative assistants. High-level professionals are increasingly choosing to work as temp employees.
Last week, President Obama announced a $26 million multi-agency program to encourage innovation and job creation through public-private partnerships. The Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge will help to build entrepreneurship across the country.
According to recent SEC filings, growth at entrepreneurial companies is skyrocketing at a rate of 13+ percent over job growth rates last year. This is compared to growth rates of a mere 3 percent at non-entrepreneurial companies.
A recent survey by Bank of America shows that small-business owners expect local and national economic conditions to improve. Nearly 31 percent plan to increase their workforce by an average of 25 percent.
The college graduating class of 2012 is heading into a better job market than alumni of the previous three years, according to a new study from CareerBuilder and CareerRookie.com.
