Adecco Issues Five Best Recruitment Practices for 2008

Business Wire, Dec 13, 2007

A Refresher for Employers on Better Recruitment for Better Retention

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Adecco Group North America, the world's leading workforce solutions and recruitment company (www.adeccousa.com) issued five recruitment best practices for 2008. With unemployment remaining below 5% for the past two years, it is increasingly challenging to find the right talent - talent that will succeed within your organization for the long term. Adecco's philosophy is that improved retention starts with strong recruitment practices.

To help employers kick off the New Year focused on better recruiting, Adecco, the company that connects more people to more jobs at more companies than anyone else in the world, shares some of its best practices for hiring mangers.

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"It's often so easy to let the most fundamental best practices of recruiting go when we are busy in our everyday work lives," says Bernadette Kenny, Chief Career Officer for Adecco Group North America. "We've issued these five best practices as a helpful refresher or guide for hiring managers to reference as we enter another year with increasing recruitment and retention challenges ahead of us."

ADECCO WORLDWIDE

Adecco S.A. is a Global Fortune 500 company and the world leader in workforce solutions. The Adecco Group network connects over 700,000 associates with business clients each day through its network of over 33,000 employees and 6,600 offices in over 70 countries and territories around the world. Registered in Switzerland, and managed by a multinational team with expertise in markets spanning the globe, the Adecco Group delivers an unparalleled range of flexible staffing and career resources to corporate clients and qualified associates.

ADECCO NORTH AMERICA

Adecco is the workforce solutions leader in the United States and Canada, with a comprehensive service offering that includes temporary and contract staffing, permanent recruitment, outplacement and career services, recruitment process outsourcing, training and consulting. In addition to its administrative, clerical and light industrial staffing services, Adecco operates the following specialty divisions: Engineering & Technical; Finance & Accounting; Information Technology; Medical & Science; Legal; Human Capital Solutions; Government Solutions; and Transportation.