Employment branding

Employment branding is a strategic and marketing effort designed to make an organization appealing as a place to work. The targeted marketing effort attempts to shape the perceptions of potential employees, current employees and the public. Successful employment branding should reduce hiring costs and ease the hiring process.
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Benchmarking

Benchmarking is a technique that uses quantitative or qualitative data to make comparisons between different organizations or different sections of organizations. Benchmarking is usually treated as a continuous process in which organizations periodically measure, challenge, and improve their practices.
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ZoomInfo.com

ZoomInfo.com is a summarization search engine that delivers comprehensive information on over thirty million business professionals and two million companies across many industries. ZoomInfo finds and extracts information from Web sites, press releases, electronic news services and SEC filings, and summarizes the information into a comprehensive, searchable format.
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Fantasy football

During the NFL season, nearly 37 million people will spend about fifty minutes a week at work managing their fantasy football teams, according to a survey by outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The survey estimates that companies will lose as much as $1.1 billion a week in lost productivity.
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Higher education costs

Over the past forty years, higher education costs have increased about 7.2 percent per year, versus the overall inflation rate of 4.4 percent. College costs are expected to increase on average about 7 to 8 percent per year over the next decade. Tuition increases at public colleges and universities will outpace tuition increases at private colleges and universities.
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Employee Benefit News

Employee Benefit News has been a top selling publication serving the benefits industry since 1987. Employee Benefit News is dedicated to helping benefit providers, broker/consultants, plan sponsors and employees. The magazine provides useful and comprehensive coverage of the ever-changing business of employee benefits.
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Severance pay

Severance pay amounts may have peaked in 1999 when employers were giving laid off workers an average of twenty-four weeks of pay, according to a study by finance publisher Kiplinger. The study observed that the decline was a result of employees changing jobs more frequently than in previous years, since severance pay is based on the length of employment.
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