Recruiting & Personnel

Magazine articles on recruiting and retaining employees, benefit plans, and compensation.

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Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Ross Tucker	Payback Time During the heady days of the bull market brokers found themselves lured to other firms by big upfront bonuses, in the form of forgivable loans. Unable to maintain prior production rates under worsening market conditions, many have lost their jobs and their clients. Now their firms want to collect on those loans.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 William A. Jacobson	Deferred Compensation. Whose Money Is It? Deferred compensation plans offer incentives or income tax deferral while motivating the employee to remain at the company. However, the Citigroup Capital Accumulation Plan is facing legal challenges from class action suits in several states.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2002 Karen M. Kroll	Savings Plan$ Defined-contribution programs promise to help put the brakes on rising health-care costs.
Knowledge@Wharton	Want to Study Accounting or Medieval History? Chances Are, Your Employer Will Foot the Bill Virtually all employers offer this benefit, to some degree. Employees do not pay for this benefit in the form of lower wages. In fact, employers actually pay higher wages when they also have this benefit, suggesting that the workers must be more productive to compensate for the higher salaries.
Fast Company September 2002 Chuck Salter	Diversity without the excuses Yes, Virginia, there are qualified minorities for top jobs. And Joe Watson finds them.
Entrepreneur September 2002 C.J. Prince	Woe is the CFO These days, CFO may have more responsibility than the acronym was meant to handle. Does yours have what it takes to handle the scrutiny and the pressure?
CFO August 1, 2002 Kris Frieswick	Honey, I Shrunk The 401(k) The bear market has clobbered 401(k) accounts -- and could spark a revival of defined benefit plans.
CFO August 1, 2002 Joseph McCafferty	Interim CFOs In general, companies are taking longer to fill the CFO position -- usually six months to a year. But since the job is too crucial to leave open that long, companies like Aetna, New York Life, Sapient, and Citrix Systems have, for varying amounts of time, gone the interim CFO route.
Inc. August 1, 2002 Anne Stuart	Not-So-Bright Ideas Voyant Technologies honors employees who come up with great new product ideas, as well as those less-than-shining suggestions.
Inc. August 1, 2002 Anne Stuart	Hands On: The Right Fit To relieve his hiring headaches, Clifford Public Relations CEO Mike Clifford invites major clients to help pick their own account representatives.
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