AP - Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages. ...

Warning a Michael rant coming. While regular background checkinf is a standard part of most recruitment processes, using search engines and social networks to background check candidates still seems to be the exception. I find this amazing that a quick 5 minute search online to learn about a candida ...

Peoplebank is still confident of meeting its first half EBITDA guidance of $9 to $9.5 million, but chairman David Benn warned shareholders this morning that the company was now seeing a marked slowdown in perm hiring, and said it would be impossible to make financial forecasts for the second half. ...

Demand for healthcare workers appears recession-proof but job prospects for business professionals are slumping, a new survey shows. The quarterly member survey by Australian and New Zealand industry body Recruitment and Consulting... ...

FRIGHTENED gridiron players are carrying guns and hiring bodyguards to protect themselves from a violent crime spree that's claimed two players' lives. ...