Bullhorn, an on-demand, front office staffing and recruiting software firm, announced that eight of its customers have been named to the Staffing Industry Analyst 2008 list of America's fastest growing private staffing firms. The list, which is also known as The 25% Club, honors private staffing firms in the U.S. with a compounded annual growth rate of more than 25 percent between 2003 and 2007. Some of the Bullhorn customers named to the list include Addison Professional Financial Search LLC, American Legal Search LLC, John Galt Staffing Inc., Resource Options Inc., and Core Medical Group.

Capella University, an accredited, online university based in Minneapolis, launches two new online master's degree programs, a Master of Science in Human Resource Management includes specializations in General Human Resource Management, Industrial and Labor Relations, Legal Studies, and Human Capital Management, and a Master of Science in Organizational Development, which currently includes one specialization in General Organizational Development.

Collaborative, detail-oriented, conservative and fearless are the most desirable personality traits among peak performers in the financial services industry, according to a a new white paper "Talent Management in Financial Services: Best Practices For A Sluggish Economy" from human capital management firm TalentQuest.

Monster.com users targeted by CV phishers. McAfee discovered a new phishing scam targeting users of jobs site Monster.com. The scam targets both job seekers and recruiters using Monster.com. E-mails asking users to click through and update their profile appear to be linked to Monster.com, but can be traced back to a bot computer in Turkey. McAfee said the scam is most likely to impact recruiters, with the perpetrators trying to gain access to their accounts and consequently to hundreds or even thousands of CVs. McAfee said CVs offered fraudsters a potential gold mine of useful information.

Healthcare staffing company Crdentia Corp., has expanded its accounts receivable-based revolving credit facility to $7.5 million from $5.2 million and revised and expanded existing term loans including a new $1.5 million debt investment in the Company. Separately, the Company also announced that it has completed a private placement equity offering for aggregate proceeds of $1 million. Proceeds will be used for general working capital purposes.

Surveys Says
The latest Spherion survey shows decrease in overall employee confidence -- 63% of workers express confidence in the future of their current employer; 76% of workers feel it is unlikely they will lose their jobs; and slightly fewer workers are likely to look for a job in the next year. Read the results for individual States.

Despite gains in recent years, most U.S. workers aren't satisfied with their employer's workplace diversity efforts, with nearly half saying they've faced discrimination on the job, a recent survey finds. Of 2,200 adults polled nationwide by Adecco USA, a Melville, N.Y.-based human resources firm, only a third said they felt corporate America had achieved total workplace diversity. Nearly 80 percent said most employers promoted diversity efforts without enforcing them as effectively, the survey found. Indeed, as many as 47 percent said they had been discriminated against themselves at work, with 52 percent citing age as the underlying issue. Another 43 percent cited gender, and 32 percent cited race. Despite these shortcomings, most respondents said workplace diversity efforts had a positive impact on the success of their companies, and more than half said they saw a boost productivity as a result.

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