Category: Human Resources

Xpert Financial Inc. said Thursday it has hired Jim Anderson as its new president and COO. The San Mateo-based company offers an electronic platform to provide a market for private companies to raise capital. Anderson has experience in investment banking, commercial banking, ...

Michael Miller, the executive director of San Jose Jazz, has been named managing director of Children’s Musical Theater. Miller, who has had a long career in the performing arts and musical theater field, will keep his hand in San Jose Jazz ...

Plantronics Inc. said Thursday its senior vice president and CFO Barbara Scherer is expected to retire after the company has found a suitable successor. The Santa Cruz-based company (NYSE:PLT) said Scherer is expected to stay on board to help search for ...

The Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania said Thursday it filed formal charges against former Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Willie F. Singletary, who was relieved of his duties late last year after allegedly showing a photo of his genitals to a ...

Amazon.com Inc. moved up to No. 3 on Fortune magazine’s 2012 list of Most Admired Companies, behind fellow tech giants Apple (No. 1) and Google (No. 2). Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) ranked at No. 7 last year, and improved its status after ...

The number of people filing new jobless claims across the country dropped slightly by 2,000 to 351,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 353,000, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Labor. California reported a modest decrease ...

Tennessee's unemployment rate fell below the national average in January for the first time since November 2010. The state's jobless rate fell to 8.2 percent in January, down from a revised rate of 8.5 percent in December. The national unemployment rate ...

About 50 Kansas City-area employers are looking to fill more than 300 positions at a Wednesday career fair in Overland Park. Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), Freightquote.com, College Park Family Care and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. (NYSE: WDR) are among the ...

Game developer Blizzard Entertainment Inc. is cutting about 600 employees. Officials at the Santa Monica-based company said Thursday the layoffs will be the largest in company history but most of the affected workers will be in non-development areas of Blizzard, according ...

Business forces in the Tennessee General Assembly have officially ramped up their opposition to a pair of gun bills with a letter they plan to distribute to legislators. The National Rifle Association and other gun advocates have been pushing bills that ...