Academia institutions and employers should collaborate to develop more effective job-specific career pathways, which would lead to more hires, greater advancement opportunities and increased prosperity to those who do not attain traditional college degrees.

Engineering employees confidence slipped to 54.4 in the third quarter for a drop of 4.6 points from the second quarter, marking the second consecutive decline in 2012, according to the Randstad Engineering Employee Confidence Index.

TuitionHelp, a tuition-reimbursement benefit designed to cut college costs for employees as well as tuition-reimbursement expenses for employers, is now offered to corporate clients of Edcor, a provider of tuition-assistance administration and management.

Although some of the major lenders cut thousands of jobs, other firms brought in more employees during the third quarter for a positive net gain.

When an employer has a well-managed leadership transition program, it can improve revenue by 3 percent to 5 percent and gain an advantage in talent acquisition.

Dos Taquitos Mexican Restaurant of Raleigh, N.C., is to pay 26 employees $48,125 in back wages after it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage, overtime, child labor and record-keeping provisions.

Forty-nine percent of employees say they plan to do some holiday shopping online in the office, which is similar to last years figure.

While staffs and budgets among human resources department did slightly recovery in 2012, these improvements did not make up for cuts and freezes that happened during and after the recession.