Corporate User Report: Human Resources Professionals

Human resources professionals are responsible for recruiting employees and managing the corporate compensation/benefits portfolio, and thus rely heavily on external information to locate job candidates and to stay abreast of the latest laws, regulations, and practices related to compensations and benefits. They spend 14% of their work week on external information tasks to assist them in their recruiting and compensation/benefits work. The estimated 700,000 HR professionals in U.S. companies, along with their worldwide colleagues, are first and foremost responsible for keeping their companies' employee staffing costs and skills sets at appropriate levels to meet company goals and for working with corporate legal to ensure that their organization is in compliance with legislation and regulations for employment practices. This Briefing provides our clients with a profile of the information purchase and use behaviors of this $1 billion + market.