A slight majority of 53 percent of senior finance executives plan to increase headcount over the next 12 months, with a focus on acquiring specialized skills and expertise, according to a new survey.

The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index, a barometer for hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, increased by 0.05 percent during April, following an increase of 1.66 percent in March.

Private companies are too nervous about the future to increase their hiring, according to a new survey of accountants, bankers and other financial professionals who work closely with these firms by financial information company Sageworks Inc.

A disappointing total of 115,000 jobs were added to nonfarm payrolls in April, decreasing the unemployment rate by one-tenth of a point to 8.1 percent, a three-year low.

Hiring and the size of the average paycheck have dropped at small businesses, according to payroll provider SurePayroll.

Employers in the private sector added 119,000 jobs from March to April, according to seasonally adjusted figures released Wednesday by payroll giant ADP, in the latest disappointing sign of employment activity.

Small business owners are losing some of their optimism and planning to do less hiring in the months ahead, according to a widely cited survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.

CBIZ said Thursday that its Small Business Employment Index for March indicated the highest month-over-month growth in hiring since June 2010.

You have watched your newest hire work for their first 30 days and you are looking back at their great resume and 15 years of experience. All you can think is, “Does he really have 15 years of experience or just one year of experience 15 times?”

Staffing company Accounting Principals has released its list of the top 10 cities to find a finance job.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of documenting whether it completed all of the necessary pre-screening steps before hiring new employees, according to a new government report.

The economy continued to gain jobs last month, with another 227,000 added in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although the unemployment rate remained unchanged from January, at 8.3 percent.

Staffing levels in accounting and finance are anticipated to stay fairly steady in the second quarter, according to a survey of CFOs by staffing company Robert Half International.

Employment in the private sector rose by 216,000 from January to February on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP.

Small businesses continued to create jobs in February, particularly in hard-hit states, but the pace of job creation is slowing down.

Hiring was up slightly, by 0.04 percent, but paycheck size declined slightly by 0.2 percent, from January to February, according to payroll provider SurePayroll.

With concerns mounting over the upcoming Presidential election and the Eurozone crisis, CFOs are tempering their optimism about economic growth and relying more on temporary employees in their hiring plans.

KPMG LLP said Monday that it would offer tax offsets to its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender partners and employees for the additional federal and state tax costs they incur when they pay for the medical benefits of same-sex domestic partners.

The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent, providing some measure of comfort for President Barack Obama who faces re-election in November.

Private sector employers added 170,000 jobs in January, according to the monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP, which saw most of the gains in small and midsized businesses come in the service sector.