Great Place to Work Institute has announced that Laszlo Bock, Google vice president of people operations, will present a keynote speech during the Great Place to Work Conference on April 18-20 in Los Angeles.

The Human Capital Institute (HCI) and PreVisor have announced that PreVisor will sponsor HCI’s Assessment and Selection education and research track, one of several topics addressed in HCI’s Talent Acquisition community of interest.

In the United States, employers plan to tone down hiring activity during the second quarter of 2007, according to the seasonally adjusted results of the latest Manpower Employment Outlook survey, conducted quarterly by Manpower Inc.

Spectrum Human Resource Systems Corp. is poised in the fifth position (up from #7) on The Denver Business Journal’s Denver-Area Software Developers list this week (March 9-15 issue).

A significant number of organizations lose as many as a quarter of their new hires within the first year, according to a survey of 2,000 HR and training executives by Novations Group, a global consulting firm based in Boston.