Drivethru HR

The number of car rental companies has gone from about nine major players in the United States to three in just the past few years. National bought Alamo, Avis hooked up with Budget, Thrifty merged with Dollar and then Hertz acquired the bankrupt Advantage. Enterprise Rent-A-Car then acquired the combined National and Alamo fleet in 2007 from the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, making it the largest rental car company in North America.

I agree it is necessary to focus attention on the two “R’s”, Recruitment and Retention. However, putting an Onboarding process in between will yield positive employee engagements results. It all fits rather nicely. *Image credit: sitcomsonline.com

HSBC announces it is closing a Tulsa call center facility, and more than 400 jobs will be lost. Those employees can apply for other positions within the financial company.

American Airlines is transferring 200 maintenance operations coordinator jobs over the next two years. The change will combine the Tulsa-based MOC with the Ft.Worth based systems operations center.

This is one more way for White House officials to get their message directly to people. People can already sign up on the White House Web site to get messages straight from top administration officials.

During my daily radio show “Daily DriveThru HR” this week I’d landed on relevant topic and issue that ended up taking a big part of the show with the assistance from a caller and good friend of the show “Jess at http://blogging4jobs.com”.

Ken Lewis, former Bank of America chief executive, and Joe Price, the bank’s former chief financial officer, are named in the charges by Andrew Cuomo, the attorney-general of New York.

Home Depot’s profit is about even with last year for the first nine months of the fiscal year, a period that ended Nov. 1, while revenue is down about 9 percent.

Official says “around 100″ jobs at Claremore-based Centrilift are scheduled to be moved to the the Baker-Hughes Co. branch in Houston.

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest retailer, is cutting about 11,200 jobs at its Sam’s Club warehouses, the company told its employees in a memo on Sunday.