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| August 18, 2003 |
Harsh Mistress
Read John Sumser's Electronic Recruiting News for insight and analysis.
From the Bureau
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.1 percent in July, before seasonal adjustment. The July level of 183.9 was 2.1 percent higher than in July 2002.
The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) was unchanged in July, prior to seasonal adjustment. The July level of 179.6 was 2.0 percent higher than in July 2002.
Real average weekly earnings declined by 0.1 percent from June to July after seasonal adjustment. A 0.3-percent increase in average hourly earnings was more than offset by a 0.3-percent decrease in average weekly hours and a 0.1-percent rise in CPI-W.
Average weekly earnings rose by 2.5 percent, seasonally adjusted, from July 2002 to July 2003. After deflation by the CPI-W, average weekly earnings increased by 0.5 percent. Before adjustment for seasonal change and inflation, average weekly earnings were $516.28 in July 2003, compared with $503.75 a year earlier.
Check Out the Competition
FSJobs is an industry-specific job board catering exclusively to the entire Financial Services industry, such as the Finance-Securities, Banking, Insurance and Real Estate/Mortgage companies that make up the overall Financial Services industry.
New Combinations
iVillage acquires Gurl.com for an undisclosed amount.
Reveille
Verifications, Inc., a provider of employee screening services, and TruStar Solutions, a human resource consulting and technology solutions firm form a strategic partnership, designed to combine the best in class in order to conduct job vacancy searches by posting the job opening, sourcing, ranking and filtering resumes, and conducting the necessary pre-employment background and screening checks all via web based applications.
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SIX WAYS NOT TO BUILD YOUR CAREER SITE
If a talented candidate dropped by your office, would you make her wait forever in the lobby, staring aimlessly at your company logo?
Would you demand her name, e-mail address, date of birth, current job and zip code before offering even the most basic information about your company? Would you force her to fill out complex applications just to find out if you're even hiring?
Of course not. You'd never do these things. No HR pro would--in real life.
But online, where nearly all potential hires begin their experience with your firm, many of us do all this and more. Maybe that's why 50 percent of all online job seekers describe the experience as unpleasant or frustrating.
Read the full article at:
http://www.hodes.com/branding
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