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DoD opens new Afghanistan recruiting site.
Four years after initially franchising its concept, Geeks On Call announced a dramatic West Coast expansion, including the recent opening of seven franchises in California and plans for 22 more.
General Atlantic Acquires Majority Stake in Webloyalty.com
Forest Lawn announced it is actively recruiting skilled, committed professionals for all of its Southern California locations. "Working for a memorial-park and mortuary may sound unusual, but for many
it is an ideal environment," said Dee Pies, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Forest Lawn.
New Combos
Lawson Software to work with IBM on service oriented architecture (SOA)
LocalCareers.com purchased NewJerseyJobs.com
Coming Soon
Lawson Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:LWSN)
Presents at 33rd Annual J. P. Morgan Technology Conference
Monday, May 16, at 3 p.m. Pacific time
webcast live and accessible via www.lawson.com or via http://equityconferences.jpmorgan.com.
The replay will remain available for one week.
Free
Seminar on HR and Recruiting Standards
sponsored by HR-XML Consortium Europe
Monday, June 13
Intercontinental Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany
Contact i.teetz@eu.hr-xml.org
Survey Sez
While eighty six percent (86%) of HR Executives feel that having a well defined talent sourcing strategy is critical for business success, only thirty three percent (33%) currently have a documented talent sourcing strategy. (Insearch Worldwide)
Deck Chairs
John Gordon has joined Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL) as Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources...Early Cochran & Olson, LLC, a search firm specializing in the recruitment of attorneys announced that Laura
Hagen has joined the firm as a Principal.
You Should Know
Australia: A flight attendant was refused a job with Virgin Blue after straddling another applicant and simulating a sex act with him during a group interview, according to airline
recruitment staff...Australia's workforce participation rate reached a record in April, but remains below the rich-country average.
Canada: Fewer people will enter the work force in the coming decade, creating a disturbing labor shortage that will have a detrimental effect on furniture retailers
China: "Within the next decade China will see its last substantial labor force increase . . . . By 2015, the annual supply of new labor will start to decline sharply . . . . China will enter a long period of demographic crossover: a consistently declining new labor supply
coupled with a consistently rising elderly population. Once the labor shortage becomes a serious concern, as it may well be in 10 years, it will be at least 10 years too late to do anything. (Rocky Mountain
News...Basic Research from East West Center)
Global: Could the Oracle-Peoplesoft battle have been spring training for the real war?
Netherlands: Nearly two-thirds of organizations have already brought some form of outsourced service back in-house.
UK: ASB reporting standards for HR disappointing...Builders
responsible for labor shortage...
US: The Army's Recruiting Trouble...Military faces youth protests...Military will use Paradigm Learning
to manage day of review...Offshoring Digest: stay abreast of the flow...McCain proposal:
sweeping immigration reform....Employment jump masks deeper ills in US job market
US: Workers already concerned about the future of Social Security got another worrying sign when United Airlines won court approval to walk away from billions in
pension obligations.
AZ: Republican lawmakers are refusing to impose state sanctions on companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers
IN: Indiana barely participated in the national job boom in April
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh on talent and training
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