Reveille
Monet AnyWhere, a Web-based workforce management agent and supervisor interface, is now offered in over 100
languages.
HRchitect Launches Employee Performance Management (EPM) Consulting Practice.
BizJobs.com now offers RSS feeds for most of its sections. Syndication can be found here.
ERC Dataplus introduces AutoOutreachSM Job Posting, a targeted efax and email job posting system.
CampusPoint, a Northwest hybrid (college recruiting/temp firm) fills about 10 to 20 TempTern positions a week, and fill more than 1,000 total jobs
a year.
The primary failure of most applicant management systems is that recruiters aren't able to mine their candidate database to find the right candidates for a position. Bernard Hodes Group introduces iQ Talent
Scout in the new version of Hodes iQ, to solve the problem.
New Combinations
Taleo teams with LinkedIn to integrate referrals and reference checking.
Coming Soon
2005 San Francisco HR Star Conference
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
South San Francisco Conference Center
Free for HR Professionals
$98/person for consultants, non-HR professionals
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Deck Chairs
The Board of Commissioners for St. Mary's County has appointed Susan Sabo Director of Human Resources...J. C. Penney Company announced that Michael
T. Theilmann will join the company as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources and Administration Officer...John Gordon is Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources at Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL).
Survey Sez
Gros Plastics Recruiters and Mid-America Plastics Partners unveiled the findings today from their first-of-its-kind hiring trends survey of the
plastics and packaging industry.
Overall Hiring
-- 43% of companies surveyed stated that their overall number of employees grew in 2004 as compared to 2003.
-- 28% claimed that their overall number of employees decreased in the same time period.
Hourly vs. Salary Hiring
-- 79% of survey respondents stated that they anticipate the number of hourly employees at their companies will increase or stay the same in 2005 over 2004.
-- 81% of survey respondents stated that they anticipate the number of salaried employees at their companies will increase or stay the same in 2005 versus 2004.
-- 24% of survey respondents stated they are increasing the ratio of hourly employees to salaried employees in 2005.
Bonuses
-- 72% of managers stated that they anticipated giving out bonuses this year.
Turnover
-- 23% of survey respondents stated that the trend in employee turnover rate is increasing.
-- 62% respondents stated that under 5% turnover was considered acceptable at their companies.
-- 34% of all respondents will actively look for a new job in 2005.
Education Vs. Experience
-- 41% of survey respondents stated that after 5 years of work experience, "education" and "work experience" become equal.
Career Advice
-- 21% of respondents, if asked to give career advice to a young person, recommended Research & Development/New Product Development as the best discipline, the highest response.
Monstertrak found that 60 percent of this year's class would be moving in with Mom and Dad. Most students cite student loan and credit card debt as the main reason for moving home.
You Should Know
Australia:
As low unemployment and a dwindling labor force bite the recruitment industry, the battle to turn a profit has turned the focus on headhunter fees.
Canada: About 7.6% of all full-time employees holding one job were absent from work for all or part of the week for personal reasons.
Extrapolated over the full year, work time lost for personal reasons increased from the equivalent of 7.3 days per worker in 1997 to 9.2 in 2004.(HRInfodesk)
Global:
While CFOs do seek tangible results from executive education programs, they don't like measuring their effects in terms of ROI.
India: The domestic IT industry has bagged 44 per cent of global outsourcing projects in 2004-05 and is poised to garner more than 50 per cent this year. (Calcutta Telegraph)
India: CyberMediaDice, India's only IT focused job board, uses MeasureUP to assure customers of quality candidates. (CIOL)
Malaysia: Vegetable farmers have been hit hard by a labour shortage, resulting in a drop in yield and an increase in market prices. (Malaysia Star)
Scotland: Nursing leaders have urged the Scottish Executive to take immediate action to stop the "unethical" recruitment of nurses from abroad. (Scotsman)
Spain: Unemployment fell by 4.2 percent in May from April. (INA Daily)
UAE: IT and the changing role of HR. (Middle East Info)
UK: The 2003/4 Labour Force Survey shows that the average amount of time taken off in each case of back pain is 19 days. (Personnel Today)
UK: From April 2005, all publicly quoted companies are required by the Department of Trade and Industry to include a section on their approach to human capital management within their annual Operating and Financial Review.
UK: 120,000 foreigners needed to fill India's skills gap. (Silicon.com)
US: The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University estimates that 14.9 percent of the labor force was foreign-born in the first four months of 2004, amounting to 21.8 million workers. (Immigration Daily)
US: Visa restrictions add to labor shortages.
US: Washington Examiner: a new kind of free newspaper. (Newspapers and Technology)
US: What Ebay could learn from Craigslist. (NYT: Registration Required)
WA: Labor supply for manufacturers is going to be a real problem in the near future. (Spokane Journal)
You Should Know
New Zealand:
Salary increases over the past 12 months have been restrained considering the prevalent level of skills shortages.
US: County level employment sites in the northeast.
US: 98 public and private U.S. staffing companies had revenues of $100 million or more last year. (Staffing Industry Analysts)
US: Newspapers have lost nearly $2 billion in annual revenues from anchor advertising by department stores. This is the second largest category loss for newspapers, behind the $5 billion implosion in recruitment advertising that occurred from 2000-2003. (Research
and Markets)
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