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Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, was named Webby person of the year at the 9th annual Webby awards.

ExperienceForHire.com, a career center for experienced business pros, is open for business.

Yumgo adds job channel.

The Judge Group has launched an Executive Search division. specializing in Chief Executive, Board Members and Senior Level Management positions.

Google plans entry into listings (a la Craigslist) as soon as next month.

hy-phen Workforce Management Solutions signed a three-year agreement to provide a vendor management and recruitment management system to Prudential, a UK  life insurer.

New Combinations
The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. will use AdStar's (ADST) technology to extend its advertising reach to contract agencies and large volume advertisers.

Scripps plans to buy Shopzilla. (Reuters)

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Deck Chairs
Bye Bye Jeff: Monster founder Jeff Taylor moves on to "new venture".....James Wildeman is the new director of the Bureau of Human Resources for the State of Pennsylvania...Maggie Bellville, former COO of Charter Communications, has signed on as a partner at  CarterBaldwin...Trustar Solutions adds Tricia Filbrun and Christina Harris (client services managers); Mandy Damm (finance and accounting manager); Lindsay Kaufman (media and sales coordinator); and Amber Campbell (recruiting analyst)

Survey Sez
From Spencer Stuart: as of 2004, Harvard no longer owns the No. 1 ranking as the university attended by the most CEOs of Standard & Poor's 500 companies (just under 4%). The school that caught up to it: the University of Wisconsin.

>From Hewitt: HR costs have grown an average of 6 percent a year for the last five years, and are currently $2,436 per full-time employee. This amounts to more than $100 million a year in HR expenses for an average Fortune 500 company. In addition, HR is now spending nearly half of its time (43 percent) on administration and service.

You Should Know
Australia: Boring jobs linked to heart risks.

Canuckistan: About 25 per cent of recent immigrants with a university degree are working at jobs that require only a high school diploma or less   (Indian Express)

Global: Doubleclick releases marketing paper: Target Demographics, Before and After

Global: Newspaper, radio and television outlets spending to prove that they are not obsolete. (CNN)

Malaysia: Malaysia is eyeing the number one outsourcing spot for information technology (IT) support, research and analytical processes as well as supply chain management. (Bernama)

Netherlands: Trader Classified Media, the Amsterdam-based advertising newspaper group, has earmarked more than €400m ($489m) for acquisitions including bolt-on print deals, expansion in China and development of online recruitment advertising. (Financial Times)

New Zealand: Migration flows to New Zealand have been highly volatile, partly reflecting significant emigration (PressEsc)...The unemployment rate could rise as much as 0.5 percentage points in the next couple of years because of an expected fall in new migrants (NZHerald)

Singapore: The UK economy loses  18 million working days a year as a result of bullying-induced absenteeism.

South Africa: Hiring On Spec is Key to Labour Flexibility. (AllAfrica)

US: In the last year, job growth has averaged 165,000 per month, according to statistics compiled by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank. Meanwhile, in the same time frame after the 1991 recession, job creation averaged 316,000 per month. (Political Affairs.net)

US: The number of US workers who are quitting their jobs is approaching a four-year high. (Washington Times)

US: Audit Bureau of Circulations says daily newspaper circulation dropped 1.9% and 2.5% decline on Sundays in the first half of 2005, compared with the first half of 2004. These are the largest circulation losses for industry in more than 10 years. (IT Facts)

Zimbabwe: The shortage of health personnel in the country has affected the quality of HIV and Aids health care, as Zimbabwe continues to lose experienced health workers to other countries. (AllAfrica) Drop A Note
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