Global:

• BPO Is Out, BPU Is In
  Business process utilities are the natural next step in the evolution of outsourcing. For the BPU model to work, the process or business unit owner - say, the vice president of HR has to accept the fact that HR processes are not a competitive differentiator for the company. BPU is all about standardized processes and a one-tomany architecture. So whereas BPO for the most part uses a company's existing architecture, BPU does not. (BlackEnterprise)

• The graying of the workforce is better news than you thought. (BusinessWeek)

• Homer Simpson...literal Safety Poster Boy. [via Ian McKenzie]

• Free methods to obtaining wonderful information about the companies you'd like to work with or the professionals you'd like to recruit for your clients.  [Talent Scout]

• Will Wu spent more than 10,000 minutes on his mobile phone — an average of 5 1/2 hours a day.
  Sometimes he talked, sometimes he listened. But most of the time, the 15-year-old just dialed up a friend and left the phone on. Connected only by wireless headsets, Will and his pal spent entire days — together, but apart — shopping, snacking, doing homework and even nodding off to sleep. (LA Times) [via SmartMobs]

• slogging  represents the way blogging and social networking complement each other. In other words, a terrible term for a pretty cool thing. (AlwaysOn)

• RSS: Real Simple Syndication or Really Saturated Space?
  As companies awaken to the revenue opportunities of RSS services and technology (think advertising!), players proliferate and the race to differentiate is on. (AlwaysOn)

• Top 3 Reasons Rainmakers Stay Where They Are (Terri Robinson)

• The Mobile Jobs Channel is a free subscription service that instantly sends the latest online job postings directly to the job seekers' mobile devices. Postings are downloaded from Harvey Nash locations nationwide, eliminating the need to go online to see and apply for jobs.(WirelessIQ)

• The search for Google's soul (Financial Express)

India:

• Move Over, India: The Shifting Geography of Offshore Outsourcing Creates New Challengers (Informit)

• India's outsourcing $s head to China  (ExpressIndia)

• India's booming wireless sector, the world's fastest growing major mobile market, added 1.7 million new users in May taking the total wireless base in Asia's fourth largest economy to 55.87 million customers. (India Times) [via SmartMobs]

UK:

• Is unemployment on its way back? (Telegraph)

• Forget what the polls said, forget the political rhetoric, the UK employers need foreign workers. (IndiaTimes)

• IT staff travelling abroad are being targeted by foreign spies in an attempt to steal cutting-edge technologies and research, according to MI5. (Silicon.com)

US:

• Women's share of IT jobs plunges. (SiliconValley) - [vis Jim Stroud]

• Corporate rock is back. And we're not talking about Loverboy or REO Speedwagon - those conceived-in-the-major-label-boardroom arena acts that tortured music fans of the 1980s.
  This time, experts say, company-sponsored bands are a sort of antidote to workplace anxiety. (BostonHerald)

• Pentagon creating recruiting tool. Student database source of privacy concerns. (MSNBC) [via Hank]

• Many IT pros much younger than 65 report that the job struggles they've encountered over the last few years make them feel as though they've already been permanently put out to pasture by prospective employers. (Information Week)

• In the US, the size of the HR outsourcing in the mid-market (less than 10,000 employees) is about $30 billion, payroll processing is about $80 billion and benefit administration is about $40 billion. However, the US-based firms have been outsourcing HR-related services within the US, and offshoring is still at a nascent stage. (SifyFinance)

• Link Correction: Finding work through your place of worship (Joyce Lain Kennedy)

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