Reveille
Towers Perrin acquires Rauser AG, a German pensions consultancy.

Boutique media investment bank Veronis Suhler Stevenson has agreed to acquire and then recap and merge worker-screening companies Qwiz and ePredix.

Manpower has launched  The Manpower Business Resource Center to give companies HR insight that will help them make smart hiring decisions and effectively manage their workforce.

"There are NO  monsters here, just Truck People" - says Truckjobs.com

VISTA Staffing Solutions (Locum Tenens) Offers Both Domestic and International Temporary Physician Placements

Rocket-Hire launches it's Online Buyer's Guide to Screening & Assessment Systems.

IBM adds business blogs to Workplace 2.6.

Hewitt Associates has formed an alliance with Jobpartners, a PRM (People Relationship Management) company.

Compusystems, a Michigan based recruitment services firm, is getting ready to become a software-cum-BPO outfit. Towards this, it plans to ramp up its business process outsourcing services from its centres in Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram

DDC HRO  has formed a strategic alliance with Temasys International opening the door for HRO in Singapore and China.

CareerXRoads offers a new whitepaper: The 2005 Study of the Job Seeker Experience

MilitaryStars will launch its Southwest Regional Military Hiring Event in Dallas on August 1.

HR.com offers a free iPod shuffle for all new Premier members.

New AIMFIGHT.com Site Lets AOL Members and AIM® Users Gauge Their Online Popularity, Compare Buddy List Ranking With Friends, Colleagues and AIM Users Everywhere.

CareerJournal notes some of  its contributions to employment networking:

• more than two dozen updated articles on all aspects of networking within our Job-Hunting Advice section

• guidance on issues ranging from how to network when you're introverted to why women are better networkers than men to tips on integrating networking into the course of your normal day.
  

Deck Chairs
iGate Global Solutions a leading mid-size Indian software company, announced the appointment of U.V.G. Sekar as senior vice president and global head of human resources...Marie Laderta was named interim director of the Hawaii Department of Human Resources Development...Mission Hospitals has named Maria Roloff as the new vice president of human resources

Survey Sez
Recruiter Confidence
With economic growth remaining strong in the face of soaring energy prices, ExecuNet's Recruiters Confidence Index returned to a record high first reached in March 2005.  The search industry is expecting strong growth in jobs paying more than $100,000. According to the survey of 258 executive recruiters, 78% are confident or very confident the executive employment market will improve during the next six months - up from 72% in May.  During this period of time, the executive search industry is expecting a 15.2% increase in the number of assignments received from corporate clients.
 

Securities Industry Employment:
Employment slipped in June, on a seasonally adjusted basis, by nearly 2,000 jobs.  This marks the first time this year that the Securities Industry has had a net job loss.  (On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, there was an increase in jobs, but we are still nearly 5,000 jobs short of the pace through June versus last year on this scale.) June's report describes a net gain of only 3,300 new jobs for  the first half of 2005 - a gain of less than ½ of 1%.  This is "less than robust" by many standards.


Source: BrokerHunter

You Should Know
Australia: There is a security skills shortage, and "it's going to get a lot worse," delegates at the Gartner Security Summit were told. (ZDNet.com.au)

Global:

• "In the end, it's about search, content, community, and personalization." Rob Solomon, Yahoo Shopping VP (Search Engine Journal)

• Europeans are bracing for a double whammy -- a spike in retirees plus a drop in IT graduates -- that could leave them scrambling for help as early as next year. (Internet)

• Although Google maintains a hefty market share, it isn't rolling over its competitors"... (EcommerceTimes)

• Many firms are struggling to manage relationships with their IT outsourcing providers. (ITWeek)

• The average size of IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) services contracts fell by 50% in the second quarter of 2005. (Vnunet)

• Human Resources will be a critical issue again for the global aviation industry. But the outlook between different geographical regions is stark. In no other era has the employment outlook differed so greatly between the US/Europe and the emerging markets of Asia and the Middle East. (Aviation Executive Monthly)

• Academic performance has no correlation with skillset requirements of the BPO/IT industry and the quality of engineering students in professional colleges varies across India which will be facing an acute shortage of talented workforce in information technology in the next three years. (NewsToday)

Korea: For 29 consecutive months, Korea has seen a decline in the number of workers involved in the sales industry.  Figures by the National Statistical Office show the number of salespeople fell 3.3 percent in June compared to a year ago to 2.65 million people. (Arirang News)

South Africa: Amazon.com opened a software development centre in Cape Town, and is recruiting top-notch South African software engineers to join its ranks. (Moneyweb)

Taiwan: The supply of knowledge workers in specialty manufacturing and service sectors in Taiwan falls far short of the growing demand. (Myegov)

Philippines: With low wages and lack of job opportunities in big companies, workers are now shifting toward self-employment. (Philipine Star)

UK:

• Outsourcing could mean skills shortage. (ComputerWeekly)

• Could free massages solve IT skills shortage? (TheRegister)

• I am in Exmoor now with five children, Ryan and Coco. Ryan is my nanny. Coco is the dog.
  I hired Ryan from the Gumtree website. People were very shocked by this. "Haven't you seen him?" several asked. "No," I would answer, explaining that the people I hired sight unseen tended to work out better. (Telegraph)

US:

• Offshore outsourcing is "no longer having a profound dampening effect on wages for U.S. IT professionals," Foote Partners said in a study, released Monday. (ZDNet)

• Computer engineers (applications), computer support specialists, computer engineers (systems software), network administrators and data communications analysts are the five fastest-growing tech jobs, according to the (BLS). (NorthJersey.com)

• While the HR consulting market is expected to begin a slow climb toward a general recovery in 2006, the HR outsourcing market is forecast to outpace consulting. (Kennedy)

Washington: The Seattle metropolitan area gained a net of 6,600 jobs and its unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent last month. (Post-Intelligencer)

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