Reveille
Bernard Hodes Group received a special award from the National Student Nurses' Association (NSNA) in recognition of the pro bono services provided for the organization in 2004.

Hudson Highland will acquire Dutch staffing firm Balance Ervaring op Projectbasis BV for $24.9 million.

HotGigs launches more than 2,000 online training modules sold in one-year subscriptions.

Hewitt Associates has formed a joint venture with Human Link (HLC), a Japanese personnel administration firm to capitalize on the growing demand for HR outsourcing services in Japan.

LinkedIn introduces a new paid service called LinkedIn for Groups, targeting alumni, professional and other organizations.

CampusAdTrader is an online, auction-based marketplace for buying and selling print, online and classified advertising in U.S. college newspapers.

MSN-Israel has signed a strategic agreement with Redmatch to jointly develop a new Hebrew language employment site hosted and promoted on the MSN-Israel portal and launched during the next few months.

Resume Mirror and Infotronic Services have entered an agreement where  Resume Mirror will re-sell Infotronic's services to customers requiring hard copy resume and application processing. The agreement ensures customers can complete their hard copy processing requirements at cost points up to 50% lower than current industry standards.

ORM Managed Solutions launches their Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) services to the UK marketplace.

TruStar Solutions announced a reseller agreement with Recruitmax. Through this agreement, TruStar Solutions' ob posting distribution software and related consulting services are now available to Recruitmax clients.

CareerCast has changed its name to Adicio Inc. The name reflects the company's ongoing and aggressive expansion into additional online classified categories including real estate and automotive. AdicioTM (www.adicio.com) will serve as the company's name while the well known and respected CareerCast brand will continue to represent the name of products in the recruitment category.

Job Market relaunched its Web site on NYTimes.com.

The Human Capital Institute (HCI) and Human Capital magazine announced a partnership that includes a media sponsorship and HCI research content for the magazine.

Deck Chairs
>Bryan Ramsey is the new vice president of human resources of Aerojet-General Corporation..Manpower appointed Mara Swan to Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources....

Survey Sez
Extreme Hiring Makeover
Three federal agencies revealed the results of a 10-month "Extreme Hiring Makeover"to improve the way they recruit and hire skilled employees, demonstrating how the project helped them streamline their hiring and improve the caliber of their job candidates. As part of the project, these agencies received pro-bono services and advice from Monster Government Solutions, ePredix, CPS Human Resource Services, AIRS, Brainbench, the Human Capital Institute and Korn/Ferry International.

The basic recommendations were:

1. Dare to Do Things Differently - Although the real Extreme Makeover shows focus on the external, this makeover pushed agencies to re-assess their internal practices and change from the inside out, from improving internal communications to eliminating unnecessary hiring steps that had crept into agencies' processes over a period of years.

2. Invest in Proactive Targeting - All too often, agencies will post job vacancy announcements and assume that top-flight candidates will just apply. However, as seen in the private sector, actively recruiting candidates can enhance the quality and quantity of applicants. All three pilot agencies benefited from reaching out and marketing their job openings to candidates who may not regularly seek government employment, expanding the talent pool to new and diverse sources.

3. Put the Hiring Manager in the Driver's Seat - In many agencies, walls have been built between the hiring managers and the human resources office. Hiring activities are often conducted by third parties without a stake in the selection, or a real understanding of the type of candidate needed. As a result, managers are not primarily accountable for hiring the way they are in high-performing organizations. Government can learn a lesson from the private sector in this regard, as the leaders of many successful companies spend much of their personal time engaged in seeking out top-tier candidates.

More info. Also see The Hiring Process Issue Brief

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You Should Know
Australia: Research shows that Australia will face permanent labour shortages across most industries and occupations by 2010 due to our ageing population. Luckily Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can help. (SupplyChain)

Bahamas It is today an open secret that there is a manpower shortage in some areas of the Bahamian economy. Things are reaching a point where labour will have to be imported if certain projects are to be completed on a timely basis, and within budget. (Bahama Journal)

China: 25 percent of China's office workers have mental problems. (ChinaView)

Global:

• Online Recruiting course. (About.com)

• How to ride the outsourcing wave (MSNBC)

• Many companies burdened by the costs and complexity of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements are turning to India for help. While the 2002 law was seen as a cure for sloppy financial reporting and the frauds it can cover up, it has also resulted in more work being sent overseas, the Wall Street Journal reported. (AccountingWEB)

• Complexity reduction is a major focus of world-class HR organizations, which spend 27 percent less per employee on HR than their peers, operate with 35 percent fewer HR staff, and also demonstrate improved effectiveness with fewer voluntary terminations and the ability to fill positions more quickly. (Hackett)

• Newspaper publishers have been slow to recognize the danger Craigslist and other online classified sites pose to their bottom line, but they're finally catching on. A few even have innovative ideas for taking back their lost market share. (Editor and Publisher)

India:

• The Kerala government has formed two committees to look into fake recruitment agencies sending people to the Gulf countries. (Manorama Online)

• With attrition averaging at 45-50 per cent in voice-based call centres and at 15-20 per cent in non-voice BPOs, industry representatives agreed there is a need to find better ways to grab and hold their talent. (IndianExpress)

Minnesota: The number of banks is increasing in Minnesota, and more of them focus on business lending, but experienced commercial bankers -- who possess valuable technical skills plus the ability to generate new accounts -- are getting scarce. (Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal)

Nevada: The link between a highly trained workforce and business success or failure is no longer theoretical when our nation's top economists now classify it as a threat to the economy. (Lahontan Valley News)

New Jersey: Job growth in New Jersey will weaken over the next five years, and many of the new jobs will come in the lower-paying restaurant, leisure and social services sectors. (Newsday)

UK:

• Overall, the UK is gaining far more jobs than it is losing to countries such as India and China, says Mari Sako, a professor of management studies at Oxford University's Said Business School. (VNUnet)

• Increasing retirement rates combined with a drop in new IT graduates will leave companies struggling to recruit enough staff with business and technology skills. (Silicon.com)

• Jack McConnell's flagship Fresh Talent initiative to attract migrants was derided as a "waste of time"yesterday, after it emerged that students are being asked to find up to £500 if they want to stay on in Scotland. (Scotsman)

• The looming IT skills shortage could help the industry grow up. (Silicon.com)

• 53% of people said that their local newspaper is the best place to look for a job that's close to home, and a further 25% named the local newspaper website. (BusinessGazette)

US:

• Before one of Microsoft's brightest technical minds, Kai-Fu Lee, walked away from his Redmond (Wash.) office for the last time on July 18, an employee of Microsoft's legal department served him notice that he was about to be sued. (BusinessWeek) (Read the Slashdot) (Google counter sues)

• America's job market is still surprisingly subdued considering how far the nation is into the current economic expansion. Unemployment stands at 5%, down from a high of 6.3% in June 2003, but much of the early improvement came from workers leaving the labour force, according to A;an Greenspan. (Economist)

• As the War in Iraq Grinds On, Military Recruiters Are Finding New Soldiers Increasingly Hard to Come By. Will the Promise of Dinette Sets Make a Difference? (The Stranger)

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