CareerBuilder founder and former CEO Rob McGovern, launches mkt10 (pronounced Market 10), a "second generation job board". As part of the launch, Peopleclick has signed an exclusive agreement to market Peopleclick Precision Matching - a private-label mkt10 solution for corporate career sites.

DiversityBusiness will be conducting its 6th annual "Top Small Businesses in America" survey. The survey will determine the Top 500 Small Businesses in the United States, the Top 500 Diversity Owned Business in the United States, and for each State the Top 50 Small businesses and Top 50 Diversity owned businesses. Winners will be announced in September 2005 and will be honored at the 6th Annual Multicultural Business Conference in March 2006. To participate, businesses must register by September 15, 2005 at DiversityBusiness

iCIMS has passed the 250 customer mark and now process over 1.2 million candidates a day.

Aquent, the largest creative staffing firm in the world, acquires Corporate Project Resources. The acquisition creates the largest marketing and creative staffing firm in the world.

GMAC Global Relocation Services introduced a new research and information periodical, Strategic Advisor, that provides expert insights and solutions to domestic and international relocation questions and concerns.

The Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP) announced its 2005 U.S. corporate sponsors for its fourteenth annual gathering of Indian Professionals which will bring more than one thousand leading Indian American professionals seeking to network and discuss trends related to Indians in the U.S.

Redgoldfish.co.uk claims that 400,000 unique users carried out over 1 million job searches in June with an average of over 5,000 new job seekers registering each week.

Deck Chairs
Warner Music Group  (WMG) announced Caroline Stockdale will join the company as Executive Vice President, Human Resources...Spencer Stuart elected Virginia Clarke, Susan Coffin and Michael Corey partners. Clarke heads the firm's diversity and real estate practices, and is a member of its financial-services practice. Coffin co-heads the global machinery and equipment practice, and Corey is a member of the life sciences, information officer and diversity practices...Accolo  has appointed Christy Tuescher as Director of Client Services...

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Australia:

California: A six-page, full-color recruitment brochure seeking qualified chief executives for the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Convention and Visitors Authority was published, as part of the $36,000 recruitment by Roberts Consulting Group  (DesertSun)

Global:

• Newspapers are scrambling to adjust their classified advertising to grab the attention of the 18- to 34-year-olds whom advertisers crave. (Washington Times)

• Job Scraping technology is the name for job aggregation technology that prowls the Internet to locate employment ads.  Job scraping is derived from the more universal Information Technology term, "screen scraping". (PostOnce)

• Indeed.com co-founder Paul Forster interviewed. (Intuitive Life)

• Microsoft Corp. increased its pace of hiring in the past year, adding nearly 4,400 employees worldwide, and said it plans to continue expanding at about the same clip in the year ahead. But more than half that employment growth occurred outside the United States. (NWTimes)

India:

• Wage differentials are influenced by differences in individual productivity, which in turn are influenced by "investments in education or training made by individuals throughout their lives". (HinduBusinessLine)

• Government has referred 5113 posts of lecturers and teachers to recruitment agencies for filling up the vacancies. (GreaterKashmir.com)

Iowa: A gain of 5,700 non-farm jobs helped squeeze Iowa's unemployment rate down in June, and finally resurrected Iowa's non-farm job levels to pre-recession levels. The rate fell to 4.6 percent. (BlackEnterprise.com)

Japan: Japan needs to get more women, young people and the elderly into the workforce as the country's population declines, rather than rely on immigrants. (CNN)

Massachusetts: From 2002 to 2003 alone, according to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, a net 61,000 people of working age, half holding at least a bachelor's degree, left the state. As a result, even the modest improvement in the state's economy is creating shortages in certain industries and in parts of the state as the demand for workers begins to increase. (boston.com)

New Zealand: Fairfax New Zealand has revamped its Jobstuff recruitment website, a six-figure project designed to attract job hunters who aren't hunting online. The site now features a service that stores tailored versions of a CV, an application tracker showing which jobs have been applied for, and a section just for management roles with salaries over $100,000 per year. (Stuff)

Ohio: The state's unemployment rate for June was 6.1, the third straight month it's been at that level. (BlackEnterprise.com)

Thailand:  Employees are becoming more reluctant to test the job market, even if a move could mean a better compensation package, for fear of current economic uncertainties. (Bangkok Post)

UAE: Major oil and gas producers are competing fiercely for the scarce qualified manpower. (Khaleej Times)

US:

• Most U.S.-Based IT organizations expect to increase headcount in the next 12 months. (Gartner)

• Self-employment plunged last month as entrepreneurs sought steadier income and benefits with established companies. The number of self-employed workers in June fell 3.1 percent, or 303,000, from the month before. It was the second consecutive month of big declines and the third-biggest monthly drop since 1995. Self-employment tends to fall as the economy grows. (AZCentral)

• The backlog of foreign workers seeking green cards, which allow immigrants to live and work in the United States permanently, numbers more than 330,000. (DailyNews)

• The National Association for Business Economics, which polled 103 corporate planners and financial analysts, said last week that more than a third of them reported their companies had difficulty hiring skilled workers. That marked the highest level in four years, and was consistent with Federal Reserve surveys of economic conditions across the country. (FortWayne.com)

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