Reveille
Various Inc., a private company that operates FriendFinder.com and affiliated dating sites, has acquired Spring Street Networks, the venture-backed company that provides online personals for sites like Nerve.com and TheOnion.com.

RES (Recruitment Enhancement Services), unveiled its new Web site. The redesigned site was created to provide clarity and make the business case for the increasingly popular and fast-growing business practice of Recruitment Process Outsourcing.

Baidu.com, China's largest search engine will have its initial public offering next week. Baidu's IPO has all the ingredients of one that is likely to do really, really well.

Monster announced an alliance with the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). The strategic alliance will allow for the creation of a co-branded Website where users can search for local and national construction jobs and research information relevant to the industry.

Human Resources IQ and IQPC are currently accepting applications for the annual Corporate University Best in Class Awards (CUBIC).

Recruitmax has moved into new headquarters and expanded its London office.

Resources that support U.S. troops, their families and their employers can be found in the online Resource Center of Employers United for a Strong America (EUSA).

World Health Alternatives purchases Orlando-based Universal Staffing Group.

Simplex announces the launch of a dedicated financial IT recruitment division to complement its existing consultancy activities

Monster Worldwide reports 2005 second quarter results: $239.0 Million of revenue, income from continuing operations of $25.6 Million, and $0.21 in diluted earnings per share from continuing operations.

Unicru  and Hcareers announced a partnership to integrate Unicru's hiring management system with Hcareer's job board, enabling Unicru clients to source, screen and hire top candidates with industry-relevant experience.

CareerBoard has partnered with iQ Digital Studios to offer Streaming Video.

Yumgo/jobs  enables users to simultaneously search up to five job boards in one hit.

CareerBuilder.com is now powering the online job search center for the Boulder Daily Camera, one of 21 daily newspapers owned by The E.W. Scripps Company.

Monster and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)  will award five $25,000 scholarships to nursing students in an effort to help increase the pool of doctorally-prepared nursing faculty needed to bridge the faculty gap at schools nationwide. 

CareerSite has changed its name to NowHiring.

Domain registrar and Web hosting provider The Go Daddy Group  announced  that it will now offer the .jobs top-level domain.

Deck Chairs
Taleo appoints Murray Creighton as group vice president, Asia Pacific...Webhire appointed Susanne Bowen, President and CEO, to the additional post of Chairman of the Board of Directors....Workscape hired Nicolette M. Brant  as vice president business process outsourcing...Alsbridge, the  global Outsourcing and Insourcing advisory firm,  appointed Peter Scott as the Global Head of its new Finance & Accounting Practice...Recruitmax named Mark Silverman its new CFO...Martha B. Olsen has joined Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners as chief people officer...Saba announced that it has added Tracy Martin as senior director in charge of strategic solutions and marketing. In this role, Martin is responsible for driving the HCM vision for the company.

Survey Sez
Leadership Losing Confidence in HR
 "Either HR needs to dramatically train up their staff so they can help the most senior executives, or they need to outsource the work to experts who can work directly with the senior team,"  says Theresa Welbourne, Ph.D., eePulse, Inc. President and CEO. "The implications for the HR field are severe."

eePulse, released the results of their most recent Leadership Pulse study focusing on leadership confidence and energy. Results overall show decreases in the metrics, with the largest slide in scores (11 points) related to HR. The Leadership Pulse research comes from a sample of over 4,000 executives who participate in short, real-time, eePulse Surveys conducted every two months.

A total of 369 worldwide executives (31% C-level, 23% VP-level and 25% Directors) responded to questions about their confidence in their HR teams. The results indicated:

Overall confidence in HR declined by a massive 15%, year over year.

Confidence in the effectiveness of their HR department
July  2005 -48%
Difference   -8 points
July  2004 -56%

Confidence in their senior executive team's abilities in HR
July  2005 -48%
Difference -11 points
July  2004 -59%

What key factors influence your confidence in your firm's ability to grow?
18% Sales
18% Leadership/Management
18% People
16% Culture
14% Financial
16% Other

"Overall scores indicate senior leaders are lagging in their people skills and know they need help," states Welbourne. "However, with low confidence in their HR departments, perhaps they are not getting the help they need."

You Should Know

Australia:

• The incomes of information and communications technology workers rose less than the average recorded by other Australian workers in the 12 months to May. The Australian Computer Society's annual remuneration survey found technology wages increased by 4 per cent cent for those in the private sector. (Australian IT)

• Executive assistants are playing an increasingly important role in the successful running of businesses of all sizes. (Daily Telegraph)

Canada: The doors of Cedar Creek restaurant and lounge will swing shut for good on July 27. However, it wasn't a lack of business that prompted owners Treena Michayluk and Bryan Tomkins to make the decision to walk away from the business they've run for the last nine months. "It boils down to the staffing issue." (Hinton Parklander)

Global:

• The United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) has released a report calling for an end to the US's "pre-eminent role" in the management of the internet and said there is a need for global institutions to be set up to tackle spam and network security issues. (ITWeek)

• Thinking Outside the Search Box: Sometimes, looking beyond search engines is the best, if not only way to find the information you're looking for. (SearchEngineWatch)

• These are the best of times for newspapers. Yet, how many of us recognize that? (NAA)

• Confidence in government's ability to provide retirement benefits for current and future retirees is alarmingly low among people in the United States and nine other developed nations, despite a "guarded optimism" most have toward their retirement security, according to an international survey (SHRM)

• RSS can, is, and will support advertising. (The Blog Herald)

• "I think that newspapers often misunderstand Craigslist as a classifieds site," says Mary Lou Fulton, vice president of audience development at the privately owned Californian "It's also a very powerful online community." (NAA)

South Africa:

• Unemployed youth, desperate to find work, are getting conned out of what little money they have by job offers from fly-by-night companies. (IOL)

• The government will consider employing foreigners to assist incompetent municipal managers in what President Thabo Mbeki has decried as a dire skill shortage in local government. "It does seem quite clear that we are not going to find the skilled people we need immediately within the South African society - they are not there," said Mbeki. (IOL)

USA:

• The National Association for Business Economics, which polled 103 corporate planners and financial analysts, said that more than a third of them reported their companies had difficulty hiring skilled workers. That marked the highest level in four years. (USA Today)

• The percentage of women in the IT workforce dropped from 41 percent in 1996 to 32.4 percent in 2004, a decline of 18.5 percent. (Feminist.org)

• Despite a growing economy and improving job market, employers continue to hold the lid on salary increases. Instead, they are relying more on bonuses and other cash incentives to keep key employees from jumping ship, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting. (Baltimore Sun)

• At Mohegan Sun, where human resources officials reported only 110 openings in July within a 10,000-person labor force, keeping workers means keeping them content. Casino officials said Mohegan Sun offers salaries "at or above-market in the region," and stressed the extra incentives it provides employees, such as a good health care package, one free meal a shift and use of an employee center with a bank, gym, dry-cleaner and other benefits. (Norwich Bulletin)

• Almost half of departing workers cash out 401(k)s. (Market Watch)

• This week's economic vital signs. (BusinessWeek)

• Spherion recently completed a survey to glean the expectations of both employers and employees in regard to how connected workers are to the office.

  • Of those surveyed, 28 percent said their employers expect them to stay connected to the office outside of business hours. Fifty-three percent said no, while 19 percent offered a neutral response.

  • Twenty-six percent said that staying connected to the office via e-mail or cell phone interferes with their personal life. Forty-five said it doesn't, while 29 percent were neutral.

  • Thirty-one percent of men and 23 percent of women said they were expected to stay connected to work outside of business hours.

  (Star Tribune)

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