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Then along came Baidu (BIDU). "The Chinese Google," as the online-search operator has come to be known, commanded attention Friday with an opening-day gain of 354% -- the biggest debut-session rise in years and the largest ever from a non-U.S. company.

The U.S. personal savings rate fell to 0% in June, only the second time since the Great Depression that Americans have spent as much as they earned in a month, the Commerce Department said. How did they do it? In large part, by tapping into their home equity.

With ever more mouths to feed, Google is seeking two new executive chefs to join its ranks.

n its ongoing efforts to recruit top talent and attract job seekers from around the world to its corporate career Web site, Schneider National Inc., a premier provider of transportation, logistics and related services, has incorporated the latest e-recruiting technology into Schneiderjobs.com. With VirtualEdge enterprise staffing tool, Schneiderjobs.com now delivers more information and interactivity, and features many of the advantages of national job boards.

The first-ever international conference on word of mouth marketing will be held from October 6-7, 2005 in Hamburg, Germany. More than 200 prominent marketing experts and researchers from around the world will gather to discuss with other attendees the latest marketing approaches and future trends in the realm of word of mouth marketing.

AOL lost 2.6 million U.S. subscribers in the past year -- almost a million of them in its second quarter alone.

Shares of The Washington Post fell more than 5% by midday Friday after the newspaper publisher reported quarterly profits and revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates. Citing downturns at its newspaper publishing, television broadcasting and cable TV divisions, the company posted net income of $78.8 million, down from $84.9 million a year ago.

Hewitt Associates to Provide HR BPO Services to Wachovia Corporation; Companies Expand Long-Standing Benefits Outsourcing Relationship

Security Clearance Careers MAGAZINE is now DISTRIBUTED at every military (i.e. navy, army, air force and marine) transition office across the globe And has  30,400 cleared subscribers who receive the magazine every other month.

HRLogix will be providing recruiting solutions to three of California's largest casinos: Pechanga Resort and Casino, Viejas Casino and Agua Caliente Casino.

Deck Chairs
Andrew L. Lamberto, a 14-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Administrative Services Division, has been appointed head of the San Bernardino County Human Resources Department....even Microsoft shops at Wal-Mart.  The company named Kevin Turner, one of the retailers top execs, as its chief operating officer...HR.com has Appointed of Mark McAuliffe to the position of Senior Research Analyst, Staffing. McAuliffe will focus on workforce acquisition (sourcing, screening, assessment, background checks, and vendor management systems).

Survey Sez
From "Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Workforce in EMEA" (get the report)
Companies that are looking to address the challenges of the aging workforce should focus on six primary strategies:

1. Redirect recruiting and sourcing. Companies are quickly facing worker shortages from labor pools where they normally would draw younger employees. To reach mature workers, companies can conduct over-50 workshops at local job recruitment centers, offer targeted benefits such as unpaid grandparent leave and look externally to identify retired professionals desiring part-time or short-term work.

2. Retain valued employees through alternative work arrangements. While some companies are recruiting aging workers, others are developing alternative work arrangements, such as part-time schedules. Companies should also explore, when appropriate, the use of telecommuting as a way of retaining mature workers/.

3. Preserve critical knowledge. One approach elicits employees' experiential, or tacit, knowledge through detailed interviewing or documentation, explicitly capturing and storing these insights. Mentoring arrangements and communities of practice can also encourage mature workers to pass knowledge down to the next generation.

4. Provide opportunities for workers to continually update skills. Executives are recognizing the need to refresh the skills of workers whose formal training may have ended years, if not decades, earlier. Companies are seeking to actively transfer informal skills that have not been taught and that are necessary in the working environment.

5. Facilitate the coexistence of multiple generations. Often overlooked as a facet of diversity, the viewpoints of different age groups can present significant barriers. Organizations must balance the needs, interests and work styles of all. By pairing senior managers with junior employees, each can mentor the other in different areas.       

6. Help mature workers effectively use technology in the workplace. A common misperception is that older workers have more difficulty learning and adopting new technologies. While multiple has studies have shown otherwise, accessibility requirements and strategies for application rollout and training are needed to support all potential user groups, including mature workers.

Which European countries are the best prepared?

While no European country is immune from the challenges of an aging workforce, one country that is widely discussed as having made strides in this area is Sweden, which has the highest workforce participation rates and the highest average retirement age in Europe.  This is due, in part, to pension changes enacted in the late 1990s, which made an individual's decision to work or retire more financially neutral.  In Sweden, the right-to-work age is also set at 67, which is higher than in many EU countries.  Also, there are extensive child and elder care systems in place, making it easier for people caring for elderly relatives to remain in the workforce and there is a long standing tradition of life-long learning, which encourages individuals to develop new skills as they get older.

You Should Know

Global:

• Additionally, our global study of over 300 Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs), released in May  reported over 60 percent of HR professionals operating in mature markets have difficulty identifying and developing the critical employee skills and talents that are vital to remain competitive.  This has a particular impact for organizations facing an aging workforce issue. (MatureMarket)

India:

•  'Ex-servicemen can enrich workforce in civil sector' : Observing that a number of tangible benefits could be accrued from military aviation, a senior former IAF officer has said about 6,000 aviation officials who retired from service annually could enrich the work force in the civil sector. (HinduNews)

• Much has been happening on India's IT front in the past few months. These include setting up a software development unit by Google Inc, the world's number one company in terms of market capitalisation, in Bangalore, and number one mobile handset manufacturer Nokia announcing its decision to set up a manufacturing unit in Chennai. (FinancialExpress)

UK:

• London's workforce grew by 2,400 people last month, matching exactly the number of new jobs created. (London Free Press)

USA:

• From Pago Pago in American Samoa to Yap in Micronesia, 4,000 miles to the west, Army recruiters are scouring the Pacific, looking for high school graduates to enlist at a time when the Iraq war is turning off many candidates in the states.  The Army has found fertile ground in the poverty pockets of the Pacific. The per capita income is $8,000 in American Samoa, $12,500 in the Northern Marianas and $21,000 in Guam, all U.S. territories. (HoustonChronicle)

• From October through June, the Army enlisted 47,121 recruits. That was about 14 percent below goal, for a shortage of nearly 8,000. The Army National Guard was short 23 percent, or 10,400 recruits, and the Army Reserve 21 percent, down 4,100 volunteers. Those are significant shortages. Gilroy cited four factors - three of them tied to Iraq. (DailyPress)

• Staff Sgt. Hollis Scott Jr. has a formidable task before him. As an Army recruiter in Hawthorne, CA (South Bay Area), he is under tremendous pressure to sign up more recruits. The Hawthorne recruiting station is more than 50 percent off its year-to-date enlistment goals. (DailyBreeze)

• A year after graduating from college in 2003, Gina Vaile grew tired of freelance journalism jobs, day-care work and her mother's worries about her lack of health insurance. While searching the Internet for a career, she answered a questionnaire on an Army National Guard recruiting Web site. "And literally as I was disconnecting from the 'Net my phone was ringing. It was my recruiter calling to see if I had any questions," Vaile said. (Kentucky CourierJournal)

• Hoping to boost recruitment at the Los Angeles Police Department, Police Chief William Bratton said Thursday he will work to revamp his department's screening process for its job applicants -- including the current ban on job candidates who have used drugs. (DailyBreeze)

• More and more older workers are finding themselves reporting to fresh-faced bosses 20-plus years their junior. Often, those bosses have differing values, management styles and attitudes about workplace dynamics. A report about older employees in the workforce by the Families and Work Institute and American Business Collaboration indicated 56 percent of today's workers are age 40 or older, compared with 38 percent in 1977. (AZCentral)

Coming Soon

Webinar: Outsourcing: Friend or Foe of Privacy? August 9 2005 2:30pm ET Free More Info	Webinar: The ROI of Email Relevance: Improving Campaign Results Through Targeting  August 17, 2005 2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT Free Register
Blog Business Summit.  August 17th-19th. 2005 Palace Hotel San Francisco, CA $795 Register	The 8th Annual Recruiting & Staffing Summit September 19-21, 2005 Intercontinental Buckhead Atlanta GA $1,999 to $4,573 More Info Brochure
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Leadership Summit Network of Executive Women Success Strategies September 26-27 , 2005 Renaissance Concourse Hotel, Atlanta, GA. Contact Executive Director Joan Toth at (312) 373-5682 www.newonline.org	OnRec Online Recruitment Conference October 6, 2005 Brussels Marriott Brussels, Belgium £265.00 +VAT (370.00 Euros) More Info Register: +44 (1702) 382330, or email wendy@OnRec.com
Talent Management, Leadership Development & Succession Planning in the 21st Century October 5-7  2005   Phoenix Marriott Mesa, Phoenix, AZ, USA $2418 Learn More Register	International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) Global Forum Oct. 6-7, 2005 Boston, MA $710 More Information Register
8th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition October 19 - 21, 2005 Chicago's McCormick Place Learn More Request Brochure	HRO World Europe November14-16, 2005 Conrad Hotel Brussels, Belgium EUR1,700 Register More Info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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