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The Glowan Consulting Group introduced a Human Capital Development Process for managers and executives, a blended learning program that emphasizes the individual's needs and links them to corporate requirements and strategies. Key elements include a
strong commitment from the management team, 360 feedback, self evaluation and group learning.
EmploymentGuide.com's improved website features a new color scheme, more user-friendly navigation links, and faster job search results. EmploymentGuide.com is still the only hourly job board featuring a map for convenient location-based job
searching, and now jobseekers can use the map tool right from the homepage.
Oodle, the search engine for local classifieds, announced that with the rollout of its sites for Phoenix, Minneapolis/St. Paul and
Milwaukee, it now supports 22 metropolitan areas.
Staffing industry revenue growth is forecast to be 11.1% in 2005, up from the initial forecast of 10.4% overall growth, according to Staffing Industry Analysts, Inc. "We expect place and search, accounting, tech/engineering and legal to be particularly strong," said Barry Asin, Chief
Industry Analyst for Staffing Industry Analysts. "The relative weak spots are expected to be industrial temporary staffing, which was one of the top segments in 2004, and healthcare staffing, which is still in the early stages of recovery."
Deck Chairs
Basic goods discount retailer Dollar General Corporation has named Challis M. Lowe as its Executive Vice President (EVP) of Human Resources....
Survey Sez
Yoh Index of Technology Wages
Measuring changes in employee demand and
supply of technology talent worldwide.
High Tech Wages Stable in Second Quarter of 2005
Wages for highly skilled technology professionals remained stable from the end of the first quarter of 2005 to the end of the second quarter, according to the latest Yoh Index of Technology Wages, the
quarterly compensation index used by Fortune 500 companies to determine salary scales.
In the past year, wages have fallen slightly, with a 1.2% decrease in average wages in the second quarter of 2005 as compared to the second quarter of 2004. However, the Yoh Index of Technology Wages ended
the second quarter of 2005 at 105.19, when indexed to January 2001 (1/2001 = 100), indicating that technology wages in general are up more than 5% over the past four years.
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Week |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
% Change |
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16 |
96.31 |
107.09 |
105.16 |
-1.8% |
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20 |
99.00 |
106.34 |
107.16 |
0.8% |
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24 |
103.40 |
106.52 |
105.19 |
-1.2% |
The Yoh Index of Technology Wages presents a current view of the changes in employer demand and supply of technology workers nationwide. Indexed to January 2001 the Yoh Index of Technology Wages was first introduced in January 2003 and is released quarterly.
The employment markets covered by the Yoh Index of Technology Wages are:
- Aviation
- Engineering
- Information Technology
- Manufacturing
- Scientific
- Telecommunications
- Utility
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You Should Know
Australia:
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The two US-listed companies (Google and Yahoo), which between them had a market value of more than $US98 billion ($130 billion) at the close on Friday, are each understood to have approached Trader Classified Media, a Euronext-listed owner of
575 print titles, ranging from Canada's Auto Trader magazine to Buy & Sell Chinese in the US, about a possible corporate tie-up. (Australian)
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"We have a comprehensive strategy in place, but we have to deal with an ageing workforce, and that means that we will see turnover in the classifications, and we will continue to actively recruit to get new nurses into our system," he said. (ABCNewsOnline)
California:
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California's employment picture brightened significantly in July as the state added tens of thousands of jobs and the unemployment rate dropped. The state's jobless rate was 5.1 percent in July, down from 5.4 percent in June, when it went up a tick from 5.3 percent in May, the state
Employment Development Department said Friday. (SFGate)
China:
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Due to their poor educational background and lack of training, many farmers-turned-migrant workers have always had a hard time landing decent jobs in cities. More often than not, they are only qualified for manual jobs, usually with meagre pay. At the same time, migrant workers
who are trained in specific occupations find it easy to hook a job, and usually a relatively well-paid one too.
Xinyang, a city in Central China's Henan Province, has noticed this trend. The local government set up many training schools to teach farmers skills and then sent them to seek jobs in cities. As expected, those trained migrant workers had little difficulty finding an ideal job. (China
Daily)
Florida:
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Florida's jobless rate fell to 4.0 percent in July and the national rate remained at 5.2 percent, agency statistics show. The numbers are not seasonally adjusted, which means they reflect gains and losses of seasonal jobs. Florida again led the nation in job creation in July, adding
240,100 jobs since July 2004 -- a 3.2 percent gain in nonagricultural jobs. During that time, Brevard County added 5,300 jobs -- a 2.6 percent increase. (Florida Today)
Global:
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A person's CV has value of its own; when someone uses it to make profit, surely its owner deserves a royalty. (FinanceVisor)
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In summary, SimplyHired and Indeed did the best job with my search. The search results showed the job title, a link to the posting, a brief description of the position, where it was located and where it was originally listed. The results are easy to read, uncluttered with extra
information and the navigation is simply and user friendly. One of the things I like best about Indeed is that it looks and feels like a search engine. SimplyHired has a few more options, but, do I really need to rate the job listings I look at? From my perspective, I'm interested in fast,
relevant results that are easy to navigate. That said, it's worth taking the time to use more than one job search engine site. The job listings aren't exactly the same and you never know which position might just be the one that's perfect for you.
(About.com)
Hungary:
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As Indian IT goes places, the next country eyeing the knowledge shores of India is Hungary. A batch of students from Hungary is here for a training programme initiated by Satyam Computer. "There are around 30 graduates from Hungary who are currently in India undergoing
induction. They are a part of the Satyam ‘global sourcing' initiative where foreign nationals are recruited, inducted/trained and later placed in the company," a spokesperson told FE. These students will later work out of Hungary or elsewhere, serving Satyam clients the world over, said the
spokesperson. He added: "Other firms are coming to Hungary, while we're taking Hungary to the world". (Financial Express)
India:
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I've covered Bixee.com earlier on this blog. It's an Indian vertical job search engine, and scrapes jobs from 16
Indian job sites. I see now they've added a RSS feed that one can save to one's blog/site. So you can put a search like this one on your blog and keep your readers informed of new jobs
that suit the criteria. (Gautam Ghosh on Management)
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India has done well as a knowledge economy but it needs to undertake much needed reforms to make optimum use of its educated workforce, says the World Bank. (Hindustan Times)
Iowa:
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Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained stable at 4.6 percent in July, while the statewide labor force climbed to an all-time high of 1.65 million, according to a release from Iowa Workforce Development. The state's jobless rate was 4.9 percent one year ago. (Daily
Nonpare
New Zealand:
Texas:
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NimbleCat's research on new software and IT jobs posted to major Internet job boards found that Texas' share rose from 6.3 percent in
June to 6.5 percent in July. California's share edged down from 29.8 percent to 29.7 percent. California remained the top state in terms of tech job creation in July,
followed by Texas and New Jersey, which accounted for 5.8 percent of the new tech jobs tracked by NimbleCat. (ZDNet)
UK:
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Trinity Mirror's acquisition of online recruitment site GAAPweb.com is the latest evidence that a "landgrab" of internet advertising assets is consuming newspaper publishers, according to one media analyst.
Another analyst claims that Trinity Mirror may have come too late to the table to take the best advantage of the sector. (Herald)
USA:
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ONLINE REVENUES OF U.S. NEWSPAPERS will surge by an estimated 36 percent to $1.4 billion this year, according to a new report by research company eMarketer. What's more, revenues will continue to rise--by 23 percent next year, 16 percent in 2007,
and 18 percent in 2008--according to the report, "Online Publishing: Focus on Newspapers." (Online Media Daily)
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AT FIRST GLANCE, 18-month-old Jobster seems to have re-created the 1999 dot-com office cliché. The online recruiting startup occupies a loft in Pioneer Square with exposed brick, a wide-open floor plan, a ping-pong table and a dog running loose.But the similarities between this young
company and the dot-coms that fell before it end there. The difference, as founder Jason Goldberg puts it, is: "Web 1.0: arrogance. Web 2.0: humility." (SeattleTimes)
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