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Talent Zoo filed a trademark infringement lawsuit today in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia against Jobster, Inc. regarding Jobster's use of the confusingly similar mark "Work Zoo."  Talent Zoo is represented by Marc Hershovitz, a former aid to Georgia Governor Roy Barnes. Talent Zoo recently settled a prior trademark infringement lawsuit with Work Zoo. Jobster was not a party to that litigation. 

CMiC, a providerof enterprise and project management software for the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, has released CMiC Human Capital Management, a  tool for managing workforces in a project-driven environment.

Job search database, SimplyHired.com, has just released a feature that allows the searcher to map job opportunities with Google Maps. Details and directions, here.

SupaLoans.co.uk, the online financial site,  has taken over Jobdaq.co.uk.

SuccessFactors announced that it has been selected to demonstrate the company's newest on-demand workforce performance technology offering at the prestigious DEMOfall 2005 conference.

cellular-news.com, a leading online wireless telecoms news publication has enhanced the visibility of jobs advertised on its web site by adding a listing of the recent jobs to their industry leading daily newsletter.

Advertisers can now effectively communicate their message online to the Hispanic community by using HispanoClick, an online advertising network specializing in web sites for the Spanish-speaking web. Hispanics are becoming known as being heavier users of the Internet's most cutting edge features.

Authoria announced record-breaking second quarter results with a 42 percent increase in revenue over the same period last year. The second quarter included nine large deals, and two-thirds of all deals
will be delivered via Authoria On-Demand(TM), the company's fully-hosted, fully-managed, secure, Internet-based solution.

Deck Chairs
Transition Assistance Online, the Internet job board for separating military personnel preparing for civilian careers,  appointed Tom Kaleta as Managing Partner...Enhance Media, the online recruitment communications consultancy, has added two key members of the senior management team: Damian Routley has joined as Account Director. Damian joins from the recruitment advertising agency TCS; and, Paul Kingsley joins as a Non-Executive Director. Paul was CEO of Oyster Partners, a leading UK interactive agency....Mike Bauer was recently named vice president of human resources at Winterthur U.S. Holdings...Fleetwood Enterprises (FLE) named Michael Shearin vice president for human resources...Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)  appointments Patrick R. Dailey as senior vice president, human resources, responsible for the full Human Resources function for the company, including developing strategic plans and policies to support the company's business goals....Online home equity lender, DeepGreen Financial appointed Craig Rhodes to the position of human resources director...

Survey Sez
Executive Parents Risk Coworker Resentment for Taking Leave to Raise Kids
Most Want to Keep Working at Reduced Load, According to Survey by  TheLadders.com

For all of the working-mom success stories like Brenda Barnes, who came off a six-year stint as a stay-at-home mom to become CEO of Sara Lee this February, executives still face workplace ambiguity when it comes to parenthood.

According to a survey conducted by TheLadders.com,  executives want to continue working after having kids, yet the specter of coworker resentment for extended parental hiatus' looms large. When asked to describe their perceptions of executives who return to the workforce after a multi-year hiatus to raise children, 42% of the survey respondents said the execs were "resented for taking time off." Another 23%
feared that anyone taking an extended leave was "too far removed from the action to be effective." In stark contrast to those negative sentiments, 34% said that executives returning from an extended maternity/paternity leave would be "valued for their renewed perspective."

Likely due to those perceptions, executive parents are determined to keep one foot firmly planted in the workplace. When asked what they would do if money was no object and they had young children, 53% of executives said they would continue to work, but at a reduced load. Thirty-nine percent of the executives surveyed said they would devote themselves full-time to the family, opting to become a stay-at-home parent. Just 9% said they'd continue workingfull-time.

According to the survey, the average allotment for paid maternity leave is 9-weeks. Forty-four percent of respondents said they receive 6-weeks paid leave; 27% receive 12-weeks; 17% receive 8-weeks; 6% receive 16-weeks; and 6% receive more than 16-weeks. When asked: Are the maternity policies at your company sufficient, the response was split down the middle. Fifty-three percent said "yes" and 47% said "no."
"Companies need diverse workforces to thrive in today's economy. Varied, well-informed perspectives are critical to any business' interaction with customers," said TheLadders.com president and CEO, Marc Cenedella. "But, for those executives who want to take an extended leave, the key to a smooth transition back into the workforce is to stay engaged: keep reading and sending e-mails, meeting with colleagues and reading the trade publications. It is important not to get too far removed."

You Should Know
Canada:

• Privacy-law experts expect provincial and federal governments to be pressured for more laws to protect confidential information that is now ending up in the hands of foreign-based private businesses because of government outsourcing. No laws exist in Canada to restrict the flow of information in the private sector, says Theodore Ling.  But, while Canadians fear the U.S. government may be able to gain access to this material under anti-terrorism laws, they also realize that Canadian businesses are net beneficiaries of the trend toward outsourcing. (LawTimes)
   

• The Canadian mining industry, one of the hottest sectors in the economy with near record metal prices, faces a coming job shortage, a new industry report suggests. The study by the Mining Industry Training and Adjustment Council, which estimated the mining industry will need up to 81,000 new workers to meet current and future needs, suggested that the industry could lose up to 40 per cent of the existing workforce in the next 10 years. (Canada.com)

Global:

• For the last three years, the A-list of the internet world has gathered at technology publisher Tim O'Reilly's campus in Sebastopol, California, to brainstorm, drink beers, network and camp out.  About 90 miles south, the uninvited got their revenge this year. Called at the last minute by instant messenger, internet relay chat and wiki boards, nerds showed up in force at 655 High Street for Bar Camp -- an open-to-all gathering billed at least in part as an antidote to O'Reilly's exclusive Foo Camp 2005. (Wired)
   

• Deloitte has published a report - The State of HR in Central Europe - looking at how HR is evolving in six countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The overarching trend is that HR practices are beginning to mirror those seen in the rest of Europe. The results from the survey suggest HR is moving away from a process-led function to become more strategic.  For example, about half of organisations surveyed across the six countries now measure the impact of their HR strategy. In Austria and Poland specifically, the main role of HR is to be a ‘strategic partner' focusing on aligning HR with the overall business strategy. (PersonnelToday)
   

• Traditional methods for building taxonomies such as leaving it up to authors or editors to do the heavy lifting are out the window. According to Gartner there are two advantages to shifting the task of metadata creation to users:

  1. If a large enough number of users is assembled, social tagging leads to statistical indexing, which reflects much better what a community of users thinks is appropriate metadata for certain content.

  2. Metadata creation also leads to much better coverage of special cases — so-called long-tail coverage (the "long tail" of a frequency distribution refers to low-frequency cases that could still constitute a large fraction of the entire collection of cases).

  Gartner considers sites like Del.icio.us, Flickr, Furl, great examples of grass-roots community classification that is giving rise to a new kind of social software they call "networked collective intelligence." (ZDNet)

India:

• For those who equate India's strength in computer software with its vast army of cheap engineers, Oracle Corp.'s decision this month to buy a controlling stake in I-Flex Solutions Ltd. must have come as a surprise. (Bloomberg)
   

• Journalism is in crisis. As more scandals crop up within the profession, the trust in the media is eroding, newspaper circulation declining and people disinterested from newpapers and television news. Virtually everything in journalism is, at the moment, insufficient and in a state of flux. Basic principles do not change, but the environment in which they must be applied is changing radically.
  Previously, there were three ways to reach readers. Send a reporter to cover a story, write a letter to the editor, or buy an ad. Now the Internet has provided a fourth option i e to recruit a "citizens journalism reporting team" to cover a city development or any matter of public importance- and post its details on the newspaper website. (GreaterKashmir)

Korea:

• Korea's leading business groups and universities are joining forces to attract and train promising foreign talent. (KoreaHerald)

UK:

• A new generation of internet information services that enable house hunters to select their 'ideal' neighborhood have the potential to widen the divide between the richest and poorest places in Britain. A report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns that sophisticated new Internet-based Neighborhood Information Systems (IBNIS) could lead to a more segregated society by not only guiding buyers to the best schools or lowest crime figures, but also helping them choose areas with the kind of existing residents they would most want as neighbors. (PNN)
   

• Inflated job titles, increased salaries and benefits, length of service and qualifications are the most common areas, says Marcia Roberts of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. "You'd be surprised to know how common it is to lie about qualifications and how stupid it is because it's easy to check," she says. "Recruiters should never accept that someone has lost their certificates. You'd be surprised how many claim to have been to foreign universities when they don't even exist." (BBC)

USA:

• There was an eye-opening article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a few days ago that explored the increasing difficulty the military is having recruiting young people to enlist. When you dig deeper into the reason for this phenomenon, it turns out that parents of potential soldiers and sailors are becoming one of the biggest obstacles facing military recruiters. But the Post-Gazette raises another issue. There has been much talk about the relationship between race and ethnicity and military recruitment. But what about social and economic class? Are wealthier Americans, who are more likely to be Republicans and therefore more likely to support the war, stepping up to the plate and urging their children and others from their communities to enlist? (Washington Post)
   

• There has been a lot of talk in recent years about recruiting software. Recruiting software helps companies find suitable employees, and works in a number of ways. It can manage the employment section of a company's website, keep track of any company responses to applicants, and help organize all information on potential employees in a comprehensive database. (New Recruiting Software Website)
   

• An ad in an area shopping publication asks parents to consider sending their children to Renberg School, the smallest grade school in the Sioux Falls district. "Great Sioux Falls Public School/Renberg Elementary, looking for students located north off of Kiwanis. Great student ratio and teachers. After school care, open fall enrollment," the ad read. (Aberdeen News)
   

• Getting Your Foot in the Door at Defense Contractors. Defense companies are clamoring for candidates with security clearances, but these door-openers are hard for most job hunters to come by. Here's a rundown of sites devoted to postings at defense contractors, most with ads open to applicants without these special government clearances. (ComputerWorld)
   

• Veritude listings in Boston Oodle. (Oodle)
   

• "Ted Transformation" had several strikes against him when he decided to rejoin the workforce in mid-2004. He was 60 and had spent his entire career -- more than 30 years -- with one company. He had accepted a buyout from this employer in 2003, which left him with a gap on his resume when he started looking again. A senior technology executive, Ted had expected consulting would keep him busy following his "retirement," but he was used to managing multimillion-dollar contracts and directing hundreds of staffers. Bored with consulting, he unearthed his resume and didn't like what he saw. (CareerJournal)
   

• Numbers tell the media story better.  Daily newspaper circulation was 62.3 million in 1990 and 55.1 million in 2003.  The number of daily papers shrank from 1,611 to 1,456 in those years.  Sixty percent of people age 60 and older read newspapers but only 23 percent of the 18 to 29 age group do. Young people from the age of 8 to 18 spend 43 minutes a day with some kind of print media but 6 hours and 21 minutes on media of all types, notably electronic outlets.  The figures come from the Newspaper Association of America, by the way, and other sources cited in The Wilson Quarterly. The Quarterly reports that principally the Big Media are collapsing from influential status to the irrelevant.

  That's precisely the loss of social capital Philip Meyer warns about in "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age." He doesn't mean people won't peddle news. But new info-merchants may not have civic truth and the public's well-being in mind as today's pros like to think they do. (MediaChannel)
   

• An analysis of newspaper circulation by Prudential Equity Group LLC found that the Los Angeles Times lost more than 100,000 paid home-delivery subscribers between March 2004 and March 2005, The Los Angeles Business Journal reports. The drop in home delivery was 18.1 percent â€" the sharpest decline among the 10 largest U.S. newspapers. (MediaBuyerPlanner)
   

• Newspapers saw double-digit growth in their online advertising revenues in the second quarter of 2005, according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The group said online ad spending rose to $500.7 million -- 28.6 percent higher than the same period a year ago. Overall, ad revenues for newspapers and their Web sites totaled $12.2 billion for the second quarter of 2005, a 2.8 percent year-over-year increase. During the period, print ads in newspapers grew 1.9 percent year-to-year to reach $11.7 billion. Classified advertising led growth offline, growing 5.3 percent to $4.1 billion, while retail advertising rose 1.4 percent to $5.5 billion. (ClickZ)
   

• The NCAA has limits on how many phone calls college representatives can place to prospective student-athletes. So, naturally, recruiters have found a loophole: text messaging. (LATimes)

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