Reveille
JobsInME.com recently launched a newly structured Field Market Representative (FMR) program that places JobsInME.com at the forefront of recruiting, job industry and post-secondary education events in Maine while offering interesting employment for sales and marketing retirees, entrepreneurs and others seeking part-time work. The FMR program offers part-time employment to those with sales and marketing backgrounds for approximately 8-15 hours per week. With two consultants per state - the FMR's primary role is to execute all contracted JobsInME.com events within that territory.

Morgan Hunt, the fastest growing UK public-sector recruitment company has just reached its 1000 temps milestone. In only 3 years since commencing trading in 2002, the firm has achieved exponential growth, now employing over 110 staff and working with over 400 public sector organisations.

Infosys Technologies Ltd. has been ranked the highest in client satisfaction in outsourcing services by a survey conducted by Forrester Research Inc., an independent global research firm. The Bangalore-based IT bellwether also ranked third in consulting services among 11 major global IT service providers.

The Castleton Group (a PEO) has been named the top women-owned business by the Triangle Business Journal.

Administaff, Inc. (ASF), a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), today announced that its board of directors has approved a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share.

Speakers and industry experts from the top echelons of the global HR industry will be featured at The 2nd Middle East HR Summit - the region's premier HR industry event - to be held at the JW Marriot Dubai from 18 - 21 September 2005.

Recruitmax announced another record quarter: bookings increased 140 per cent over the same period last year and the company added a record 23 new enterprise clients and had strong add-on and renewal sales.

Similar to customer relationship management, the goal of candidate relationship management is to create and sustain long-term relationships with target audiences in order to create significant value for both parties.

Deck Chairs
Karen L. Miller, RN, PhD, FAAN, senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs and dean of the University of Kansas Schools of Nursing and Allied Health, has been appointed part of the advisory council of the Association of Academic Health Centers' Health Workforce Shortages Committee...Knowledge Infusion today announced its continued talent momentum with the addition of James Harvey to the strategic consulting organization"s management roster. Dedicated to helping companies realize the value of human capital management (HCM) technologies, Harvey joins Knowledge Infusion as Principal Consultant and will work closely with customers to help them develop performance management processes, evaluate software solutions and design and implement talent management business strategies.

You Should Know
Africa:

• The brain drain of Africa's nurses to the West is hurting Lesotho's fight against HIV/AIDS, said Stephen Lewis, the UN special envoy for AIDS in Africa. (AllAfrica)

Canada:

• The Canadian mining industry, one of the hottest sectors in the economy with near-record metal prices, faces a coming labour 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 the industry could lose up to 40% of its existing workforce in the next 10 years as older workers retire. (ResourceInvestor)

Global:

• I had a chilling experience the other day. A man from Kenexa called me, ostensibly to recruit me for a job in New York as a Search Marketing Analyst for Microsoft's new MSN search engine. The first time he called he said he was looking for someone to do work for Fortune 400 clients. I told him I was really busy and that I usually deal with smaller clients. He didn't think that would be a problem … he was very insistent to talk to me. I suggested I'd call him back, so we left it up in the air and for a few weeks I forgot about him. Then he called me a second time, telling me I was supposed to call him and set up an interview. He practically begged me to do a 45-minute phone interview to see if I was right for the "job." He e-mailed me and sent me a very generic job description that was more like a newspaper ad than anything else. (WebProNews)
   

• In case you've forgotten, a vertical search engine is a database created by software that scrapes (grabs) information from a whole lot of sites of the same sort and dumps it into one central site. For instance, Indeed, WorkZoo and Simply Hired scrape job postings from a wide range of job boards and put them into one searchable database. (Recruiting.com)
   

• Online advertisers and the news Web sites they sponsor are getting around pop-up blockers with floating ads. (BizReport)
   

• Employee-referral programs are most effective when they are built and managed properly, so you are wise to think your program through prior to implementation. The amount of the referral bonus is strictly up to you and your budget limitations. If you opt to start small and plan to increase the amount, provide a written explanation when you launch the program that the cash incentives may increase as the company can afford it. (AllBusiness)
   

• "I can't talk too much about my new scenario," says Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, sitting down to breakfast at the Four Seasons, a short walk from his Boston apartment. Taylor is wearing a checkered orange shirt in a dining room filled with power suits and Hermès ties. His glasses are rectangular and black-rimmed; his hair is gooped; his chin, goateed. Except for the gray in his beard, he looks more like a 22-year-old than his actual age, 44. "I can tell you what I can tell you in about three sentences," he says. "I did a $2 million round, and basically there will be three parties: [Boston-based venture capital firm] General Catalyst, Monster, and myself. The new company is going to be called Eons Inc. The working tag line is 'To live for,' and I'm going to target the 50- to 100-year-old population." He stops. I wait. "There it is." (Fortune)

India:

• India has launched a national entry exam aimed at improving the quality of graduates recruited into call-center and IT positions in the country's booming outsourcing industry. The competence exam has been launched by Indian IT industry body Nasscom, and an initial three-month pilot will run in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai covering 36 key IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and 15,000 graduate recruits. (ZDNet)
   

• G2Bay.com, a new website launched on Tuesday allows job seekers in India to participate in the multi-billion Rupee recruitment market. Acting as an online global recruitment agency, G2Bay splits its 10% finder's fees with job seekers 50-50. This results in tens of thousands of Rupees as a signing bonus to employees who get hired through G2Bay. (Deccan Herald)
   

• The hype over the high rate of attrition (30 to 40 per cent) in the information technology industry has pushed into background similar problems being faced by India's old economy firms. For example, the capital goods industry, which employs more than 2 million people and where the average employment per crore of investment is over 50 times than that of a commodity-based industry, has been facing an attrition rate of over 30 per cent for several years now. (Business Standard)
   

• The overall Business Confidence Index has gone up from 71.6 points in the fourth quarter of '04-05 to 73.5 points in the last quarter...However, a majority of companies surveyed didn't have any investment plans in the next six months and there's bad news for the working population too. The employment index has dropped down which means that a majority of respondents do not have plan to hire in the next six months. (Economic Times)

Japan:

• JAPAN'S population is on track to show its first annual decline, raising fears over the outlook for the world's second-biggest economy and the ability of its welfare system to cope.  Japanese fertility rates have long been on the slide, but newly released figures from the Ministry of Health and Welfare confirmed that during the first six months of this year, deaths outstripped births and the overall population of Japan fell by 31,034. If the same pattern continues for the remaining months of 2005, a demographic turning point — where the population is contracting on an annual basis — will have been reached two years ahead of official Government forecasts. (TimesOnline)

Massachusetts:

• The Massachusetts House of Representatives recently unveiled a comprehensive, thoughtful economic stimulus bill designed to address the alarming news that the state lost more than 60,000 workers during the 2002-2003 recession. For the health care industry – the state's economic engine with 450,000 jobs across Massachusetts – the erosion of the labor force is deeply troubling in the face of a serious health care labor shortage. (BostonHerald)

Minnesota:

• Data from the Minnesota Private Colleges (MPCC) Research Foundation doesn't bode well for the state's labor force in the future. The report shows that too few Minnesota high school students complete high school and immediately progress to and graduate from a four-year college in state to meet the projected workforce needs in the future. (Minnesota Spokesman)

Singapore:

• Women inmates at a Singapore prison are working 12-hour shifts as telephone call-centre operators and telemarketers in a state campaign to rehabilitate lawbreakers, an official said on Wednesday. "It's pretty much the same as a commercial call centre, except it's behind bars," said Vincent Chan, a senior manager at the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises. (NewInd Press)
   

• Employers in Singapore are opening up to the idea of taking in older workers. Manpower statistics show that over the last 10 years, labour participation rates for older workers aged 50 to 65 have risen by as much as 10 to 59 percent. But for it to improve further, analysts said more employers and older workers would have to change their attitudes and expectations of each other.  One in 3 workers in Singapore will be older than 50 in 10 years' time. (MediaCorp)

UK:

• I'd have thought that by now outsourcing would be about as controversial as sending your suit to the dry cleaners, but this hasn't prevented a rash of articles with headlines like "the folly" or "the perils" of outsourcing. Take Steven Downes, business editor of the Times: "Outsourcing has become something of a dirty word…especially among…anyone who has tried to use the services of an outsourced call centre. Comments like this make me suspect that there's a lot of racism fuelling this debate. British people clearly react against certain accents on the phone—I doubt they even consider that the nice Scottish and Irish people at their favourite bank may themselves be outsourced. And, frankly, what do you expect when you entrust someone with dark skin with a complex technical operation like button-pushing? (Consultant News)

USA:

• Manufacturers are finding it more difficult to find skilled workers to fill key positions and some are offering higher starting wages in response, according to a monthly report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. (BLR)
   

• Nearly 70 percent of U.S. workers plan to stay in the job market full time or part time after their retirement, and 12 percent believe they will never be able to retire, according to a poll conducted jointly by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut and the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. (Hartford Courant)

Coming Soon

Workforce Systems Summit August 28 - 31 Las Vegas, NV $895 More Info Register	Baby Boomer Career Conference September 17, 2005 Occidental College Los Angeles, CA $150 More Info Register
8th Annual Recruiting & Staffing Summit September 19-21, 2005 Intercontinental Buckhead Atlanta GA $1,999 to $4,573 More Info Brochure	IFRA 4-day Adplexing Seminar IfraNewsplex Center Columbia, South Carolina $2500 for non-members. For more information,  1.847.382-9968
Staffing.org's Philadelphia Performance Summit September 21 - 23, 2005 Radisson Plaza - Warwick Hotel Philadelphia, PA $725 Register	Employers of Excellence Conference 2005 September 25-27 Pointe South Mountain Resort Phoenix, Ariz. More Info
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	Webinar: How to Select a Search Marketing Partner September 29, 2005 2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT Free Register Speaker: Chris Sherman, Associate Editor, SearchEngineWatch.com and President, Searchwise
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	VirtualEdge sponsors: CareerXroads Seminar: Job Seeker Experience-Why  Care September 19, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm PST Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA October 06, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm EST Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ November 10, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm CST Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL

  Got News?
Send your company news, personnel changes, placements, and other tidbits of interest. News you'd like to see covered that we haven't? Let us know.

Corporate Branding Special - from CareerJournal.com

Promote your company as an "Employer of Choice" through this special offer:

Package includes:

• Unlimited job postings for 30 days , which includes the CareerJournal National Network of 125+ newspaper, magazine, radio and TV station career sites
• A logo tile on CareerJournal's "Who's Hiring" page for 30 days
• Your logo featured at least once as "Today's Employer" on the site's homepage
• Resume database access for 30 days

Special Offer: $2,195
Visit http://www.careerjournal.com/adinfo/adinfo_post_a_job.htm for more details.

Call or email Alex Baxter (alex.baxter@dowjones.com)
Phone: 212-597-5989.