Reveille
Online publisher NetImperative is now partnering with Onlinemarketingjobs.com to launch its own recruitment section in hopes of reaching out and touching industry professionals and potentials in the Motherland.

Mind Blindness:
A lack of self-awareness can literally kill you (it's also murder on job performance). New white paper from TalentSmart

In response to labor market challenges, Cuyahoga Community College, through its Corporate College division, and PsyMax Solutions, LLC have entered into an agreement to offer products and services jointly to help companies and organizations attract, hire and retain high-caliber employees.

RemedyTemp will host "Workforce 2006," a webcast featuring three expert panelists who will discuss current forces affecting the American workforce  today, Aug. 30, 2005, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time.  The panel will include Steve Pogorzelski, president of Monster North America; Keith J. Greene, vice president, member relations for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); and Edward Lawler III, Ph.D., author and professor of management and organization at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. RemedyTemp's President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Palmer will moderate the panel, followed by questions and answers. The webcast is open to the public at www.remedytemp.com/workforce2006.html.

PCanada's Healthcare Career Network  launches of it's Canadian niche job board specializing in the Healthcare, Nursing and Biotech industries.

Generalist jobs board redgoldfish.co.uk has launched accountancyjobsboard.co.uk, a dedicated job site that's specific to accountancy recruitment. The new sites launch follows the companies' recent news that they intend to power niche job boards using the existing redgoldfish technology.

Reducing the cost of recruitment without diminishing the quality of staff is a key concern of all health care, residential care and not for profit care organisations. Bluebell Care has launched a special service at a special price to provide flexibility to meet temporary and permanent staffing needs across all care departments with a single phone call.

Deck Chairs
Robert D. Campbell will join NiSource (NI), as senior vice president of Human Resources...Convergys Corporation has announced the appointment of Koustuv Mitra as senior director and head of Human Resources in India...

Survey Sez
As US employers increasingly utilize criminal background checks in their hiring process, the National  Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) has identified one  source of information that employers should avoid: the FBI Criminal Database.

In reaction to recent proposed federal legislation that would allow employers direct access to the FBI's database, NAPBS commissioned a study to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of this FBI criminal search.

The results were shocking.

The study found that in a significant percentage of searches, the FBI database returned erroneous or incomplete information.

The study, conducted by Craig N. Winston, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Sonoma State University, found that the FBI data lacks proper identifiers to credibly link a criminal hit with the subject of the
investigation.

Another finding was the large number of missed records and false positives generated. For example, when analyzing a sampling of 93,274 background checks in the state of Florida, Winston's search revealed that the database missed 11.7 percent of the criminal records it should have identified. Even worse - of the more than 10,000 criminal records found, 5.5 percent of them were falsely attributed to those who were not convicted of a crime.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compels employers to use the most up-to-date and accurate information when screening applicants for employment.

NAPBS co-chair Jason B. Morris says, "If employers are granted access to the FBI's data, they can easily be lulled into the false sense of security that they are availing themselves of the most accurate and comprehensive search available. As a result, they could be opening themselves to increased
risk in the workplace and litigation from wronged job applicants."

Results from this comprehensive study can be found at http://www.napbs.com.

 Founded as a non-profit trade association in 2003, the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) was established to promote ethical business practices, promote compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act and foster awareness of issues related to consumer protection and privacy rights within the background screening industry.

You Should Know
Africa:

•  President John Agyekum Kufuor has called on graduates of the country's Polytechnics to open their own businesses to create employment rather than joining the queues of people seeking employment in existing business enterprises. He explained that the call was based on the practical nature of the training given to the polytechnic students, coupled with their training in entrepreneurship and the credit facilities available in the system. (Ghanaweb.com)

China:

• Outsourcing your human resources remains something new to Chinese enterprises although it is a common practice in a developed human resource market.  At the 2005 China HR Outsourcing Forum held in Shanghai, human resources managers from Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan talked about the prospect and obstacles of China's outsourcing market. (ChinaView)
   

• A record-high of 1,800 private sector vacancies were offered each working day in August in Hong Kong, up 12.5 percent on the daily average of 1,600 in the first half year. (People's Online Daily)

Global:

• Online advertising is the fastest growing source of revenue for newspapers. But is the typical local daily or weekly newspaper making the most of this opportunity? How can these papers grow their Web site ad revenues efficiently and effectively without taking away from the print side?

  For a variety of reasons, many papers are growing their online revenue by default. That is, the market is pulling the publisher; online growth occurs despite the publisher's actions or inactions. But this kind of growth cannot continue forever. Publishers need to actively develop and pursue online strategies by understanding the complete spectrum of available technology and better identifying existing and potential customers who belong online. (AdBumb)

India:

• The Indian recruitment industry, which is extremely fragmented, has about 10,000 players. Of them about 63 companies, who account for 50 per cent of the total business, have come together to form Executive Recruiters Association, which is hosting an all-India recruiters meet in Hyderabad next month. The question top on recruiters' agenda is can an organisation fully outsource recruitment? (Sify)
   

• The Indian IT sector is facing the heat. And giving them a run for their money are top MNCs who are on a recruitment spree, leading to attrition problems among Indian companies. The pressure is on two fronts — skilled manpower and pricing. IBM, for example, opened its fifth global delivery centre in India in June, while Accenture hired 1,600 employees in May. In fact, Accenture's Indian employee base now accounts for over 10% of its global workforce. Over the next three years, the company plans to add 30,000-50,000 people in India, China and Philippines, says William D Green, CEO. (Times of India)
   

• "The problem earlier was retrograde government policies, the problem now is talent shortage. The future war will be fought based on who's got the best talent. Our biggest challenge is to attract talent laterally and to retain our talent pool," says Naik. (Rediff)

UK

• The British Army fell short of its recruitment goal by 1,200 this year for the second year in a row and expects recruiting to be a problem for years to come. Brigadier Andrew Jackson, commander of the army recruiting group, blamed the shortfall on changing attitudes, including a dislike of taking orders and a decline in patriotism. (M&CNews)
   

• Dr Daley, who had been working in Manchester as a junior doctor, signed on after he failed to land another training post.  Shouldering a £25,000 student debt, Dr Daley told BMA News if he did not find a job in medicine within the next two months he would have to start looking outside his field, or risk losing benefits.  An unknown number of juniors are facing career limbo because of the crisis that sees too many doctors chasing too few training posts - despite a UK shortage of doctors.  Now Australian recruiters are attempting to cash in by mopping up spare doctors to tackle their own workforce shortage. (i-Newswire)
   

• Soldiers will parade in uniform at Manchester's Gay Pride festival today as the army launches its first recruitment drive aimed at the gay community.(Guardian)

USA:

• Nearly 7 in 10 workers plan to stay on the job past retirement age — including a growing number who say the decision will be driven by financial need, a new survey finds. The survey echoes others in recent years showing more Americans plan to work longer. But the nationwide poll, by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, taps into increasing concerns among many workers — particularly baby boomers — about the need to supplement their income once they leave their primary job. (Seattle Times)
   

• It's hard get good help these days.  That's the sentiment echoed by many businesses trying to hire from a workforce populated with four generations of employees, according to Express Personnel co-owner Kym Kays in Independence, Kan.  "The generation coming up has a whole different mind set about work," said Kays.  Right now there are four generations of employees in the workforce: Traditional, baby boomers, generation X, and millennials. (Bartlesville Examiner)
   

• For this camp, leave the bug spray and sleeping bag at home. But you might want to bring along a briefcase. "Camp BKD" is a weeklong training session for young adults new to BKD LLP, a Springfield accountancy firm that has 27 offices in 11 states. These "campers" finished their college or graduate school education in May or June and came to work for BKD shortly thereafter. (NewsLeader)
   

• There is little doubt the recruiting of doctors is an economic development issue. To be a successful community we must have good medical care. Securing doctors has to be an ongoing task that is taken seriously by city leaders and this is a wise and prudent work in progress that should be backed by our leaders and citizens. (MyWestTexan)
   

• A decision by the BRAC commission could send more than eleven hundred local jobs to Fort Knox, Kentucky. The plan would shut down the army human resources command in Overland. (KSDK)
   

• The report, "Economic and Workforce Outlook 2005-2010," examined national, state and county workforce trends with the goal of helping the college and the county meet future economic and workforce challenges. The report is based on surveys, interviews and forums involving business representatives from several industries.  Many of the workforce shortages highlighted in the report will be in the construction, health care and other industries that need skilled workers with technical training. (Business Gazette)

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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
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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	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
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