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Engenium has just introduced the newest version of its next-generation Semetric searching solution. Semetric V.4.0 is an innovative tool that uses conceptual meaning and context in addition to traditional keywords to perform highly efficient and accurate searches. The solution was developed with the idea that the ambiguity of the English language can often lead search engines that depend on keyword searching to irrelevant or undesirable results.

Fueled by a more positive outlook on the job market, the Spherion Employee Confidence Index bounced back in August, rising 1.2 points to 58.6.

Travel with HR leaders to Mumbai, India, as part of SHRM's U.S. India Exchange. Registration for this unique event, which bring together U.S. executives and directors from leading organizations and corporations with their counterparts in India, ends soon. A free webcast on Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 2:00-3:00 PM (ET) at  will offer more details about the event.

Workstream Inc. (WSTM) has been named to the 2005 Deloitte Canadian Technology Fast 50 list.

WorkGiant introduces Performance Based Recruiting business model, and a Pay Per Hire fee structure.

Todays Staffing, a subsidiary of  CDI Corporation, are beginning an initiative to help victims of Hurricane Katrina by allowing for a donation to the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund of one percent of gross margin generated by new clients in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Sevatec, Inc. of Fairfax, VA announced   that The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has awarded the company a prime award for Special Technical Area 7: GoLearn Staff Support Contract and Subsequent Task Order, under the new GoLearn Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracting vehicle.  Under the new award, Sevatec Inc. will establish a Program Management Office (PMO) at GoLearn to support participating government organizations align learning strategies with Agency missions. Specifically, Sevatec will help define strategic objectives related to learning management, learning content management, employee performance management, organizational development, content development, collaboration and virtual learning, and other human capital management needs. Sevatec will also work with other GoLearn product and service vendors to manage the on-time, on-budget implementation and integration of secure learning infrastructure and strategies.

Kenexa Corp. (KNXA) has acquired Toronto-based Scottworks, a company that sells customer relationship software.

Spherion announced Friday it is closing its Dallas human capital practice. That practice is being acquired by Plano-based Optimance, a human resources company founded in 1984.

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Nancy A. Spivey, IOM, vice president of workforce and education for the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed by Gov. Ernie Fletcher to the Kentucky Workforce Investment Board...Sue Clark-Johnson, chairman, CEO and publisher of The Arizona Republic and a widely known community leader, was named Friday president of the newspaper division of parent Gannett Co., Inc.  Clark-Johnson will become the first female head of the division, which includes more than 170 newspapers and information businesses as well as specialty publications and other operations across the nation. Gannett, based in McLean, Va., is the nation's largest newspaper publisher...

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 The "looming" US physician shortage is here already, if a recent survey of in-house physician recruiters across the country is any indication. More than three-fourths (77%) of the 106 members responding to a recent LocumTenens.com survey of the 700-plus-member Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR) reported having recruited five or more staff physicians in the last year. This included:

-- Close to half (48%) of respondents who said they'd recruited more than 10 staff physicians during the same period.

-- More than a quarter (27%) of respondents who reported having recruited 20 or more physicians in the last year.

Only 23% of respondents said they'd recruited four or fewer physicians for their employers' staffs in the last 12 months, including four who recruited no physicians in the last year. (For more information on physician recruiting, visit locumtenens.com/services/agency.asp.)

"It was clear at ASPR's recent national conference that physician recruiters generally believe there's a shortage-and they're looking for new resources for recruiting and retaining physicians," said Pamela McKemie, senior vice president of LocumTenens.com. "This reinforces projections we've been hearing of a physician shortfall that could reach 50,000 by the year 2010."

Hiring Window Widening

The LocumTenens.com survey also validates the average amount of time required to hire a staff physician: More than two-thirds (68%) of respondents said the process takes more than seven months and 22% pegged it at 12 to 18 months. Still, 30% of ASPR-member respondents indicated they generally spend six months or less hiring a staff physician, and only three percent said it takes 18 months or more.

McKemie notes, "We didn't analyze our survey geographically, but physician recruiters in more rural areas generally face a more daunting task than their urban or suburban counterparts. That's why we do roughly sixty-five percent of our business in Rural America."

Orthopedics and cardiology are the most difficult-to-recruit specialties, according to at least half (52% and 50%, respectively) of the 106 physician recruiters responding to the LocumTenens.com survey. Respondents ranked the specialties listed on the survey in order of recruiting difficulty as follows:

-- Orthopedics 52%
-- Cardiology 50%
-- Neurology 37%
-- Psychiatry 29%
-- Radiology 26%
-- Primary care 24%
-- Surgery 20%
-- Obstetrics 15%
-- Anesthesiology 10%
-- Pediatrics 4%

Physicians Filling In

More than two-thirds (68%) of respondents reported using locum tenens ("temporary") physicians, and more than half (55%) said they'd hired at least one through an agency in the past year. Related to locum tenens physicians:

-- While close to a third said they don't use locum tenens physicians, more than a third of respondents (35%) reported using one to four per year.

-- Almost the same number (34%) said they use more than five locum tenens physicians per year, but only 19% use more than 10 per year, and only seven percent use more than 20.

Almost half (49%) of the survey respondents said they'd been in their physician recruiting roles for four or more years. Almost two-thirds (65%) said they spend 80% or more of their time recruiting physicians.    

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Australia:

  • Globally, human resources (HR) outsourcing is picking up steam with the likes of Pepsi, Whirlpool and other big names choosing to use service providers to avoid stressing already stretched IT staff. However, this trend isn't so popular in Australia, particularly in government, and in view of a high-profile failure at the Department of Defence which made headlines last week. (Computerworld.au)

Canada:

  • Increasingly, retention of these career newcomers is moving to the top of the education agenda nationwide. Baby boomers are retiring and school boards across the country are clamouring to bring fresh new college graduates into their classrooms. "This is the beginning of a teacher shortage," said Mary-Lou Donnelly, president of the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union. (National Post)
     

  • About half of the workforce of Canada's second diamond mine could consist of aboriginals if training efforts are put into high gear over the next three years, says a native consultant. (ThunderBay)
     

  • Wanted:Up to 81,000 men and women who can put a high-tech face on the mining industry. Engineers and MBAs encouraged. Remuneration impressive. (National Post)

Europe:

  • One in five employees who would be prepared to cut short holidays or even cancel them if work called, according to the Work Life Balance Centre. (This Is Money)

Global:

  •  The Times-Picayune has added Missing Persons forums to its website which have become ground zero for those searching for family and friends, along with Craig's List New Orleans, an online community. Requiring no cost and little expertise, a number of new blogs and discussion groups have also sprung up.(NorthGate) (Wired) (Guardian)
     

  • Boeing's 18,000 machinists went on strike seeking better terms from the world's largest aerospace company. (MarketWatch)
     

  • For the past 25 years, as many as 80% of all software selections have relied heavily on a document called a Request for Proposal, or RFP. Yet many in the IT industry consider the RFP of little value, suspecting that some vendors tick every box, hoping to overcome obstacles after the first-round selections have taken place. It's expensive, inaccurate, and often wastes the time of both sides of the equation. It doesn't have to be this way. (AMR Registration Required)
     

  • Continuing its efforts to ensure the safe and economic use of nuclear science and technology, the United Nations atomic agency recently co-organized a workshop of 41 experts from 24 countries to tackle such issues as the lag in the rise of a new generation to replace the current ageing nuclear workforce, according to IRNA. (Iran News)  
     

  • The runners-up included these bizarre stories: a furniture mover who got fired after he and a co-worker were caught fencing with some adult sex toys they found in a customer's bedroom; a worker who misunderstood a manager's instructions to send some sensitive data to microfilm and emailed it to a "Michael Finn" instead; and a warehouse worker found doing perverse things with the prosthetics made by his employer.  It made for such fascinating reading that one woman posted an account of how she was sacked for spending too much company time scrolling through the postings on Simplyfired.com. (Fairfax Digital)
     

  • Today, job hunters can count on being Googled. Three out of four recruiters do Internet research on candidates, and one in four has dropped candidates based on what the searches found, according to 102 recruiters responding to a "digital dirt" survey conducted by ExecuNet, a Norwalk, Conn.-based networking organization for high-earners. (SeattleTimes)
     

  • Knight Ridder Inc.'s acquisition of The Idaho Statesman is part of a company effort to acquire small and mid-size daily newspapers in growing markets in order to boost profits. (Statesman)
     

  • The online social-networking craze that started with twentysomethings on Friendster and spread to college students on TheFacebook has now hit younger kids. (SeattleTimes)                                                                                                                                                     

India:

  • Boom time is good news but it creates the problem of manpower demand-supply mismatch, leading to high attrition rates. It is currently hovering around 50 per cent in the ITES (IT-enabled service) sector. Today in Sify Finance  The Chief Operating Officer of HSBC Global Resourcing, South Asia, Malcolm Wagget, said given the projections made by the Nasscom, the manpower requirement in the ITES alone is set to rapidly grow to about one million by 2007 (now at 3.48 lakhs), and by 2012 India may actually face shortage. This calls for serious introspection and innovative ways to retain talent and address the issue from an industry perspective by all stakeholders.  (Sify)
     

  • NINE recruitment agencies in India have been blacklisted and issued show cause notices by the Indian ministry of labour as a result of a letter sent by the Indian embassy in Doha last week.

    "Our letter was based on complaints we received from over 200 Indian workers of a construction company who went on strike recently for salary arrears."  (GulfTimes)                                                   

Malaysia:

  • Seri Najib Razak said Malaysia should learn from China's success in developing its human capital to hasten economic development. He said China had invested heavily in human capital development, producing some six million graduates annually, including two million in the field of information technology. This had enabled it to create a workforce that was innovative and creative and stayed ahead of the others. (New Straits Times)

Pennsylvania:

  • Leaders of Lancaster County's colleges and universities have joined forces to try to stop the local brain drain. A group of nine college presidents and one chief executive hailing from 10 institutions have formed Lancaster's Higher Education Task Force.  The ultimate goal is to plug the leak in the county's pool of college-educated workers. Meeting for the past two years, the members of the task force last week announced they've formally organized into a team that will work with the county's economic development experts to attract college-educated people to Lancaster as well as come up with ways to retain their own graduates. (LancasterOnline)                                                   

UK

  • Employment prospects in the manufacturing sector have declined to their lowest level for more than two years as companies battle to offset rising energy and materials costs, according to the latest industry survey.  All sectors except transport have cut jobs in the past three months, with the steepest declines occurring among electrical equipment companies and in the car industry, which is still struggling in the wake of MG Rover's collapse. (FT)
     

  • Newspaper group Trinity Mirror is acquiring online classified advertising company Hotgroup for 50.5 million pounds in cash. This is the group's third internet buy in as many months. It had earlier bought smartnewhomes.com for 16.6 million pounds in July and then agreed to pay 13 million pounds for Financial Jobs Online in August. The newspaper group's offer of 20.25 pence per share accounts for a premium of 3.8 per cent over Hotgroup's closing price on Wednesday, and a premium of more than 70 per cent since June 21, when the latter made it public that it had received a buy offer. (ABCMoney) (Borsa-Italia)
     

  • The BBC has launched the next stage of the procurement process for parts of its HR services in the UK. (IndiaTelevision)
     

  •  Scotland faces a medical academic staffing crisis unless it launches a recruitment drive, the British Medical Association has warned.  The BMA said medical schools lost 6% of their clinical staff last year, with worst-hit Aberdeen losing 12.8%. (BBC)

USA:

  • Hurricane Katrina may cost 500,000 Americans their jobs this month, the biggest decline in payrolls in more than 30 years - putting a damper on Friday's report that the nation's unemployment rate is at a four-year low. Labor analysts say as many as 1 million people are at least temporarily out of work in the gulf states, and half of those likely will be unemployed much longer. Economists said jobs lost to Katrina will begin showing up as early as next week in claims for unemployment benefits.  (RockyMountainNews) (SeattleTimes) (DetroitFreePress)
     

  • A federal grant will fund about ten-thousand temporary jobs for Hurricane Katrina cleanup and recovery in Louisiana. (Merc) (BayouBuzz)
     

  • Coloradans who see headlines about an economic rebound, increasing employment and rising productivity but believe the good news fails to reflect their lives have plenty of company.  Wages are stagnant, barely keeping pace with inflation. Many employees face heavier work loads without any reward, and increasing numbers live in poverty and lack health insurance. (Rocky Mountain News)
     

  • Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has recognized a San Antonio resident for his efforts to bring more minorities into the ranks of law enforcement. John D. Butler, chief deputy marshal for the Western District, received the Attorney General's Award for Equal Employment Opportunity. Attorney General awards are the highest honor given by the Department of Justice. (MySA)
     

  • The nation's unemployment rate dipped to a four-year low of 4.9 percent in August as companies added 169,000 jobs, a sign that the labor market continued to gain traction before Hurricane Katrina struck. The latest snapshot of the United States' jobs climate, released by the Labor Department on Friday, buttressed observations by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues that the hiring situation was gradually improving. But the future of the nation's employment picture is murky — clouded by fallout from this week's devastating hurricane. (Modbee)
     

  • 60 percent of the American workforce slack on the job because they either don't have enough work to do or feel they aren't paid enough, according to a recent two-month survey by AOL and Salary.com. There two types of cyberslackers, according to employee behavior research: The "shirkers and free-riders," and then "productive websurfers." It's clear, Dewett said, that companies should find ways to use technology to help employees in pursuit of work life balance. (DaytonDaily)
     

  • Recruiting calls are sooooo yesterday. At least you'd think so from the attention given Jobster, which received $19.5 million in second-round financing on Tuesday. Mayfield, which is also an investor in The Motley Fool, led the round. Jobster resembles referral network LinkedIn in that recruiters use email invites to get contacts to bring their friends and associates into an online network. (MotleyFool) (RedHerring)
     

  • "We're launching a new jobs search product in the next 60 days. We bought a company called WorkZoo [a vertical job search engine], and we'll be launching a service that's unique in the industry. Right now, Jobster offers employers an employers' system to do candidate relationship management. We'll be offering the first job search engine to search for jobs across the Web from various job boards and Web sites and to connect with employers. (Jobster CEO Interview in Computerworld)
     

  • If you're going to succeed in attracting, recruiting and retaining productive employees, you have to communicate what makes you special as an employer. (Business Las Vegas)
     

  • The Gala apples clinging to the trees in John Verbrugge's orchards are ripe and ready to be picked, but the people plucking them from branches look vastly different than years past. For the second year in a row, Verbrugge has hired farm workers from Thailand under a federal guest-worker program to help harvest his crop. Up the road, 79-year-old Robert McMahan propped up a large red-lettered sign outside his fruit stand: "Apple Pickers Wanted." He's had no takers. (MailTribune)
     

  • For the past five years, a growing fraction of America's workers have joined an emerging cowboy labor market, something of a catch-as-catch-can market that is unstable, unregulated and often illegal. The transition began with the recession of 2001, an economic downturn that created an excess of workers in America. But that labor oversupply wasn't the only impetus. Two other factors also created strong incentives for employers to jettison the old employer-employee relationship: the rise of the Internet and a growing immigrant labor force. (Merc)
     

  • A Troy-based recruiting and staffing company is giving its workers a 10% raise to offset the rising costs of gasoline. (DetroitFreePress)
     

  • A small group of businesses is quietly testing a Department of Homeland Security program that can check immigration status with a few clicks on the Internet. The program will likely be at the heart of any federal immigration reform, even as critics say it needs improvement. (Merc)
     

  • In her 4 1/2 years as director of the Center for Workforce Development for Maricopa Community Colleges, Mary Vanis has seen a big change in private-sector attitudes toward labor force issues. "When I came into this job I could hardly get the economic-development people to say the word workforce and include it in their plans," said Vanis, who started with the community college system in 1982. "They always assumed the labor force would be there. Today the discussion is very different." (Arizona Republic)
     

  • A number of evacuees who relocated to Montgomery County in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina want and need to join the local workforce. (ChallengerNYK)
     

  • "The kids' technical skills affords them to go into other fields that are more technically challenging," he said.
    Stabile said his company runs programs at area high schools to encourage kids to enter the field, which he said is vital because a whole generation is about to get out of the industry through retirement. "You need to show them there is a future in it, that they can have a comfortable career in this field," Stabile said. "We probably don't do a good enough job of attracting people who are potential employees."  (Telegraph Online)
     

  • Tribune Co. is in rebuilding mode as it struggles to wring growth out of its stable of urban dailies and local TV stations wracked by declining circulation, a prolonged local ad slump, people-meter technology, which Tribune says undercounts younger viewers, and subpar performance at the WB network. (Tribune owns a 22.25% stake in the WB.) (Variety)
     

  • Around the country, cries for help are constant at construction sites, schools and hospitals that can't find enough carpenters, math teachers and nurses. In Arizona, a growing population in need of health care, education and housing just exacerbates the problem employers have just filling these jobs. (ArizonaRepublic)
     

  • Thirty-four percent of S& P 500 companies that replaced a CEO in the first half of 2005 hired an outsider, according to recruiting firm Spencer Stuart. (Newsweek)
     

  • Since last Labor Day, the jobless rate has declined in 290 of the 367 metro areas, and the employment picture is so strong that four states -- Nevada, West Virginia, Idaho and Montana -- set all-time historical record-low jobless rates in 2005. (TimesUnion)

 

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