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TrueCareers, the leading online jobsite for finding professional, degreed candidates quickly and easily, is teaming up with world-renowned author and commentator Peter Weddle for a free seminar series to help human resource professionals improve the effectiveness of their online recruiting efforts. The series, "Recruiting Online: The 3rd Generation," will begin this September.

From the beginning project manager who wants a good foundation to the experienced project manager who wants a refresher course, IHRIM's "Essentials for Successful Project Management" fits the bill. Scheduled for September 14 in Boston, October 5 in Ft. Lauderdale, and October 6 in Dallas, this course provides attendees with an understanding of the overall project management process and their roles in the process. Any HR or HR information technology professional requiring a sound knowledge of project management will benefit from this course.

Brannon Professionals has started a free Web site, www.memphisrelief.com, for displaced individuals to post a "mini-resume". Employers also are encouraged to visit the site to fill available positions.

Monster and Advanced Personnel Systems announced the release of the first fully-integrated hiring solution. The jointly-developed solution allows customers to streamline the hiring process by consolidating candidate sourcing and applicant management, resulting in increased recruiter effectiveness and improved tracking capabilities Incorporating SmartSearch Online, APS' flagship applicant tracking system, the Monster integration offers recruiters and candidates the following benefits:

• Real Time Posting – Customers can post jobs from SmartSearch Online to Monster more efficiently than ever before. Job postings are now uploaded faster than ever to Monster making them available to job seekers almost instantaneously.
• More Career Site Traffic – When a job seeker applies for a job posted on Monster from SmartSearch Online, the candidate is re-directed to the customer's career center on their corporate web-site.
• Reduced Data Entry – Recruiters searching the 48 million resumes in Monster's database can forward candidate resumes directly to SmartSearch Online. Candidate information is automatically loaded into their SmartSearch Online database, eliminating the need for data entry.

You Should Know

Australia:

•  A Look at Some Other Google Hiring Coups (WashingtonPost)
   
• By Tuesday, Kai-Fu Lee should have a clearer idea of what he can and cannot do at his new job with Google over the next few months. That's when a court in Washington state will rule on whether to extend a court order forbidding Lee from working in certain areas. (Computerworld)

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Factor in all the other basic living expenses (and occasional "recreational" driving), and suddenly, thanks to surging oil prices and daily gas price increases, take-home pay is lower than money already budgeted. (Check out how much you're spending on gas with the Hatch Gas Calculator.) (Hatch MAgazine)
 
• TENS of thousands of people may never return to New Orleans, threatening a population crash as devastating to the city as Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. In addition to the 350,000 people who fled the city before the storm, more than 100,000 have been evacuated since and sent as far afield as Michigan and Utah, many vowing never to return. (The Australian)
   
• California remained dominant in August when it came to new tech jobs posted online. That's the conclusion of a report due out next week from job search service NimbleCat. NimbleCat's research on new software and IT jobs posted to major Internet job boards found that California's share dipped slightly from 29.7 percent in July to 29 percent. No other state accounted for more than 10 percent of the new tech jobs online in August, according to NimbleCat. (CNET)
   
• Mauro Bonomi has another wad of venture capital cash and is hiring tech talent again in the United States--but not like he did during the dot-com boom.  Bonomi recently landed about $10 million in venture funding for his company, Minerva Networks, which makes software that lets phone companies offer television services. This year, the 65-person, Santa Clara, Calif.-based company aims to hire 30 to 35 people, half or more of them likely to be computer professionals based in Silicon Valley or other parts of the United States. (CNET)
   
• CIOs plan to pump up their hiring in the fourth quarter to the highest levels in more than three years, according to a new report released by IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology. (Information Week)
   
• Counting the job losses will be daunting, said Tom Nardone, chief of the household employment section of the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. ``We're still making plans on how we're going to do the next survey,'' Nardone said in an interview. The jobs report for September is due out in early October. But, Nardone said, ``New Orleans has been evacuated and we're not going to be able to assess those households. And there are other areas where it is going to be tough to get in touch with people.''  (Guardian)