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Resolve Staffing Inc. acquired Truckers Plus Leasing, a 13-location staffing company specializing in staffing truck drivers.

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Webhire announced a partnership with Sterling Testing Systems,  a pre-employment screening service. The partnership will provide Webhire customers with access to an online solution for background checking, employment and education verification, drug testing, and other screening services available from Sterling.

Financial services recruiter, Head Forward, is to merge with executive search and management consultancy group CNA International.

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Monster Worldwide (MNST) has named senior executive Steve Pogorzelski to the newly created position of Group President, International. In his new role, Mr. Pogorzelski, will be responsible for all of Monster Worldwide's business activities in Europe and Asia Pacific, operations which represented approximately one quarter of the Company's total revenue over the past 12-month period....Simultaneously, Monster Worldwide announced the appointment of Douglas Klinger to President, Monster North America. Mr. Klinger, who was formerly President of CIGNA Health Services, will join Monster effective immediately with responsibility for overseeing all core business activities in North America...

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From Debbie McGrath @ HR.com

We are asking for everyone's support in helping us identify what other businesses are doing to help their employees, their business and victims of Katrina. As HR Professionals, it is our business to share these best practices ASAP so we can help all of those impacted.

Several of our members are looking for information to present to their boards on what they should do now and what they should plan for in the future, so that they as an employer can be proactive and supportive in these times of crisis.

As a member of the HR community, we are reaching out to you and asking you to share with us what best practices your organization uses to offer relief and assistance at this time. Please take five minutes to fill out the following survey. HR.com will send you back the research and accumulated data from this survey within seven days. (Those of you who need it now please let us now in the survey and we will send you a draft cut by Monday at 5:00p.m. EST.)

In addition, we will be pushing all ideas from this survey to our website blog where you will be able to search on these ideas and concepts and connect to others immediately.

Please take a few moments to complete the enclosed survey and also pass it along to your peers or other people you know in HR. The more people we have participate, the better impact we can all have.

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You Should Know

Canada:

  • Manitoba continues to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, but critics warn our aging population and lagging private sector job growth are threatening our economy.  According to job force data issued last week by Statistics Canada, the number of unemployed in the province (seasonally adjusted) dropped to 28,300 last month from 34,700 in August 2004. At 4.9 per cent unemployment, Manitoba holds on to the second-lowest jobless rate behind Alberta (3.9). The statistics show almost 5,000 new jobs were created in Manitoba during that time period.  The national unemployment rate remained steady at 6.8 per cent. But in the last year, Manitoba's labor force — the number of people working or available for work — has dropped to 608,700 from 610,500.  (Brandon Sun)
     
  • The creation of another 28,000 jobs last month failed to budge unemployment from the 6.8 per cent recorded in July, but economists still saw good news in the numbers.  Total job creation in the last 12 months rose to 234,000, Statistics Canada reported yesterday. London's unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7 per cent. (London Free Press)


China:
  • Competition is everything in business, and human resources are the key. A company needs an effective workforce and management team to climb to the top. This is conventional thinking for human resource managers competing for local financial talent. The gradual opening of China's financial industries is heating up competition for both customers and skilled staff. Industry analysts expect it will escalate further and may continue for the next several years. (ChinaDaily)


Global:
  • IMore good people leave their jobs because of shocks -- either positive or negative ones -- than because of dissatisfaction with their employers, Georgetown University professor Brooks Holtom says in a study published in the United States this week in the fall issue of Human Resource Management Journal. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, accumulated job dissatisfaction is not the immediate cause of most voluntary turnover. Job dissatisfaction is a factor, but to focus on it as the dominant cause of most turnover is incomplete and limited," Prof. Holtom writes. (Globe And Mail)
     
  • Do you want to walk? Tell your boss to take this job and shove it? Just say no to another day at work? More people quit their jobs in August than in any other month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). And if you work for the government? Now's the time to get gone. The rate of quitters doubles in late summer compared with other months, though government employees are far less likely to leave their work than those in most private industries. Some 2.3 to 2.9 per cent of all private-sector workers left their jobs in Augusts past, while government workers left at a 0.9 to 1.2 per cent clip, according to BLS statistics for 2000 through 2004. Last August, 2.9 million American workers said so long — 1 million more than moved on in March. (Financial Express)
     
  •  "Another early IBM SaaS partner, HRSmart, dropped out of IBM's program after deciding a co-location arrangement better fit its needs than a hosted-software model. With co-location, the company manages and controls its own hardware and data.  When asked for comment, an IBM spokeswoman sent several press releases over e-mail but did not respond to follow-up questions on the status of IBM's hosted software efforts. Salesforce.com declined to discuss AppExchange before its official launch. The big question facing the company is whether it is willing to separate itself from its CRM focus and stake its future on becoming a broader platform vendor. So far, selling Salesforce.com subscriptions has been essentially its only revenue stream -- and it's been a profitable one.  (ComputerWorld)
     
  • Flight attendants' jobs are being outsourced to India (Bernama.com)
     
  • Strategic hiring. That's the buzzword these days among hiring officers. And here's what the term means: "Strategic hiring refers to hiring practices by companies that are extremely focused on specific characteristics and backgrounds of job candidates," explained Susan Reyman, president of Reyman Associates, an executive-search firm based in Chicago. (Seattle Times)
     
  • HCL Technologies Ltd., a software and BPO (business process outsourcing) services company in Noida near Delhi, announced Thursday that it is adding 600 staff at its Armagh and Belfast call centers in Northern Ireland. (InfoWorld)
     
  • In the past three months, large traditional firms Ketchum and Burson-Marsteller and small Web development and online marketing agency Ripple Effects Interactive, all with offices in Pittsburgh, have unveiled services to help clients manage and shape their online reputations. The goal is to sell clients on using PR experts to sort through the confusing world of blogs, search engine marketing and other technologies such as podcasting before the online world turns on them. (Post Gazette)


India:
  • Stung by a rising number of alleged fraud cases in India's money-spinning business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, the IT industry umbrella group Wednesday launched a competence assessment program. The assessment and certification program will aim to ensure the transformation of a ''''trainable workforce'''' into an ''''employable workforce'''', said the National Association of Software and Service Companies. (India Daily)
     
  • Cafeteria lunches by a five-star chef, special movie screenings, family day out — employees never had so much fun. There's more. India Inc is doing all it can to attract, retain and motivate workers by adopting unique HR practices. That includes not just spotting and training CEOs, but also getting them to cook breakfast for select employees.  Cognizant Technologies, for example, has an Assessment Centre which helps the company to identify the star manager who could be CEO one day, says Bhaskar Das, V-P, HR. It uses simulated exercises to observe and assess behavioural skills. (Times of India)
     
  • The world may soon start looking at India for its pay cheques. With foreign companies increasingly taking to outsourcing their recruitment processes, including payroll processing, performance mapping, employee training, etc, Indian BPOs may just reap the recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) or employee process outsourcing (EPO) bounty.  According to Brian Wilkinson, Commonwealth zone manager, Vedior, one of the world's leading human resource firms, the RPO trend is a gathering storm waiting to sweep India along. (Financial Express)


New Zealand:
  • The hard-bitten, sales-driven world of recruitment might seem an unlikely place to find a company winning awards for work and life balance, but Strategy Recruitment has done it.  (Stuff)


Phillipines:
  • Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas warned Filipinos planning to go to Macau as tourists with the intention of looking for jobs not to be enticed by disreputable recruiters or agencies. They could end up as sex workers, she said. (MQ7.net)


Saudi Arabia:
  • The recruitment of overseas manpower dropped by 20.6 percent, or 47,225 visas, while the number of Saudis hired went up by over 16 percent in the first half of this year compared with the corresponding period last year.  Dr. Abdulwahid Al-Humaid, deputy minister of labor for planning and development, announced the figures at a press conference yesterday. The job categories included architects, farmers, taxi and truck drivers, painters, barbers, construction workers, plumbers and mechanics. (Arab News)


Thailand:
  • Kelly will soon introduce its recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) service in Thailand. The service will take over the entire recruitment process from its customers so they can scale down the size of their HR departments while saving on administrative costs. (Bangkok Post)


US:
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  • Kansas is a great place to live, play, work or own a business. We would like you to consider moving to Kansas and have created incentives to draw you to our wonderful state. Several communities in Kansas are offering free land and other incentives. Our goal is to help our rural areas sustain and grow economically. We welcome you to take a look at the various communities offering incentives. Click on the City name and you will be redirected to their webpage. Each community's incentives are unique and offered by local government or development groups. (KansasFreeLand.com)
     
  • Here in the heartland, the prairie homesteading tradition lives again.  Land — that coveted, crowded, pricey possession in America's hot spots — can be had these days for nothing in a growing number of Great Plains communities. Sagging populations prompted economic planners to offer juicy incentives inspired by the land giveaways to settlers in the mid-to late 1800s. And so, in the middle of Kansas, Maribel Juarez has rediscovered the town of her El Salvadoran childhood. (MSNBC)
     
  • SLO Singles: Craigslist? More like dregs list. (SanLuisObispo.com)
     
  • About 30 percent of all companies use personality tests to help make hiring decisions, according to a survey by Management Recruiters International, and the number is rising. Such testing, designed for applicant screening and employment development, is believed to be a $400-million-a-year industry. Among job applicants, the embrace isn't quite as strong. (SeattleTimes)
     
  • Look at any American workplace and you'll see faces from all over the world. Immigrants hold key positions in many U.S. companies, from high tech to medicine and research to innovative entrepreneurial businesses. But there's something different about these immigrants. They aren't staying in the land of opportunity.  That's because countries from Ireland to China to India are luring these highly-trained and valuable immigrants back home - and even getting U.S. citizens to follow (Salt Lake Tribune)
     
  • 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 likely will be at the heart of any federal immigration reform, even as critics say it needs improvement. "It's not a question of 'can we fix this?' It's 'when and how?' " said Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank who specializes in immigration. (News Record)

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