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Salary.com  is the second fastest growing technology company in New England, according to the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 Program for New England. Salary.com is being recognized for its continued success in developing compensation-management solutions for large enterprises, small- and medium-sized businesses, HR professionals, and compensation-minded individuals from all walks of life.

JobRobots has extended the job search functionality to personalized job portal.  Job portal allows users to easily create and manage job alerts and track the job application process. As users progress in the application process, they can track the progress of their search by managing the status of the job from application to interview to job offer. In addition, suggested job search keywords have been added to make searches easier and more intuitive.

Early registration for the Austin Game Conference ends on September 30th. Austin Game Conference, taking place October 27-28, 2005 in Austin, Texas, is the leading conference for online and next generation game development.....Companies recruiting include Activision, BioWare Corp., High Voltage Software, THQ, Ensemble Studios, Midway and many others.

Industry-specific search and research has become incredibly difficult on traditional search engines, which lack the critical focus on industry specific sites. Traditional search engines also suffer from an enormous amount of search engine spam resulting in low importance as well as irrelevant sites coming up at the top, and the key sites being buried deep under. Business professionals are struggling to weed through thousands of pages of search results to find the few pages that are relevant.  Spotster presents business professionals with a B2B-tuned search engine for specific industry research, by dynamically creating and growing a "targeted web" of pages relevant to that industry. Spotster's technology ensures that only the highly relevant web pages are included in a specific industry index and its search algorithm is tuned to deliver accurate results to the user. Spotster is founded by a passionate team of search engine technologists and sales & marketing professionals.

Workforce from Home is a brand new site dedicated to helping Parents, Entrepreneurs, Seniors, and Disabled Persons establish income from home. Finding your niche for a home business or work at home job can be extremely time consuming and stressful! We have done the research and spent the time, and want to offer help for those interested in staying home and earning an income.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has launched a comprehensive three-pronged initiative to support members adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina. The first is to locate members directly affected by the hurricane and to help them return to productive work in the profession. The second is to tap into the HR expertise of SHRM members and staff to share vital information and resources. The third is to leverage partnerships with other organizations that can help serve the needs of SHRM members and their organizations.....The SHRM web site, www.shrm.org, and its special Hurricane Katrina Resource Page, www.shrm.org/issues/hurricane/, provide a wealth of resources and a method for SHRM members to contact the headquarters. The page, updated daily, contains a summary of news articles and links to web resources that provide essential information in the aftermath of the powerful storm. Much of the information is available to members and non-members alike.

Maximizer Software Inc., a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and contact management solutions, was named a 'CRM Market Leader' for the second consecutive year by CRM magazine, the industry's leading monthly magazine dedicated to helping companies achieve customer- focused organizations.

DeckChairs

 Tim Beaumon is the new Senior Vice President of HireDesk and will initially focus on driving customer deliverables and growing its sales organization. Beaumont brings with him over 11 years experience in the Talent Acquisition space, most recently working as Vice President of Sales at Recruitmax...Korn/Ferry International (KFY) announced that Jocelyn Dehnert has joined the leadership team of its Board Services practice. Based in London, she will focus on strengthening the firm's service delivery to plc Boards of Directors in the UK and across Europe, with special emphasis on the recruitment of executive and non-executive directors...Saba Software Inc., a maker of employee-training software appointed Mark D. Frost as the company's newly created position of chief operating officer. Frost comes to the company from PeopleSoft, where he was that company's vice president and general manager of the human capital management product division.

Survey Sez
New Jobsite recruitment framework matches candidates to companies that culturally fit

UK survey of over 5,000 job seekers reveals:

52% of the workforce dislike looking for a new job

37% of the UK workforce currently don't enjoy work

47% would like to change industries

30% of workers would resign if offered a more enjoyable job
In contrast, 26% are motivated by salary increases and 23% by promotion

41% use the Internet as a method for job searching

12% of employees quit their job in the first 3 months of employment, costing UK companies £2.5 billon per year

New research launched today by Jobsite, reveals an increasingly disgruntled UK workforce. The survey reveals that 37% of the UK workforce do not enjoy their time at work and that 47% would be interested in working in a different industry. The prime motivations encouraging people to seek work elsewhere are led by the desire for a more enjoyable job, with salary increase and promotion opportunities coming second and third place respectively. However, when motivated to look for new employment, 52% find the job search process frustrating.

The survey, commissioned by online recruiter, Jobsite, surveyed 5,000 UK job seekers from across a variety of sectors to investigate how they were finding the job hunting process and how recruitment methods can be improved. This was followed by a series of in-depth focus groups with job hunters to explore these frustrations even further. These sessions revealed that cultural mis-match between companies and workers is the primary reason why workers end their relationship with a company.

Based on these findings, Jobsite has launched a new recruitment framework to help job seekers better understand their work motivations, providing them with critical information and insight into their own preferences to help them find a company whose company culture will best match their own. Designed in conjunction with Dr Paul Morgan, the new framework provides candidates with a far greater appreciation of their own values, motivations and workplace preferences to help create a better informed match between the candidate and the employer. Unlike many ‘personality' tests, the new Jobsite framework goes beneath the surface descriptions of different work types and identifies the deeper world of worker's views, recognising that people's values and motivational drivers are fluid and will change according to life circumstances. Jobsite has piloted this new technique internally which contributed to the company's recognition in the Sunday Times Best Place to Work awards. Jobsite is now taking the framework to job seekers and recruiters to improve ‘employee and employer equilibrium'. (OnRec)






You Should Know

Global:

• Even as IBM completes plans to lay off 14,500 workers, Big Blue is continuing to scout for new IT talent and hiring professionals around the world.
  Though the company is long past the tough times of the early 1990s, it nevertheless remains in the midst of what former employee relations director Harry Newman characterized in a 2003 Webcast to IBM executives as "unprecedented transition." Newman and the company's other human resource executives foresaw that globalization would be one of the most important factors in the restructuring of the world's largest information technology company through 2006. (InformationWeek)
   
• Middle managers in Britain have four years for their employers to decide whether they have senior-level potential or will remain a "career" middle manager, according to a new study from Management Recruiters International Inc. That is shorter than in the United States, where most middle managers have up to six years to advance to the senior level. The study, which polled 400 human resource directors and senior executives, half in Britain and half in the United States, found that, on average, a middle manager remains in a current position for 4.7 years before being promoted to senior management in Britain versus 6.3 years in the United States. If employees do not make the jump by then, most surveyed companies said they would be considered "career" middle managers. (Globe and Mail)
   
• Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries are fast emerging as favourite destinations in this regard for Western European countries. Philippines, Malaysia and Mexico too are moving up the chain, says a study by global outsourcing consultancy firm, neoIT. It examines how the offshoring ecosystem has evolved over the past year. (Times of India)
   
• American employers are not benefitting much from outsourcing and damage to US workers in terms of wages as well as jobs is far less, according to a research study, which focused on outsourcing on technology and other jobs. The study pointed out that some foreign companies have set up shop in the US thus contributing to job growth because they continue to believe that America is the best place for research and development activities. (SifyNews)
   
• The loss of potential stars like Laakmann is just one of the issues facing the company Bill Gates and Paul Allen started 30 years ago, challenges that emerge as it grows into its new skin as a maturing giant, searching for its next big hit, concerned that it's not the center of attention at the big tech party anymore. Microsoft has lost engineers during upticks in the industry, when new startups and hot competitors beckoned. But this time it has fewer cards in its hand. It no longer offers stock options and the prospect of becoming a millionaire overnight. It's also increasingly focused on business products that have less razzle-dazzle than consumer Internet services like Google. (Seattle Times)
   
• The next wave of software as a service that Google and its partners are likely to deliver will include things such as calendaring applications, CRM, word processors and other productivity applications. Microsoft is so concerned about this that at its annual developers conference it outlined its own plans to turn MSN into a platform for developing applications.(CRN)
   
• The search giant's TV land efforts have been an evolving process, which has included the debut of a prototype earlier this year to search TV programming. And on Wednesday, Google's TV efforts were a topic of discussion on several blogs that pointed to the job posting on Google's site. According to the posting, Google is looking for someone to help get its search and advertising technologies into products that enhance viewers' TV experience. Google said it is seeking someone to "identify key market trends that are shaping user behavior when watching television." (ZDNet)
   
• Increasingly, the personal computer is a relic.  So asserted Jonathan Schwartz, president of server and software maker Sun Microsystems. Instead, what has become important are Web services on the Internet and the mobile phones most will use to access them, he argued at a Friday speech here at a meeting of the American India Foundation.
  
  "The majority of the applications that will drive the next wave of innovation will be services, not applications that run on the desktop. The real innovation is occurring in the network and the network services," Schwartz said. (ZDNet)
   

• In his first public comments since the $10.3-billion takeover by Oracle was completed, former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway on Thursday blasted Oracle for driving down PeopleSoft's stock by saying Oracle wouldn't support its business applications software after the acquisition.

    Speaking at Saïd Business School at Oxford University in England, Mr. Conway said that after Oracle announced its tender offer in June 2003, CEO Larry Ellison made frequent comments to investment professionals and journalists that PeopleSoft software would not be supported. (Red Herring)
   

• An effective CRM program also requires a shift in how candidates are viewed. Candidates should no longer be seen as applicants but rather as valued customers. Many organizations have found this element of CRM to be the most challenging since it requires a change in the mindset of managers and staff. Treating candidates in a customer service manner means making a point of responding to inquiries rapidly, giving them feedback on how well they interviewed and doing post mortems to identify why they failed to accept the offer. Candidates need to be asked during and after the process, "How well did we treat you?" Remember to think in the broadest sense as a businessperson. We might not be able to hire them today but we certainly can turn many candidates into our future employees or customers if we treat them right. (FlexPacking)

•  From Europe and North America, India's offshore workers — call center operators, data entry clerks and telemarketers — may seem like the sweatshop laborers of the information age, toiling long hours for meager pay.  But an international alliance of unions that wants to organize them is finding a very different reality in India: Many workers think of themselves as members of a relatively well-paid, respected professional elite in no need of a union's protection.  "I know these young people have a negative image about unions," says Narayan Ram Hegde of Union Network International, a global alliance of 900 unions. (LATimes)
   
• India has now lack of talent to fulfill the low priced outsourcing jobs knocking the door of India from the West.
  
  The talent pool of high quality is fully employed. The wage inflation is rampant in India. The BPO companies in India are now targeting smaller cities. However, they are finding that the talent pool in smaller cities lack the quality that made the Western companies interested in India. (IndiaDaily)

•  More than a third of British employers say they lack the quality of applicants required to fill positions, according to a survey from The Investors In People....Eighty-six per cent of employers said recruitment is a high or very high priority for them over the next 12 months and 37 per cent see it as more of a priority than a year ago. (Globe and Mail)

US:

• It's only September. For real fun, wait until October hits. You see, September and March are when the audit periods take place for the all-important "Publishers Circulation Statement" at newspapers across America. The September statement is published in October and those results are what support ad rates. Just so there's no October Surprise for Corante readers, here's next month's headlines today: In October metro newspapers across the country will post astonishing year-over-year declines. (Corante)
   

• The newswires are atwitter today with word that more and more universities are offering courses on video games and are (in some cases) even offering video game degrees. The typical interpretation of this trend is that it's a wonderful thing for games and reflective of the fact that games have come to be appreciated both as art and as serious business. "Just like when rock and roll came of age everybody wanted to be a rock star, as video games have come of age, everyone wants to be a developer" said Carolyn Rauch, senior vice president of the Entertainment Software Association, in an AP story on the subject. (Joystiq)
   
• National Journal columnist Daniel Glover has turned his efforts to helping the victims of Hurrican Katrina. In his Beltway Blogroll column yesterday, Glover wrote:
  
  "Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, I have wanted to do something to help the victims of the storm but something more personal than just donating to charity. After several days of contemplation, it hit me: I write, therefore I am. So write I will. With the help of Devin Hedge, a friend of mine and Webmaster extraordinaire, I have launched a site called Hurricane Job Hunter as a forum for volunteering my writing and editing services. I also have recruited some of my journalistic colleagues to help. The site will enable people left jobless by the hurricane to contact us so we can write cover letters, resumes or other materials they need as they try to recover from the storm."
  (Powerline)
   
• With hundreds of victims of Hurricane Katrina taking up either temporary or permanent residence in the Coastal Empire, companies are opening up more job opportunities. The Sullivan Group, a job placement company, held a job fair open house yesterday afternoon for victims of Katrina as well as locals. The job fair gave people an easy way to see what jobs are available in the medical, industrial and administrative fields. Right now the Sullivan Group says it has more than 50 positions it needs to fill. You can take a look at the positions online at www.savannahjobs.com. (WTOC11)
   
• In case anyone wonders, the "media situation report" on Page 3 of this issue is really about the rise in relevant content as the driving force in the newspaper industry, and the decline of what is euphemistically called paid circulation as a factor in advertising decisions. Advertisers want readers. Readers want content. Paid circulation is a toll booth set up by publishers to separate advertisers from readers. (Leesburg2day)
   
• About 64 million baby boomers, more than 40 percent of the U.S. labor force, are poised to retire in large numbers by the end of the decade, the report stated. "The maturing work force is often seen as an issue to be dealt with instead of a great opportunity to be leveraged," said Lorrie Foster, co-author of the report with Lynne Morton and Jeri Sedlar. "The skills and knowledge mature workers possess can be utilized to great advantage by a company that knows itself well and can identify its weak areas that can be bolstered by the right mature workers."
  The report said industries now feeling the greatest pain in terms of skills shortages are oil, gas, energy, health care and government. (El Paso Times)
   

Coming Soon

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
See America's #1 Internet Recruiting Sourcer Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 5:00 p.m. Microsoft Corp, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA RSVP/Info Seating is limited to the first 150. Questions: 508-930-9391 email: Riverboat's a comin' and Shally is on board. Glen's free resources sponsored by H3.com	Webinar: How to Select a Search Marketing Partner September 29, 2005 2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT Free Register
Enterprise Social Software & Tools: Business Blogs & Narratives Sept 30, 2005 8:00am - 5:00pm New York, NY 212-261-9816 $349 Register	Economist Conferences Human Resources Directors' European Summit September 29, 2005 The Millennium Mayfair Hotel, London £765 + VAT More Info
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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Conference-Board New HR Leaders & Practitioners Tough Issues Forum 27 - 28 October, 2005 The Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY $ 2,295 More Info	HRO World Europe November14-16, 2005 Conrad Hotel Brussels, Belgium EUR1,700 Register More Info
Executive Diversity Career Fair Nov. 15 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1900 Diagonal Rd. Alexandria, VA Learn More	Managing Contingent Workforce Suppliers/Solutions Nov. 16-17 Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Early Bird Fee: $795 More Info Register Request an expanded brochure
VirtualEdge sponsors: CareerXroads Seminar: Job Seeker Experience-Why Care October 06, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm EST Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ November 10, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm CST Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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