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Online recruitment conference: 6th October, Brussels Marriott, Brussels. Tickets STILL available cost Only £265

TheLadders.com announced that its recruiter enrollment has topped 5,000. 

Hitachi Information Systems is relying on professional certifications from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) to heighten the customer interaction and security awareness skills of hundreds of its employees.

The New York Civil Liberties Union launched a major campaign to arm students with tools to resist unwanted and intrusive recruitment on their school grounds and in their homes.

Workforce from Home is a brand new site dedicated to helping Parents, Entrepreneurs, Seniors, and Disabled Persons establish income from home.

Jobster launches new website. Service transforming into job hunter destination.

The growth in home high-speed internet adoption, after growing quickly in the past several years, has slowed down and is poised to slow even further, according to a new report released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.  According to the Project's May 2005 survey, 53% of home internet users go online using broadband connections compared with 50% in December 2004, a small but statistically insignificant increase. This is a slower growth rate than in a comparable time frame a year earlier; from November 2003 to May 2004, home high-speed penetration grew by 20%, from 35% of home users to 42%.

Urchin Web Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance the visitor experience. Improve your website return on investment, increase conversions, and make more money on the web.

On October 3, Webhire will introduce a new service that enables recruiters and HR execs to target passive candidates through context-based online placements.  Ads are served directly to internet users who are interested in a particular field or technology, not simply pasted on job boards or Craig's List.  A number of Webhire clients have beta tested the service and have realized very positive results.

SchoolSpring.com, The Employment Source for Educators, is providing free recruitment services for schools accepting students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

The Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA), representing over 700 high-volume eBay sellers generating over seventy million eBay transactions and nearly $1 billion in eBay sales annually, reported today that it is teaming with Tri-State PEO - one of the largest, and financially secure, privately held Professional Employer Organizations - to provide human resource and employee benefit services to its member companies.

PatchLink(TM)  has selected Ensynch an IT infrastructure services and staffing firm to assist the organization's hiring of technology professionals.

Head-Hunting is the one recruitment tool that allows you to predict an outcome for your client with a good degree of certainty and confidence. Warren Kemp & his company Recruitment Matters remain at the forefront of the recruitment-training arena in the UK – and he is without a shadow of a doubt the most prolific trainer in head-hunting techniques around today. And it's not just recruitment consultants who attend –more and more internal recruiters are realising that head-hunting can work for them too.

Brainhunter has executed an agreement to acquire a second private contract staffing  business for an undisclosed amount of cash, and a Convertible Note of $4  Million convertible into Brainhunter Common Shares over a thirty-six  (36) month period at $1.00 per share.

Monster announced that Sitewire Marketspace Solutions has been selected to receive the inaugural Monster ASU Entrepreneurial Alumni Award at the 2005 Spirit of Enterprise Awards on Tuesday, September 27.   

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Charleston Partners, a boutique executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of human resource leadership positions, announced that Jill Krumholz has joined the firm as a Principal...

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Career publisher Vault Inc. has just launched its updated "Consulting Salary Central", featuring detailed information about current salaries and projected bonuses for top consulting firms.


Prominent employers for which salary information is available include Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Bain & Company, Capgemini, DiamondCluster International (Nasdaq: DTPI), Keane (NYSE: KEA), Monitor Group, Sapient (Nasdaq: SAPE), and many other public and privately held consulting firms.

Each salary record available in the database provides the details of a consultant's background and his/her salary. Below are some examples of the information that can be found on Vault's Consulting Salary Central:

• Boston Consulting Group: Project Leader (7-8 years' consulting experience), MBA, Atlanta, GA, $135,000 base, $30,000 bonus
• L.E.K. Consulting: Consultant (Under 1 year consulting experience), MBA, Boston, MA, $100,000 base, $12,000 bonus
• Keane: Technical Consultant (1-2 years consulting experience), BA, Los Angeles, CA, $55,000 base, no bonus information given

Vault collects this salary information as part of an annual research process for its guides to top employers, including the just-published Vault Guide to the Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms. Preview the salary information with the links below:

Tech Consulting Firms

Management Consulting Firms

Vault also collects employee surveys that provide not only salary information, but information about hiring practices, workplace culture and more. Click here to browse surveys by company:

You Should Know

Global:

• The more the "SEO gurus" rave about something, the less likely it is to be true. (HighRankings.com)
   
• As workloads at agencies continue to increase, finding time to schedule multiple interviews is becoming increasingly difficult for industry talent. Depending on the proximity to the agency that they are interviewing with, candidates often times have to take half days off, or if the agency is not local, vacation time has to be used just to be able to be away from the office to interview. Having to go back multiple times to interview many times simply will not fly, especially if the candidate is interviewing at more than one agency at a time. (TalentZoo)
   
• Believe it or not, we're still in the first phase of Behavioral Targeting in online advertising. While there were some early attempts at targeting in 1999 and 2000 by Engage and DoubleClick, Behavioral Targeting as we know it didn't really take off until 2002 and 2003, when vertical publishers like USAToday.com and Tribune Interactive and the portal Yahoo! deployed it and started creating some real success stories for advertisers. Since that time, we've seen hundreds of web sites deploy Behavioral Targeting capabilities; we've seen ad networks like Advertising.com start to use it; and we've seen thousands of campaigns run with Behavioral Targeting elements. (AdBumb)
   
• Honk if this sounds like you: While much of America is watching Jon Stewart, Letterman, or Leno, you're stumbling out the office door into a car-service Town Car or groping for the clicker to the BMW in the company parking lot. Once home, you slug down a beer or the last of a bottle of white wine on the door of the fridge, stuff some leftovers in your mouth, and collapse into bed beside your sleeping spouse. A half-dozen hours later, you crawl to the shower, throw on a clean shirt, pour some coffee down your throat, maybe drop a kid or two at school, and jump back on the frenetic work treadmill that you can't shut off. (BusinessWeek)
   
• IBM plans to launch a new online job-matching tool designed to pair recent college graduates with jobs at IBM and its partners.  Students who've passed an IBM Professional Certification test will be able to post their resumes to the Web-based system, where they will be made available to thousands of potential employers, the company said. The program is an effort to address the fact that fewer students are entering the computer science field, creating a "gap between skilled IT professionals and the increased number of technology jobs," the company said. (ZDNet)
   
• According to some industry estimates, 95% of commercial websites are making only marginal profits, just breaking even, or losing money. While most online businesses spend a bundle putting up their website, submitting it to search engines, and promoting it to the hilt, it turns out that the profits they generate are seldom worth the promotional efforts they put in. So what are the reasons behind the lackluster profits of these websites? Why do some online businesses make money so easily on the Web, while others try everything possible and still barely scrape by?...(AdBumb)
   
• EquaTerra surveys those on the front lines of the BPO and ITO industriesits own advisors and industry service providerson a quarterly basis to gain in-the-field insights into sector trends and projections. The results of our most recent Pulse Surveys, covering Q2 2005 activity and projections for Q3 2005, were released in July 2005. Here are some key findings.  Of the polled advisors, 72 percent reported an increase in demand for BPO and ITO services in Q2 2005, a decrease from the 83 percent rate reported in Q1 2005; 28 percent cited flat demand, an increase from 17 percent in Q1 2005. For the third straight quarter, no advisors felt demand had decreased. Of service providers polled, 75 percent reported a pipeline increase in Q2 2005 over Q1 2005, while 25 percent cited flat pipelines. (HROToday)
   
• Recruiting is the holy act of helping others discover their gifts and discern God's will. (ChristianBibleStudies.com)
   
• Birmingham Post-Herald to publish its last edition on Friday. Scripps says the economics of publishing the afternoon Post-Herald "were no longer favorable." The Birmingham News, owned by Advance Publications, will continue to publish seven days a week in the morning. The joint operating agreement between Scripps and Advance was scheduled to run until 2015. (Read Scripps CEO Kenneth W. Lowe's letter to employees.) (Poynter)
   
• Many people writing about the future of newspapers are getting it wrong.Who am I to say so? I recently retired from a director's job in the San Jose Mercury News advertising department. Early in my career, I was a reporter and editor. So I know both sides of the ethical "firewall" in journalism.Let me address three prominent misconceptions about newspapers:
  • They could serve the public better by cutting their profit expectations.
  • They have a bright future.
  • Their quality, and journalists' morale, are falling.
    (GradeTheNews)

Oman:

• The number of expatriates working in Oman's private sector fell 24.4 per cent since January 2003, according to official sources here.  More than 134,000 expatriates left jobs in less than three years. The total number of expatriate workers in the private sector with valid work permits stood lower at 415,135 as at the end of July 2005 compared with 549,338 as at the end of January 2003, government statistics reveal. In seven months, from December 2004 to July 2005, more than 9,000 expatriates left jobs.  (MenaFN)

US:

• The New York Times and Boston Globe have announced they will cut 4 percent of the papers' staffs, on top of a 2-percent cut made last year. Knight Ridder also announced it is cutting 15 percent of staff at The Philadelphia Inquirer and 19 percent at The Philadelphia Daily News. (NPR Audio) 
   
• Retail and movie advertising cutbacks are sapping third-quarter results for newspapers across the industry. "I keep referring to it as carnage," says Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine. "All we've done for the last week and a half is lower [earnings] estimates." She notes that newspapers have seen an increase in online advertising, "but it's not a dollar-for-dollar exchange. That dollar in print became 35 cents online."
  (WSJ)
   
• Did NYT, KR conspire to announce cutbacks on same day? "It's no mistake that...[they] did it on the same day," says Henry Holcomb, president of the Philadelphia Newspaper Guild chapter. "Then they would not have to be held accountable for their own actions. They can blame it on an industry trend." Joseph Natoli, publisher of Knight Ridder's Philadelphia Newspapers, pooh-poohs that. "I was surprised to read the [Times Company] announcement, but not surprised that it would happen." (Editor & Publisher)
   
• If you have less than 2 years experience in marketing, advertising or public relations, or are a recent graduate or student eager to break into the industry, you've come to the right place. Join the Rookie Directory Today  (TalentZoo)
   
• Sites That Post Openings for Katrina Evacuees (CareerJournal)
  
   

Coming Soon

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	International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) Global Forum Oct. 6-7, 2005 Boston, MA $710 More Information Register
8th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition October 19 - 21, 2005 Chicago's McCormick Place Learn More Request Brochure	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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