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Talent, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) provider in China launches a new blog on the subject of hiring and technology in the China market. Available in both English and Simplified Chinese.

European Online Recruitment Conference is on October 6th in Brussels.

Sexual harassment is a major issue for businesses. Studies show that between 40 percent and 60 percent of women have experienced sexually harassing behaviors, and these women suffer distressing consequences – low job satisfaction, psychological distress, anxiety, and depression. The behavior has also been shown to contribute to job loss, career interruption, increased turnover, and absenteeism. Still, as much as we know about how sexual harassment affects its victims, little is known about its impact on how the entire team performs when sexual harassment is taking place.  Professors Jana Raver of Queen's School of Business in Ontario, Canada, and Michele Gelfand of the University of Maryland delve into this relationship in a new study. Veritude's Workforce Insights spoke with Professor Raver about the study findings and what HR professionals can do to prevent sexual harassment in their organizations.

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.

TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, a global HR communications and solutions provider, today announced that it has won an award for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development at the Web Marketing Association's 2005 WebAwards. TMP won the WebAward for a careers site developed on behalf of America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company.

Hewitt Associates will launch the Hewitt Asia Leadership Center (HALC) on October 12, 2005.  The center will serve the entire region from its hub in Shanghai; helping companies tackle Asia's escalating talent shortage through effective leadership development strategies and programs.

Displaced workers are encouraged to visit the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) website job board (EnergyJobsNetwork.com) to see the current positions being offered. This service is always free to jobseekers and for a limited time job posting ads are available to employers at no charge.

Adicio, a developer of Web-based job-board solutions, has said that its CareerCast National Network has added several prominent daily newspaper affiliates, including The New York Times and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Established in 2002, the CareerCast National Network offers recruiting professionals the ability to post job opportunities into both the local database of each participating affiliate career site, as well as into the CareerCast National Network database, which candidates see as a secondary search result every time they conduct a job search at any participating affiliate career site.

Authoria has released Authoria Hire Advisor, an on-demand solution that automates and optimizes the sourcing, recruiting and hiring of top candidates.

Jobster has created Jobster Search, a job search engine. Jobster Search marks the integration of Jobster and WorkZoo.

Driven by the increasing globalization of the U.S. workforce and security demands, HireRight expanded its global background screening services by now offering verifications in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Ford, Gillette, MonsterTrak, Citi and Slim Jim join returning sponsors U.S. Air Force and Nintendo for the sophomore year of mtvU's Tailgate Tour at college campuses. Brands will support with games, samples, and product showcases and demos. The 2005 tour, created and managed by Alloy Media + Marketing, New York, runs six weeks beginning Sept. 29; its bus will hit about 15 campuses. The initiative aims to increase the cable channel's awareness among students and give sponsors the chance to connect with the collegiate crowd at college football games and social environments, such as fraternities and bars. mtvU will air tour-related segments starting Oct. 10. Alloy's AMP agency will support with campus media and buzz squads.

Knowledge Infusion, a strategic consulting organization dedicated to helping organizations realize the value of HCM and learning technologies,   announced its Human Capital Management (HCM) StrategyMap. This packaged service helps companies plan and optimize their HCM technology investments.

Jobster has launched a service that allows active jobseekers to look for jobs across the web in one click and get referrals directly to the hiring teams of leading companies.  With Jobster Search recruiters can now pre-qualify active jobseekers because inquiring candidates can proactively provide hiring teams with referrals from inside the company.

Job seeker mistakes make typical searches last 4-6 months. For those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, that could mean the difference between rebuilding their lives and spiraling downward. As challenging as it may be, unemployed Katrina victims need to move fast, but not panic. Putting food on the table and getting some stability is certainly a priority. But taking a dead-end or ill-fitting job out of desperation can add to the frustration the disaster has caused many families. The lifetime cost can be staggering as well. A newly published report by job search expert Roy Miller of website http://www.Job-Search-Guidepost.com shows the potentially staggering lifetime cost of conducting job searches the typical way. Miller says, "Most people never think about the cost of job search delay. Posting a resume online and waiting for the phone to ring doesn't get it done anymore. And if Katrina left you out of work, you need to go beyond that quickly."
 

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Anu Mankki is the new Director of Human Resources at Componenta...Executive search firm Cabot Consultants has placed Wyman Lee as vice president human resources at Medrad. Mr. Lee was most recently the vice president and senior general manager, human resources, of Sony Electronics' Engineering and Manufacturing Group...New York City-based executive search firm 680 Partners LLC has placed Sherle Webb as general manager of Microsoft Partner Programs....IT management industry veteran Heiko Oberman was named as the Company's regional director of sales, Europe for BrassRing ...

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You Should Know

Australia:

• Forecaster BIS Shrapnel has raised the alarm again about an impending skills drought, rising wages and interest rates in its latest long-term outlook on the economy. The firm has just released its flagship publication, Long-Term Forecasts, 2005 to 2020.  It suggests a continued demand for workers will push the unemployment rate down towards 4 per cent. (ABC News)
   
• Social networking technology helps connect friends, business partners and others using a variety of tools such as search and data mining.  Ocken's firm, Kindred Partners, deployed Visible Path to enable its employees to gain access to a network of professionals who have relationships with other Kindred Partners staffers. Through this "trusted relationship network," Ocken, who is managing director at the executive search firm, found the name of a co-worker who knew the CIO he was trying to reach. That connection helped him get through. "The return rates on cold calls are exceptionally low, but the likelihood of the individual calling you back if it's a warm call [meaning someone has given you an introduction to the person you are calling] is dramatically higher," says Ocken.  (ComputerWorldAustralia)

Global:

• Recruitment site CareerBuilder is in discussions with Google, analyst John Zappe wrote in a research note on Tuesday, while Adicio, a provider of software that powers newspaper job sites, told Zappe that it was working with its affiliates to determine a response to Google's request. (Internet News)
   
• Microsoft. Corp. announced it is getting into the ad-targeting business by offering marketers the option to put their brands and messages in front of their most likely customers. Advertisers on the company's MSN Search will be offered search-targeting options, such as tying ads to time, geography and gender. MSN will operate an auction to determine ad placement. More information about MSN Advertising (Marketwatch)
   
• The internet is knocking golf clubs from their prime position as the preferred business networking venue. Dozens of internet companies have cropped up in recent years, offering services that facilitate relationships among like-minded professionals. Call it vocational dating. "It's as if the internet is being used as a referral network," said Allen Weiss, professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Websites such as Jobster are becoming the business equivalent of social networking sites such as Friendster. (Fairfax Digital)
   
• Sourcing is the buzzword of the current recruiting generation. Large companies are racing to set up central sourcing models. Smaller and mid-sized companies are examining more logical ways to divide labor among the members of their recruiting team. What have other leading companies learned in their own efforts to do this? What's worked, what's failed, and what can you do to ensure success?  (Lefkow on ERExchange)
   
• Where to begin? My first foray into the world of job searching, undertaken at my computer on a gloomy December afternoon, is distinctly intimidating. These days, I have gathered from a quick tour of relevant web sites, you don't just pore over the help-wanted ads, send off some résumés, and wait for the calls. Job searching has become, if not a science, a technology so complex that no mere job seeker can expect to master it alone. (Alternet)

India:

•  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today warned against red tape keeping away talent from AIIMS and profit ventures undermining its role in public healthcare.  He was addressing graduates at AIIMS' 34th convocation ceremony. Originally formed by an act of Parliament on September 25, 1956, the institute celebrates its golden jubilee this year. The Prime Minister commended the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for taking the lead in providing better healthcare to the masses who could not afford private care. (DelhiNewsline)

New Zealand:

• The Waikato Chamber of Commerce and Hamilton City Council are considering making more use of immigrants to beat Waikato's skills shortage.  The chamber has launched a survey of members about immigrant workers. Chief executive Sandy Phillips was working with the council on how to make Hamilton more attractive to foreign workers. (Stuff)

Phillipines:

• The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said policies and programs to create employment are still top priorities needing vigorous implementation, even as employment level continued to soar to 32.5 million in July 2005, exceeding by 2.8 percent the level recorded last year on the same month. (PIANews)

Turkey:

• The unemployment rate in Turkey decreased to 9.1 percent in June 2005, according to the three-month moving average for May,June and July this year. The Household Labor Force survey conducted by the State Institute of Statistics reports that the labor force participation rate was 50 percent for the period in question. (Zaman)

UK:

• Prince Charles was addressing a seminar on the future of traditional skills at Woodchester Mansion, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, on Monday. He said many young people were leaving college without the "basic groundwork" in the subjects they were studying.  "I know through meeting lots of people from art school who are exhausted and fed up," he said.  "They are coming out with an education which is relevant but they haven't been given the real skills they need. The basic groundwork." (BBC)

US:

• Here are the overall amounts of media minutes spent per user per day according to the 5,000 hours of observations recorded by the project researchers:
  • Television:  240.9 minutes
  • Any computer use: 135.8 minutes
  • All Internet: 93.4 minutes
  • Radio: 80.0 minutes
  • Music [includes MP3 players]: 65.1 minutes
  • Phone, includes cell: 42.2 minutes
  • All print media: 32.8 minutes
  • All video [VCR and DVD]: 32.6 minutes
  • Newspapers: 12.2 minutes
  • Game console: 11.6 minutes
  
  
  (Poynter)
   
• At the end of each of his players' junior years, Georgetown Preparatory High School head coach Dan Paro sits his players down and has them list 15 schools they're interested in. He contacts the schools' coaches and sends them highlight videos of the respective players. The work Paro does is extensive, but it could all be undone by some overzealous writer for a college football recruiting Web site, he says.  Sites such as Rivals.com have been around since 1998, evaluating players and giving fans and college coaches up-to-date information on prospects' college decisions. The sites provide video, statistics and vital information such as height, weight and 40-yard dash times. But recently, some of these information centers have turned into a blitz for the latest news on high school athletes, Paro said. (DOSports)
   
• The number of new jobs in the U.S. listed on-line rose to 2.13 million in last month, the New York-based Conference Board, a business research group, reported on September 20. The late-summer figure is more than 4% higher than June's early-summer level. However, the latest help-wanted data do not capture much of the employment-related impact of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, notes Ken Goldstein, the Conference Board's labor economist (IndustryWeek)
   
• More and more job hunters are posting their resume online, exposing seekers to hundreds of potential employer. But it also exposes them to hundreds of potential scam artists, reported 5 On Your Side consumer specialist John Matarese. Aleta, a job seeker who asked that we not use her last name, was looking for part-time work, so she posted her resume on Monster.com. Within days, she received an offer to ship computer parts overseas. (NewsNet5)

Coming Soon

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	VirtualEdge sponsors: CareerXroads Seminar: Job Seeker Experience-Why Care October 06, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm EST Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ
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 November 10, 2005 :: 4:30pm - 7:00pm CST Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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