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Dragon Eye System Company ("DESC")  announces the re-launch of it's employment portal Thankyoujob.com.

HR.com  has compiled a list of top employers in the San Francisco area who have excelled at improving their people management skills. HR.com welcomes Accolo, Inc., Bingham McCutcheon LLP, Exelixis Inc., Pool Covers, Inc., and The Performance Group of Northern California to the growing list of HR.com's Employers of Excellence.

Webhire, a Lexington, MA-based maker of recruitment software, has released Webhire TalentScope, a new service designed to let recruiters reach active and passive candidates through keyword advertising. With TalentScope, Webhire helps simplify the process of buying keyword ad placements by offering a turnkey package customized to the jobs customers are trying to fill. TalentScope enables employers to reach a targeted audience, improve employment brand, and build a pipeline of quality candidates

Saba, a provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, has recorded revenues of $13.6 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, a 46 percent increase compared to $9.3 million in the same quarter last year. The company recorded a net loss on a GAAP basis of $1.7 million, or $0.09 per share, compared to a loss of $1.7 million, or $0.12 per share, during the same period a year ago.

TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications will serve as the primary recruitment advertising agency for Burger King Corporation (BKC) worldwide.

The Industry Training Authority (ITA) and stakeholders in B.C.'s residential construction industry today came together to announce the launch of the Residential Construction Industry Training Authority (RCITO). In the face of a projected skilled labour shortage, RCITO represents a critical step towards the ITA's mandate to provide sufficient,
skilled workers for employers and meet labour market demand for the province.

RIP:

John E. Struggles, the co-founder of Heidrick & Struggles, passed away at his home in Winnetka, IL. He was 91 years old.

Deck Chairs:

Netherlands-headquartered Maes & Lunau Executive Search has named R.W.M. (Mattijs) Kropholler as a managing partner to focus on the ICT and industry sectors....

Survey Sez
Three-quarters of Koreans between the ages of seven and 65 use the Internet, the most recent survey shows. Koreanclick and Research International said Wednesday they arrived at the figure by polling 5,000 Koreans.

In the survey, 73.8 percent of respondents said they use the Internet more than once a month. Factored to the whole population, that would mean 29.88 million people, 932,000 or 3.2 percent more than last March. The most commonly used services were search, news, games and e-mail. The services that have grown the most were shopping, auction and mini homepages, which were especially popular among housewives.

About half or 49.1 percent of Internet users had experienced e-commerce, 1.3 percentage points more than in the last survey. However, the average money they spent dropped by W2,000 to W50,000. The population of wireless Internet connection users stood at 13.2 percent or 5.34 million, a 1 percent increase. (DigitalChosunilbo)

You Should Know

Australia:

•  A new report says some major changes to Australia's health care workforce are needed to meet the challenge of treating an ageing population. The Productivity Commission recommends that health workers broaden their skills to treat more patients. It's also proposed a new national body to oversee accreditation of all health workers, a role that would be taken away from individual medical groups. (ABCPM)

Canada:

•  Paul Martin may want to cast his net a bit further as he looks to immigration to solve the looming labour shortage caused by an aging work force. In a key speech earlier this month, the Prime Minister made clear that the aging of the work force is at the top of his government's agenda, and he suggested strongly that higher immigration levels would solve the problem. (Globe and Mail)

Global:

• When it comes to direct contact with the employees of a competitor, all readers are urged to revisit the ethics statement and guidelines published by SCIP located at the SCIP.org website. Remember, if you are a member – whether or not you are personally collecting the information – you have agreed to be bound by this statement of ethical conduct. (Researchzilla)
   
• One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one of the key sessions in the vertical track was "Meet The B2B Search Engines. (SearchEngineWatch)
   
• Identity management (IdM) was born out of the complexity of modern IT application stacks. Employees in all sectors need access to an ever-increasing number of applications, databases and networks, with each requiring a separate username and password. Not only has that been a source of irritation for users as they switch between applications and resources, but the support tasks associated with setting up, resetting and deleting passwords has become a hefty overhead - as well as a security risk. (Infoconomy)
   
• Gates, who also is Microsoft's chief software architect, will continue the college tour with stops at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Waterloo at Ontario, Columbia University, Princeton University and Howard University, according to U-M. (Mlive.com)
   
• Google would rather hire an academic genius than a seasoned MBA. Don't believe me? You will. So is this a clever recruiting tool or a generous gesture to help NASA get back on its feet? Does it matter? Google's track record has been so good in the past that even the zaniest of projects deserves patient deference until proven faulty. It's why companies that once used to tower over Google, like Yahoo! (YHOO), eBay (EBAY), and Microsoft (MSFT), get weak at the knees when Google so much as steps in their general direction. (MotleyFool)
   
• You really have to give Salesforce.com some credit in the nerve department. The software maker is offering any Siebel Systems employee that joins Salesforce before the end of the year a $5,000 signing bonus, according to a company memo Salesforce Chief Marc Benioff sent to his staff on Thursday. (News.com)
   
• As Internetnews.com reported on Tuesday, analysts said that Google plans to add classified ads to its index. The article cites a report from research firm Classified Intelligence, which says that Google has asked classified advertising sites, including CareerBuilder and Adicio, for a direct feed of listings, that would facilitate the listing of classified ads for the search engine. Jim Townsed, editorial director at Classified Intelligence, said on Internetnews.com that "making classified ads available through an organic Google search would definitely change the game." He stated that there are two schools of thought, the one thinking that search could provide additional distribution of the ad, the other thinking that such a search possibility will destroy the pricing model employed by online and print classified publishers. "Just as Craigslist had a lot to do with killing the paid real estate listings, the more you give away for free, the harder it is to place a high value on it", he said (see also our previous postingon Craigslist). PaidContent cites John Zappe from Classified Intelligence, "Commercial classifieds sites such as CareerBuilder, Cars.com and others have to weigh the additional audience Google could deliver against the potential loss of revenue. Analysts, including us, predict that advertisers will move to free sites if they become convinced that they will reach an audience as large - or larger - on a search engine than on a paid advertising site." (EditorsWeBlog)
   
• A Web site has been developed where students can find jobs, cars, housing or just the opportunity to help out in the community. stanford.oodle.com, the first Stanford-based search engine for classifieds on the web, is a local offshoot of Oodle.com, a portal to online marketplaces and classified ads. Co-founded by two Stanford alumni, the Web site compiles local classified listings from hundreds of local and national sources such as eBay, Craigslist and the San Francisco Chronicle. "Our goal is to make it really easy for buyers to find what they want," said Saith Sedlin, one of the co-founders of Oodle. "We put everything in one place."  (StanfordDaily)
   
• On Sept. 6, Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy managing partner James Herms discovered his organization had been suspended from using the Boston University Student Employment Office's Job Board service after posts for two positions were removed. He still doesn't know why. (Daily Free Press)
   
• The passive candidate has long held a certain mystic among hiring managers; difficult to identify and even more difficult to recruit, these professionals are considered by many to be the "Holy Grail" of job candidates for two primary reasons: 
  • Because they are happily employed, passive candidates are thought to be much more loyal and more stable than professionals who are employed but actively pursuing a new position.
  • Because they are not actively seeking a new position, the belief is that there will be less competition for the attentions of a passive candidate.
  
  
  Whether or not these beliefs are true, the fact is that passive candidates make up about 85% of the working population and an estimated 45% of the IT industry workforce. Particularly for IT, which has an estimated employee turnover rate of as high as 30%, the sheer number of passive candidates makes establishing a recruitment strategy for attracting these individuals worth a second look. (CIOUpdate)
   
• Walt Disney Co.'s Robert Iger, who takes over as chief executive officer today, said his top priority is to retain talent and bolster creativity at the No. 2 U.S. media company. "That's what it's about, more than anything else, more than financials, more than technology, more than growing globally," Iger said in an interview this week. (InsideBayArea)
   
• First, look for jobs whose supply outstrips demand, for which companies in the U.S. need qualified workers from anywhere on the globe. But most important, says Hans Gieskes, CEO of recruiting firm H3.com is to find a job in which you need to "smell, see and touch the culture you're working in." Here are five surprisingly hot fields where you must use your senses. (Time)
   
• ''You're seeing a lot of activity, because the recruitment market is coming back," says Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research. And the irony, Li says, is that where newspapers felt their business was being upended by websites like Monster in the mid-'90s, now it's Monster, the online recruiting leader, with nearly $600 million in revenues last year, that is concerned about keeping its franchise. ''Anytime companies get big, they innovate less," says Auren Hoffman, a San Francisco entrepreneur who earlier this year launched KarmaOne, a site that offers rewards to people who refer their friends or colleagues for open positions, similar to H3. Hoffman and Gieskes both believe that cash can motivate people to circulate job listings through their personal networks, perhaps enticing highly skilled candidates to apply, even if they weren't in the market for a new job. (Boston.com)

India:

•  Lauding strides India has made in its economy, a British minister has said his government's effort now is not how to stop Indians coming over to Britain, but how to prevent talented, educated graduates of Indian origin leaving the UK to work in their homeland. (IndianExpress)
   
• Employee Referral Programmes (RPs) are the preferred hiring process for quite a few IT organisations. On an average, 35 to 40 percent of recruitment that happens is through RPs (excluding the campus recruitment process). Hiring through referrals is considered more advantageous than other recruitment options— placement agents, media advertisements or direct recruitment—as it cultivates greater cultural bonding at the earliest. Some voice concern and believe that this system might breed nepotism. RPs therefore have to be designed and managed well. (Express Computer)

UK:

•  Research for a salary survey which aims to bridge the gap between potential employees' expectations and the reality of working within a client organisation gets underway today. The authors are calling on the HR community to participate fully in a bid to build the most comprehensive survey of its kind yet undertaken in the UK. (OnRec)
   
• Rupert Murdoch sold TSL Education to Exponent Private Equity, a London-based buy-out firm, for £ 235 million, reports BrandRepublic. TSL Education publishes Times Educational Supplement, the Times Higher Educational Supplement and some smaller titles like Nursery World as well as several websites and exhibitions targeted at teachers and education professionals. The company also provides classified advertising for jobs in UK colleges, schools and universities. (EditorsWeBlog)

US:

• The number of help-wanted ads in U.S. newspapers fell in August, a private research group said on Thursday. The Conference Board said its gauge of help-wanted ad volume fell to 35 from 39 in July. It was 37 a year ago. The data show job growth has been "downsized significantly," said Ken Goldstein, Conference Board economist, in a statement.  The Conference Board, a private research group, said online want-ad volume edged up in August compared with July. There were 2.13 million new online job postings appearing on major
  Internet job boards, compared to 1.97 million in July. (Reuters)
   
• About 76 million baby boomers, or those born between 1946 and 1964, are set to retire in large numbers by the end of the decade. Boomers make up about one-third of the U.S. workforce, and there aren't enough younger workers to replace them. Labor shortages in key industries will force a radical rethinking of recruitment, retention, flexible work schedules and retirement. (Forbes)
   
• Many executives say their employees are their greatest asset, but some are starting to mean it as the baby boom generation approaches retirement age. (Reuters)

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