Reveille and Hyperbole
Since JobRobots.com debut in August, they have received overwhelming interests from the job seeker community. Many users praised the functionality of the site and its ease of use and suggested us to extend the coverage to help them manage the complete job application process. As part of this next generation release, JobRobots has extended the job search functionality to personalized job portal.

HTC Research is a  provider of passive candidate research and staffing strategy implementation. For over 10 years, HTC Research has specialized in providing targeted candidates, directly sourced from the passive job market for a broad spectrum of clients: multi-national corporations, mid-cap, start-up companies, contingency and retained search firms.

Online Strategies Ltd launches a new online hospitality recruitment site Online Strategies Ltd – the hospitality portal company - has recently launched www.hospitalityrecruitment.co.uk

Only one-third of human resource professionals who participated in an online poll at HR.BLR.com, the website for HR managers, said they'd give preference in their hiring decisions to applicants who've been evacuated as a result of hurricane Katrina or Rita. HR.BLR.com asked, "With all other factors being equal, would you give preference to a job applicant who was a hurricane evacuee?" Here's how participants responded:
No – 38%
Yes – 33%
Not sure – 30%

Printworkers.com (Boston), an Internet job board for print, copy, and Web professionals has collaborated with Printing Industries of New England (PINE), a member-driven association serving the New England graphic communications industry, on a job board/staffing solution for PINE members.

Brainhunter announced  that it has closed the acquisition of AJJA Information Technology Consultants. This acquisition increases Brainhunter's Ottawa presence to approximately $70.0 million in sales and doubles the earnings of our Ottawa based business. The merger of Brainhunter and AJJA will result in the consolidated Ottawa business increasing its multi-year Standing Offer backlog by approximately $70 million.

Survey Sez
Fifty-eight percent of hiring managers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com said they're going to need extra hands on deck in the fourth quarter to meet increased business demands associated with the holidays and end-of-the-year wrap-ups.

Twenty-eight percent expect to increase pay levels for seasonal employees over last year, while only 6 percent plan to decrease them.

The survey, "Seasonal Hiring 2005," was conducted prior to the events surrounding hurricanes Katrina and Rita from August 10 to August 22, 2005 and included over 875 hiring managers across all industries nationwide.

The most popular positions identified for seasonal recruitment include retail, hospitality, shipping/delivery, administrative/clerical, customer service, food preparation and sales.

While 28 percent of hiring managers expect to hire less than 10 seasonal workers, 15 percent plan to hire more than 50 workers and nearly one-in-ten plan to hire over 100 workers.

Pay scales are projected to increase for seasonal employees with 31 percent of hiring managers expecting to pay $10 or more per hour and 12 percent expecting to pay $15 or more per hour. Thirty-six percent of hiring managers plan to pay between $6 and $8 per hour and 22 percent expect to pay between $8 and $10.

"Nearly six-in-ten hiring managers surveyed prior to hurricanes Katrina and Rita anticipated a surge in seasonal hiring in the fourth quarter," said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder.com. "It is expected hiring managers will continue to monitor the impact of these events as they set their hiring pace going forward. The latest employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics serves as a positive indicator of the hiring situation, showing resilience in job growth so far.

Despite a decline of 35,000 in the nonfarm payroll, the U.S. added 31,700 temporary positions and experienced solid gains in construction, professional and business services and health services.
" CareerBuilder.com's career advisors recommend the following tips for those seeking seasonal employment

- Start applying early. More than one-third of hiring managers fill their open positions within two weeks.

- Show enthusiasm. Saying the only reason you want the position is for the employee discount will not impress the hiring manager. Saying that you want to learn new skills, admire the company or product and enjoy working with customers gives you a much better chance of getting your foot in the door

- Dress the part. For example, if you are interviewing for a job in a retail clothing store, it's a good idea to show up dressed in an outfit from that store.

- Plan for the future. If you're interested in working for the company on a more permanent basis, let the hiring manager know early, so they can keep you in mind

- Make sure to show initiative keep busy, ask questions, volunteer for projects, etc.

 You Should Know

Australia:

• Christine the new face of McDonald's ...Christine Cox has swapped hamburgers and fries for cameras and glamour to become the national face of McDonald's.  The young Maitland McDonald's Express crew member was handpicked to feature in the fast food giant's latest recruitment advertising campaign, which highlights the benefits of working at McDonald's. (Maitland Mercury)
   
• Australia's Jobs Fall Could Keep Rates On Hold ...Australia's year-long run of employment growth reversed in September, taking some heat off wage pressures, which should in turn encourage the Reserve Bank of Australia to keep interest rates on hold for the rest of 2005.  The number of people employed in Australia fell 42,300 in September while the unemployment rate rose to 5.1%, from 5.0% in August, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Thursday.  Economists had on average expected 5,000 new jobs to have been created, with unemployment remaining at a 29-year low of 5.0%. (Yahoo Finance)

Belgium

• Early retirement age raised from 58 to 60  Just days after a national strike, the federal government agreed on Monday to raise the minimum age workers can take early retirement from 58 to 60 starting in 2008.  In addition, workers will only be able take early retirement after 30 years of employment, newspaper 'De Tijd' reported on Tuesday.  In 2012, the minimum requirement to qualify for early retirement will be set at 35 years of employment. (Expatica)
  

Canada:

• Immigrants like Canada, but finding work is tough Most immigrants to Canada find work within two years, but it's often hard for them to find jobs in their chosen field, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.  The government statistics agency said four out of five new immigrants to Canada were able to find work within the first two years in their new country, while 56 percent found work after six months.  But employment rates lagged the national average and it was hard for the immigrants to win the work experience that they needed to get a job, the survey of 164,200 new immigrants showed. (Reuters)

Global:

• In July, Yahoo hired Prabhakar Raghavan, the former chief technology officer at enterprise-search provider Verity, to lead its 40-person research division in the company's Sunnyvale, CA headquarters. Raghavan, who is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, has proceeded to put Yahoo Research on the map by wooing top researchers, such as Andrew Tomkins, a text-analytics expert so well-regarded for his work on Web buzz-tracking at IBM's Almaden Research Center that Fortune magazine called him one of IBM's "golden geeks." More hiring announcements are imminent, too, according to Usama Fayyad, Yahoo's senior vice president and chief data officer. "What Prabhakar has achieved in two and a half months of recruiting is to attract the top minds in the world in the spaces of search and social media," says Fayyad. (Technology Review)
   
• Could we be witnessing a transformation in the consulting industry? It's always nice in this game when you float a theory and have it at least partially confirmed a couple of days later. Last week I posited that a new breed of consultancy firm fuelled by refugees from the old Big Four was beginning to compete head on with the current market leaders for high value work and talent. This new tier in the market would potentially separate off project design and management and relegate the bigger consultancies for system building, integration and outsourcing, unbundling the "design, build, run" model that's dominated consultancy for years. The only thing I was lacking was a suitable name for this emerging strand A couple of days later at the Top Consultant recruitment fair, Ernst & Young neatly filled the gap. I was immediately intrigued to see a Big Four firm so blatantly competing head to head with the likes of Accenture and Capgemini, and what intrigued me was how different and deliberately focused their message was. I hope to write in more detail about Ernst & Young's re-entry in to the consulting spaced, but in a nutshell their stance is that of "trusted advisers": remaining firmly on the client side of the table with a limited palette of services that nevertheless bring all the capabilities of an international professional services firm to bear on the client's issues. (Consultant News)
   
• China is targeting hi-tech jobs, EU warns  Millions of European industrial jobs are under threat from China, India and other emerging economies as these countries combine growth in low-skill, low-wage manufacturing with an expanding presence in innovative, hi-tech sectors, two EU reports warned yesterday. (Guardian)
   
• HR Execs Fear Not Attracting 'A' Players  Long-term workforce planning and updating, and integrating HCM technology, are ways to respond. Vying for top talent and addressing benefit costs are the top-two challenges facing HR executives today, according to a new Aberdeen Group study. "The HR Executive's Agenda: The 2005 Benchmark Report," conducted with the Human Capital Institute (HCI) and sponsored by Lawson Software, Unicru, Peopleclick, and GoalCentrix, contends that 85 percent of HR executives site their ability to compete for top talent as their biggest concern, while 60 percent are concerned about addressing benefit costs, and 38 percent are concerned about balancing service levels and costs of benefits and services. Additional challenges include lowering the human capital operating budget (31 percent), predicting future workforce needs (30 percent), and maintaining the human capital management (HCM) operating budget (25 percent). Survey data is based on the responses of 98 HR executives who are members of HCI's online community, and interviews with HCM senior-level executives. (Destination CRM)

India:

• India faces high quality talent shortage...India is facing a shortage of high quality workers as outsourcing opportunities from the West keep coming into the country finding that top-quality workers are now fully employed. As a result, BPO companies are now looking at smaller Indian cities to host their operations, but have found that the workforce there is not as good. Tier-II cities like Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Vishakhapatnam are the next favored destination of IT firms. Other locations such as Kochi and Jaipur are also being considered as potential IT destinations.
  
  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  (Outsourcing Weblog) - See larger map on the site.
   

• Manpower crunch in commodity markets   The commodities derivatives markets, growing at an annual rate of nearly 150% is all set to face a humongous skilled man power crunch.  According to industry estimates in next two years the commodities markets will need as many as 50,000 professionals. Even currently, there is a dearth of around 5000 professionals. (Financial Express)

UK:

• Graduate recruitment rising, survey finds  Demand for new graduates has been picking up over the past two years and looks set to continue in the coming year despite economic uncertainty, according to a study published today. The IRS Employment Review found that employers who recruit new graduates reported a strong demand in 2004-05. Over half (51.9%) wanted to recruit as many as in the previous year, 30.8% wanted to recruit more and only 17.3% reduced graduate recruitment. Online recruitment is now the norm for two-thirds of firms and organisations. (Guardian)
   
• The demand for new graduates has been picking up over the past two years, and looks set to continue in the next year, according to a study by Personnel Today's sister title IRS Employment Review.
   
  Employers who recruit new graduates reported a strong demand in 2004-5; more than half (51.9%) wanted to recruit as many as in the previous year; three in 10 (30.8%) wanted to recruit more and only one in six (17.3%) reduced graduate recruitment.
   
  The picture looks steady, with no material changes in the labour market for new graduates. There has been no boom and the growth in graduate vacancies has simply kept pace with university output.
  
  This means that the difficulties employers face in recruiting suitable graduates have not increased overall. Nevertheless, 40% of organisations have problems recruiting the graduates they need.
   
  The modest upswing in demand is matched by an equally modest rise in the median starting salary for new graduates, which has increased by just 3%.
   
  Other key points include:
  • The growing proportion of graduates with good degrees - firsts and 2:1s - is making it more difficult to choose between applicants or to use degree class a main pre-selection or shortlisting criterion
  • Age discrimination legislation is not expected to have a substantial impact on graduate recruitment but the full implications will not become clear until case law develops as the courts interpret the new regulations from October next year
  • Graduate recruitment continues to peak in October-November and January-March. Timing is seen as crucial - usually before students have gained their degree
  • The most effective attraction methods are national newspaper advertising and recruiters' corporate websites and job boards
  • 80% of graduate recruiters have their own websites or use pages on their organisation's main website. However, one in three is unaware that disability discrimination law applies to online recruitment
  • Online application methods are the most popular and used by 65.9% of employers (only 40% still use paper-based formats.
  
  
  (Personnel Today)
   
• Tech firm hits skills shortage ... A SHORTAGE of skilled workers is hampering a Hertford aerospace company's growth plans. Commatech is currently looking to fill 10 skilled positions, ranging from production controllers to sheet metal workers. The manufacturer, known as DDI Precision before becoming part of the CommaTECH group this year, lists Raytheon Systems, Smiths Aerospace and Goodrich Power Systems among its clients. (Welwyn Hatfield Times)
   
• Skills shortage is back ... The UK will need thousands more workers with IP telephony, mobile and security skills by 2008.  A survey of European CIOs by IDC for Cisco has found demand for people with these skills is likely to outstrip availability by about 40,000 people in the UK. Across Europe there will be a shortfall of half a million people.  (Register)

US:

• Operators of Temp Agency Accused of Avoiding Payroll Taxes  Three individuals in Quincy, Massachusetts have been indicted on charges that they participated in an under-the-table payroll scheme that paid hundreds of temporary employees a total of approximately $30 million in cash without reporting it to the Internal Revenue Service. (HR.BLR.Com)
   
• Help wanted to fill 300 jobs Commerce and Labor says demand ahead of supply  ...Loaded with more job listings that it has been able to fill, Sandpoint's Idaho Commerce and Labor on Pine Street is bursting with work for almost anyone who wants it. The problem is the office can't seem to find enough people in Bonner County to meet the demand. It's a predicament that office manager Bridgette Bradshaw-Fleer hasn't seen in nearly two decade she has been with the Department of Labor. (Bonner County Daily Bee)
   
• Mobile Workforce Increasing  ... By 2009, the number of mobile workers in the United States is expected to reach more than 70% of the total workforce, IDC says. (Information Week)

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