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Unicru announced the release of the Frontline Reliability Assessment. This next-generation assessment tool is based on the analysis of real-world outcomes from 370,000 hourly frontline workers across the retail, grocery, casual dining, call center and trucking industries. The study, conducted by Unicru scientists, was one of the largest of its kind and identified relationships between a job candidate's application and subsequent on-the-job performance. The outcome: A core set of assessment questions that can predict whether a job candidate has an elevated likelihood of being terminated for delinquent behavior and is likely to leave after just a short time on the job. (Interesting Whitepapers)

BrassRing   is leveraging technologies from Internap(R) Network Services Corporation (IIP),  to maximize global application performance for Enterprise, BrassRing's award-winning, talent management offering. 

HR Alloy, provider of an advanced qualification management system (QMS™) for human resource professionals, unveiled its Virtual Simulation Authoring (VSA™) module

Last year 13 people died from falls while working on a ladder, and over 1200 people suffered major injuries. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced a national initiative to promote safe use of ladders. Beginning on 14 November, the initiative includes a week of events when HSE inspectors will work with ladder users and their employers, look at the current use of ladders and suggest sensible measures to improve safety.

AdBrite, "The Internet's Ad Marketplace", is an e-commerce site. Rather than selling books, CDs, or rare antiques, they sell ad space on thousands of websites.  Like Ebay, many AdBrite users are both buyers and sellers (advertisers and publishers). That's why their homepage doesn't say "advertisers go here" and "publishers go there". There are, however, two distinct things you can do with AdBrite -- buy and sell ad space

The highly anticipated 2006 list of Canada's Top 100 Employers, which singles out the employers across the country with exemplary workplace environments, was released. The annual competition profiles the companies and organizations that are the leaders in their fields in attracting and retaining high quality employees. "This year marks a turning point in the competition," says Anthony Meehan, president of Mediacorp Canada Inc., publisher of the book Canada's Top 100 Employers. "We're now seeing exceptional workplace practices become increasingly widespread. More employers are recognizing the demographic changes Canada is facing and asking 'How do we improve our workplace practices to attract - and keep - the talented employees we need to stay in business?'"

TomorrowNow , a third-party provider of maintenance and support services for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards solutions, announced that three out of five PeopleSoft licensees would consider switching to third party support and maintenance, according to a study released by Knowledge Infusion, a strategic consulting organization. With more than 180 respondents globally, ranging from Vice President of IT to Controller, the survey indicates that PeopleSoft licensees are taking a hard look at the available options for their enterprise software maintenance and support.

The HR-XML Consortium has announced the certification of more than a dozen leading HR services delivery companies. BrassRing, CareerBuilder.com, ClearStar.net, eWork Enterprise, ExecuTRACK Software Group, First Advantage Corporation, Jobpartners, Manpower Inc., MrTed, Oracle, Peopleclick, Recruitmax, Resume Mirror, and SHL are the latest companies to be awarded certification under the HR-XML Consortium's "HRcertify" program. The program certifies HR solutions that conform to the open data exchange standards developed by the Consortium.

Generalist jobs board Redgoldfish has launched graduatejobs1.co.uk, a dedicated job site that's specific to recruiters or employers looking to find quality staff for their graduate positions.

Saba (SABA), a provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, today announced that it is the first HCM provider to introduce a comprehensive competency management solution.  Through its Competency-Driven HCM Solution(TM), Saba resells, integrates and certifies competency libraries with its HCM software suite, enabling companies to make real-time, strategic business decisions based on employee skills and competencies.

DoubleStar unveiled its next generation product suite -- Workforce Insight™. Comprised of five analytic modules, Workforce Insight is the industry's first complete business intelligence solution developed specifically for HR that provides the flexibility to address diverse industry and technology needs while giving organizations the most relevant information to tie human capital to business results and demonstrate a true impact on the enterprise.

Taleo Corporation (TLEO) announced that it ranked Number 93 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2000-2004. In addition to ranking on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, Taleo ranked 12 on the Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50.

Recruitmax announced that it ranked number 206 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, moving up from 350.

AIG Risk Management (AIGRM), a member of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has launched a new suite of insurance coverages and risk management services designed to meet the unique needs of the temporary staffing industry.  With access to the full range of products available from the member companies of AIG, AIGRM is able to serve temporary staffing firms of all sizes and provide insurance and risk management solutions tailor-made to fit their specific risk profile.

Top 10 HR Products of 2005 (according to HRExecutive Magazine):

• BrassRing's Enterprise Voice Gateway, an interactive voice-response tool designed to help companies screen and evaluate job applicants who lack access to the Web or do not have a resume.

• Deploy Solutions' Deploy OnBoarding, an application designed to simplify the onboarding process for new employees.

• DisciPlan Inc.'s Corrective Action Program, a software program designed to provide a system of fair and consistent employee corrective action for organizations in the public and private sectors.

• Halogen Software's eCompensation, a Web-based application designed to streamline and simplify the compensation-adjustment process -- handling all levels of compensation including base salary, variable pay, bonus pay and stock options.

• Nuvosoft's Rbenefits, a Web-based employee benefits self-service tool used to manage online open enrollment of benefits, ongoing informational updates, dependent and beneficiary changes and post-enrollment benefit statements.

• Online Benefits.com's Real Value Statement, a personalized total-compensation statement that aggregates cash compensation, benefits

• Sage Software's Abra Workforce Connections, a Web-based application bundled into the company's HRMS featuring two main components -- Abra ESS and Abra Benefits Enrollment.

• TruStar Solutions' Harvest, an automated job-posting service designed to help companies stay in compliance with Department of Labor rules.

• viDesktop Inc.'s viForm Path, which helps HR convert paper-based forms such as vacation requests or personal information changes to an online template that employees can quickly complete.

• TALX Corp.'s I-9 Express, software that issues I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms online.

Deck Chairs
Penton Media, Inc. (PTON) promoted Rob Howlett to Group Publisher of the GovPro Media Group, which includes the Government Product News and Government PROcurement brands, as well as NAEB Journal, which the Group publishes for the National Association of Education Buyers.

Survey Sez
EPA Recognizes Best Workplaces for Commuters
This year, EPA recognized nearly 90 companies on the 2005 list of Best Workplaces for Commuters from the Fortune 500 companies for qualifying one or more worksites. Fifty-two of these companies are specially recognized for providing excellent commuter benefits to more than 10 percent of their U.S. workforce. Benefits include subsidized transit passes and van-pool vouchers, telework, car-pool programs and emergency rides home.

Almost 600,000 employees receive commuter benefits from BWC's list of Fortune 500 companies. This results in the reduction of approximately 270,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to eliminating emissions from more than 53,000 cars each year and saving nearly 30 million gallons of gasoline, or $88 million at today's gas prices. Employers large and small are making a difference with BWC. Participating employers and the 2.8 million employees who work for them are annually
conserving 146 million gallons of gasoline and preventing the release of 1.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, while saving consumers more than $400 million at current gas prices.

Best Workplaces for Commuters was established by EPA and U.S. Department of Transportation as a public-private sector voluntary program advocating employer-provided commuter benefits. Providing commuter benefits helps employers address limited or expensive parking, reduce traffic congestion, improve employee recruiting and retention, and minimize the environmental impacts associated with drive-alone commuting.

The Full List of Fortune 500 Best Workplaces for Commuters". The Top 20 are in bold. An asterisk indicates #1 in respective industry.

Advanced Micro Devices Aetna Anadarko Petroleum Corp. * Apple Applied Materials Boeing * Calpine CenterPoint Energy Charles Schwab * Chevron Corporation * Cisco Systems Colgate-Palmolive * Devon Energy Ecolab * El Paso Corporation * EMC Corporation * Goodrich Guidant Corporation * Hewlett-Packard Ingram Micro * Intel * IBM Mellon Financial Corp. * Microsoft Mirant New York Life Insurance Nike, Inc. *

Northwestern Mutual (Russell) Occidental Petroleum Oracle * PACCAR Inc. * Peabody Energy Corporation Pitney Bowes QUALCOMM * Raytheon Reliant Energy * Safeco Insurance * Southern Company * Sun Microsystems * Texas Instruments Textron (Bell Helicopter) TIAA-CREF * Time Warner TXU Corp. Walt Disney Company * Washington Mutual * WellChoice * WellPoint, Inc. Williams Companies Wisconsin Energy Corporation    (We Energies) Wyeth * Xerox

 You Should Know


Australia:

• Mike Steketee: Population up as biological clocks chime to baby bonus  FOUR years ago, demographer Peter McDonald sounded a warning about Australia's falling fertility rate, asking: "What sort of society cannot even reproduce itself?"  He sketched out a scary future if nothing changed: a shrinking work force, more Australians caring for parents than children and a much older population creating a momentum for population decline that would become hard to reverse. In 2003, then aspiring federal Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull added his voice, declaring that the gravest threat to Western society this century was not global warming or terrorism but the sustained decline in the birthrate.  (The Australian)

Canada:

• U.S. Outsourcing Millions of Jobs Toll is financial, emotional Even the former Wal-Mart CEO frets about a nation of hamburger slingers.  In Canada, the effect of global trade on Canadian jobs has been an issue for decades. We are a trading nation, and our economic success depends greatly on our ability to trade internationally. We depend in particular on the U.S., which buys 85 percent of our exports.  So we've negotiated trade deals: for more than 30 years, the Auto Pact ensured that we shared in the production of the cars we drive. Free trade agreements involving the U.S., and then Mexico, have sought to protect our access to the U.S., for good and ill. (TheTyee)

China:

• HK jobless rate hits record low The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has fallen to a four-year low of 5.5 percent in the July-September period, from 5.7 percent in June-August, Hong Kong's Census & Statistics Department said Tuesday.  A drop in unemployment was seen in the construction, sanitary services, amusement and recreational services, and communications sectors, while underemployment rate falls were mainly seen in the amusement and recreational services, and wholesale trade sectors.  The Department said the four-year low came under the combined influence of an expansion in employment and a contraction in labor supply. (China Daily)

Global:

• The network has become the platform  The open-source community is in the midst of a change, with the network increasingly becoming its own platform built on open-source software, said Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc., on Tuesday.  This has been demonstrated by the rise of companies such as Google Inc., eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., which can operate unfettered from open-source licensing concerns because they aren't distributing software.  "They deliver their software as a service," O'Reilly said. (ComputerWorld)
   
• Proof of Learning: Assessment in Serious Games In Houston, Texas, a new hire steps onto a simulated offshore drilling platform and rehearses safety protocols. In Washington, D.C., a firefighter surveys a digital raging forest fire and chooses locations for trenches and firebreaks. A soldier in Iraq prepares for an upcoming mission using a detailed simulation of the urban battlefield. And a high school student in Portland, Oregon, manages the political campaign of Abe Lincoln as he tries to beat out Rudy Giuliani in the presidential elections of 2008. (Gamasutra)
   
• Outsourcing - the people issues Outsourcing only succeeds with the backing of the staff affected. So how should CIOs win over apprehensive employees?  Despite the apparent financial and operational benefits, the decision to outsource remains a difficult one; a fact underlined by a recent prediction from analyst Gartner that half of all IT outsourcing deals will either fail or be prematurely terminated by 2008. (ITWeek)
   
• Where are the disruptive start-ups in Web 2.0?  Umair Haque thinks Web 2.0 economics is causing start-ups to focus more on getting acquired than creating real innovation. He wrote: "What made the Valley cool was it's refusal to think small, and do truly disruptive things. But getting a small change acquisition to essentially extend a Yahoo/Google/etc product line sets incentives for incremental, not disruptive, innovations and models." (ZDNet)
   
• 5 Earth-Shattering Things You Should Know About Ajax And Probably Don't Ajax is hotter right now than Nicholas Carr's backside after coming out of Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 woodshed. You have heard, haven't you? If you're not sure then go Google "Ajax" right now. You can read over 23 million detailed entries all about it. Literally. Though you will have to skim a bit.  Of course, you already know everything about Ajax, don't you? You'd have to be living on some deserted island not to know about the new uber-chic way to build cool looking, dynamic Web clients. And all without a single plug-in from Macromedia! Well, perhaps you're a retired Visual Basic programmer and haven't been getting out much lately. Or were just plain unlucky and missed the trendy article in BusinessWeek. (Sys-Con Brazil)
   
• Associate Consultants: the intelligent staffing solution for the consulting industry?  Research indicates that the four main pipeline challenges facing consulting firms today are their desire to grow, volatility in the market, staff turnover and the increasing demand for specialist expertise.  In June 2005 Mindbench conducted a study of 21 consulting firms, including boutiques, strategy houses and large generalist consultancy companies to analyse how they are currently meeting these challenges and how they could adapt to adopt a more efficient approach to secure their position in this increasingly competitive market. Flexible staffing, in the form of Associates could provide the answer.  (Consultant News)
   
• AOL: In Search of a New Strategy  America Online is once again the center of Time Warner's growth strategy, and this go around there are a number of potential partners -- ranging from Microsoft and Google to Yahoo and Comcast -- reportedly interested in buying a minority stake. Yet to be determined is how the latest AOL business model, which includes both dial-up Internet access and advertising, will evolve. So why is Time Warner looking to sell a stake in AOL? Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons stated in remarks on September 21 that the company wants to get more credit for AOL's advertising business, which is growing quickly but is dwarfed in revenue by its waning dial-up Internet access business. If AOL can become primarily advertising supported -- and move away from its identify as an Internet access provider -- then it has the potential to be seen as "high growth, just like Yahoo, just like Google," said Parsons. (Wharton)
   
• The International Game Developer's Association has released a demographic report of the people who make up the game industry. We are mostly youngish white males with a college degree, who have spent most of our career in games. IGDA has called for "more diversity".  Nearly 6,500 people participated in the survey, answering a series of questions pertaining to age, race, sexual orientation and education, among other variables.  The average age of a game industry worker is 31 years, and average time in the industry is 5.4 years. More than 80% have a university level education or greater. The average salary is about $56,000, including bonuses. (Next-Gen Biz)
  
   
• Indian Outsourcing Firms Outpace Western Rivals; Wipro Latest To Report Double-Digit Sales Growth India's Wipro Technologies said revenue for its second quarter grew 26% to $568 million, joining fellow Indian firms TCS and Infosys, which reported double-digit gains last week.  Businesses in the United States and Western Europe appear to be allocating more of their IT services budgets to offshore firms, if recent financial results of major outsourcing vendors are any indication.  Late Tuesday, India's Wipro Technologies said revenue for its second quarter, ended Sept. 30, grew 26% to $568 million. In posting a double-digit sales gain for the period, Wipro joined fellow Indian firms TCS and Infosys, which reported similar results last week.  By contrast, IBM's vaunted Global Services arm on Monday said sales grew by a mere 3% in its third quarter. In August, EDS said its second-quarter revenue dropped 1%. The only major Western IT services firm that's even close to matching the growth seen by the offshore players is Accenture, which recorded a 15% revenue gain in its most recent quarter.  (InformationWeek)
  

India:

• CII says outsourcing in HR cannot be wished away  Outsourcing in HR and temporary jobs have become an integral part of the current job scenario and it is better to adjust to this phenomenon. This was the main thrust of the seminar on ‘HR Outsourcing: Trends and Insights' organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today.  Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, Team Lease Services Pvt. Ltd said in his presentation, " the debate on the phenomenon of temporary jobs continues unabated. While many people feel that no job is better than temporary job I feel that a job is better than no job at all".  (NewKelera.com)

Japan

• Temp firm eyes Chinese IT workers  A Tokyo temp agency has started offering job placement services for Chinese information technology engineers in Japan who want to go home and work for a Japanese firm there, the company said Wednesday. PA Co., listed on the Mothers market for startups on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said it began the new operation earlier this month in collaboration with Beijing PA Consulting Co., its consolidated subsidiary.  (Japan Times)

UK:

•  MoD equips staff for outsourcing Microsoft accreditation is offered as an incentive to stay  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has introduced an elearning programme to prepare staff for the outsourcing of its IT systems.  The scheme is designed to  help support staff hone their skills ahead of transferring from the MoD Information Systems (IS) division to the private sector, under the terms of the MoD's £4bn, 10-year Defence Information Infrastructure with the EDS-led Atlas consortium> (ITWeek)
   
• JobsGroup.net Triumph at EIQA Awards with W-Mark Win JobsGroup.net, the award-winning network of niche online recruitment websites, received a special commendation at the EIQA Awards in Dublin on Thursday 13th October 2005. The W-Mark global certification programme, developed by EIQA and accredited by the e-Commerce Standards Board, evaluates and audits websites to internationally recognised standards. JobsGroup.net is the first company operating across the UK to be awarded the W-Mark. (OnRec)                                   

US:

• Ingham nurses reject proposal Striking nurses turned down an Ingham Regional Medical Center proposal Tuesday, saying it won't resolve staffing issues.  Union officials representing about 500 nurses at the center said staffing remains the key issue of contention, and they want the hospital to hire more nurses.  The hospital offered to form a committee to review staffing issues.
  
  "That didn't do it for the nurses," said Joseph Marutiak of the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 459.  "We'd return to work without one single nurse being added (under the proposal). They're not taking the nurses seriously." (Lansing State Journal)
   
• Gay Kiss In Greets Military Recruiters On College Campus A group of gay and lesbian students staged a kiss in to protest 'don't ask, don't tell' during a job fair at University of California, Santa Cruz.  The demonstration was staged in front of Army, Navy and Marine Corps recruiters who were trying to interest students in careers in the military. (365gay.com)
   
• Web Buoys a Weak Quarter for NYT It's become a refrain in newspaper earnings reports: Digital revenues provide one of the few bright spots in an overall dreary financial picture.... Web sites in the company's News Media Group -- including NYTimes.com and Boston.com -- brought in ad revenues 31 percent higher than in the year-ago quarter. About.com results were also particularly strong, with Q3 profits of $3.8 million on revenue of $14.2 million. That's a 67 percent jump from the year-ago period. ....On the topic of NYT Co.'s recent investment in job listings aggregator Indeed.com, Nisenholtz noted the company is now distributing Indeed listings to About.com. (ClickZ) (Another View)
   
• Campbell-Ewald Reups with Navy, Receives up to $468.6M  Campbell-Ewald has received a firm fixed price one-year contract in the amount of $91.9 million to provide services in support of the Navy Recruiting Command's Navy Recruitment Advertising program, Defense Industry Daily reports. The new contract also contains four one-year option periods, which would bring the total estimated value of the contract to $468.6 million if exercised.  Recruiting remains a top priority for the navy. IPG's Campbell-Ewald in Warren, MI was the incumbent agency for the US Navy's recruiting campaign, but that account was under its regular review and IPG's prevous contract ended in September 2005. (MediaBuyerPlanner)

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