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Jobing.com announced today the release of Go Jobing, a publication spotlighting local employment issues and helpful insights into the recruiting profession right here in Arizona. "People will wonder
why an employment Web site would produce a magazine," said Aaron Matos, PHR, founder and CEO of Jobing.com. "That may be one of the reasons why we're doing it; people expect the unexpected of Jobing.com. The truth is that Jobing.com is much more than a local employment Web site, we're an employment services
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Africa:
- African Company Seeks To End Africa's Brain Drain The lack of qualified professionals working in Africa presents one of the biggest development challenges facing the continent. Doctors, nurses, teachers, academics and
businessmen have been streaming out of Africa in recent years, in search of better opportunities in the West. But from Paris, Lisa Bryant has the story about one man, 36-year-old Didier Acoutey, who runs a company that is dedicated to luring African professionals back home. New university graduates
and young professionals packed the stands of the AfricTalents job fair in Paris last week, eager to schedule interviews with several dozen multinational companies and banks scouting for new talent. (VOANews)
Australia:
- IT Skills shortage threatening growth Industry experts are warning of a looming IT skills shortage in the near future if measures are not taken to attract graduates, women, and workers from non-IT backgrounds, to retain mature
age workers, and to provide for more flexible working conditions. Speaking at a roundtable event in Sydney yesterday representatives from NICTA, Hudson, Microsoft and CompTIA were united in backing changes the industry must make in their attitudes to recruiting IT staff. (Builderau)
Canada:
- Health report targets staffing crisis Schools, CHR unite in call for training centre Calgary needs at least 7,700 extra nurses and 4,000 new post-secondary spaces in health-care disciplines over the next 10 years to meet
the needs of a growing population, according to documents obtained by the Herald. (Calgary Herald)
China:
- HK job boom highlights talent shortage Hong Kong's job market is booming -- if you're a skilled worker. Employers complain of a talent shortage, vacancies are on the rise and companies are being forced to boost wages.
The boom heralds stronger growth for Hong Kong. But a deeper look at the statistics highlights a problem: a big mismatch between labour supply and demand. In short, Hong Kong has too many unskilled workers and not enough skilled ones. (Reuters)
India:
- Co secretaries must go in for talent pooling Chennai: Company secretaries should learn to pool their expertise and knowledge with chartered accountants and lawyers to set up multi-disciplinary firms to survive in a
competitive market, said S. Balasubramanian, Chairman, Company Law Board.
Balasubramanian was speaking at the valedictory session of the 33rd national convention of company secretaries. He said that the training by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India is of a high order and that Indian company secretaries could face global competition (Sify)
Global:
- Yahoo, Google deep in thought Prabhakar Raghavan is a respected computer scientist, a veteran of more than a decade at IBM's Almaden Research Center who was recently hired to run the burgeoning research group at Yahoo. Raghavan
has also become a recruiting tool for Yahoo archrival Google. Plug Raghavan's name into Google -- as many a computer scientist might do -- and the search results will feature an ad that reads ``Work for Google.'' Click on it and you'll land on Google's job listing pages. (San
Jose Mercury News)
- Online networking clicks among friends And investors sense profits from Web sites linking people Before the Internet, social life was both simpler and more complicated. To keep up with friends, you actually had to see
them. To organize a party, you had to pick up the phone. To get a date, you had to have chemistry. Now, thanks to the miracle of online social networking sites, you can manage your friends without taking your hands off the keyboard. Social networking has become one of the most popular applications on
the Internet in the wake of the dot-com bust. There is now a social network site for practically every subgroup, no matter how weird, niche or pragmatic. (SFGate)
- Craigslist targets Oodle for `scraping' its listings LATEST SKIRMISH IN GROWING TUG OF WAR OVER ONLINE CONTENT Craigslist, long considered a paragon of community-friendly, almost anti-corporate business philosophy, has
asked San Mateo Web company Oodle to quit picking up its listings. Oodle's technology pulls excerpts from craigslist and posts them on its own site, including a link so that a user can click on it. The user then gets forwarded to craigslist's full listing. The practice is known as ``scraping,'' as
if Oodle were scraping listings from craigslist and piling them onto Oodle -- although Oodle objects to use of the term to describe what it does. (San Jose Mercury News)
- Why craigslist booted Oodle... and more to come? Turns out, craigslist's terms of use limits Oodle and other sites that want to crawl its content to a maximum of 100 listings, and Oodle went way beyond that. Others do too, by
the way, including Jobster, Indeed and SimplyHired. But craigslist Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster told us he singled out Oodle for several reasons. He said some users had written in asking why Oodle was using craigslist listings. ``Folks seem to resent anyone looking to profit off the craigslist
community,'' he said. (Silicon Beat)
- So, you want to be the boss? In some work environments, boss is a four-letter word. "Demands on bosses are radically different than they were 10 years ago," said Michael Merenda, professor of strategic management and chair of
the management department at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics. "The demand on today's leaders is a lot greater. With global competition, the threat of terrorism and the rapid rate of change, bosses are more challenged than ever to keep up with their field and stay connected with their workers."
(SeaCoastOnline)
- Poor nations seen pinched by skilled worker losses Well-educated people leaving poor nations for opportunities abroad can inflict pressure on their home countries, and often find their skills go to waste, economists say. While
migrants send home huge amounts of money -- a figure expected to top $225 billion this year, far more than official foreign aid -- experts say many developing nations are pinched by the loss of high-skilled workers like doctors and nurses. "Massive emigration of highly-skilled citizens poses troubling
dilemmas for many smaller low-income countries," the World Bank said in a report "International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain," released on Monday. The global lender said skilled workers make up 40 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's emigrants compared to just 4 percent of the region's labor
force, and Caribbean nations Guyana, Jamaica and Haiti lose more than 80 percent of their skilled workers. (Reuters India)
- New Obstacles Dogging Outsourcing Customers Compliance requirements, lack of experienced workers sink some deals Outsourcing deals in IT have long been marred by poor communications between buyers and
suppliers, along with failures by customers to adequately manage the relationship and measure performance.
At the OutsourceWorld conference here last week, users and analysts said outsourcing customers are now facing new challenges, including regulatory requirements and shortages of experienced outsourcing relationship and contract managers. (Computerworld)
- Insourcing - bringing business services back in-house - is a growing trend, research from the National Outsourcing Association has revealed. An NOA survey of more than 60 top outsourcing professionals found that six out of 10
believed that insourcing was not a passing fad and posed a "significant risk" to outsourcing contracts.... A number of major firms have recently brought IT services back in-house. Last year, US banking firm JP Morgan announced that merger with Bank One would see 4,000 IT staff return to the company,
abandoning a £2.8bn outsourcing deal with IBM. Prudential has also announced that it is bringing part of its IT operations in house from Capgemini. (Computerweek)
- E-tutoring broadens bounds of outsourcing A few stars are still twinkling in the inky pre-dawn sky when Koyampurath Namitha arrives for work in a quiet suburb of this south Indian city. It's barely 4:30 a.m. when she grabs a cup
of coffee and joins more than two dozen colleagues, each settling into a cubicle with a computer and earphones. More than 7,000 miles away, in Glenview, Ill., outside Chicago, it's the evening of the previous day and 14-year-old Princeton John sits at his computer, barefoot and ready for his hour long
geometry lesson. The high school freshman puts on a headset with a microphone and clicks on computer software that will link him through the Internet to his tutor, Namitha, many time zones away. (Seattle PI)
- Outsourcing Group Pitches Ethics, Contract Management Standards The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has released a code of ethics and a set of business-practice standards that are designed to help
companies improve their processes for awarding and managing outsourcing contracts. The standards apply to IT deals as well as other forms of outsourcing. One of the people involved in the effort was Cynthia Kearney, vice president of global pharmaceutical R&D sourcing and supplier management at Johnson
& Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development LLC in Raritan, N.J. Kearney said the guidelines, which were issued Sept. 26, will give the parties in an outsourcing agreement a common business framework. (BlackEnterprise)
Jamaica:
- Age and its limitations on job search JOB hunters over the age of 50 struggling to find work may think their age is working against them, but their lack of success might be a result of a bad job search. (Jamaica
Observer)
Japan:
- Japan's hidden growth engine In August 1999, Kathy Matsui raised many eyebrows in Japan with a report on how the future of the nation's economy was in women's hands. Matsui, chief strategist at Goldman Sachs (Japan), called the
phenomenon "womenomics." Part of Matsui's analysis was that tapping just the male half of the population lowered the quality of the national labor pool and, ultimately, gross domestic product. Discrimination also exacerbates Japan's biggest long-term challenge: a low birthrate. (International
Herald Tribune)
New Zealand:
- Job hunters get to pick and choose Your organisation's branding is more than just your logo and outward image - it is your company's identity, which is reflected as much through the culture of your workforce as through the
products or services you offer. Geoff Smith, founder and CEO of True HR Integrates, says that having a good established employment brand is the modern way to attract talent to your organisation. "It's no longer about putting a help wanted advert up. It's about saying I have something that you, the
job hunter, might well be interested in. (NZHerald)
Nigeria:
- FG targets $11b from human capital by 2014 The Federal Government has taken steps to encourage outsourcing of the nation's human capital, expected to yield an income of about US$11 billion by 2014. Towards this end, a
budget of N584, 828,334 has been proposed for the establishment of a National Outsourcing Training Institute (NOTI), which would facilitate the sharing of the nation's human capital resources with the rest of the world. Besides an estimated income of N134 million to be made from the training of
students at the proposed institute in 2006 alone, it is also projected that the possible income from outsourcing services would rise from US$2 billion in 2007 to US$11 billion in 2014. (Daily Independent)
US:
- Learning From History As Congress seeks a comprehensive immigration fix, the lessons of 1986's historic reform must guide the way. As the temperature surrounding immigration issues rises, let's remember that our political
system walked this road 20 years ago during the debate that led to the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. In its attempt to tackle illegal immigration, Congress struck a deal in which border control and employer responsibility were combined with amnesty. But the deal disintegrated in practice.
Will Congress heed the lessons of IRCA as it revisits immigration reform? (American Prospect)
- FBI, eager for talent, weighs hiring former pot smokers If you can remember the '60s, you weren't really there, according to the flip one-liner. And if you smoked pot, it's highly unlikely that you can recall exactly how many times.
Many surely did "experiment." Indeed, almost 100 million Americans — nearly half of all adults — have used marijuana at least once, according to the latest National Institute on Drug Abuse survey. Only a tiny percentage became stoners and slackers. The vast majority became responsible adults. Some even became
members of Congress, Supreme Court justices and president of the United States (albeit without inhaling).
Many could not, however, become employees of the FBI. The bureau prohibits hiring anyone who has used marijuana within the past three years or more than 15 times ever. (USAToday)
- Businesses struggling with labor shortage Hawaii is boasting the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for the seventh straight month. The State Labor Department says Hawaii's jobless rate was 2.7 percent in September.
But does the low unemployment rate have a positive or negative impact businesses? Business owners acknowledge the economy is booming, but they are struggling in different ways. The message is pretty clear--businesses are hiring, now! "There's definitely is a labor shortage," says Orlando
Benedicto, Dippin' Dots owner. (KHON2)
- WorkSource gains friends, respect As executive director of San Antonio's main work force development agency, Alan Miller dreams of the day when the Alamo City is a premier source for highly skilled workers. Alan Miller mans the
Alamo WorkSource center at KellyUSA, where the agency has been matching hurricane evacuees with employers. He's known as a demanding boss and an effective coalition-builder. Alamo WorkSource volunteers (from left) Ali DiVasto and Juan Salazar assist New Orleans evacuee Thomas Richburg with possible job
placements. More than 15,000 evacuees landed here in the past two months, with about half planning to stay. But his vision has been tested here lately with delays in long-term efforts to retrain Levi Strauss workers and an influx of thousands of often low-skilled hurricane evacuees. (MySA.com)
- Blogs Bogging Down U.S. Work Force A best-guess extrapolation of blog-related surveys and data suggests that work time spent reading and posting to blogs this year will consume 2.2 percent of U.S. labor force hours, AdAge reports.
Work time spent on blogs unrelated to work will take up 1.65 percent of labor force hours. About one in four people in the labor force visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours during the work week engaging with them. And, because blog readers tend to be the most engaged readers of online content, it
seems for now as though they are not siphoning blog time from time spent reading their favorite new sites, but are rather reading blogs in addition to existing online behavior. (MediaBuyerPlanner)
- Opportunity knocks for inner-city businesses Despite their high poverty rates, inner cities are home to 814,000 businesses employing 9 million people, according to a new study released by the Small Business Administration's Office of
Advocacy. Small businesses employ 80 percent of the people who work in inner cities, the study found. Most of these workers, however, lived elsewhere, the study found, which is one reason why poverty remains a problem in inner-city neighborhoods. The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City,
which conducted the study, used census data to track economic activity in inner cities, which were defined as urban areas with high poverty or unemployment rates. Central business districts were included if their census tracts met the inner-city poverty criteria.
From 1995 to 2002, the number of jobs in inner cities grew by only 0.1 percent, compared with 1.9 percent for metropolitan areas as a whole. In 10 inner cities, however, job growth outpaced the metropolitan area. (bizjournals)
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SHRM Releases 2015 Scenarios for the Future of HR Management Report
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has developed a report that looks at four possible scenarios for the workplace in 2015. These scenarios, based on business competition and the availability of talent and organizational structure, help prepare HR
professionals for what the future may hold for their businesses and what key competencies in HR will be needed to help their companies succeed a decade from now.
"It's largely acknowledged that the workforce and competitive market environment of tomorrow will hold little resemblance to what we have today," said Susan R. Meisinger, SPHR, president and CEO of SHRM. "While we do not know for sure what is ahead, we can plan for what may happen. Identifying
possibilities and what organizations will need to do to thrive in each scenario puts the power in the hands of the HR professional to prepare for the future and lead their organization to continued success."
The scenarios report was produced using SHRM knowledge and expertise in conjunction with the proprietary scenario-planning process and consulting
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The two factors used to create a grid of four possible scenarios are the availability of labor and dominant organizational structure models of the
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With scarce U.S. talent and self-organizing firms, organizations are based on ad-hoc networks of workers around a small core.
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