Reveille and Hyperbole
According to the new Investment Bank Bonus Survey conducted by career publisher Vault Inc., 69% of investment bankers are expecting to receive a bonus this year.

Dumb jock? Probably not. These days the graduating athletes at top-tier universities are just as likely to be Rhodes Scholars. Statistically, many will go on to earn MBAs and PhDs. Now corporate recruiters and staffing professionals can find these super-achievers at the Collegiate Recruitment Team..

RegionalHelpWanted.com announced  a plan that allows unlimited job postings for as little as $100 per month. Eric P. Straus, President & CEO, stated "Beginning today, we are declaring war on daily newspapers. For far too long, daily newspapers have held a monopoly on employment listings and have forced employers to run small ads with few, abbreviated words. This new pricing initiative insures that small business is no longer held hostage by the newspaper industry.

The editors of Bioworld Today have just completed the Bioworld Executive Compensation Report 2006. The report provides an in-depth look at executive compensation at 264 biotech companies, by providing extensive details on individual salary packages, as well as expert analysis and interpretation on compensation trends within the industry.

A growing number of healthcare institutions are realizing the benefits of automating time-intensive human resource processes and are choosing Halogen Software for their Web-based employee performance management solutions, the company announced today. In one year, Halogen experienced an 80% increase in the number of healthcare institutions buying its eAppraisal for healthcare; in the last quarter alone, the company added 14 new healthcare customers, exceeding industry growth predications.

The new 15th Annual Medical Industry Directory of Executive Search Firms & Recruiters-2006(TM) has been published, it was announced today. The brand-new edition is researched, published and distributed exclusively by Biomedical Market Newsletter(R).

A special pre-publication offer expires Jan 01 2006, for the all-new 2006 Nanotech Biotech/Biomed Company Directory/Database(TM), the publisher announced today.

Theexecutiveclub.com endorsed the recently launched Digital Video Interview service.  Digital Video Interviewing is a web based application that gives employers the opportunity to see, hear and critique recorded video clips of candidates answering questions that the employer wants answered without devoting the time, money or resource associated with in-person interviews. It is also a means for candidates to have a company take a serious look at them personally, not just their CV's.

cfactor  announced a strategic partnership with CGServices USA to implement enhanced self-service functionality for Automatic Data Processing ("ADP") Enterprise HRMS system clients. The partnership combines CGS' comprehensive technical and implementation services with cfactor workplace automation solutions for plug-in self-service, payroll, benefits and HR functionality.

The emergence of HR as a measurable force on the bottom line has led to a similar emergence of HR executives as powerful buyers, according to a new white paper from HRmarketer, the no. 1 marketing and media visibility service in the human capital industry. The free paper, called "Marketing and Selling in the Human Resource Marketplace: Winning Strategies and Tactics" is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on human capital marketing strategies.

Farmers Insurance to Host Onsite Bilingual Job Fair  OKLAHOMA CITY-The Farmers Insurance Group(R) companies ("Farmers") will host a job fair targeting those that are Spanish-English bilingual on December 6 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Shepherd Mall located at 23rd & Villa.

Employease posted record results for fiscal Q1 2006 ending September 30, 2005. Revenues grew 53% compared to fiscal Q1 2005. The quarter marked the company's 32nd quarter of revenue growth.
 

Deck Chairs
 Steven Brown (Philadelphia), James Otto (Atlanta), and Jay Egelberg (Secaucus, NJ) have joined Buck Consultants in senior consulting positions....the YMCA of San Diego County announced the appointment of Calista Davis as Vice President of Human Resources...Lucas Group has hired  Stephen Fenton as its National Director of Accounting and Finance Contract Staffing....



You Should Know
Australia

• Brave new workforce or a new underclass? The Government has embarked on a course of legislative reform that will fundamentally change Australian society. (TheAge)

Global:

• In Pursuit of Untraditional Talent  When Mike Reed, president and chief executive officer of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. in Birmingham, Ala., sat down with his top managers last year to brainstorm how to "shake it up a bit" in the face of a tough business climate, the one strategy they could all agree on was the need for new strategies. "Rather than recycling a lot of the same old ideas that obviously are not working, we're going to go outside and try to bring new leaders in to bring new ideas to the table that haven't been tried," Reed says.  (Presstime)
   
• Valuations of Venture-Backed Companies Reach Highest Level Since '01  Buoyed by later-stage investing in the information technology and health care sectors, valuations of U.S. venture-backed companies hit their highest level in four years during the most recent quarter. Overall, their medium pre-money valuation reached $16.8 million, about $4 million higher than this time a year ago, according to new figures released by Dow Jones Newswires' VentureOne. It marks the highest median pre-money valuation since the second quarter of 2001, when the figure reached $17.4 million. The trend was particularly strong in the IT sector, where the median valuation for companies rose to $18.4 million, the highest level since 2000, and the median amount paid for a company was $59.5 million, nearly $25 million more than a year ago.  (SETechWire)
   
• Aging Workforce: What Should a CIO Do? The aging workforce is on many people's minds. CSC recently released a survey of A&D companies in which almost 90% of the respondents see an industry facing a shortage of critically skilled workers in the next five years as legacy employees retire. In response to this need, IBM created a consulting product to help HR departments plan for the next decade when enormous numbers of baby boomers reach retirement age. (AMR)
   
• Windows Live Classifieds Muscles Into Market  It's a full-scale online classifieds war with the impending entry of MSN into the free online listings game.  Microsoft  confirmed that it's gearing up to launch a free consumer-to-consumer listings service as part of its Windows Live offerings. (internetnews)
   
• World health body bans recruiting smokers ALREADY banned from lighting up in many public places, smokers were dealt a further blow yesterday when it emerged that the World Health Organisation is to ban the hiring of cigarette addicts altogether. (Scotsman)
   
• Making the most of a mature workforce Some 64 million baby boomers (over 40 percent of the US labour force) are poised to retire in large numbers by the end of this decade. In industries already facing labour and skills shortages, forward-thinking companies are recruiting, retaining, and developing flexible work-time arrangements and/or phased retirement plans for these workers (55 years of age or older), many of whom have skills that are difficult to replace. Such actions are putting these companies ahead of competitors who view the aging workforce largely as a burden putting strains on pension plans and healthcare costs. (Maturemarket.com)
   
• Seniors will play a key role in workforce of the future Cambridge attorney Reuben Landau, age 101, doesn't plan to retire anytime soon.
  See Reuben at work  Reuben Landau is a sharp-eyed, articulate Cambridge attorney who works part time. After suffering a heart attack at age 59, he quit working around the clock and began tamping down the stress in his life. Yet he doesn't plan to retire anytime soon. "There's an old adage that age lends wisdom," says Landau, who turns 102 next week but looks about 80. "I can't quarrel with that." (bostonworks.com)
  
  Microsoft admits .Net skills shortage  With government agencies struggling to find people with .Net expertise, Microsoft's answer is to retrain Java and Visual Basic developers  Microsoft has suggested that companies who can't find programmers skilled in .Net should consider retraining their Java experts.  Mark Quirk, Microsoft UK's head of technology for development and platforms, admitted on Monday that there aren't enough developers in the market who can help companies migrate to .Net. (ZDNetUK)
   
• Analyze This! A Brief Look at Google Analytics Over the last several weeks, Google has unleashed a virtual hurricane of products that many have predicted will devastate players across multiple industries. Google Base is said to be the deal killer for all classified sites and eBay, and now Google Analytics (the company's free reporting and traffic analysis tool) is feared to represent a tsunami for the analytics industry.  The power of Google arguably lies in its ability to provide tools that make the web easier for both users and webmasters, all while feeding the advertising revenue base. Just about everything they do fits that mold, and Google Analytics is yet another component along that model. (AdBumb)
   
• The Five KeysTo E-Branding Excellence  The best candidates are fickle consumers. These passive, high-caliber performers have lots of choices and, deep down inside, they don't want to make one. They receive a constant stream of employment offers from recruiters and, almost always, they elect to say, "No." Why? Because they are generally well treated by their current employer and thus have no motivation to endure the disruption and stress a change would involve. (CareerJournal)
   
• Google Base and Fremont–signs of the Web 2.0 plateau The technology industry has been experiencing a round of inspired innovation. Venture capital money is pouring into startups, and the new as well as aging giants are burning the midnight oil Innovation will slow as the big companies become slower. to take advantage of this second major wave of the Internet. The Web is the platform and the great virtual land grab is in full flower. AJAX pixie dust, XML stores, mash-ups, on demand infrastructure, Web replacements for traditional client/server applications, PHP, open source, tags, RSS, deeper user interaction and so-called disruptive startups are creating new kinds of applications.  (ZDNet)
   
• Four developments in online advertising newspapers need to know "I don't know anybody under 30 who has ever looked at a classified advertisement in a newspaper," media baron Rupert Murdoch said recently. Murdoch, who is quoted as having once praised classified ad revenues as "a river of gold" has retracted that statement for the Internet age saying, "Sometimes rivers dry up." Below is a roundup of online advertising that echoes Murdoch's changed perception. (Editors Weblog)
   
• Need Content?  Niche Portals Have Targeted Audiences for Targeted Ads Now that our industry seems to be picking up some serious steam in terms of reputability, with major and minor offline companies alike finally—and quickly—building an online presence, online advertisers may increasingly find themselves scrambling to provide the magic word: content. As the recent OMMA panel which took as its starting point the statement, "the Online Medium is ill prepared for the influx of marketing dollars coming this way" made clear, this industry will need to tap ever expanding barrels of content if we are all to continue to making money—and avoid fighting (more than we already do) over what we have.  (AdBumb)

US:

• Rift between Hillcrest, doctors rooted in hospital recruiting  Many of the factors that have created tension between Hillcrest Health System and some local doctors are also affecting patient care, a group of Waco neurosurgeons says.  The claim was made in a letter written recently by three doctors who make up a local practice called Neurosurgical Associates. Sent to all Hillcrest primary care doctors, the letter is the latest salvo in a feud that has embroiled Hillcrest and some of the community's specialist physicians for more than a year. (wacotrib.com)
   
• National Guard tries new recruiting aid The Guard Recruiter Assistant Program, launched this week in five states, offers National Guard members $1,000 for enlisting a recruit and another $1,000 when the prospect shows up for basic training, USA Today said. (ScienceDaily)

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 Combating Internet Fraud
Every day, American consumers receive offers that just sound too good to be true and con artists have found a new avenue to pitch their schemes -- the Internet. Although the Internet is usually a safe and convenient place to conduct business, consumers need to learn how to protect themselves against perpetrators.

• 207,449 fraudulent complaints were reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2004, a 66.6% increase over 2003. ¹
• In 2004, 63.5% of fraud complainants reported that they had email contact with the perpetrator and 23.5% had contact through a web page. ²
• The total monetary loss from all referred cases of Internet fraud in 2004 was $68.14 million with a median dollar loss of $219.56 per complaint. ³
• From July 2004 to March 2005 online "phishing" attempts have increased 28% each month. Phishing occurs when perpetrators send out legitimate-looking e-mails that appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites.⁴
• Online sales and auctions account for 74% of complaints related to Internet fraud. ⁵
• Approximately half of fraud related Internet crimes stem from spyware, software that is surreptitiously installed as a consumer browses a Web page that enables pop-up ads to appear. ⁶

Looks to Good to Be True?
Monster Worldwide has joined forces with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National White Collar Crime Center's Internet Crime Complaint Center, the Merchant Risk Council, and Target Corporation to launch a new education and awareness campaign – LooksToGoodToBeTrue – designed to protect consumers against Internet fraud.
To find out more information regarding how consumers can protect themselves against Internet fraud click here.

For advice on conducting a secure job search, visit Monster's "Tips for a Safe Job Search" report by clicking here.

October Labor Statistics ⁷ (DOL)
The number of unemployed persons, 7.4 million, and the unemployment rate, 5.0 %, were little changed in October.

• Since May, the unemployment rate has been relatively stable, ranging from 4.9% to 5.1%.
• Construction employment increased by 33,000, with much of the gain occurring in residential specialty trade contracting which saw an increase of 20,000 jobs.
• Employment in the manufacturing industry increased by 12,000 jobs in October.
• Employment in the transportation equipment sector increased by 22,000, largely due to the return of 18,000 stricken workers in the aerospace industry.
• Employment in the financial activities sector continued to grow in October, rising by 22,000 jobs, with approximately half of the monthly increase centralized in credit intermediation.

Industry Trends ⁸ (MEI)
The Monster Employment Index rose to a new all time high in October, resuming upward growth in online job availability across a variety of occupations, industries and U.S. regions.

• The Monster Employment Index increased by three points to 143 in October; a 29-point increase over its October 2004 level of 104.
• The construction industry showed the sharpest rate of increase in online job availability during the month of October, continuing a twelve-month upward growth trend spurred due in part to the intensified post-Katrina reconstruction efforts.
• 12 of the 20 industries experienced increased online job demand in September, led by the manufacturing; arts, entertainment, and recreation; and retail trade industries.
• Demand for military-related occupations increased in October, with a particularly large spike in online demand for defense and aerospace professionals who have security clearance.
• Architecture and engineering continued a ten-month upward growth trend and saw a particularly large spike in online demand in October, in part due to a boost in spending toward research and development operations across a number of industries.
• 42 U.S. states, along with the District of Columbia, registered increases in October, with Alaska, Kansas, Mississippi and Louisiana among those seeing the sharpest gains.
• Online job demand for workers increased across all nine U.S. Census Bureau regions in October, led by the West South Central region, which registered the greatest increase.

Sources: 1-4, Internet Fraud Complaint Center; 5, National Fraud Information Center; 6, 2005 Javelin Identity Fraud Survey report ; 7, Bureau of Labor Statistics/Department of Labor; 8, Monster Employment Index

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