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First Advantage Corporation (FADV), a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider, today announced that DML, the largest private sector employer in Devon and Cornwall, has chosen to implement First Advantage Hiring Management Systems (formerly Projectix), the applicant tracking and candidate management software.

Journal Register Company has purchased all of the assets of JobsInTheUS, owner of JobsInTheUS.com, JobsInME.com, JobsInNH.com, JobsInVT.com and JobsInRI.com. Terms and conditions of the deal were not disclosed.

Chicago-based executive search firm Waveland International has acquired the search firm PJ Nicholson & Associates of Oak Brook, IL.

HRLogix, a provider of Web-based, paperless hiring systems, has formed a strategic partnership with Synthasys, an independent third-party provider of Infinium-related professional services.

SearchPath International, a provider of customized recruitment solutions, has broken escrow on its capital raise as it seeks to become a publicly traded company.

Resolve Staffing, Inc. (RSFF) has acquired Big Sky Staffing, a Billings, Montana-based medical staffing firm and H&H Drivers, a Greensboro, North Carolina-based truck driver staffing firm.

comScore Networks released today the first-ever research report demonstrating the broad reach and demographic appeal of Internet video and audio to U.S. consumers. The research, released in conjunction with StreamingMedia.com, revealed that consumers between the ages of 35 and 54 years old accounted for more than 45 percent of all online video watched in August 2005, according to the report entitled "State of the Consumer Streaming Market." Further, the research found that 35 to 54 year-olds are 20 percent more likely to watch online video than the average Internet user. Twenty-five to 34 year-olds are 12 percent more likely than the average Internet user watch a stream online. These age groups have traditionally been viewed as vital targets for marketers across a variety of products and services.

Deck Chairs
Executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has added four new executives to its life sciences practice: William Altman joins the firm as senior client partner in the healthcare services practice; Ashley Lawton, Ph.D., former president and chief business officer of biotechnology company Descartes Therapeutics;  Philip Lefebvre, specializing in senior executive recruiting for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology practices; and C. Morten Nielsen who served as corporate vice president and group president life sciences at STERIS Corporation....Legal search firm Major, Lindsey & Africa has added Jeff Stizza to its Los Angeles office as director of business development....






You Should Know
Australia

• Skills shortage? Not for our local lads WE MIGHT have a shortage of skilled workers, but those we do have are doing the Muswellbrook region proud. (Muswellbrook Chronicle)

China:

• Hong Kong sets 2006 talent admission scheme  Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said on Thursday a new admission scheme will be launched in the first half of next year to allow specifically qualified elites from the Chinese mainland and overseas to reside in Hong Kong, without first having to secure a local employment offer.  (www.chinaview.cn)
  

Cyprus

• Cyprus labour force at 338k in 2004 The number of employed persons in Cyprus reached 338.000, according to the 2004 report on "Labour Force Survey" published by the Statistical Service. The main findings of the survey note that the labour force amounted to 355.000 in 2004, consisting of 56% men and 44% women.  The employed persons reached 338.000 and the employment rate for persons 15-64 years was 69,1%. The corresponding rate for males stood at 80,0% while that for females was much lower at 59,0%. Both rates, however, are among the highest in the European Union. (Financial Mirror)
  

Czech Republic

• Immigrants needed — not wanted  Skilled workers key to growth but relegated to manual labor  For the past two years, Muslim Dalsayev, a 33-year-old unemployed psychiatrist, has been looking for a job in medicine. With his education and experience, Dalsayev has no problem getting job interviews. The problem, he says, is that he never makes it past the first question.  "As soon as they learn I'm not a Czech citizen, they usually say, 'Well, we'll give you a call,'" says Dalsayev, who has olive-colored skin, dark brown eyes and hair flecked with gray. "I've been waiting for these phone calls forever." (Prague Post)

Global:

• Microsoft Unwraps Fremont  Google Base killer will blend classified ads, social networking. After a handful of stories offering sketchy details of a project identified as its Google Base killer, Microsoft offered many more particulars late Wednesday on its seven-month-old project code-named "Fremont" (see Microsoft Attacks Google Base).  Fremont basically blends classified advertising with social networking. (Red Herring)
   
• What Do Google and Craigslist Have in Common?  So what do Google and Craigslist have in common? Craiglist is the "Google of Classifieds" and Google is the "Craiglist of Search" (I'm kidding about that). (Here's a good article on Craigslist from Fortune.)  Both sites grew organically over time because they offered something that users perceived was missing elsewhere. They're both dominant in their respective arenas and everyone is eager to topple them from their respective perches. (SearchEngineJournal)
   
• Craigslist? Nah, Try MySpace Adam Lashinsky, he of Fortune fame (read his latest on craigslist here), pinged me the other day and asked if I had seen the MySpace classifieds. Why no, I had not in fact. Then I took a look.  (Read the comments)
   
• Thank-you note may put you closer to job .....Not all career professionals agree that thank-you notes are the best way to go, however. Kevin Wheeler, founder and president of Global Learning Resources, a human-resource advisory firm, said that saying thank you in writing is "sort of retro at this point" when online recruiting and e-mailed resumes are the norm. (Courier Journal)

Japan:

• Japanese companies face most severe labor shortage in 13 years - report  A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare shows that Japanese companies are facing their most severe labor shortage in 13 years, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.  The survey's diffusion index, calculated by deducting the ratio of companies with excess payrolls from those experiencing shortages of permanent employees, stood at 20 in November, up 4 points from October. (Forbes)

US:

• Temp agency settles discrimination suit  An employment agency and two clients have agreed to pay up to $580,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused them of discriminating against employees based on race, sex, disability, age and national origin, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.  SPS Temporaries Inc. of Buffalo agreed to pay up to $500,000 into a claims fund to be distributed to alleged victims of the discrimination, which could number in the hundreds or thousands, EEOC attorney Robert Rose said. Whiting Door of Akron agreed to a $60,000 contribution and Jamestown Container to $20,000. (Newsday)
   
• Boeing racial-bias trial to start  After seven years of legal haggling, a thrown-out settlement and a change in legal teams, some African-American employees of Boeing are getting their day in court.  A class-action lawsuit that alleges Boeing discriminated against African Americans in promotions is scheduled to begin jury selection today, barring a last-minute settlement that lawyers for both sides said was unlikely. The trial is slated to start Monday.  In 1999, as part of a high-profile settlement brokered by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Boeing agreed to pay $7.3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 15,000 African-American employees. In a settlement with a total value of $15 million, the company, which admitted no wrongdoing, also agreed to make several changes in promotion and hiring practices, and in the way it monitors compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws.  But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the settlement, agreeing with objecting class members who said the payout was inadequate and unfairly distributed, and that the attorney fees of $4 million were too high.  (Seattle Times)
   
• Katrina rebuilding boosts online job ads  Employers posted more job openings online than ever before in November, according to Monster Worldwide, with the call for help from the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast leading the way.  But it wasn't just Hurricane Katrina that was helping to lift job postings nationwide, according to the online job listing service that reviews 1,500 Web sites to compile its monthly index. The index shows gains in postings in 32 states, with job offerings from retailers, utilities and information technology firms leading the way.  "What the numbers indicate is a very significant increase in demand for engineering and computer and mathematical workers," said Steve Pogorzelski, group president at Monster Worldwide.  The company's index rose to a reading of 149 from 143 in October, the highest level in the two years the firm has been collecting data. (CNN)
   
• Bad economy means good outlook for May graduate employment The Tuesday, Nov. 29, TNH editorial suggested that the state of the U.S. economy would make finding employment a challenge for our May graduates. Actually, the reverse is true. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which tracks college-graduate employment, predicts that employers plan to hire 14.5 percent more college graduates this year than last year - the third consecutive year of increased new graduate hiring. Further, the outlook is best here in the northeast with a predicted regional hiring jump of 25.8 percent.  (The New Hampshire)
   
• 2006 Hiring Trends Looking Up After a slowdown in technology spending and hiring during the past few years, the outlook is beginning to brighten, writes CIO Update columnist Katherine Spencer Lee of Robert Half Technology.  According to our 2006 Salary Guide businesses are moving forward with once-postponed IT initiatives, upgrading systems and developing new products—requiring many to rebuild their IT teams to make these efforts a success. (CIO Update)

Survey Sez:
EQUATERRA REPORTS STEADY DEMAND IN HR, IT AND F&A OUTSOURCING

LONDON — EquaTerra, a multi-national outsourcing and insourcing advisory firm, today announced the results of its third quarter 2005 "Outsourcing Pulse Survey". These quarterly surveys query those on the "front lines" of the Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries to gain in-the-field insights into sector trends and projections. The Outsourcing Pulse Surveys are conducted among 24 leading service providers and focus on outsourcing trends in HR, IT, call center/customer care/CRM, finance/accounting/administration, and procurement processes. The surveys cover a variety of other topics including outsourcing sales cycles, demand breakdown by process and sub-process, horizontal and vertical industry trends, and other critical measurements.

Stan Lepeak, EquaTerra's Managing Director of Research says, " The survey found demand for outsourcing active during the third quarter of 2005, but indicators point to a slow down in growth. 68% of overall service provider respondents reported that their new deal pipeline was up in 3Q05 vs. 2Q05, a slight decrease from the 75% who reported an upward trend in 2005. 16% of respondents reported pipelines were down, the first negative report of the year. Weakening pipelines are a result of both lower buyer demand, more selective sourcing practices (i.e., buyers taking longer to "pull the trigger") and potentially cyclical variations related to slower summer months, though lower forward expectations would indicate issues beyond cyclical variations and perhaps a limit to the growth trajectory. EquaTerra's research team will continue to monitor both BPO and ITO activity to evaluate whether the markets can anticipate future growth, slowdown or flat status, as well as determine th
e drivers behind the going-forward trends."

The third quarter 2005 actual results trailed estimates slightly, similar to the previous quarter, representative of typical service provider optimism on future performance. More importantly, however, 4Q05 growth estimates again declined relative to 3Q05 and 2Q05 estimates, from 93% and 83% in the prior to quarters down to 79% for 4Q05. Finance and Accounting was the strongest BPO/ITO market segment in 3Q05, more than doubling from the prior quarter to 68% from 26%. Human resources BPO remained steady at 42%, down one point from 2Q05. Information Technology outsourcing and Call Centre/CRM BPO both also strengthened. The jump in Finance and Accounting (F&A) outsourcing demand is in part a function of market demand as well as the mix of service providers responding to the 3Q05 survey that were more active in the F&A outsourcing space .

Within the Human Resources (HR) outsourcing process area, Payroll and Benefits Administration remained the two strongest functional areas, cited equally by nearly 90% of service providers responding. HRIT continued to increase and Compensation outsourcing demand more than doubled from the previous quarter. The overall rankings for the top three areas were consistent in 2Q05 compared to 1Q05.The more strategic areas of HR, Recruiting, and Learning & Training slipped back significantly in demand from prior quarterly results. The decline was evident across all service providers polled. We view this as more an aberration than trend. It is also a function of outsourcing in those functional areas more often going to smaller, best-in-class service providers vs. bundled in larger multi-functional area deals which are awarded most frequently to Tier One service providers that are more heavily represented in this survey.

Within the Finance and Accounting outsourcing (FAO) process area demand in functional areas tracked similar to the prior quarter. Accounts Payable was the leader, identified as one of the top three areas by over 90% of respondents. AR/Credit & Collections was second at 80% followed by General Accounting at 60%. The more strategic area of Finance, Control and Risk Management fell back to below 10% from an unusually high level of 38% 2Q05.

Within the ITO process area, ADM and Desktop Services were cited as the leading areas of demand, each by 64% of service providers responding. Packaged Application Services (e.g., remote deployment, management) was a strong second at 45% followed by Infrastructure/Operations at 28%.

Demand growth for multi-shore or "offshore" resources increased slightly 3Q05 compared to 2Q05. 56% of service providers felt multi-shore growth was up quarter over quarter, compared to 48% in 2Q05. 44% cited flat multi-shore levels, up from the prior quarter, while no service providers (down from 13% 2Q05) cited a decline in multi-shore usage.

For full copies of EquaTerra's Outsourcing Pulse Surveys, please send an e-mail to: research@equaterra.com 

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