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Taleo Corporation (TLEO) announced a partnership with
Jobster to deliver sourcing and recruiting options to its
customers. This partnership allows Taleo customers to extend their employee referral programs to reach a broader audience of qualified prospects and extend their pipelines of quality talent.
Transition Assistance Online, TAOnline.com, an e-recruiting Web site for transitioning military members and employers seeking military talent, has partnered with CareerProPlus' military division, a subsidiary of CareerPro Global, a
resume writing firm that assists transitioning military members.
Executive leadership solutions firm Nosal Partners has added Saara Robles to its San Francisco office as a senior partner.
Trovix, a provider of search technology, has completed a $5.25 million round of private equity financing from USVP, 3i and Stanford. These funds will be used to support expanding sales, marketing and engineering efforts. In a separate
announcement Trovix has released of Trovix RecruitT, a Web-based recruiting search application for finding talent.
Asian-Jobs.com, a new job recruiting portal, announced the official launch of its new web site targeting businesses seeking bilingual job applicants. Asian-Jobs.com offers job opportunities for English/Asian-speaking professionals ranging from entry level to executive
level – nationwide. The new site is a sister company to Hispanic-Jobs.com, a job board, which specializes in bilingual/Spanish-speaking job applicants.
Hart Energy Publishing and Energy Central announce a new partnership providing solutions for the employment crisis in the oil and gas sector. Since 1996, Denver-based Energy Central leads the way linking job seekers with employers in the global power industry through http://www.EnergyCentralJobs.com . Hart Energy Publishing, based in
Houston, is the world's leading energy industry publisher that provides specialized information databases and services to the worldwide oil and gas industries from capital formation through fuels marketing. The expansion of EnergyCentralJobs.com into the oil and gas arena combines the specialized job board services expertise of Energy Central with the extensive reach of Hart Energy Publishing into the oil and gas sector including: exploration and production; field operations; pipelines and
transportation; processing and refining; and trading and marketing.
Monster Employment Index UK Dips Slightly in November, Remaining Near its High for the Year and Demonstrating Strong Online Recruitment Activity
- Demand for Service and Shop Workers Rises for the Second Consecutive Month as Retailers Add Staff for the Busy Christmas Period
- Online Opportunities for Installation, Maintenance and Repair Workers Increase as the Winter Freeze Sets In
Monster Employment Index Dips Slightly in November, Due to Declining or Flat Online Recruitment Activity in Europe's Three Largest Economies
- Only the Netherlands Registers Growth in Online Job Availability, Driven by Higher Demand for Plant and Machine Operators, Legislators and Senior Officials
- Online Recruitment Activity in Germany Declines Slightly for the First Time, Ending an Eleven-month Upward Growth Trend
- Telecommunications Sector Sees Increased Online Demand for Workers, Especially in France and Germany, while Demand in the Automotive Sector Declines the Most in Germany
The company known nationally as a leader in benefits management and outsourcing solutions today announced its new name - RealLife HR(SM). Formerly known as RewardsPlus(R), the new name more accurately reflects the value RealLife HR and its team of professionals
bring to the HR community, according to Gary Broache, RealLife HR president, who unveiled the corporate name change today during a company-wide event at the firm's Hunt Valley, Md. headquarters.
A dramatic expansion in the number of remote and mobile workers is outpacing the ability of IT departments and corporate infrastructures to support them, resulting in significant business continuity and performance issues for companies, according to two major research initiatives by the
Business Performance Management Forum and Avaya (AV), a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services. With the number of mobile workers expected to reach more than 878 million globally by 2009 according to industry analysts
at IDC, many companies are seeking cost-effective strategies to consistently extend the functionality, security and reliability beyond the office at the same time allowing manageability for the IT department. Detailed results available at the BPMF website.
Deck Chairs
Atlanta-based executive search firm BrightStar Talent Group has appointed Leo J. Taylor as president and chief executive officer....
You Should Know
EuroZone:
- Where The Europeans Lead The Americans Must Follow In the US I hear the same lament from fellow hacks everywhere: We must save newspapers! They are being threatened by the internet, declining circulation, shrinking revenue,
greedy shareholders, illiterate youth - everyone is to blame, it seems, but the papers themselves. The country's second-largest newspaper company, Knight Ridder, has been forced on to the block by a large stakeholder and there are doubts about whether proper buyers can be found and whether some of its
papers will survive. In Philadelphia, journalists from a Knight paper and local bloggers are even banding together to seek some means of salvation. Meanwhile, other major publishers are constantly announcing more layoffs or confessing to darker financial figures. (MediaChannel)
Global:
- More stay on the job while they fight cancer At first, Todd Andrews assumed the dull pain in his left forearm came from too much basketball. So he could hardly believe it when doctors told him he had osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, and would need surgery and chemotherapy. But
Andrews, an account manager at Karwoski & Courage Public Relations in Minneapolis, wasn't going to let treatment interfere with work. He had a permanent catheter inserted into his chest in order to take chemotherapy. Andrews came to the office every day with his chemotherapy bag slung over his shoulder.
Then he would set the bag up at his desk. He worked with it beside him, listening to the soft zoom of the pump as it delivered chemicals through tubes under his shirt. (USA Today)
- Yahoo Gets Close to Six Apart Yahoo added Movable Type blogging software to its Web hosting offerings, thanks to a partnership announced on Monday. Under the agreement, Yahoo Web Hosting customers will be able to create blogs using Six Apart's Movable Type software. Six Apart
offers Movable Type software for blog publishing, the TypePad personal blogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal blogs. The company optimized its software specifically for Yahoo's hosting environment, with an eye toward offering customers a professional-strength
application. (Internet News)
India:
- US may increase immigration and outsourcing from India Fearing a massive workforce deficit by the year 2020, the United States may increase immigration and outsourcing opportunities from India, US Consul General Henry Jardine indicated on Monday. "An area that will strengthen
future Indo-US ties is demograhics. In India, the young population is rising. In the US, there are more ageing people. There will be a substantial workforce deficit in the US by 2020. So, we will have to consider immigration and outsourcing possibilities," he said, during an interaction at the Merchants'
Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata. (Rediff India Abroad)
- Outsourcing 'to earn India $60bn' Outsourcing services could directly employ 2.3m by 2010 India could earn $60bn a year by 2010 from information technology and outsourcing, an industry report says. The report was prepared by Nasscom, a lobby firm for Indian software and
service companies, and international consulting firm McKinsey and Company. It said business worth $110bn would be outsourced worldwide by 2010 and India is set to capture more than half of it. (BBC)
UK:
- Retail Managers frustrated by barriers to progress What Sales, Marketing and Retail managers really want from their work was made clearer today as the Chartered Management Institute and Adecco revealed new findings from the 2005 'Motivation Matters' survey.
The research shows Sales, Marketing and Retail managers are eager for recognition, fed up with workplace cliques and in need of guidance as they try to realise career ambitions."Individual managers need to review their career plans regularly, but employers must also play a part in developing
staff".Richard Macmillan, Managing Director of Adecco UK and Ireland.Over 1,800 individuals were asked to identify the top barriers to progress at work and how to overcome these. The key issues they highlighted were:
- Better prospects for promotion - with many employers creating a flat organisational structure it is no surprise that 23 per cent of managers feel hampered by a lack of opportunity. 9 per cent of respondents also suggested they will have to leave to gain promotion.
- Right of entry - "I am not part of the 'inner circle' of influential people" was one comment recorded as 32 per cent of managers claimed that social pressure at work and old boys' networks combined to create feelings of exclusion. However almost a quarter of respondents (26 per cent)
suggested that informal mentoring schemes could address the problem.
- Access to advisors - a lack of career guidance (13 per cent) and minimal provision of training and education programmes for junior managers (23 per cent) highlighted gaps in some career development initiatives. However, demonstrating a resilient and determined approach, managers observed
that "Career progression is left up to me - I don't expect my company to advise me"
- Recognition of talent - 19 per cent of managers said age has restricted career opportunities to date, with 1 in 5 senior managers claiming that their age hindered progression. Revealing that managers want promotion based on recognition of their abilities 33 per cent also said they want to
be assessed by their peers.
- Flexible approach to work - although managers are motivated to work long hours, over half (50 per cent) feel that leisure activities have been curtailed by work commitments. Many respondents suggested compressed working weeks (29 per cent), annualised hours (20 per cent) or sabbaticals
(26 per cent) as ways of accommodating professional and personal lives.
(Retail Bulletin)
US:
Preparing for an aging work force When Martha Honey meets people considering retirement, she makes a point of keeping in touch. It's more than a friendly gesture for the managing director at Harris Bank's Sarasota branch. Honey has recruited several older workers from the ranks
of the recently retired, from careers in banking or other fields. She found three employees that way. (HeraldTribune)
Lawsuit alleges OPM withholds workforce data The Office of Personnel Management is whittling down the Freedom of Information Act by withholding access to portions of a federal employee database containing nonpersonal information, a research group alleges in a lawsuit filed Dec. 6. The
suit was filed by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which is affiliated with Syracuse University, in the U.S. District Court in Northern New York. It alleges that OPM violated FOIA by redacting information about more than 900,000 civilian employees and failing to explain why it withheld
the data. The agencies affected include the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Homeland Security and Defense departments. (FCW)
Survey Sez:
Stress and Overwork Making US IT Workers Restless
Companies with strong workplace management cultures can offset the trend by providing clear career opportunities for disaffected IT staffers
ISR, a leading international employee research and consulting firm, has uncovered new research that indicates employment security concerns, perceived unreasonable workloads and job stress are contributing to a growing discontentment among US IT workers and increasing
wanderlust among the sector's top performers.
ISR, which annually surveys more than 1.5 million global employees and more than 445,000 US employees, compared opinions on job stress and employment security issues between a representative population of the US workforce to those opinions of US-based IT workers. ISR defines IT workers as professionals who
work within a company in the IT function and not necessarily for an IT firm or high tech company.
Among the findings in this study:
- Job stress is a problem for 51 percent of all US IT workers, which is 10 percent greater than reported by the overall US workforce
- 53 percent of US IT workers say their workloads are excessive, compared to 39 percent of the US workforce
- The number of IT workers that would seriously consider leaving their company increased from 16 percent in 2004 to 25 percent in 2005
- Only 57 percent of US IT workers are sure they will continue to have a job as long as they perform well. In comparison, 68 percent of the overall US working population
report confidence in keeping a job as long as they perform well.
- Also supporting this notion is the ISR finding that 57 percent of IT workers are worried about being laid off within the next year, compared to 47 percent of the US
workforce.
- And just 33 percent of IT workers are unworried about the consequences of a corporate reorganization.
Job stress is a problem for 51 percent of all US IT workers, which is 10 percent greater than reported by the overall US workforce, and 53 percent say their workloads are excessive, compared to 39 percent of the US workforce.
In addition, ISR data shows that the number of IT workers that would seriously consider leaving their company increased from 16 percent in 2004 to 25 percent in 2005.
The ISR findings indicate that job stability is a growing concern among IT workers. Only 57 percent of US IT workers are sure they will continue to have a job as long as they perform well. In comparison, 68 percent of the overall US working population report confidence in keeping a job as long as they
perform well.
Also supporting this notion is the ISR finding that 57 percent of IT workers are worried about being laid off within the next year, compared to 47 percent of the US workforce. Even more troubling, just 33 percent of IT workers are unworried about the consequences of a corporate reorganization.
"These responses reflect the growing perception that companies view the IT function primarily as a cost-center instead of as a source of innovation that delivers a competitive advantage," said Dr. Gary Berger, Executive Director of ISR. "As the trend of outsourcing continues to gain momentum and the tough
economic conditions of recent years continue to fade, it has created a perfect storm that could lead to higher turnover among IT workers as the U.S. economy continues to gain strength."
The perception that IT jobs are at risk for outsourcing may also be responsible for the steady decline in IT workers' belief that their employers reward innovation, as this number has declined from 64 percent in 2001 to 46 percent in 2005.
The research company Gartner has projected that 30 percent of traditional professional IT services jobs will be delivered from emerging markets by 2015.
What can a company do to maintain its competitive edge and keep its IT employees fully engaged? ISR Project Director Dr. Michael Sokol believes that US companies can still reverse these trends and re-engage IT workers. "This can be accomplished through a variety of means, first by providing clear
communication about how IT contributes to a company's success. Second, by showing a clear career path and making available the training and development needed for IT workers to pursue that career."
Other methods for maintaining a productive work-life balance, according to the ISR findings, include the ability to promote a strong workplace management culture. This management culture is based on leaders who display uncompromising integrity, set a clear direction for their organization and communicate
it through a variety of channels. Strong leaders are able to accomplish this while maintaining career opportunities up and down the organization, said Dr. Sokol.
ISR leveraged two sources for its report data:
The firm's US Information Technology Norm, a database of survey responses collected from people who work inside companies in the IT function and comprised of 57 different companies and more than 17,000 employees of those firms. The firm's US National Norm is a database of survey responses collected
from more than 445,000 employees at 109 US companies.
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