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Reveille and Hyperbole Peopleclick is rolling out a new version of its workforce recruitment management system. Among the new features for the web-based system are a portal for new job candidates, concept search functionality, and more screening
enhancements. "Recruitment Management System addresses recruiter productivity and the candidate experience - two employer pain points that are of increasing importance in today's tightening labor market," said Kathy Barton, Peopleclick's senior vice president of marketing and product management.
First Advantage Corporation (FADV), a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider, acquired TruStar Solutions.
The addition of TruStar
Solutions' services expands First Advantage Employer Services' portfolio, which provides employers with a robust hiring solution that now encompasses recruiting strategies, applicant tracking, tax credits screening, background screening, substance abuse testing and more.
Deck Chairs
Executive search firm ChampionScott Partners has placed Pamela A. Joseph as a member of the board of directors at Paychex....McDermott
& Bull Executive Search has named Hal Huritz as principal consultant. Mr. Hurwitz will be joining the team in Irvine, California and will help expand the firm's practice in the life sciences and medical technology industries.
You Should Know
Global:
More Examples of Web 2.0 Tools
Dion Hinchcliffe has supplemented his great list of Web 2.0 apps we
mentioned a while back with a post called "More Great Web 2.0 Software.
Great stuff and a great starting place to find Web 2.0 apps to test (Corante)
Networking: Search term faves emerge
Back in the early 1990s, when the Internet first emerged as a cultural phenomenon, technology gurus reckoned that a brilliant new intellectual era was here and that Americans would soon be able to search for all sorts of sophisticated information online.
Just over a decade later, it turns out, the most popular search subjects include the Cartoon Network, Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson, experts tell United Press International's Networking. (UPI)
Web 2.0 mania revives dot-com investing At a tech conference in San Francisco in June, Andrew Muse had an idea that was fresh and redundant. Wouldn't it be great, he wondered, if you could shorten an overly long Web-site link to make it easier to send to others? Tools for that already
existed online, he knew, but one could go further by incorporating the latest technologies, such as RSS and tagging. The idea drove Muse to his laptop, where he zapped instant messages to colleagues about the project. Four days later, ElfURL.com was online and free to use. The project cost
about $500. The service has been visited by more than 100,000 users, he said. (SeattleTimes)
Iraq:
Manpower agents to Iraq arrested Following reports about the state of stranded Iraq-bound-Nepali-workers in Kuwait, the police have arrested a promoter and manager of The River Overseas, the manpower agency charged with exporting laborers to the war torn country. Spokesperson of Ministry of
Labor and Transport Management, Dhruba Kumar Sharma said that Ward Police Office of Gaushala has taken into custody the promoter, Surendra Tamang; and manager of the manpower agency Prakash Bartaula last night for further investigation. "They are currently being interrogated at Department of Labor
and Employment Promotion," he said. "The government will take necessary action based on findings of the investigation." (KantipurOnline)
Russia:
Shakers: Putin open to hiring non-Russian managers Putin open to hiring non-Russian managers President Vladimir Putin of Russia said the hiring of foreign managers was an indication of his economy's openness, and he suggested that the state-owned oil producer Rosneft might bring in a
non-Russian senior executive. The ability of Russian companies to hire "managers, regardless of their nationality," shows the openness of the country, Putin said at a news conference on Friday, according to a transcript posted over the weekend on the president's Web site. He made the comments in
Sochi, in Russia's south. (IHT)
UK:
UK agencies still hiring poorest nations' nurses
· Loophole undermining Africa's fight against Aids
· Staff on banned list 'join NHS by the back door'
Thousands of nurses and midwives are still being poached from the world's poorest countries to work in the UK in spite of government attempts to restrict recruitment by private agencies, the Guardian can reveal.
The Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George said yesterday that the government's failure to seal a loophole in the code of practice that is intended to stop recruitment from Africa and other underdeveloped countries was undermining efforts to fight Aids, tuberculosis and other epidemic diseases. (Guardian)
US:
Experts say hiring to branch into new sectors Ever since the labor market began improving 2 1/2 years ago, the housing boom has supplied an outsized share of new jobs. But if red-hot real estate is cooling, who will be hiring?In fact, many employers will likely continue adding workers in
2006, but hiring will probably be spread more evenly across the economy than in the past few years, experts say. Health care, accounting, engineering and other services will likely add jobs.
Employers could add 2 million or more new jobs in 2006, economists say, putting it roughly on par with the year
just ending. The economy has gained 1.8 million jobs through November, and a total of nearly 4.5 million since the labor market reversed its decline in mid-2003. (Ft Wayne.com)
Supply and demand Construction industry labor shortage continues. While the unprecedented residential building boom in metro Orlando this year will slow slightly in 2006, new commercial construction will pick up the slack, predict industry experts. So to keep up with the local and state
building binge, the industry continues to add jobs -- but they aren't getting filled. (MSNBC)
Executives finally getting their comeuppance Ebbers, Rigas, Kozlowski get prison time; more could follow in 2006
Former WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison this year for orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud scandal that toppled the telecom. The scene said everything about the year in white-collar crime: Bernard Ebbers, the jocular, folksy former boss of WorldCom Inc.,
hunched forward in a courtroom chair, quietly crying. He had just been sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating the record $11 billion accounting fraud at the toppled telecom — essentially a life term for a man 63 years old and with a history of heart trouble It was a startling punishment,
but far from extraordinary in 2005: In the cavalcade of recent corporate scandals, this was the year the hammer finally fell on top executives. Hard. (MSNBC)
ENCOURAGING JOB OUTLOOK FOR 2006 The US job market is likely to continue improving in 2006. The biggest job gains are expected to come in the financial services, technology, healthcare, energy and international business sectors, which together could create as many as 1.3 million new jobs next
year. A return to a late 1990s-style hiring frenzy may be only a matter of time. There is already soaring demand for the top talent, as evidenced by Google's recent full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times business section, inviting ‘the brightest minds in sales management' to apply for positions
with the company. Employers are adding jobs at a strong pace and there is no indication that this will weaken in the coming months. Employers have added more than 4 million jobs since November 2003 and more than 1.7 million jobs in this year alone. (California
Job Journal)
Survey Sez: America's Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities - 2005
Lockheed Martin was today declared as the Top Corporation for Multicultural Business Opportunities of 2005 by over 500,000 diversity business owners. The honor extends to another forty-nine major corporations and is collectively called the Div50. The 6th annual list was produced by DiversityBusiness.com,
the nation's leading multicultural B2B online portal. The voting business owners based their decisions on such factors as the volume, consistency and quality of business opportunities granted to women and minority-owned companies. Other large companies at the top of the list are Office Max, BellSouth, Bank of
America, Dell, Toyota and Wal-Mart.
Top Honors for Top Corporations
While other awards and "top” lists crown companies for overall economic growth, returns to shareholders and similar metrics, the Div50 is an indicator of which organizations provide the best and the most business for diversity-owned companies. In a marketplace that is increasingly as sensitive to diversity as
it is to revenues, recognizing the top buyers of multicultural products and services is becoming a natural part of the new socioeconomic food chain. "Those organizations that buy the most products and services, most consistently, from diversity businesses, and that sustain the most mutually beneficial
business relationships with their multicultural suppliers, should be recognized not only by the suppliers but also by the general public,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of DiversityBusiness.com.
The Business Power of Diversity
As minorities gain more buying power and their lifestyles become more affluent, multicultural markets are growing in economic muscle. This in turn attracts more corporations, as they compete for market share in minority communities. The Div50 list has become, by virtue of association, a consumer guide of
sorts for women and minority consumers. "As a diversity business owner, I appreciate the business we receive from corporate buyers; and in turn, when I buy products and services, either as a company or as a private individual, I am much more likely to buy from the same companies that are supporting my
business, or that I know are supporting businesses like mine,” said Sush Tripati, owner of IT-Source headquartered in Southbury, CT.
The list is circulated to over 1,000 organizations that distribute it to their members and associates; it thus reaches millions of consumers every year. In 6 short years, it has become a highly valued metric of corporate excellence in the diversity space.
Rank
Top 50 Corporations
Rank
Top 50 Corporations
1
Lockheed Martin
28
Exxon Mobil
2
Bank of America
29
Walt Disney Company
3
BellSouth Corporation
30
Pitney Bowes
4
Dell
31
Fannie Mae
5
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
32
American Express
6
OfficeMax
32
Chevron Texaco Corporation
7
IBM
33
Starbucks Corporation
8
Procter & Gamble Co.
34
J.C. Penny
9
Boeing Company
34
Verizon Wireless
10
Coca-Cola
35
Cisco Systems, Inc.
11
Time Warner Inc.
36
General Dynamics Corporation
12
Raytheon Company
36
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
12
General Mills
37
McDonald's Corporation
13
SBC Communications / AT&T
38
Ford Motor Company
14
Office Depot, Inc.
39
Verizon
15
General Motors Corporation
40
General Electric Company
16
Toyota
41
Citigroup Inc
17
Northrop Grumman Corporation
42
Comcast Corporation
18
UPS
42
Wells Fargo & Company
19
Xerox
43
Major League Baseball
20
DaimlerChrysler
44
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc
21
Avon
45
Corporate Express
21
Pepsico Inc.
46
Pfizer Inc.
22
Altria Group
47
Progress Energy Inc.
23
Home Depot, Inc.
47
Cardinal Health
24
Sprint / Nextel
48
Sempra Energy
25
Johnson & Johnson
49
United Technologies
26
Microsoft Corporation
50
Waste Management
27
Freddie Mac
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