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Kenexa completes previously announced acquisition of
Webhire
Inc.
Labor Solutions International, Inc. (LSI Consulting) announced a new
service focused on improving the retail Strategic Labor Model(TM). With the recent acquisition of LSI by WorkPlace Systems,
a UK-based, workforce management software company, LSI now has access to some of WorkPlace's unique technologies
and as a result has been able to enhance its strategic offerings.
Deck Chairs
Osceola County's human resources director, Mary Cooper, resigned ... Deputy County Manager Laura Blackmon will serve as
the interim human resources director while the county undertakes a nationwide recruitment effort to fill the position in Florida.
You Should Know
Dubai:
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The challenges of outsourcing: Can Dubai's vision become a reality?
Dubai is aiming to become a key hub in the region for outsourcing. Is this
achievable and what will it mean for the economy?
Outsourcing worldwide is big business and the Dubai Outsource Zone (DOZ) is
lobbying hard to grab a good chunk of it. It is determined that Dubai
should benefit from the outsourcing, or more specifically offshoring, boom
and the need for international companies to find better and more innovative
ways to reduce costs. (Khaleej
Times)
Global:
- US outsourcing to touch $17 bn
Information technology outsourcing by the US government will increase at an
annual growth rate of nearly eight per cent and touch $17.6 billion by
fiscal 2010, according to a market research firm. This increase in federal
IT outsourcing, from the $12.2 billion spent in fiscal 2005, will be
registered with the help of specific drivers like the Office Of Management
(OMB) and budget's "Lines Of Business" (LOB) initiatives for HR
and finance management, Federal Health Architecture, IT security and other
processes, says research firm, Input. (FinancialExpress)
- Everyone Gains as HR Tasks Are Outsourced
"Businesses for years have outsourced their accounting or their payroll
or their insurance or their legal work, but they've done it to different
vendors," said Milan Yager, executive vice president of the National
Association of Professional Employer Organizations. "The PEO
arrangement is the only opportunity to use a single vendor for all of those
needs." (CRMBuyer)
- More call centers outsourcing to homes Low-cost
computer technology, Internet access have created work-at-home demand
For many years, demand for at-home employment far outstripped supply, giving
rise to a perennial crop of work-at-home scams, from pyramid schemes to
phony job referrals. Now, working at home is taking a leap forward — in
the customer-service arena. Instead of sending call-center work to India or
the Philippines, a growing number of consumer-products and consumer-services
companies — from Office Depot and J. Crew to Wyndham Hotels and Sears
Holdings — are outsourcing work to people in their homes in the United
States. (TheState)
- An HR Planning Model for Outsourcing We
urge business leaders who are considering outsourcing to charge their HR
planners with active management of workforce planning issues throughout the
process. To assist leaders and planners, we provide a new human resource
planning (HRP) model and suggest best practices for planning and
implementing an outsourcing arrangement. Based on dynamic HR planning
theory, and research into current outsourcing cases and approaches, we
provide a road ma ? to confront the challenges of outsourcing. We also
suggest directions for further research on contemporary outsourcing issues.
SAlthough considerable scholarly and practitioner-oriented research has been
conducted on outsourcing and on human resource planning, insufficient
attention has been paid to the HR aspects of outsourcing, specifically to
the role of the HR planner in the process. (BlackEnterprise)
- Baucus: Outsourcing of jobs a fact of life
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said
Friday that outsourcing white-collar jobs to low-wage countries such as
India has become a global fact of life--and that America must learn to live
with it. During his five-day tour, Baucus of Montana called on India to
further open its economy, especially in the agricultural and retail
industries, to competition from U.S. companies (ChicagoTribune)
India:
- Bestselling Indian author paints grim view of
outsourcing jobs Shyam Mehra, 26, hates it when the Americans call him
Sam. He hates it even more when his boss calls him Sam too. That's not all.
He hates his work, his "semi-girlfriend" ... and himself. Mehra is
one of the American-hating characters from a new book that has struck a
chord with India's fast-growing middle class. He could, however, easily be
any of the hundreds of thousands of faceless Indians who take on western
names and fake accents to provide client services to millions of foreign
customers, mostly in the United States. (NewMexican)
- Opening a corridor of hope for job-seekers Firms
on hiring binge;The HinduOpportunities Fair 2006 concludes For many it
has opened up a corridor of hope and for those with appointment letters, the
concluding day of The Hindu Opportunities Fair 2006 was the stuff straight
from the dreams. "Mummy, tell Daddy I have got a job," cried an
overjoyed A. Prathyusha on the mobile. A B.Tech final year student from
Mahbubnagar, she finds herself very lucky to have cracked her first job test
and interview that too in her first job fair. And she is not alone. It was
not only Yunus Khan who scored a century in the India Pakistan match;
Cognizant too hit the 100 mark on recruitment. "We have taken 100
experienced people in total," said a Cognizant official. (The
Hindu)
UAE:
- Human resource investment can raise
productivity by 30 percent According to a statement issued by Rashad
Kanbar, CEO, impaQta, premier Management Advisory firm, focused human
capital investment is essential for long term organizational survival and
prosperity, and strategic human resource development could increase
productivity by as much as 30 percent in regional firms. (AMEInfo)
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US:
- A big generation starts to turn 60 Jimmy
"Hip" Edmondson bounds through the doors of a Buckhead bar like a
ranch hand hankering for a brew. Two dozen rowdy friends greet him like a
hero, with applause — even awe —because tonight, Hip turns 60, a
milestone he'll share this year with 3.3 million of America's 78.2 million
baby boomers. (Atlanta
Journal Constitution)
- Oregon employers add jobs at quick clip, but wages don't follow The
good news: Oregon employers are adding jobs at one of the fastest rates in
the nation. The bad news: per-capita incomes in the state have consistently
trailed the rest of the nation since the recession of 2000-2003. Now, though
might be starting to change, economists say. Though full 2005 figures aren't
yet available, economists think per-capita income in Oregon grew by as much
as 5 percent during the year and could grow between 4 percent and 5 percent
again in 2006. (OregonLive
- Registration)
- More Jobs Being Found Online, but That Doesn't Mean It's Easy One
of the first things Brooke Christiansen did as college graduation neared
last spring was post her résumé on three of the largest Internet job
boards: Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs. For the most part, she said, it
was an exercise in frustration. "You get piles and piles of jobs that
no matter what you type in, come up with every single search," she
said. "It's very hard and very time-consuming to find something you're
actually interested in." In addition, she said, it is rare to hear back
when applying for jobs found on the sites. Mary Riley Dikel, creator of The
Riley Guide, a directory of employment and career resources on the Internet,
said: "One job seeker told me, 'I think I'd be more successful
distributing my résumé by opening my window and throwing it out.' You do
feel like you're going into a black hole." To that frustration, add the
risk that identity thieves may steal information from résumés posted...(New
York Times)
- Job forecast is brightest in years
Marie Guthrie did exactly what many career consultants advise against: In
October, she resigned without having another job in hand. What's more, it
was an executive human resources position that's not so easy to find. But
Guthrie, who lives in Colleyville, has no qualms about her decision. Two
employers have invited her this month for fourth interviews -- positive
steps in the sequence of six-figure hiring. "These high-level jobs two
years ago were practically non-existent," said Guthrie, 51. "Most
companies were eliminating the positions and not refilling." (SunHerald)
- Schools adapt to meet a growing need for
pharmacists A red-hot job market for pharmacy graduates has prompted
Kansas City area universities to look at ways to make room for more students
in their pharmacy programs. "From the educational standpoint, we have many
more applicants than we can handle," said Robert Piepho, dean of the
School of Pharmacy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Last year,
UMKC accepted 113 students out of 456 qualified applicants, he said. That's
about 50 more applicants than the year before. The school's maximum
acceptance was only 75 students about seven years ago. Nationally, there was
a 53.9 percent increase in applications received for the 2003-2004 academic
year from the previous year, according to the American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy. The organization also reported that a record 8,158
degrees were awarded in the 2003-2004 school year, an 8.9 percent increase
from a year earlier. Still, the rising enrollment and increasing number of
graduates won't be able to keep pace with the expected demand, which is
fueled partly by the country's aging population. Older people tend to need
more medications, and the new Medicare program means an increased workload
for pharmacists. (Kansas
City Star)
- Unions step up efforts to recruit immigrant
construction workers Unions are reaching out to the foreign workers who
crowd U.S. construction sites, and some see them as a heaven-sent solution
to sliding membership rolls. As employers turn to cheaper nonunion workers,
some unions that represent the construction industry are trying to organize
the immigrants who take those jobs — regardless of their immigration
status, said Jim Gleason, executive secretary of the Mountain West Regional
Council of Carpenters. (Denver
Post)
- Lights all green for auto mechanics
Steve Louden, owner of 29-year-old Louden Motorcar Services in Dallas, sees
a common thread among the mechanics and technicians he's trained: "They
have a mechanical aptitude and a knack for how things work." Also, he
says, the good ones share a natural curiosity. They want to learn.
"Growing up," Louden says, "these people took apart their
alarm clocks, bikes and later their dad's cars." Louden, who holds a
business degree from Florida State University, is a master certified
technician who functions on the job more as a "coach than a doer."
His shop, with its four techs (nine employees total), specializes in
Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and Volvo models. The main ingredient for success, he
says, is street smarts and a no-fear attitude toward computers. That and
protecting your reputation. (Sun
Herald)
- A Reversal of Fortunes Transforms
Washington D.C. leads the nation in new jobs and boasts a $27-million
surplus Ten years ago, the District of Columbia seemed bent on
self-destruction. Defiant voters had elected Marion Barry mayor, even though
he had just served prison time for cocaine possession. The city's books were
so deeply in the red and tainted by corruption that Congress stepped in to
take over. The population was dropping by 10,000 people a year. The tax base
was eroding. Time magazine dubbed the nation's capital the "District of
Calamities." Today, at a time when many cities are struggling,
Washington has become an urban juggernaut. The district has a $27-million
budget surplus, a new baseball team — the Washington Nationals — and a
booming economy. A diverse cultural scene that includes new museums,
monuments, art galleries and restaurants is drawing the affluent middle
class back to the city. (LATimes)
- Local factors mean most for jobs A
report by Northeastern University in Boston finds local schools, roads,
taxes and crime rates are the most important factors in siting of
businesses. The researchers interviewed industrial and commercial developers
in the Boston region and surveyed 230 U.S. developers and business siting.
They found that while many assume the state's economy is a prime factor in
siting companies, local services are paramount. The survey found the
availability of educated workers in a region, the ease of approvals and
appeals, local traffic, local property taxes and the local crime rate are
more important than the state tax rate, the Boston Globe reported Saturday.
(UPI)
Wales:
- Poor pensions and happy staff to make post-65 workforce
soar THE number of people working on beyond the age of 65 is set to soar
during the coming 15 years, according to Government figures. The Office for
National Statistics expects the number of over-65s who are either still
working or looking to work to rise to 775,000 by 2020 - a third more than
the 582,000 over-65s who were economically active last year. The predicted
rise is attributed to a combination of factors, including changes to
occupational pensions, the introduction of anti-age discrimination
legislation making it easier for people to work for longer, and changes to
the way disability benefit is administered. (icWales)
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