Reveille and Hyperbole

Bullhorn, provider of On Demand, Front Office Staffing and Recruiting software, announced record setting fiscal year and fourth quarter 2005 results. Bullhorn achieved record growth with a robust 96% revenue increase over 2004. Fourth quarter revenue growth for 2005 jumped 72% over the same period. The company signed 152 new customers, fueling a 50% increase in its customer base to 400 worldwide, supporting more than 4000 users. Bullhorn's fourth quarter also marked the company's sixth consecutive quarter of profitability.

Web Associates, designs and develops Web systems and provides Web strategy and consulting to clients around the world. The company added 21 new clients in 2005 worth nearly $3 million in new revenue, helping the firm achieve its largest revenue year ever.

Web Associates plans to open a San Francisco office by midyear. It also has a small office in San Clemente. Web Associates has nearly doubled in size in the last three years, going from 33 employees in 2002 to 60 workers at the end of 2005.



Accu-Time Systems, Inc., announces the launch of its next generation Workforce Management Terminal: The Optimus (On-line, Personnel Time and Information Management Utility Station). The Optimus delivers multiple display and reader options including fingerscan biometrics, finger geometry biometrics, barcode, magstripe, proximity, and smartcard.

You Should Know

US:

• Silicon Valley Sees Gain in Jobs, Pointing to a Successful Reboot   For the first time in four years, Silicon Valley had a net increase in jobs, in one sign that the U.S.'s technology capital may be turning the corner after a long economic downturn.
  
  That is the conclusion of an annual report by Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a nonprofit group representing businesses and government agencies in the San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., area. (Careerjournal.com)

• Iowa's Unemployment Rate Drops  Iowa's unemployment rate has dropped after the state set a record for the number of jobs last month. The Iowa Workforce Development report says there were more than 1,580,000 Iowans working in December. That's about 35,000 more people than December 2004.
  
  Meantime, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.5 %. About 74,000 Iowans were without jobs in December. In November, the jobless rate was 4.8 %. (KWWL, Iowa's News Channel)

• Unions kept pace with growing U.S. workforce in 2005  The number of workers belonging to labor unions rose last year for the first time in six years, as union membership kept pace with a growing American workforce, the U.S. Labor Department said on Friday.
  
  The number of union members rose by 213,000 to 15.7 million in 2005, the first increase since 1999, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said in an annual report. ( Reuters)

Ireland:

• Local Enterprise lost along with Area Employment  The smoke was still billowing from the destroyed premises of C&D Foods when attention moved to the company's survival plan. The pet food operation is the linchpin of the Longford economy, directly employing 500 people and indirectly supporting up to 1,000 jobs in the region.
  
  In the fire's embers lay much of the local economy. It is impossible to overstate the importance of C&D to the people of Edgeworthstown.
  
  Fathers work beside sons, mothers beside daughters, entire families are supported by the €100 million business. (The Post.IE)

Australia:

• AMA attacks health care revamp calls  Allowing non-doctors to take over some of the duties of health professionals will lead to a dumbing down of the workforce and compromise patient care, the nation's peak medical body has said.
  
  The warning by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) followed a Productivity Commission report recommending health workers be allowed to perform extra medical duties to ease the pressure on Australia's overstretched health workforce. (The Fairfax Digital)

Jamaica:

• 'Certify workforce by 2008'   The HEART Trust/NTA, the National Training Agency of Jamaica, is seeking to certify half the country's workforce by 2008 in preparation for the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
  
  Robert Gregory, executive director of the HEART Trust, says that for Jamaicans to take up the opportunities presented by the free movement of skilled and certified workers in the region, under the CSME, the workforce would have to be certified.
  
  "We recognize that too large a percentage of our current workforce is without certification, we have therefore been providing opportunities for customized training in workplace and requisite assessments and certification for the workers involved," Gregory explained. (The Jamaica Gleaner)

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