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Google Inc. and eBay Inc.'s Skype are investing in a startup that plans to help hotspot owners charge for Wi-Fi access, a plan that could face significant opposition from Internet service providers. The pair was joined by venture capital firms Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital in making a $22 million investment in FON, the Spanish startup.

CPS Human Resource Services announced the opening of ten centers that will provide an array of Testing, Training, and other HR-related services to government, public and nonprofit agencies and others throughout California. Known as the CPS California Centers, each facility will offer CPS clients quiet spaces for their candidates to take paper-pencil or computer-based tests, classroom style rooms to host training and seminars as well as meeting space for candidate interviews, assessment centers and department meetings.



The SkillSource Group Inc., on behalf of the Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board, is seeking proposals from organizations to study workforce and economic development impacts of U.S. Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closings in the Northern Virginia Workforce Area. RFP Available http://www.myskillsource.org Proposals are due February 20, 2006. Send inquiries to Susan.Baker@myskillsource.org



Deck Chairs

Valtera, provider of science-based human capital solutions, announced the addition of Jone Papinchock, Ph.D. as Managing Consultant for the Selection and Assessment practice. ...



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• Rethinking Signing Bonuses  Signing bonuses are back and pushing up costs, with mixed results. Some companies are taking steps to improve their effectiveness.
  
  illboards offering health care professionals $20,000 signing bonuses, two years of car payments or mortgage loans now dot the highways of Southern California, where Debra Ortega is vice president of human resources at Pasadena's Huntington Hospital. She recognizes the staffing-crisis mentality that feeds ever-larger offers for job candidates in the hospital industry, but she has pulled her organization out of the escalating bonus war. (Workforce Management)

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Study Results: Internet is Now the Primary Hiring Source for Employers

Internet overtakes all traditional hiring sources including newspaper classified ads which now only account for 5% of new hires

DirectEmployers Association, a non-profit consortium of over 200 leading U.S. employers and operator of the JobCentral.com employment search engine (www.jobcentral.com), released the results of an in-depth industry study, conducted on its behalf by strategic management and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, that shows the Internet is now the primary hiring source for employers.

The study of hiring practices at leading U.S. companies revealed that Internet sources produced 51% of all hires in 2005 with the largest source of hires being the employers' own corporate web sites, while newspaper classified advertisements were the source of only 5% of the new hires.

According to the study, individual percentages of new hires for each Internet source are: Corporate Employment Web Sites: 21%; General Job Boards: 15%; Niche Job Boards: 6%; Social Network Web Sites: 5%; and Commercial Resume Databases: 4%.

Employers reported that they find the highest quality candidates and receive the highest return on their investment from their own corporate web sites and from employee referrals. Financially, while General Job Boards represent the highest recruitment spending category for corporations, capturing 27% of the recruiting advertising budget, employers in this study reported that such Boards generated only 15% of new hires in 2005.

In addition, as the economy heats up in 2006, employers report they will significantly increase employment related spending in the following key areas: Corporate Employment Web Sites: 74%; Employee Referrals: 68%; and Social Networking Technology: 60%

According to Dr. Rich Cober, the Booz Allen Hamilton team lead, this research report "provides clear evidence that the Internet has transformed the way American employers attract and hire employees. As we look at 2006, employers are giving serious thought to how the Internet can be better used for driving applicant flow. In light of recent regulatory changes, including the new definition of an `Internet Applicant`, employer efforts to focus applicant flow and provide clear direction on how individuals should express interest in jobs is timely. Responses indicated that employers anticipate directing a greater proportion of applicants through their own corporate web sites rather than any other online source in the year to come," said Dr. Cober.

A downloadable copy of the "2006 DirectEmployers Association Recruiting Trends" research report is available at http://www.jobcentral.com/ .

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