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Softscape released Softscape Apex 2006 and Softscape CMX. Softscape Apex 2006 provides a centralized multi-dimensional view of each worker across the organization through the company's unique Talent Hub, which integrates employee records, job profiles, and talent profiles into a single system. Softscape CMX is a configuration management toolkit that enables customers to easily manage and control their own deployments and reconfigure the HCM platform on-the-fly.

CPEhr, has expanded its services, shifting from a bundled, one-stop shop for basic human resource services, to a strategic human resources partner, providing companies with custom-designed solutions.

HireAbility, provider of integrated recruiting software and services, announced that it signed a partnership agreement with Bond(r) International Software, provider of software solutions for recruitment consultancies and corporations. Bond integrated HireAbility's ALEX(sm) automatic resume processor with its Adapt product suite to deliver faster, more cost-effective and comprehensive data capture.

Hewitt Associates, Inc. (NYSE:HEW), a global human resources services firm, reported results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter ended December 31, 2005. For the first fiscal quarter, Hewitt's reported net revenues (revenues before reimbursements) declined 1%, to $701.0 million, from $709.0 million in the comparable prior-year quarter. Outsourcing revenues declined 3%, and Consulting revenues increased 6%. The current quarter was impacted by a $16 million decline in third-party supplier revenues, and the net unfavorable effects of foreign currency translation of $6 million. Acquisitions contributed $3 million of revenue in the quarter.

Deck Chairs

Futurestep, the outsourced recruiting subsidiary of Korn/Ferry International (NYSE: KFY), announced that Kristy Moeller and Mark J. Anderson have joined the company as managing consultants in the North American region. ... Jorge Aguiñiga has been named the new dean of human resources at Pasadena City College ... Kellwood President and Chief Executive Officer Robert C Skinner, Jr announced J David LaRocca, Jr as Kellwood Vice President of human resources. ... Adrienne Foley has been appointed as the Human Resources Manager at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Sligo, Ireland ...

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China:

• Beijing to start recruiting Olympic volunteers   Beijing Olympic organizers will start in August to recruit volunteers for the 2008 Games. According to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympics (BOCOG), altogether 100,000 volunteers will be needed before and during the 2008 Beijing Games, with 70,000 serving the 2008 Summer Olympics and 30,000 for the Paralympics.
  
  Li Shixin, a BOCOG official in charge of the volunteers' recruitment work, said that BOCOG will need to map out detailed procedures for the recruitment work before recruiting the first batch of volunteers in August.
  
  "People who are interested can submit applications via the internet," said Li.
  
  The Beijing Olympic Volunteers Program was officially launched last June.
  (China View)

Global:

• An Exodus That Hurts the U.S.  The business community has been slow to react to restrictive visa polices and overseas entities' aggressive pursuit of top-tier workers. The talent drain could threaten US innovation. Economist Richard Florida begins his book The Flight of the Creative Class with the story of Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson, whose The Lord of the Rings trilogy earned more than $3.75 billion worldwide. Jackson bought an abandoned paint factory in Wellington, New Zealand, and transformed it into a high-tech filmmaking facility where dozens of transplanted Americans work with expatriates from Europe and Asia. (Workforce)

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