New Zealand:
Massey University launches nurse workforce on-line study
Massey University has launched an international online survey for nurses, which aims to address the chronic shortage in the health workforce. The World Health Organisation says the health workforce is in crisis with a chronic global shortage of health workers. Unions in New Zealand estimate the workforce is about 2,000 nurses short. Survey project director, Annette Huntington, says all nurses will be asked to take part in the survey when they apply for a renewal of their practicing certificate. (RadioNewZealand)

UK:
18,000 online job seekers reveal their tactics
The results of the UK's largest online recruitment survey are published today, providing a detailed snapshot of how Britain's 11 million job seekers tackle finding a job. The National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) 2006 results are gathered from 18,724 people – the biggest sample to date. Key statistics to emerge show the average online job seeker:

· is 34 years old
· has 13 years' work experience
· earns £34,000
· visits over five sites when actively job-hunting

The majority, 64 per cent, are looking for a full-time permanent position, with 27 per cent seeking temporary work and 21 per cent searching for a part-time job. Seventy-nine per cent applied for work electronically, with 43 per cent emailing their CV to an employer and 28 per cent completing an online application form. Just six per cent put a hard-copy CV in the post. Search engines were the main route for people finding a particular recruitment website (35 per cent), followed by links from another website (20 per cent). (OnRec)

US:
Military recruiter's Craiglslist ad promised no Iraq duty
An Oregon National Guard recruiter is in hot water after posting an ad on the popular Web site 'craigslist' promising recruits they would not have to serve overseas if they signed up. The ad, which has since been deleted, was posted in the Portland section of craigslist and read "our unit is deployed, so you will not have to serve overseas." (KATU2)

The Official Alternatives to Craigslist List (Redux)
Yesterday's post about alternatives to Craigslist saw a flood of reader comments and mail to our inbox chiding us for sites we'd missed. Herewith, a selected addendum (see comments from yesterday for more): (Curbed)

Student helps to create online network
Fed up with the limitations of Internet sites such as Myspace and Friendster, USF student Charles Trippy and a team of young entrepreneurs decided to create their own social networking site called Eekline.com. Eekline is about a month old and has more than 5,700 members. It provides free accounts and features such as customizable profiles, options for local bands and businesses as well as blogging capabilities. (USFOracle)

Graduate gets job through online source
Paul Lovell, a graduate of mechanical engineering, had plenty of offers before getting out of WTAMU. However he wanted to keep his options open. He was looking for a job when benefits and job security, something he could give back to his family later on.  Uploading his resume on eRecruiting.com was the first step. (West Texas AMU)

Building a workforce, one apprentice at a time
Josh Charlie, 23, of Hoquiam is in the appreticeship program for the Local 317 Carpenter's Union. He is helping to put up the frame for a wall for Grays Harbor College's new instructional building. Tethered high from a safety harness and some rope, Hoquiamite Josh Charlie could well be mistaken for a trapeze artist. Charlie, who completed the carpentry program at Grays Harbor College three years ago, is now putting his classroom skills to the test. He's one of several apprentices working on the new instructional building at the college under a new state law that requires state public works construction sites to employ a minimum number of apprentices. (DailyWorld)

Hank Stringer Chief Executive Officer, Q Talent Partners
Hank Stringer has over two decades of experience as a successful high-tech industry recruiter, entrepreneur, and innovator in the use of information technology in the recruitment and employment process. Today, Stringer is CEO of Q Talent Partners, an executive search services and consulting firm based on the philosophies and best practices of this book. (Informit)








Survey Sez:
Survey: Accounting Workers' Confidence Falling
A quarterly employment report from staffing company Spherion Corp. finds that more accounting and finance workers are pessimistic about the economy and their ability to find a new job.

The report's Accounting and Finance Employee Confidence Index, a measure of confidence among accounting and finance workers in the United States, decreased to 61.9 during the period between November 2005 and January 2006, compared to 63.8 during the previous quarter, according to a recent survey by Spherion. Most of the workers saying that they were pessimistic about the economy and their ability to find a new job had originally been neutral on the economy's and their own prospects.

Workers remained confident in their job security, however, with 78 percent believing their jobs would not be eliminated in the next year.

Despite the drop in the overall confidence index, accounting and finance workers are more likely than the overall U.S. workforce to believe the job market and economy are improving and to have confidence in the future of their employer and in their ability to find a new job.

"In our recruiting business, we continue to see high demand for all types of accounting and finance workers across the country, especially those that have experience working with large public accounting firms," said Spherion Professional Services vice president Brendan Courtney, in a statement. "We don't see this trend cooling anytime soon, as the need for skilled workers continues and the talent pool shrinks."

The Accounting and Finance Employment Report is based on data Harris Interactive gained from an online sample of 8,805 employed adults, 425 of whom work in accounting or finance positions and were interviewed in a series of polls.