Reveille and Hyperbole  
VCG Inc., , the developer of StaffSuite® and WebPAS® software solutions for leading staffing companies, announced that during a record setting 12-month period of partnering with new clients, six of the top staffing and recruiting firms in the U.S. selected VCG's staffing and recruiting software solutions. VCG now has partnerships with sixteen staffing and recruiting firms with greater than $100 million in revenue -- more than any other staffing software vendor.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been recognized by Workforce Management magazine, a leading U.S. human resources publication, with the prestigious 2006 Workforce Optimas Award for the Global Outlook category. The Global Outlook award recognizes Human Resources programs and strategies that help organizations succeed in the global marketplace. The organization won the award for its worldwide member firm careers website.

ARINSO International (ARIN), a global HR Services partner offering innovative HR business solutions, closed 2005 with excellent financial results, proving the performance of the balanced business model with solid topline growth and profitability. The group's 4Q05 results underpin this statement: "Ahead of expectations, ARINSO reaches 9% EBITA with 12% net sales growth. The company is confident that 2006 will show double-digit sales growth at steadily increasing margins."

JobFlash, the leader in phone-based recruiting solutions, announces a turnkey service for new restaurant openings that cuts cost and time-to-hire and delivers a standardized process to manage new openings.  "High-growth restaurants need a standardized new opening process to quickly and efficiently hire qualified employees," said Mike Krueger, President and CEO of JobFlash. "JobFlash's new opening kit takes away the unpredictability, manual tracking, paper applications, chaos and stress of hiring quality employees on time."

Navisso Search announced its newly launched classified ads service. Unlike many classified ads services, Navisso doesn't charge buyers and sellers for posting or browsing classified ads. "We would like to invite buyers and sellers to post and browse our newly launched classified ads service. We believe classified ads must be free to both, buyers and sellers as they have to cover many additional costs such as shipping or phone calls already.", Mrs. Natalie Wrens ( Product Management ) said.

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Deck Chairs
Adecco SA plans to appoint Juergen Dormann, currently chairman of Swedish-Swiss engineering group ABB Ltd, as its next chairman...Aon Corp. has named Corbette Doyle, chairman of its national health care practice, its first-ever chief diversity officer....Kathi S. Child, who was senior vice president and director human resources of JC Penney, is the new senior vice president human resources of Family Dollar Stores, Inc./(NYSE:FDO)

You Should Know
China:
Unemployment under focus in China Congress
China's rising unemployment rate is expected to be one of the key topics at this week's National People's Congress, the annual meeting of the country's figurehead parliament. Many are struggling for work as China's growing population, inflows of job seekers from the countryside, and a huge jump in the number of university graduates bring about an ever-tightening job market. The government announced last month that about 25 (m) million people - including four (m) million university graduates - would be competing for just 11 million new jobs this year. (zeenews)

Dubai (UAE):
DIB awarded top HR award for banking sector
Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) received today official recognition for its outstanding human resources policies and development initiatives. The bank was awarded the top award in the financial sector at the Eighth National Careers Exhibition taking place at Expo Centre Sharjah from 5 to 8 March, 2006 (AMEInfo)

Global:
Global stopgap for US nurse deficit
Growing labor shortage is fueling recruitment abroad. Even doctors are getting nursing degrees to work in America.  The joke circulating among doctors in the Philippines goes something like this: What's the new prerequisite for getting into nursing school? An MD.  That's because Filipino doctors are indeed heading back to school in great numbers to become nurses. But the punch line speaks more deeply to an unexpected twist in labor shortages a half a world away: Many of them are heading with their new degrees to the United States, where the scarcity of nurses and other healthcare professionals could reach critical levels. (ChristianScienceMonitor)


India:
Hunting the headhunter
The head hunters are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.Being in the business of recruiting for their clients, they are at the receiving end. Many of their clients are setting up in-house units dedicated to recruitment. And the trend is gaining momentum in the Rs 600-crore Indian recruitment market. A drift in the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) is now trickling down to large diversified corporate houses in the country. (DNAIndia)

Japan:
Banks, insurers to increase recruitment of college graduates
Backed by recovering business performances, major banks will increase their recruitment of college graduates in April 2007 to levels not seen since the asset-inflated economic growth of the late 1980s and early '90s. And in another sign that the financial sector has rebounded, insurance companies also plan to hire more graduates next year. (The Asahi Shimbun)

Poland:
Fears of Polish brain drain may be 'exaggerated'
Poles have been leaving their homeland for generations, but since European Union membership in May 2004 opened up a wide array of possibilities, the trickle has turned into a deluge. Employment agencies are targeting underpaid and dissatisfied Polish workers and offering them salaries in the United Kingdom or Ireland that they could only dream of at home. As 30,000 head for Western Europe each month, fears are growing that Poland is losing some of its best and brightest. Seamus Pentony, president of the board at recruitment company Grafton Recruitment Polska, is well aware of the potential brain drain. Aside from the factors that push Polish doctors away from their country, such as low wages, Pentony points to the high demand for health care workers in certain EU countries, especially the U.K. and Ireland, where there is a shortage. "The health care systems in those countries have been under-resourced. In Western Europe there's an aging population issue so there is a bigger medical requirement. At the same time, owing to the success of the countries' economies over the past decades, people there have got more money to spend, hence the higher salary basis." (CzechBusiness)

South Korea:
Emigration in decline for 10 years
The number of Korean emigrants to foreign countries has been steadily declining for 10 consecutive years due mainly to the country's economic growth, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The ministry said in a document that the number has declined from 15,917 in 1995 to 8,277 last year, a 15 percent drop again from 9,759 in 2004. In 2001, the number of emigrants was 11,584 according to the data. The Foreign Ministry's analysis said the decline is due to foreign countires tightening up immigration legislation as well as more people wanting to remain in Korea due to domestic economic growth. (Korea Herald)

UK:
Adverts encourage career in NHS
The adverts feature real NHS staff . A new advertising campaign is encouraging people to consider a career in the NHS in Scotland.  A series of television and radio adverts begin on Monday, coinciding with the start of the first Scottish NHS awareness week.  About 150,000 people work for the NHS in Scotland in hundreds of different jobs, from receptionists to paramedics.  The Scottish Executive is spending £1m on the fresh recruitment drive for the NHS in Scotland. (BBC)



Work stress finding in NHS survey The survey was completed by 33,000 NHS staff
Nearly 40% of NHS staff in Wales suffer from work-related stress, according to a survey.  A majority of the 33,000 staff who took part also said they do not have enough time to complete their work and that half regularly work unpaid overtime. (BBC)

US:
Teacher recruitment fair proves fruitful
The Lynn Public Schools have found success in heading off a statewide teacher shortage that has been projected for September. Five thousand teachers are expected to retire statewide due to an early retirement incentive that kicks in this year. In Lynn, 30-50 teachers are expected to retire. In preparation for that, the district held a teacher recruitment fair Thursday, which Human Resources Director Patricia Libby said approximately 100 people attended. (DailyItem)

Educators' task: Prepare a nanotech work force
This nanotech thing is really a mystery to me." That's what Ken McDermith, department administrator for technology and business at Shenendehowa Central School District, said, giving voice to the thoughts of many in the region who hear about developments at the state university's Albany NanoTech complex and the rise of nanotech companies in the area. (MSNBC)

Low pay, low staffing but plenty of trash  North Port is beginning to address its trash collectors' woes
In a plastic binder among his schedules and collection routes, Howard Meyers, a city solid waste employee, keeps a worn piece of paper with a phone number scrawled on it. It's a message from an 87-year-old resident who called to praise North Port's trash collection. The department is without a Solid Waste manager. Trucks keep breaking down or haven't been ordered, leaving a shortage of 10 vehicles. And, 13 of 34 collector positions are vacant, a staffing shortage that prevented trash from being picked up one day last month. (Herald Tribune)

Why can't companies find enough people with both skills and passion?  The money is good, the work is steady, but is sales for you?
Thinking about a career in sales? The money is good - great for exceptional sales professionals; the work is steady. But is it for you? Ask yourself a simple question: Can you handle rejection?  "The key is you've got to develop a stomach for it," said Jim Duggan of Huntsville, who owns Telco Specialties. Duggan does sales work for companies that want to outsource that duty. "You've got to be able to digest a lot of nos and simply have to be able to take rejection. (HuntsvilleTimes)

Rising emigré club scene fuels sold-out crowds for Bollywood nights Out of India
By midnight on a recent Saturday night, The Baltic Room's dance floor pulsed with club goers moving to Bhangra and hip hop beats. DJs and music producers Rhythm Dhol Bass, flown in from the United Kingdom, mixed tracks as scenes from an Indian movie played on the overhead screen. With the night still young and the Capitol Hill club in Seattle filled to its 400-person capacity, bouncers began turning away disappointed Bhangra fans lined up at the door. (Puget Sound Business Journal)

If you can do more, try a few careers until you're sure
Recently, Aaron Karo performed stand-up comedy in sold-out shows in Boston. He also bills himself as an author, public speaker, and sitcom actor.  Karo has always juggled a few careers. After college, he went to work for an investment bank. But he was also writing a weekly newsletter on college life -- with an emphasis on sex and drinking -- that had tens of thousands of subscribers. And he wrote a book that grew out of the column.  About 10 years ago, British management guru Charles Handy predicted people would replace the idea of one, full-time job with several part-time occupations. He called this the ''portfolio career," and Karo provides a good example of how this trend is taking shape. (Boston.com)

America's Immigration Advantage
As Congress gears up for another round of immigration debate, it is instructive to place the recent American experience in context. How do we compare to the other side of the Atlantic, which is wrestling with its own immigration dilemmas? There are three major areas of difference between this country and Europe. (WashingtonPost)

Army of recruiters invades city highs  Prefer large schools with so-so students
The U.S. military is most successful recruiting city students from super-sized high schools with mediocre graduation rates and tight security, a Daily News analysis has found. Twenty students at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx enlisted in the Army during the last academic year, more than any other public school in the five boroughs, according to data obtained by The News. "A lot of kids here prefer military over college because their parents can't pay for college," said Vallin Hickson, a senior at Pelham Prep, one of five schools housed in Columbus High. The public high schools that deliver the most recruits to the military are not among the city's best – or worst. (Daily News)



Government will study issues affecting older workers
Iowa isn't alone in the demographic shift. It's a national phenomenon that the U.S. Department of Labor has begun addressing. Emily Stove DeRocco, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training, told the Register:

"The great American demographic shift continues, as the first of 78 million baby boomers turns 60 this year. Retirement, it seems, is just over the horizon. Yet Americans are living longer, healthier, and more active lives. Most will happily retire. But quite a few will work beyond retirement age by choice or circumstance. Fortunately, our country grays from a position of economic strength. Iowans can boast that their state ranks fifth in the percentage of residents 65 and older. Unemployment is at a low 4.7 percent nationally and even lower in Iowa. And employers go on hiring."