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Reveille and Hyperbole
Arbita.net was introduced to over 100 leaders in the UK job-board and recruitment sectors at an online recruiting conference held in London by OnRec today. Arbita.net will serve as an international gateway and market-hub for a diverse corporate ecosystem comprised
of hundreds of multinational corporate clients, software companies, applicant tracking systems vendors, human resources information systems vendors, media outlets and candidates for employment. "Arbita delivers a world of opportunity through our matrix of relationships," said Don Ramer, the company's founder
and CEO. "In complex markets and technology environments real-world solutions require cooperation, innovation and expertise. Arbita is the fruition of our 13 years of pioneering solutions in web-recruiting," said Ramer as he outlined the promises underlying the new brand.
Confronting the Coming Talent Crunch: What's Next?
White paper: There is already a talent shortage in many areas of the global labor force, a situation that will grow more acute and more widespread across more jobs over the next 10 years – and could threaten the engines of world economic growth and prosperity. This paper explores which trends are likely to
become more pronounced, and what strategies governments and employers can employ to lessen the impact to their organizations. Download PDF - 263 KB
Talent Shortage Survey
Survey report: Manpower surveyed nearly 33,000 employers across 23 countries and territories in late January to determine the extent to which talent shortages are impacting today's labor markets. The survey results revealed that 40 percent of employers worldwide are having difficulty filling positions due to
the lack of suitable talent available in their markets. Download PDF - 245 KB
OnRec.com are proud to announce the inaugural "Online Recruitment Exhibition" to run alongside this years London Conference. The venue is the prestigious QE2 Conference centre near Westminster, London.
ShiftWise, the nation's leading provider of online healthcare staffing management services,announced a new referral partnership program with GroupCast, LLC, a leading provider of voice broadcast messaging. Under this agreement,
the two companies will exchange referrals of their complementary offerings to customers in the healthcare industry. "Staffing issues plague the healthcare industry. Disorganized systems, ongoing demand and the shortage of qualified workers all present challenges to filling supplemental shifts," said Paul
Langhorst, GroupCast vice president. "Our healthcare clients want to simplify supplemental staffing procedures and many are seeking automated staffing management systems to replace manual, time-consuming practices. Through the strong relationships that ShiftWise has with hundreds of hospitals across the
nation, our offerings will allow these clients to gain a significant staffing advantage."
Bangalore-based skill assessment and recruitment process outsourcing provider MeritTrac Services has opened its first dedicated assessment centre called ‘MeritTrac Assessment Zone' in Hyderabad today. The new center was formally inaugurated by Smt.Ratna Prabha, IT
Secretary, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, in the presence of Dr. Ravi Mallu, representative of the Government of Andhra Pradesh in New Delhi. The new state-of-the-art recruitment assessment processing center is spread over 3000 sq. ft. and can handle upto 750 candidates in a day.
iCIMS, a leading provider of Web-based Hiring Management Solutions, today announced that Workforce Management magazine recognized iCIMS as one of the industry's top three providers of Applicant Tracking Solutions in the publication's February 13th issue.
Bolt Media has launched a new version of its social networking site Bolt.com in an effort to isolate the activities of its more mature, 18 and older users from its wide demographic of teens, preteens, and tweens. An additional site, Bolt2.com, has been created to continue
catering to this younger crowd and to retain advertisers who specifically market towards them. While brands like Kellogg's and Nintendo have been redirected to Bolt2.com, Bolt.com will now have the opportunity to host more adult-oriented advertising like R-rated movies and
automobiles.
Deck Chairs
MeritTrac Services, India's largest skills assessment company and a leading provider of RPO services appointed Prasanna K as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
You Should Know
Australia:
McDonalds rolls out online recruitment
As part of its e-People strategy, McDonalds Restaurant is rolling out an online recruitment and staff induction platform to 730 retail food outlets across Australia. The platform, known as metime, is a fully integrated, multi-functional online recruitment, learning and communications solution that was piloted
last year on the NSW central coast and provided by TodayCorp. Metime allows candidates to apply for employment and be assessed online. This is followed by a face to face interview, an online new employee orientation and induction program that is completed prior to the employees first shift. (Computerworld)
Global:
Vint Cerf in Google recruitment drive
The networking pioneer is to tour the UK in a bid to recruit coders for the search giant
One of the founding fathers of the Internet will tour the UK to recruit engineers for Google. Vint Cerf will be visiting universities around the country in support of Google's recruitment drive. Cerf was hired by Google in September as an Internet evangelist. (ZDNet)
Stanford prof predicts life expectancy of 100 years by 2030Associated Press
The average life expectancy for people living in most industrial nations could reach 100 within the next 25 years, according to a Stanford University researcher.
Advances in anti-aging technology and treatments for diseases such as cancer could push the average life expectancy from just under 80 years old to 100 years old by 2030, said Shripad Tuljapurkar, a biology and demographics professor. Tuljapurkar presented his latest work on life expectancy last month at
the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. Tuljapurkar, whose research has been used by the U.S. Social Security Administration to develop probability models for population projections, is part of a growing international debate about the effects of
increasing life expectancy on social programs and health care. (MercuryNews)
How Staffing Builds A Corporate Asset... and How Much Is It Worth?
A few months ago I had a conversation with a VP of HR of a High Tech firm who recounted a discussion he had with his CFO.
CFO: "By the way, what is the value of having 350,000 candidates in our database?"
VP of HR: "Those candidates represent a lot of value for us, and also we have to keep them for legal reasons."
CFO: "Oh, okay for legal reasons."
VP of HR: "Yes, but it is also very valuable for us."
CFO: "How valuable? I mean is it tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands…?"
VP of HR: "Well, I am not too sure…"
This article draws on a financial model outlined in Taleo's report "Economics of Candidate Databases" to describe how the VP of HR may respond with the precision required by the financier. (Taleo)
Westerners Follow Outsourcing to India to Work at Call Centers
They have been labeled as "adventure workers" who have been joining the Indian work force from the U.S. and Europe. It has been sometime since India's outsourcing and information technology firms have been hiring foreigners at higher and middle levels for their expertise. However, workers from abroad are
seeking lower-end jobs as well, such as answering phones at call centers, for a pittance of what they earn in their home countries. (NewAmericanMedia)
Women and the workforce
The New York Times' bizarre and suspiciously predetermined editorial effort to talk women out of working continued last week with a front-page article emblazoned with the headline, "Stretched to Limit, Women Stall March to Work." The gist of the story is women's workforce participation grew at a "blistering
pace" between the 1950s and the mid-1990s. But since then, the growth in the percentage of "adult women" (are there any "child women?") working for pay (as opposed to working "at home" for free) has stalled and even slipped since the turn of the millennium. This change, according to the Times, has left
women's workforce participation rates "well below that of men." (Scripps-Howard)
India:
Trend of working from home to breed productive, liberated workforce
SonicWALL Inc., an integrated network security and productivity solutions provider, has announced the results of a survey of 941 remote and mobile workers worldwide. The survey, conducted by Insight Express and SonicWALL at the end of 2005, indicates that the growing trend towards home working is likely to
breed a more productive and liberated international workforce. 76% of employees surveyed believe that working remotely is an aid to productivity and 61% are also convinced that their managers agree with them. Security came low on the list of priorities, however, with 88% of the individuals surveyed admitting
to storing passwords in easily discovered locations, and only 12% employing encrypted files to store and manage their login data. 56% said they rely on their memories to keep track of their network passwords, while others used the same passwords for all devices, stored the information on cell phones, or stuck
notes with the login information onto their computer (4%). (CRNIndia)
UK:
Search engines drive most traffic to recruitment sites- research
Search engines are the most popular way for Web users to find recruitment sites, with fish4jobs proving to be the most popular site, according to new research.The National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) 2006 results gathered data from 18,724 people, representing the group's biggest sample to date.
The report identified the average online job seeker as 34 years old with 13 years' work experience, earning £34,000 and visiting over five sites when actively job-hunting. Nearly two-thirds (64%) are looking for a full-time permanent position, with 27% seeking temporary work and 21% searching for a part-time
job. Nearly four in five (79%) applied for work electronically, with 43% emailing their CV to an employer and 28% completing an online application form. Just 6% put a hard-copy CV in the post. (Netimperative)
Doctors attack online recruitment
Some doctors believe talented students are missing out on jobs A new online application system for junior doctor posts is harming the job prospects of many top students, more than 80 senior doctors have warned. The Modernising Medical Careers system scraps interviews in favour of points scoring
from application forms answers. In a letter to the Times, the specialists claim the process is untested and is leaving students bitter, angry and demoralised. (BBC)
US:
Las Vegas Faces Labor Shortage
A 'material lack of qualified labor in Las Vegas over the next several years' threatens new casinos and high-rise condominiums being developed here, a Deutsche Bank study found. (CasinoCityTimes)
Study: US Outsourcing Fears Greatly Exaggerated
The movement of computing work to countries outside the United States represents an economic and scientific challenge, but the fears of job migration far outweigh the reality so far, according to a new study by the Association for Computing Machinery. The lengthy report, which was released on Thursday, is the
result of a yearlong project by the organization to assess the impact and implications of the offshoring of software development and research. (CRMNews)
Employers of Illegal Workers in a Catch-22
Those who try to help employees obtain legal residency get caught in a bureaucratic tangle that can take years to unravel and carries some risk. Business owner Tom Nogradi said he wanted to do the right thing. So when his employees admitted they were undocumented and asked for help applying for green cards,
he agreed to sponsor them. But things didn't go as expected. Immigration agents raided Nogradi's Valencia company in 2000, looking for illegal workers. He lost 15 employees. (LATimes)
Workforce Woes and Wins Offshoring Isn't so Bad!
Sending IT jobs out of the country may actually increase opportunities in The U.S., according to a recent study by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM says the cost savings resulting from outsourcing offshore will create new business opportunities and new jobs for technology workers,
especially for those trained in software architecture, product design and project management. The study, Globalization and Offshoring of Software, estimates that up to three percent of American IT jobs will be outsourced to other countries annually in the coming years. However, this loss will be outpaced by
the new jobs generated as a result of business investments. (CIOBlog)
Trends in the Accounting Workforce
The results of A Decade of Changes in the Accounting Profession: Workforce trends and Human Capital Practices, released in February, indicate that women are increasingly attaining leadership positions in public accounting firms and that both men and women are taking advantage of the alternative career paths
offered by an increasing number of firms. The Study was conducted under the aegis of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' (AICPA's) Work/Life and Women's Initiatives Executive Committee and more than 2,600 CPAs took part in the research. (AccountingWeb)
Marketing & Staffing Strategy: Do You Have One?
Whether you are a franchisor or a multiunit franchisee, you must have noticed that the marketing and sales landscape is changing. No matter what kind of business you're in, status quo marketing and sellingis no longer going to get you the resultsyou need or want. In a business-to-consumer franchise system you
will see the demographic changes in your customer marketplaces more quickly than in business-to-business. Time to wake up and smell the demographic coffee! Nothing wakes you up more than hard numbers–true, no-lie statistics. Did you know that the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population are Asian
American, Hispanic, African American,and the over-55 populations? Nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population lives in urban settings. In the top 100 U.S. cities,former minorities have become the majority. All of this we have known in our field for years. (Area
Developer)
Hiring both candidate, spouse not uncommon
Higher education can be a family affair. When Kansas University recently revealed its picks for two of several top administrative openings, the university also announced it would put their spouses on the payroll. "These days, more often than not, you're really recruiting two professionals to your faculty when
you go out," KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway said. "I think of it as a family employment policy. We believe in family values." (LJWorld)
Accommodating older workers could ease labor shortage
At the very time a shortage of young workers is looming, a lot of baby boomers are indicating they plan to continue working beyond normal retirement age. "It's kind of a serendipitous meeting of need and demand," said Mark Haverland, director of the Iowa Division of Elder Affairs. If older workers stay
employed longer than expected, the projected labor shortage might be eased considerably. (DesMoinesRegister)
Survey Sez:
Talent Shortage Survey Results
Manpower Inc. (MAN) surveyed nearly 33,000 employers across 23 countries and territories in lateJanuary to determine the extent to which talent shortages are impacting today's labor markets. The surveyresults, released today, revealed that 40 percent of employers worldwide are having difficulty filling positions
due to the lack of suitable talent available in their markets.
Employers having the most difficulty finding the right people to fill jobs are those in Mexico (78% reporting
shortages), Canada (66%) and Japan (58%). The talent shortage appears to be least problematic in India,
where only 13 percent of employers reported having difficulty filling positions.
Global Results
The top 10 jobs that employers are having difficulty filling across the 23 countries and territories
surveyed are (ranked in order):
1. Sales Representatives
2. Engineers
3. Technicians (primarily production/operations, engineering and maintenance)
4. Production Operators
5. Skilled Manual Trades (primarily carpenters, welders and plumbers)
6. IT Staff (primarily programmers/developers)
7. Administrative Assistants/Personal Assistants
8. Drivers
9. Accountants
10. Management/Executives
Total Number of Respondents: 32,975
Employers indicating difficulty filling positions: 40%
Employers indicating no difficulty filling positions: 60%
Margin of error: +/- 4.1%
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