Reveille and Hyperbole  
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (MNST) announced plans to expand its multi-tiered efforts to provide employment relief and other assistance to the victims of last year's devastating hurricanes through a furthered sponsorship of local job fairs, and a collaborative online effort with U.S. Department of Labor's America's Job Bank to centralize disaster-related job postings.

Deploy Solutions announced the release of Deploy Version 7, an offering that integrates recruiting and hiring with both performance review and termination process automation for the hourly workforce. By automating the complete hourly talent management process in a fully integrated solution and linking performance and employee separation feedback to their hiring practices, organizations can better align their workforce with specific business goals.

Given a projected need for as many as 640,000 new nonprofit leaders by 2016, the March issue of "Leadership Matters" offers insight into the issue along with three steps the sector must take to address the problem. Published by Bridgestar, a nonprofit initiative of the Bridgespan Group dedicated to attracting, connecting and supporting senior leaders for the sector, "Leadership Matters" is part of a robust portfolio of offerings to help both nonprofit organizations and senior leaders make meaningful, appropriate matches. In addition, Bridgestar's job board has listed more than 400 senior positions from around the United States and across a range of service areas including the environment, human services, elder services, human rights, and youth services.

The Southeast BIO organization is launching a job board to assist life sciences companies seeking new employees and people looking for employment. The job board, which is offered free of charge, already includes some 40 postings for open positions.

The college search process buries students in an information avalanche. Today's students want a convenient way to instantly interact with their institution of choice and simplify the admissions process. Jenzabar CRM Candidate provides the interface needed to stay connected and interact with prospective students throughout the application process. Thanks to several candidate self-service features, your Admissions staff can spend less time responding to routine inquiries and more time on productive recruitment efforts with prospects and their families.

Deck Chairs
Jack Eganhas been named as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Volt Information Sciences, Inc....The State of Massachusetts' chief human resources officer and chief diversity officer is leaving to become senior vice president of human resources for National Grid's U-S operations.  Ruth Bramson will head up the British utility's human resources group, overseeing labor relations and employee services.

You Should Know
Germany:
Politicians Discuss Pension Cuts for Childless Germans: Germany's younger generation is dwindling
New statistics confirming the declining birth rate have sent Germany in to a state of panic, amid a growing consensus that pensions should be increased for people with children and reduced for those without. "People without children should either receive a reduced pension or pay more into pension schemes," said Norbert Geis from the CSU.  Johann Eekhoff, director of the Cologne institute for Economic Policy said a reform of the pension system was long overdue. "People without children should never have been admitted into pension schemes because these only work when they are financed by subsequent generations," he said in an interview with mass-circulation Bild newspaper. "Their pensions should be cut by 50 percent." (DW-World.de)

Population shock in Germany
German women have the fewest children in the world, causing a rapid population decline in the 80-million-person nation, according to a new study. A German woman has 1.36 children on average, the lowest number of any country in the world outside the Vatican, according to the Berlin Institute for Population and Development. In 2005, roughly 680,000 children were born in Germany -- the least since 1945. Former communist East Germany is hit hardest: The area had already suffered from a low-child generation, when immediately after the Germany's reunification in 1990, child numbers there dropped to .77 children per woman. The population drop there is aggravated by a demographic outflux, as young easterners often move to economically stable states, such as Bavaria or Baden-Wuerttemberg. Eastern Germany has the highest unemployment rate in the country. (UPI)

Global:
Microsoft's labor troubles
On top of a stagnant stock and a host of new competition, the software giant is said to be struggling to attract the best young talent. Microsoft's all grown up.  Now, along with the middle-age woes of a stagnant stock and a host of new competition, the world's biggest computer software maker apparently can add "attracting young blood" to its list.  Microsoft's top excecs may be excited to work at the company, but some rank and file employees are not, a report says.  Microsoft (Research) employees are growing more and more disillusioned with stagnating salaries and an increasingly contentious review system that they say is unfair, according to a recent report in WashTech News. That's led to more defections by senior engineers and growing dissatisfaction among rank-and-file workers, the report said. (CNN)

Knowledge: The Essence of Metadata: Federated Agility's Secret Ingredient
Before getting into federated agility, I want to describe a scenario where business value has evolved over the past 20 years. Let me take you back: planning of a family vacation involved only a few simple activities. The first step was asking your friends and family about where they have gone before. In the process, they would tell you about different hotels, restaurants and airlines with which they had the best experience. Based on the level of trust you had with these sources of information, you placed a couple of phone calls and made the travel reservations. Most other decisions and experience components were defined by chance (i.e., weather, traffic, discounts or local events). (DMReview.com)

Ready for a Flood of Talent?
Management consultant Roger Herman says there's one on the way, as top execs start to eye smaller pastures. Over the next several years, small-business owners will have access to top talent -- and they won't have to pay exorbitant salaries to get them. Or so says Roger Herman, a certified management consultant based in Greensboro, N.C., and the publisher of the Herman Trend Alert, a weekly e-newsletter that identifies business trends. (BusinessWeek)

VP-of-HR Newsletter
Welcome to VP of HR, the strategic newsletter for senior HR executives of Fortune 500 firms and those aspiring to the role. The goal of VP of HR is to offer out of the box solutions and alternatives to the traditional ways of approaching HR. Approximately half of the articles are "think pieces" whose primary purpose is to cause you step back and take a second look at traditional HR practices. Many of the remaining articles discuss more practical tools and strategies that are designed give you answers to current and emerging issues in human resources. One of our primary goals is to challenge traditional thinking, so don't expect to agree with everything we say. Our assumption from the beginning is that you already know how "most people do it" so we won't waste your time with traditional solutions. (Dr. John)

Nival Makes It Global
Nival Interactive, the Russian developer behind games such as Blitzkrieg, Etherlords, and Silent Storm, re-launched itself as a global development company with former Xbox co-creator Kevin Bachus as chief executive officer, and has plans to expand into next-generation and mobile phone game arenas, the company announced today. Nival's plan is to create smartly designed games for international markets with a lower production cost attached to them, an idea that should ring loudly in the ears of gamers, who just started paying $10 extra dollars for next-generation games. Nival's new leadership will be based in Los Angeles, Ca., while its five development studios, housing 300-plus employees, will continue to create games in Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russia. (IGN)

JobRobots.com Adds Salary Data for Job Seekers
Since JobRobots.com (http://www.jobrobots.com) first official debut in August, 2005, its registered user base and site traffic have increased significantly. Users praise its ease of use and ability to help manage their end-to-end job discovery and application process. As part of continuous improvement, JobRobots has recently extended the job search functionality to seamlessly integrate job listings with career information such as salary survey data from US government. This further enhances the value of providing one-stop information gathering and processing for job application. (UCWE)

Ireland:
Irish labour demand remains high despite fall off in February according to Bank of Ireland; Demand highest in the professional and construction sectors
Just over 35,000 job advertisements have been placed in the national daily and Sunday newspapers in the first two months of this year, according to the latest Bank of Ireland Business Banking Job Index that was published today. This is slightly less than the same period last year mainly due to a fall (-8%) in the number of ads in February compared to the corresponding month last year. Despite this reverse, demand for labour is set to remain high for the coming year with all indicators suggesting that job seekers face a buoyant market for the remainder of 2006. (FinFacts)

UK:
Troop movements
How is it that some companies are doing so much better at winning the war for talent? Here is a battle plan for managing your best asset
Ever since two McKinsey consultants coined the phrase ‘the war for talent' back in the 1990s, employee commitment has dropped dramatically. In the last two decades, we have witnessed growth of what is euphemistically described as the ‘X' and ‘Y' generations – who strive for work life balance and are prepared to make career choices that most of us born before 1970 would not consider. (Accountancy Age)

Calling all Management Consultancy Recruiters
Over 700 Management Consultancy Recruiters registered to attend this year's Management Consultancy Recruiters' Seminar, organised by www.Top-Consultant.com.
Advertisement  Startling findings were presented at the event, including statistics on the demise of newspapers' appointments pages as a means of attracting consulting candidates - and an impending collapse in applications to corporate websites. The findings were based on data collected from over 5,000 management consultants / professional candidates and now recordings of all the keynote presentations are available to watch online... (Consultant News)




2006 Recruitment Channel Report - Comprehensive Findings
Recruiting the best talent is a fast-evolving art. The latest edition of this report allows recruiters to track the evolution of candidate preferences and application trends - and assess strengths and weaknesses in current recruitment strategies. A free resource, this is a must-read for anyone involved in the recruitment of management consultants, IT consultants and business executives. Download your PDF copy of the 2006 Recruitment Channel Report (Consultant News)

Trinidad and Tobago:
Blogging for Business
The question is not, "Should your business have a blog?" but, "Should your blog have a business?" Back in the early days of the Internet boom, the late 1990s, some of us bought more domain names than we could manage. I even got a four letter domain name: bn.gs, before the International Internet Authority stopped selling them. The lazy way to keep these websites updated was to throw some guestbook technology on each of them and allow visitors to write and that was the content. This way, the website owners saved themselves some work. (Breaking News)







Survey Sez:
New NMI Survey Reveals Baby Boomer Challenges



What are the biggest challenges faced by Boomers as they age and face retirement?

Whereby half of Boomers indicate that losing mental capacity is their biggest fear about aging, a majority indicate they do not have a sound plan for retirement and are not on target with their financial retirement plan. The median net worth of Boomers is only $78,000 - not enough to provide long-term security and a major dilemma as Boomers expect to live to age 82 and want to live to age 90.

Adding to their retirement dilemma, Boomers indicate that they will need to be reliant on government programs such as Social Security and Medicare, but three quarters feel little or no control over these programs - and only 7% are very satisfied with them.

The importance of these government programs to consumers has grown 33% from 20 years ago. And only 58% of Boomers state they are aware of the new Medicare Part D program, with only 21% planning to sign up when they become eligible (41% are unsure).

Boomers' physical health as they age is also a concern. According to Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) Managing Partner Steve French, "There's a major disconnect between what Boomers understand is the correct behavior to follow in order to maintain health and what they actually do.

For example, while about 90% feel exercise is the primary way to promote healthy aging, 27% admit to not exercising at all and 37% only work out 2 or fewer days a week. Adding to their quandaries, 4 out of 10 are confused about eating healthy."

Some of this understanding/behavior conundrum can be explained by the fact that 3 out of 5 Boomers believe that advances in healthcare are going to cure any diseases they get and 82% believe those advances will expand their lifespan - thereby relying upon the healthcare system and medical science to alleviate the harm they may be doing to themselves.

These are just a few findings from NMI's recent research, The Healthy Aging/Boomer Database(TM). Conducted in January 2006 among 1,502 Boomers, the data is nationally representative, balanced to U.S. Census data, with a +/- 2.6% margin of error.

The Natural Marketing Institute is a strategic consulting and market research company specializing in health and wellness.
Contacts: NMI - Nancy White, 215-513-7300, ext. 225

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