Reveille and Hyperbole
Bharat Matrimony Enterprise has launched an exclusive portal for Human Resource professionals.  This portal enables knowledge sharing through forums and provides rich and aggregated content, which will provide an excellent resource for the HR community. Clickjobs.com has initiated this initiative to empower the executives in the field of Human Capital Management.  Announcing the launch of HRMeet.com, Michael M Bala, Business head, Clickjobs.com said, 'HRMeet.com will forge in building up a strong HR community in India. We felt a strong need for a forum like HRMeet.com exclusive for the HR professionals to empower them by a medium that would enable interactive dialogues, debates and high quality information dissemination. Within a fortnight of the soft-launch we have 800 plus HR professionals interacting in this community. We plan to maintain this pol HR community exclusive.'

Executive Recruiter Slayton International has changed its name to Slayton Search Partners.

HBCU Connect, which currently offers a career center within its on-line community of 280,000 members has partnered with Diversity Search Group, a veteran and minority owned and operated executive recruiting firm, adding a targeted placement service for HBCU Connect business advertisers.

JobsGroup.net is the number one site for placements for the third year running, according to the Top 100 Online Recruitment Sites 2006. The report, published by Online Recruitment magazine, also found JobsGroup.net is in the:

• Top three for time spent browsing on a site
• Top ten for the number of CVs available to recruiters
• Top fifteen for the number of unique users
• Top fifteen for the number of jobs available for jobseekers
• Top fifteen for the number of customer service staff available

Cognizo Technologies has announced the first public source code release, available for download. CATS is the HR/Staffing/Recruiting industry's first and only open source, enterprise class, web based ATS package. Built using the LAMP platform and open source design methodologies, CATS is on a fast track to rival the best proprietary ATS offerings in the marketplace.

The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association and educator in talent management strategies, and Lominger Limited Inc., a leading development resource firm, announced today that Lominger will sponsor HCI's Next Generation Leadership Development learning and research track. The track is one of several topics addressed in HCI's Talent Leadership community of interest, a community HCI considers critical to organizations working to build competitive advantage.

Kenexa Corporation, a Wayne PA-based supplier of recruiting services and software, has established a partnership with Springboard Forward, a provider of career development programs. Through the alliance, the companies will collaborate to launch a demonstration project with a national retailer that will measure the impact of Springboard's programs on employee engagement, as well as on the associated business performance and profitability of the company.






Deck Chairs:
Koren Rogers Executive Search has appointed James R. Downing as a vice president in charge of the firm's financial recruiting practice...The Jacobson Group, a provider of executive search and human capital services for the insurance, healthcare and financial service industries, has appointed Jack J. Johnsey as senior vice president of project solutions....Rhodes Associates has named Patricia Wieser as a partner and head of the firm's global banking and markets practice....Talentology®, LLC, developer of the PeopleFilter(TM) applicant tracking system, today announced that Tim Beaumont has been recruited by the company as senior vice president of Sales....StepStone today announced the appointment of Andy Randall as Chief Technology Officer, with group-wide responsibility for products and technology. In this new role Andy will drive the strategy across StepStone's products and markets, and be responsible for exploiting the growing opportunities to share and leverage technologies across StepStone's rapidly expanding business. Andy will report directly to Colin Tenwick, CEO, of StepStone.
 






You Should Know
Canada:
Worker shortage forces companies to turn down projects, official says
 "I'm hearing from businesses that say they could be going after other contracts or projects, but they know they can't handle it because of the labour shortage," says Colleen Bond of the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission. "They are turning down work. That's a lost opportunity."  Diana Groffen, executive director at the Okanagan Science and Technology Council, says the top complaint among its 250 members is the skills shortage. (VancouverSun)

France:
Huge crowds march in France against youth jobs law
Huge crowds of students, trade unionists and left-wing politicians took to the streets across France on Saturday to press the conservative government to scrap a new law they fear will erode job security for young workers. Hundreds of thousands turned out in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Rennes and over 150 other cities and towns in a growing protest movement that has created a serious crisis for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. The marches were mostly peaceful, but a few dozen youths overturned and set fire to a car at the end of the main protest in Paris and pelted police with missiles. Scattered violence was also reported in Marseille and Rennes.  (Reuters)

Germany:
SPECIAL ISSUE: ENGAGING ISLAM A challenge to European Christians
The anger of militant Muslims in recent weeks has stirred Europe from its slumber. Two questions must be asked in the wake of the furore over the cartoons of Mohammed in European newspapers. What, if anything, do Westerners hold holy? And, with the demographic bomb ticking away, what is the cultural and spiritual identity of Europe? Finally, the practical consequences of a declining population are troubling Europeans. What neither rational demographers nor intellectual heavyweights have managed to achieve is now obvious to everyone in Denmark, Germany, the UK, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Between five and ten percent of Germany's population is already Muslim. The inner cities of the largest German cities, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne will have a predominantly Muslim population within only 14 years. Germans will be a minority in their inner cities in the imminent future. At present there are 48 mosques in Germany, with more than 100 under construction. (MercatorNet)

Global:
HR Is Out of Sync With IT Work
The world of IT work has changed significantly in the past three years. Have the practices of human resource departments kept up? Do the humans in the IT department pay anything more than lip service to the policies and practices of the HR department? Is HR a roadblock on IT's journey to create value for the enterprise? These were the topics that filled a recent daylong discussion at UCLA's Managing the Information Resource program. Along with the results of ongoing surveys conducted at the IT Leadership Academy and polls of the hundreds of alpha practitioners who attended Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference two weeks ago, that discussion reveals a growing concern that HR, while critical to the effective functioning of IT, is in many ways out of touch with the current realities of how IT work actually gets done.  (Computerworld)

Drowning in technology Impossible to keep up with wave of innovations We've compiled
Buying a television used to be so simple. The most agonizing decision was whether you should house those 13 inches of black-and-white glory in a fake-oak or fake-mahogany frame.  Fast-forward a century and suddenly we're confronted with a crisis of acronyms.  To HD or not HD?  Do I look CRT, DLP, LCD or plasma to you?  Am I a DBS, DMB or digital cable kind of gal?  And who the hell is TiVo and why has he invaded my living room? (The Star)

Here's how call centres look from London
Are call centres a den of "extramarital affairs and drug parties"? Or to say it with the stiff British upper lip, do they "tune in to decadence"? So says a report in The Sunday Times (of London). In Gurgaon, the suburbia of outsourcing, as they prepare for another graveyard shift, employees wonder what the fuss is all about. "With the salaries we get, most of us can afford to go to discs and party. Some may even make out. Many professionals do that, so why single out BPO employees?" asks a call centre executive. (HindustanTimes)

High skills immigration number one thing for Microsoft: Gates
Lobbying for increase in the number of H1B visas, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has put high-skills immigration as the "number one thing" for the software giant and said it was ironic that Indians have to go back due to visa shortages despite graduating from American computer science institutions.  "It's kind of ironic to have somebody graduate from Stanford Computer Science Department and there's not enough H1B visas, so they have to go back to India...And I have people who have been hired who are just sitting on the border waiting," Gates, who was here last week to personally lobby the US Senate on a proposal to increase H1B visas, told The Washington Post. (Economic Times)

India:
'India needs job creators not seekers'
Lauding nine students of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (IIM-L) for rejecting lucrative job offers to start their own business venture, chairman of Hero Honda Motors Limited, Brijmohan Lall Munjal, said that the country today needs entrepreneurs who can create jobs rather than job-seekers. Addressing the 20th convocation of IIM-L on Saturday, Munjal said "I am glad to see that graduating students have opted for entrepreneurship. This is the time of life when a person can take risk." He appreciated the 2006 topper Jaya Jha for showing courage to go for her own start-up and asked everybody present on the occasion to give her a standing ovation. "Believe me, one day you will be delivering the convocation address as I am doing today," he said.  (Times Of India)

Japan:
Labor shortfall throws Japan Inc. into a panic
When a fairly staid weekly business magazine uses the word "panic" in its headline, readers are prompted to take notice. Shukan Diamond (March 11) insists businesses are definitely facing one: There simply aren't enough workers to go around. We're not just talking about executives or programmers or accountants; even McDonald's Japan is hard-pressed to find workers to serve burgers for its usual 900-950 yen hourly wage, and has already offered higher rates in some areas. "One cause is the economic recovery," explains a manager at the Golden Arches.  (Japan Search)

Qatar:
Indian govt plans to amend emigration act
The Indian government is planning to amend the Emigration Act to effectively curb illegal recruitment of Indian workers to foreign countries, Vayalar Ravi, the Indian Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs said yesterday.  (The Peninsula)

Sweden:
Immigrant Swedes in 'brain drain'
Unemployment is forcing many Swedes with immigrant backgrounds to leave the country to find work. Hundred Swedes with roots in Iran and Somalia have moved to Britain in the last two years. Some 200 Somali-Swedes moved to the UK in each of the past two years. In 2000 the figure was around 40, Swedish Radio reports. Many of those leaving Sweden are well-educated young men, who have been unable to find jobs in Sweden. The report quoted an economist, who said that immigrants of African background have particular difficulties finding work in Sweden. (The Local)






USA:
High costs creating labor shortage in Keys
The Keys grapple with a population loss problem that many blame on the area's dramatic lack of affordable housing. Lois Nemecek thought she'd finally solved her labor crunch a few weeks ago when she hired four new employees to staff scooter rental booths at tourist hot spots around this island. At roughly $30,000 a year with commissions, the jobs weren't exactly high end, but they weren't bottom of the barrel, either. Come Friday morning, though, Nemecek, finance manager for Adventure Scooter, was right back where she started. ''None of them showed up,'' she sighed. (Miami Herald)

 Guest workers could ease tree fruit labor shortage
Santos Gonzalez carries a just-picked bag of Pink Lady apples to a waiting bin during harvest in November 2004. Area fruit growers are worried there might not be enough workers to pick this year's tree fruit crops and want to bring in as many as 1,000 seasonal workers to ensure there are enough pickers.
Growers are worried enough about a labor shortage this season that they are seeking to hire as many as 1,000 seasonal farm workers from Mexico under a federal guest-worker program. "There are about a half-dozen farms that are very scared. We need lots of people. It really is different this year," said Mike Gempler, executive director of the Yakima-based Washington Growers League, which represents agricultural employers in labor matters. (Yakima Herald)

`Loud talkers` annoy the most at work
Thirty-one percent of U.S. adults said that their biggest pet peeve in their place of business was 'loud talkers,' a survey said. Thirty percent said cell phone ringing was annoying, while 22 percent didn`t like the use of speaker phones in public areas and 9 percent hated people using personal digital assistants during meetings, according to the survey by Randstad USA. (Monsters and Critics)



Wanted by 2012: 200,000 workers State's work force shrinking as more baby boomers retire
Newcomer Gerri Crockett, a 23-year-old engineer, and Rick Callen, a 52-year-old manufacturing worker in Ottumwa, could be today's answer to a future problem: a worker shortage.  By 2012, Iowa is projected to have up to 200,000 more jobs than workers to fill them, the result of Iowa's stagnant population growth converging with impending baby boom retirements. (DesMoinesRegister)

Recruiters searching for students inspired to teach
It seemed odd to the 22-year-old senior attending the University of South Carolina Upstate. She thought her interests would be more compatible with social work. By enrolling in popular programs such as Teacher Cadets, which helps expose students to classroom life, Curry slowly altered her thinking. Her career path was made clearer when she walked down the hallway of an elementary school -- passing hand-painted murals and having young students wave. (Goupstate.com)

Don't send immigrants home
Manufacturers in south central Kansas need workers. They need workers now to gear up for a good year in plastics. They will need them in the future to keep pace in the aviation, construction and automotive industries. One way the labor supply can be increased in this region is through immigration. This is especially true in the revitalized meat-packing industry. Yet even as we in this slow-growing rural area face an uncertain future when it comes to our workforce, some in the U.S. Congress want to send undocumented workers back home. At the moment Sen. John Kyl, R-Arizona, is arguing vocally for this. He says it would be fair to others waiting to come to this country. (WinfieldCourier)

Leaving the Corporate Roost Behind The Freedom of Consulting Lures Ever More Workers
A few years back, because of the dot-com bust and a dearth of jobs in his field, Allan Zelsman reluctantly turned to temporary work. Eventually, though, he embraced the freedom of independent consulting. "I like the variety of projects I am involved with and the money," said Zelsman, 43, a software developer from Manassas.  Long gone are the days when companies provided job security, and in exchange, employees pledged their loyalty. "That bargain began to break down more than a decade ago and is essentially kaput today," said Daniel H. Pink, Washington-based author of "Free Agent Nation" and "A Whole New Mind." In February 2005, 10.3 million independent contractors represented 7.4 percent of total employment, up from 6.4 percent four years earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another 2.5 million worked on call, while 1.2 million served temporary-help agencies and 813,000 depended on contract firms. (Washington Post)

Working retirement: Physician shortage, aging boomers and reimbursement models complicate golden years
Dr. Gary Leifer, one of 19 physicians with Kansas City Urology Care PA, worries about more than urinary streams. With 79 million baby boomers moving toward retirement, many of them physicians, Leifer is concerned about the inadequate stream of new doctors entering his and other specialties. The challenge of replacing doctors during a worsening physician shortage, however, is only one of the issues now associated with an older practice member slowing down or hanging up his or her stethoscope altogether. (KC Business Journal)

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