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Monster (MNST), and Deploy Solutions announced a strategic alliance relationship to serve the hourly market. The companies will work
collaboratively to help businesses with large hourly workforces streamline the hiring process to more quickly identify and hire quality job applicants.
Eagle Professional Resources announced financial results for the period ended February 28, 2006. Revenues for the quarter were $24 million, up 15% from the same quarter last year. With two remaining quarters before Eagle's tenth
anniversary, the company posted its 38th consecutive profitable quarter. Eagle was officially awarded Platinum Club status as of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies, a designation reserved for companies which have received the 50 Best Award for more than six consecutive years. Also during this quarter, Eagle
released its official blog, which can be found at http://eagleceonews.blogspot.com.
Positioned at the intersection of two major trends -- online communities and Web 2.0 -- Userplane, the leading provider of live community software, announced that the company's apps have now been deployed on more than 100,000 websites,
reaching in excess of 40 million users in 20 countries.
Administaff, Inc. (ASF), the nation's leading Professional Employer Organization (PEO), announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Texas ("Court") granted Administaff's motion to dismiss each of the securities fraud claims previously filed against Administaff and certain officers and directors. The Court's ruling, issued March 30, 2006, validates the company's previously disclosed position that the claims were without merit.
Deck Chairs:
Enwisen is very excited to announce that DJ Chhabra has joined its executive management team as Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development. Prior to joining Enwisen, Chhabra was Vice President of the Global HCM Strategy
function for the combined organizations of Oracle and PeopleSoft....Hersha Hospitality Management, a hotel management company of nationally franchised, midscale and upscale hotels in the eastern United States, announced that Jeffrey A. Wade has been named vice
president of human resources.
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Argentina:
Tragedy Spurs Action Against Slave Labour
Denunciations of sweatshops operating in the Argentine capital have piled up over the past few years in the city government and the courts. But not until six undocumented immigrants - including four children - died in a fire did the authorities announce measures to crack down on the network of clandestine
textile factories that use slave labour. (IPS)
Germany:
MetLife's New ``Living Longer, Working Longer'' Study Finds That Retirement is More a ``State'' Than a ``Date''
Working Retireds'" Limited Savings and Longer Life Expectancies Conflict with Their Desire for Self-Employment and Part-Time Hours -- Older workers today are changing the concept of retirement as theylive longer and work well past traditional retirement age - some evenreturning to the workforce after they
"retire" and/or opting for"portfolios" of paid and volunteer positions, according a new MetLifeMature Market Institute(R) study, Living Longer, Working Longer: TheChanging Landscape of the Aging Workforce, conducted by David DeLong &Associates, Inc. and Zogby International. Unlike other industrystudies which
have offered predictions of the aging Baby Boomers'retirement expectations, the MetLife "Living Longer, Working Longer"study examines the actual work experiences of employees age 55-70. Thestudy findings were unveiled today at a symposium hosted by MetLifeand the International Longevity Center-USA. (Finanzen)
Global:
Networking Your Way to an Executive Referral
Now that you've got more than a few sales under your belt, it's time to get that golden top-officer referral. I sometimes hear salespeople (and entrepreneurs) complain that they don't (or can't, or have never been able to) generate quality referrals. Baloney! Here's a simple, reliable way to initiate a
powerful referral that puts you on the radar screen of the very important top officer, or VITO, at your target organization. It's an extremely powerful technique that has the additional advantage of working quickly. Here's how to pull it off. (The
Street)
The State of Web 2.0, The Future of Web Software
Despite some disdain for the term Web 2.0, the underlying ideas seem to be genuinely taking off from the seed of successful techniques of the first generation of the Web.
Here's an in-depth review of the future of Web 2.0 and online software from Web 2.0 proponent, Dion Hinchcliffe. Like or hate the term, the actual ideas in Web 2.0 are turning out to not only usable but a growing cadre of companies are
actively being successful with them. This includes the Ajax phenomenon being actively pursued by Microsoft and Google, widespread social software, and massive online communities like MySpace. These trends are all leading to predictions on the ultimate fallout of these changes, something increasingly
called social computing. " (Slashdot)
India:
India's Lust for Luxe
India's nouveaux riches are spending like never before, and high-end retailers from Herm่s to Tiffany are eager to oblige
New Delhi entrepreneur Natasha Chaudhri chases after expensive fashion products like a big-game hunter in pursuit of wildlife pelts. Owner of three restaurants in Bombay and Goa, two lifestyle stores in Delhi and an export business, Chaudhri, 30, has the money, if not necessarily the time, to go on shopping
safari, and her closet is full of trophies: Louis Vuitton, Prada and Chanel handbags; sunglasses by Bulgari and Gucci; countless designer outfits; shoes by Sergio Rossi, Tod's and Jimmy Choo. These days, she doesn't have to go overseas to indulge. Jimmy Choo, for example, just announced plans to open its
first outlet in India, much to Chaudhri's delight. "I think it is fabulous," she says, "because India has become a great luxury goods market." Upscale Indians "are super-trendy," adds Chaudhri. "We love brands." (Time)
Why Indian IT firms are hiring globally
India reaped new fortunes in its recent rise as an outsourcing powerhouse. But now India hears footsteps: China, the Philippines, Hungary, the Czech Republic and several Latin American countries are luring offshore outsourcing jobs as well. The surprise: Some of India's offshoring giants are offshoring
themselves, fueling the next round, and U.S. firms are joining in. Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has opened offices in Budapest, Hungary and Hangzhou, China. Last year it acquired a 1,300-employee outsourcer in Chile, and it plans to add 1,500 to the 485 people at its Brazil arm. "Several years
ago we decided the India-centric model had to change. We needed to offer seamless delivery from around the globe," says Subramanian Ramadorai, chief executive. (Rediff)
South Africa:
Sapoa drive to overcome skills shortage
COMMERCIAL property authority Sapoa plans to launch research and education programmes this year, to help the industry overcome serious skills shortages. At a meeting in Port Elizabeth last week, Sapoa president T C Chetty said a survey of its 866 members found a need for market research as well as skills
training programmes. "As the industry is growing, so is the need for skills especially for property managers," Chetty said. (The Herald)
UK:
Google launches enhanced local ads
Google has extended its AdWords service to appeal to local businesses in a development that will be seen as an increasing challenge to local newspaper advertising. Local businesses using the AdWords programme in Canada, the US and the UK will appear next to search listings for related areas and
businesses. Ads on Google.com listings are in text form and on Google Maps the ads will appear as a balloon over the map. The ads combine details from advertisers signed up to the AdWords programme with information in Google's business directory, similar to Yelllow Pages. Ads list the company name, address
and description with web address and on Google Maps, show the location of the business with its phone number. (journalism.co.uk)
The National Engineering and Construction Recruitment Exhibition 2006
The National Engineering and Construction Recruitment Exhibition (NECR) at the NEC, Birmingham on 12 & 13 May 2006 will be offering hundreds of exciting engineering and construction opportunities with well-known organisations. These promise excellent career prospects to the thousands of both skilled,
experienced professionals and graduates expected to attend. (Process and Controll)
Online IT recruitment spending increases
More middle-managers are finding jobs in IT via the web, according to one online recruitment vendor
Online spending on IT recruitment has increased over the last year, according to new research by web recruitment firm Fish4jobs. In a survey of their IT clients last month, 57 percent of respondents said they thought more money is being spent on recruiting IT staff online now than in 2005, while 29 percent
said they thought the figure was the same. The trend can be partly explained by the increasing percentage of the UK population now connected to the internet, according to Fish4jobs group marketing director, Sean Mahon. (ITWeek)
US:
Companies courting talent at Game Developers Conference
Bay Area game companies were wooing prospective employees at last week's annual Game Developers Conference with just about everything they could find: travel toothbrushes, yo-yos and, of course, the opportunity to work on what could be next year's hit computer game. San Francisco's LucasArts, for instance,
aims to hire 70 people in the next seven months to work on titles for the new game consoles including Microsoft's Xbox 360 and, soon, Sony's PlayStation 3. The hiring spurt is part of a turnaround orchestrated by President Jim Ward, who laid off 15 percent of LucasArts' workforce in 2004, scaled back in-house
development to concentrate on fewer titles, and launched a marketing blitz for new games that included an appearance on Donald Trump's "Apprentice" show. (San Francisco Business Times)
Patronage Hiring
Hiring on the rise
Companies compete to add and retain marketing pros, especially online specialists
Happy days may be here again for marketing executives as hiring in Fortune 500 marketing departments is on the rise. But with that good news comes the challenge of keeping talented marketing pros on board once they are hired. According to recruiting agency Aquent Marketing Staffing, more than half (57%) of
marketers say they plan to hire additional staff this year. That was among the findings in Aquent's "2006 Spending & Staffing Trends for Corporate Marketing Departments" report released late last month. Aquent surveyed more than 1,700 marketing professionals at Fortune 500 companies in North America via
e-mail in February. "The market is really hot right now," said Arun Sinha, corporate VP-CMO at Pitney Bowes. "We've stepped up hiring." (BtoB)
Online Newspaper Readership Soars
A study being released Monday by the Newspaper Association of America, a trade group, found that one in three Internet users 55 million visit a newspaper Web site every month. Also, unique visitors to newspaper Web sites jumped 21 percent from January 2005 to December 2005, while the number of page views
soared by 43 percent over the same period. (Fox)
NYTimes.com Builds Original Video Inventory to Satisfy Advertiser Demand
The Times they are a-changin' again. New and planned NYTimes.com enhancements bring additional video ad inventory and sponsorship opportunities as well as promises of a more personalized experience for the news site's readers. As part of a host of new site features to be launched in the coming weeks,
NYTimes.com will now present more original video content directly on its homepage, most main site section pages and link to it via a navigation tab at the top of each page. "There's just going to be more inventory for video [ads]," said Alyson Racer, VP sales at NYTimes.com, adding, "You hear it across the
Web; there's a thirst for this kind of inventory." She noted that Lexus and AT&T will be running pre-roll ads within the site's embedded video content starting today. (ClickZ News)
Raytheon's goal: Find 100 engineers in 100 days
Rich Jiwanlal has an aggressive goal to meet. Raytheon Aircraft Co. wants to hire 100 engineers within the next three to four months, and as vice president of human resources, it's Jiwanlal's job to make it happen. (MSNBC)
Deep Release:
TopJobSites.com Announces the Updated Top Job Site Rankings in Each of Seven Job Categories. *
Top job sites show a large increase in overall share of Internet users throughout the world.
A large majority of job sites showed an upward trend relative to overall rankings of other Internet sites during the past month, according to recent Alexa rankings published by TopJobSites.com. 68.97% percent of job sites showed a ranking increase and 31.03% of job sites had a ranking
decrease. The TopJobSites.com Ranking Index was up 4.42% overall, its largest increase in the past three years.
The overall category leaders are: Monster.com for General Job Sites, CollegeGrad.com for College Job Sites, The Ladders for Executive Job Sites, Dice.com for Niche Job Sites, LatPro for Diversity Job Sites, JobsDB for International (English) Job Sites and 51job.com for International
(non-English) Job Sites.
Following are the Alexa rankings of the top three job sites in each of the seven categories:
General:
#1 Monster.com
#2 CareerBuilder.com
#3 HotJobs.com
College:
#1 CollegeGrad.com
#2 eRecruiting
#3 NACELink
Executive:
#1 The Ladders
#2 CareerJournal.com
#3 6FigureJobs
Niche:
#1 Dice.com
#2 jobsinthemoney
#3 CareerBank.com
Diversity:
#1 LatPro
#2 Hire Diversity
#3 IMDiversity.com
International (English):
#1 JobsDB
#2 naukri.com
#3 JobStreet.com
International (Non-English):
#1 51job.com
#2 ChinaHR.com
#3 zhaopin.com
The top ten sites have been updated for each category and are available along with direct links online at www.TopJobSites.com. Attached is the Alexa spreadsheet with all of the current rankings of more than 200 job sites.
* TopJobs, the producer of this Press Release, also owns CollegeGrad.com, the "top" site in the College category.
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April 19, 2006
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HR Shared Services Summit
Optimizing HR Shared Services to Achieve Excellence in Your Organization
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NACE National Meeting & Expo
Anaheim Marriott/
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3rd Annual Best Practices in Talent
Management, Leadership Development and Succession Planning Conference
25th - 26th May 2006
Barcelona, Spain
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Hunt Scanlon Advisors present
Generating Higher ROI on Human Capital
June 7, 2006
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OnRec Online Recruitment
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Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
June 20
Westminster, London
contact: Chris@OnRec.com
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21-22 June 2006
ExCel
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SHRM's 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
June 25-28
Washington, D.C.
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OnRec Expo 2006
12-13 September 2006
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
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2006 Strategic HR Conference
October 4-6, 2006
Westin Kierland Resort
Phoenix, Arizona |
Human Resource Executive's
9th Annual HR Technologyฎ Conference
Oct. 4-6, 2006
Navy Pier in Chicago, IL
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2006 SHRM Workplace Diversity Conference
October 16-18, 2006
Century Plaza Hotel and Spa
Los Angeles, California |
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"Defining Leaders"
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October 18 - 20, 2006
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October 25 - 27, 2006
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