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Reveille and
Hyperbole
Accolo, Inc., Strategi, LLC and Advanced Career Solutions today announced their upcoming debate with senior members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The topic is focused on discrimination in recruiting
process. This live panel debate in San Francisco is scheduled for May 4, 2006 from 11:00am to noon Pacific Time, and will be broadcast via Webinar. JobStreet has launched JobStreet SMS Apply,
their latest jobseeker product in their Career Enhancer series. SMS Apply is a service that enables JobStreet.com members to email their JobStreet resume to any job vacancy's email address that they see in newspapers, Classifieds or other forms of advertisement media. This allows jobseekers to respond quickly
to job vacancies anytime and anywhere by sending an SMS and without needing the Internet.
Claritas Inc., a provider of intelligent marketing information and target marketing services, marked its
Spring tradition by again being the first data provider to release 2006/2011 demographic estimates and projections for all U.S. markets.
To address the need for precise on-line audience targeting, Hitwise, an Online Competitive Intelligence service, launched Lifestyle 2.0. With the new features available in this release, marketers can easily identify the top performing as well as niche sites
that attract their most desirable customers. Furthermore, with Lifestyle, marketers can instantly learn more about the demographic profile of the visitors to their site - as well as their competitors' sites.
eQuest, a job posting distribution company and Taleo, the leading provider of talent management solutions,
today announced the international job posting expansion and upgrade for all Taleo customers worldwide. As part of this upgrade, all Taleo customers now utilize eQuest's 2.0 job posting platform, integrated directly with the Taleo solution.
TempWorks Software, a provider of innovative technology for the staffing industry, announced the latest supplement to its Paperless Staffing Initiative. The new Invoice Emailer is now available to TempWorks customers and is
designed to immediately shorten accounts receivable time.
"The art and science of marketing is changing," says Paul Williams CEO of iKarma Inc., ( IKMA). "Unfortunately millions of good small businesses are being left behind." Publications like Business
Week, INC., Forbes, Business 2.0, Fast Company and Wired may regularly feature companies using cutting edge marketing techniques, but average readers interested in actually implementing those ideas are often left frustrated and confused. To enable small business owners around the world to actually join this
marketing revolution, iKarma has combined several of today's most powerful marketing concepts into a single easy to use online tool.
Deck Chairs:
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc (TSYS) today announced James M. Bethmann was selected to fill a vacancy on the company's Board of Directors. Bethmann is Vice Chairman of Highland Partners,
which is part of the Hudson Highland Group.....
You
Should Know
Australia:
Office of Workplace Services struggles to win confidence
On almost a daily basis, it seems, there are fresh reports of workers claiming to have been unfairly sacked, or having had their pay or conditions cut under the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws. Of course, there is no question that a highly organised union campaign is doing its best to
publicise the most egregious examples of employer behaviour. The union movement is often the first port of call for workers who feel they have been unfairly treated, not least because few seem to know of the Government's own investigative unit. The Office of Workplace Services has been set up to monitor
breaches of the new IR laws and can prosecute employers who do so. But so far, it has struggled to attract the attention or confidence of employees. Heather Ewart reports. (ABC)
Canada:
Wireless Web Browsing Becomes More Popular in 35+ Demographic
A worldwide increase in cell phone use among those aged 35 and up is increasing the popularity reach of wireless web browsing, a new study suggests. Ipsos Insight's "The Face of the Web" study shows that massive cell phone growth in 2005 was largely driven by older users buying the devices. Older users are
also becoming more interested in non-voice wireless features, such as mobile web browsing, with 27% of 35 to 54-year-old users having surfed the internet on their phones. (teleclick)
Health-care industry worst for workplace violence
Health-care workers in Nova Scotia are 10 times more likely to report violence on the job than workers in other industries, new statistics show. After analyzing databases from provincial workplace safety insurance boards, CBC News found that the number of violence-related claims are highest in Canada's
health-care and social services industry. (CBC News)
China:
FTU set for reforms to arrest brain drain
The pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions is set to undergo an overhaul and bring in quality white-collar individuals in a bid to plug a talent drain that has hit the organization over the years. There is also a distinct possibility of a leadership change in the FTU, according to its president, Cheng Yiu-tong.
Cheng, who is also an Executive Council nonofficial member, said Thursday a proposed leadership change will be put to a vote Sunday. "We intend to change by bringing in new blood gradually without causing instability to the FTU," he said. (The
Standard)
Survey: HR workers enjoy high income
MAYBE it's not a bad idea to work in the human resource department of a foreign-invested company in Shanghai, as a recent survey found these workers are earning 140,000 yuan (US$17,500) a year on average, Shanghai Morning Post reported. The result is based on a recent survey by the Shanghai Association
of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, which surveyed more than 100,000 people working in human resource departments of 123 foreign-funded companies. (Shanghai Daily)
Global:
LinkSwap Discussion: Quality or Gaming the System?
A great conversation is swirling arount the LinkSwap idea, and I wanted to address a few issues on why the LinkSwap is not only a good idea, but the best way to ensure that quality content is recognized in the recruiting blogosphere and beyond.
- Blogger links are currency online. The more incoming links, and the more influential those links, the higher a blog will show in the search engines
- The blogosphere is an example of a scale-free network, which means it is subject to certain laws pertaining to growth, and link popularity. These laws, if applied correctly, are not theories of what should be done, but descriptive of what actually happens when bloggers start linking
each other. The best description I've seen of this is here, with the full Clay Shirky, TTLB, Albert Barabasi, Pareto Principle discussion fleshed out.
- A term called preferential attachment is the culprit. As new nodes (bloggers) enter a space, the natural tendency of each is to look through links of other blogs to select who they will link to. The more links you have, the more links you get. Thus the natural result of a free system
is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
- Note that the intention of each blogger is to link to interesting and compelling content. Individually, we are filtering quality bloggers.
- As a group, we are rewarding popular bloggers, making them more popular, not by virtue of their content, but by virtue of their longevity.
(Recruiting.com)
Facebook raises $25 million
FUNDING QUELLS RUMORS THAT NETWORKING SITE WAS SEEKING OFFERS
Facebook, the popular Palo Alto social networking site, has raised $25 million in venture capital from some Silicon Valley investors, putting to rest for now speculation that it was considering acquisition offers. Greylock Partners, of San Mateo, led the latest round, and is joined by Palo Alto's
Meritech and existing investors Accel Partners and Peter Thiel, an investor and former chief executive of PayPal (Mercury News)
ETA: TalentSpy - Worth a look?
I signed up recently to be on the beta list for TalentSpy. In a nutshell, its a Job matching service. Job seekers post a profile. Employers create a selection of criteria by which potential candidates are filtered and each day the candidates that fulfill those criteria are delivered to the employer via email,
RSS or by searching the website. Launch (and my opinion) pending. (Jim Stroud)
Taiwan:
HR key to advantages, CEPD says
In the face of the rapid economic rise of China and India, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) under the Executive Yuan said yesterday that human resources (HR) is a key for Taiwan to maintain its economic advantages. CEPD officials cited the example of the United States, saying
that America will double its expenditure on research and development (R&D) in the next 10 years. The United States, where R&D spending accounts for one-third of the world total, is one of the most dynamic destinations for investment. (China
Post)
UK:
NVQ recruitment agency Chimeara exceeds 10,000 on their beast of a database
Chimeara the specialist Further Education and Work Based Learning NVQ recruitment agency has cracked the 10,000 candidate mark this month. The agency which was established in 2001, specialises in recruiting NVQ Assessors, Internal Verifiers, NVQ Centre Managers for private NVQ Training Providers and Programme
Manager's for FE Colleges. (OnRec)
US:
EEOC issues new workplace guidelines
Manual described as way to aid employees, firms in spotting bias
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued new guidelines aimed at combating subtle forms of race discrimination, a persistent problem in the workplace. The new compliance manual does not change existing job-discrimination laws. It is written to give employers, employees and lawyers better
guidance on emerging areas of racial bias, which currently make up one-third of EEOC complaints. They include English-only language discrimination against immigrants, incidents of discrimination in which minority employers favor their own groups, as well as instances of illegal exclusion of minority employees
from advancement, networking and other job opportunities. (Richmond Times Dispatch)
High fuel prices may shift location of workplace
Average worker commutes more than 8,000 miles per year.
America could become a nation of telecommuters a lot faster than some people think. Right now, about 20% of workers are considered primarily telecommuters, but Challenger, Gray, and Christmas CEO John Challenger says the skyrocketing cost of gasoline could go a long way toward increasing that number. He
says that with the average worker commuting more than 8,000 miles a year, companies will be forced to help ease the financial burden of higher gas prices or risk losing their workers to companies located closer to their homes or companies that offer primarily telecommuting. (hoinews)
Staving off brain drain with a video camera
Recognizing the threat of a brain drain caused by retiring government workers, one woman is acting to save some of that knowledge now. A majority of the government's workforce will be eligible for retirement within the decade. As a result, public services may be in jeopardy. To save expertise, Sue Nappi,
assistant deputy chief of staff for operations and plans at the Army's Fort Monmouth, N.J., base, puts her experienced staff in front of the camera and asks them about good and bad experiences from their recent projects. She spoke yesterday at a knowledge management conference in Washington, D.C. (FCW.com)
Recruiting In The PDA Era
Cell phones and "crackberries"--omnipresent PDAs--should take our written communication back to the future. The small, handheld wireless devices demand terse, almost telegraphic, writing. Instead, most users blather on endlessly, defeating the immediacy of the communication. "If the sender doesn't grab my
attention in the first three to five seconds, the message is deleted," says Evan Scott, president of The Evan Scott Group International, a Philadelphia-based retained executive search firm specializing in senior level searches for technology companies. "I get many long-winded messages filled with buzzwords
such as 'strategic,' 'leading edge,' 'innovative,' 'creative' and 'results oriented.' Who doesn't 'hit their numbers?' Such language tells me nothing about the individual." (Forbes)
Deep Release:
10 Things You Should Know About Your Secretary
-- Ahem, Administrative Professional
Administrative Professionals' Day (formerly known as Secretaries' Day) was Wednesday, April 26, 2006. In order to shed some light on the state of the profession, Simply Hired, the world's largest search engine for jobs, has conducted a survey of over 200+
administrative professionals. So what did we learn? Pretty simple -- keep your valuable admins well compensated and well thanked this Administrative Professional's Day.
All About Admins -- Top Ten List
10. Most preferred title: administrative assistant. Least preferred
title: secretary or receptionist.
9. "Who's calling, please?" -- 50 percent of respondents described
themselves as "Career Admins" ... indicating that their work is
their calling.
8. 51 percent of admins say that they've received a gift for Administrative Professionals Day. 14 percent say that these gifts have been useless.
7. Best gifts for Admin Day:
-- Paid day off
-- Gift certificate (spa, restaurant, AmEx/Visa gift card, Starbucks)
-- Cash/Raise
-- Lunch or dinner
-- A sincere thank you
Worst gifts for Admin Day:
-- E-cards
-- Calendars, picture frames, knick knacks and other "executive gifts"
-- Cheap flowers (carnations, grocery store bouquets)
-- Obvious re-gifts
-- Nothing
Notable favorite gifts received by the surveyed admins ranged from a weekend cruise to the Bahamas to a Lance Armstrong LiveStrong bracelet (cost $1). A Scooby Doo-loving administrative professional notes that her favorite present was a Scooby Doo-themed gift basket, (warning, this is not
recommended for most admins).
6. 31 percent of administrative professionals say that they could do their boss's job.
5. 42 percent of administrative professionals say that their boss could not do their job. Quoted from survey respondent, "I think he might get stuck on some of the easy things like making labels for folders..."
4. Extra credit includes:
- 30% report that they've had to plan personal travel/vacations for their boss
- 29% report having to lie or make up excuses for their boss (w/spouse, family, friends)
- 8% report they've had to do their boss's taxes
Other notables include: posting items for boss on eBay, buying an anniversary ring for boss's wife, working for boss's friends.
3. 11 percent of admins describe themselves as merely "office eye candy" versus the 13 percent that describe themselves as their boss's "bull dog."
2. "I don't get no respect!" -- The number one gripe from admins is that their profession is not respected.
1. Money talks, your admin walks! 66 percent of admins say that they'd ditch their job for salary increase.
Other Admin Factoids
-- "Administrative assistant" and "receptionist" are two of the top ten most frequently searched terms on Simply Hired.
-- Administrative professionals make up one of the largest segments of the U.S. workforce, with over 4,126,000 administrative assistants and secretaries in the workplace (U.S. Department of Labor, 2004).
-- According to the U.S. Department of Labor, median annual earnings of U.S. executive secretaries and administrative assistants were $37,350 in 2004.
About the Survey
Simply Hired's Admin Survey was performed online during April 2006. There were a total of 212 respondents from across the United States. Simply Hired does not take any responsibility for any bad gifts given this April 26, 2006 or the actions taken by the recipients.
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