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HireRight Inc., a provider of in on-demand employment screening solutions, announced the Extended Workforce Screening Solution, a software solution for managing the background screening of vendor and partner employees, temporary
employees and independent contractors who have access to a company's facilities, data, personnel and information systems.
iKarma and HRInterchange.com, also known as MyTruckJob.com, announced an integration and marketing partnership designed to bring reputation enhanced employment solutions to the U.S. trucking
industry.
Secova and UltraLink Announce Merger; Merger Creates Global Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) Leader. Two leading providers of human resource and benefits management services, Secova and UltraLink, have merged. Through this combined entity, Secova and UltraLink will be able to offer
global clients a broader range of HR and employee benefits administration services while also providing incomparable flexibility through customized offerings. Sharing the same customer service philosophy -- 'SErvice is our COre VAlue' as derived from the Secova name -- the
combined company's increased scale and scope will benefit clients and employees alike, creating a premier global service provider for the Fortune 2000.
Signaling a shift in the employment market, savvy job seekers faced with an abundance of choices are heading to TheLadders.com to find the best executive positions. As the world's leading online service for $100,000+ jobs, TheLadders.com is now ranked as
one of the top 10 career sites, according to comScore Media Metrix's March 2006 report on Career Resources.
Eduventures, the leading research and consulting firm serving the education market, is anticipating a 100% growth rate in its employee base by the end of 2006. To find the best and the brightest, Eduventures is turning to its own employees to attract
qualified candidates through an innovative referral program. "Highly talented people know other highly talented people, and that's why we're turning to our current employees to help us grow the firm," says Emily Minton, Director of Human Resources at Eduventures. Deemed "The Road to Success" campaign,
Eduventures is offering its existing employees a $1,000 referral bonus for all candidates that become Eduventures employees.
Independent Magazines announced the online launch of the highly-successful print magazine, LondonCareers.net.
Deck Chairs:
HireDesk, a division of Talent Technology Corporation (TTC) and provider of recruitment and hiring software solutions, has named Rand Gottschalk as director of human resources consulting services. Mr. Gottschalk will take leadership of
the company's consulting services practice, with oversight of assignments ranging from competency analysis and modeling, to quality-of-hire implementation projects, return-on-investment research, recruiting best practices benchmarking, and related assignments in the talent acquisition and retention
arena......Chicago-based executive search firm Cook Associates has established a Boston presence and named Seth Harris as vice president and managing director....Scott Adams has been named as senior vice president and chief human resources officer of
Protective Life Corporation .....
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Should Know
China:
China prepares for fourth baby boom
Chinese population experts are predicting a mini-baby boom before 2010 as a result of the country's family planning laws. However, Zhang Weiqing, Minister in charge of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, stressed that family planning laws would remain to stabilize the low birth rate. The
expected boom would be small compared to the previous ones in the early 1950s and 1960s and the late 1980s, he said. Almost 100 million single children had been born since the initiation of the one-child policy in 1973. Most had reached the age of marriage and childbirth, he said in an interview with "Qiushi"
(Seeking Truth From Facts) magazine. (China Daily)
Global:
Are VCs dumber than sheep?
I just returned from the Early Stage Investment Forum, where Trinity Ventures' Alex Osadzinski gave a great keynote on the differences and similarities between Silicon Valley and Seattle. Osadzinski -- whose Menlo Park, Calif., firm manages $1.3 billion and holds stakes in Seattle area startups such as
PayScale, Jobster and Centeris -- offered this funny observation about venture capitalists. (SeattlePI)
Opening up the OneBox
A closer look at Google's corporate search technology, which the company claims is a "über-command-line interface to the world". People love Google not just for finding information but also for presenting it in a way that's easy to understand. The company is banking on its deceptively simple-looking user
interface as it pushes inside the corporate firewall. Google last week started offering new enterprise search hardware, along with an expanded developer program and partnerships with major business software vendors. It's all aimed at letting the Google Search Appliance find and present broader swaths of
business data. Most notably, through an application programming interface called OneBox, a company's IT team can make real-time data from ERP, CRM, and other business applications accessible through a Google search box. (CMPnetAsia)
SAP HR tools & updates
This SearchSAP.com Learning Guide will help you understand basic mySAP HR concepts and terminology as they relate to Payroll, Personnel Time Management, Organizational Management, reporting, ESS, MSS, authorizations, infotypes, transactions and tables. (SearchSAP)
Outsourcing Survey 2006, Part 2: Why, Where, and Who
In the first part of our series, we explored the results of our 2006 Outsourcing Survey by looking at what was outsourced, how much IT paid, and the length of outsourcing contracts. This week we turn our attention to the reasons IT outsources work in the first place, where they send their work, and the
success factors in choosing an outsourcing provider. (Enterprise Systems)
Web Delivery, vertical search web 2.0....no not webvan.
A big chunk of the internet is going to subscription based and delivered It get a little tiring searching and surfing all day long Micro-casting keywork video streams and clips A big chunk of the web is going to be delivered. Those 30 second clips on YouTube etc. are going to be delivered into content streams
shaped by the consumer. The consumer will dip into those streams of audio, video or text as and when they wish. RSS is the default delivery mechanism. RSS today is anything but smooth. The technology is all to visible and clunky for mom and pop. Those chicklets are everywhere polluting things. i-tunes is
nice, but too much of a walled garden for the future. (Always On)
India:
Coke brings back Indians to head operations at home
Ringing in changes at key senior positions, Coca Cola India is in the process of repatriating Indians from overseas postings, including China, Sri Lanka, Denmark and Atlanta. (Economic Times)
Employment exchanges spend Rs 20 crore to fill 902 vacancies
Amid May Day celebrations, here's a wake-up call from the government's employment exchanges. A recent report on these exchanges in Delhi shows that in the last five years, only 902 of the 5 lakh candidates who registered have got jobs through them. The 902 placements were made at a total cost of Rs 20 crore—in
other words, each placement cost the government Rs 2.3 lakh. (Indian Express)
UK:
Skills shortage could hamper nuclear build, RSC chief says
A shortage of highly qualified scientists and engineers may hamper the UK's ability to build new nuclear power stations and to deal with nuclear waste, Richard Pike, the chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry warned today. (ResearchResearch)
US:
Newspapers toss aside paperboys for drive-bys
A young teen riding his bike at dawn reaches into his shoulder bag, grabs a tightly folded newspaper and deftly throws it to the front steps. It's an image as American as apple pie, but the paperboy has gone the way of the milkman. Today's papers usually arrive by anonymous drive-and-toss. For reasons ranging
from a shift to centralized distribution and earlier delivery deadlines, adults in cars now make up 81 percent of the country's newspaper carriers. (AbqTrib)
Employment recruiters say New
Orleans is a tough sell
Companies sweeten the bait for newcomers and former residents
It was pretty tough to persuade someone to move to New Orleans for a job before Hurricane Katrina, recruiters and human resource specialists say. Since the storm, recruiting has become even harder as the area's pre-storm problems, such as leadership and education, have been exacerbated. Add to that the
uncertainty of the levees and the coming hurricane season, and, well, recruiters say good luck finding someone from outside the area to fill that CEO, or even that RN, position. (Chron.com)
Get recruiters to call you with great jobs
Here's how to get on headhunters' radar for opportunities you'd really want. Plus: why it pays to Google yourself.
Dear Annie: After 12 years as a finance manager (three promotions, consistently excellent performance reviews), I think I've gone about as far with my current employer as I can go, and I'd like to explore opportunities elsewhere. Yet the only calls I get from recruiters are for jobs that aren't
appropriate for me in one way or another - either a step down from my present position, or in some other way not suitable. It's gotten to where I just don't take their calls anymore. Meanwhile, acquaintances and former colleagues of mine who don't have my credentials or experience are finding great new jobs
through headhunters. Can you explain how this process works? Obviously I'm missing something. -Perplexed in Pittsburgh (CNN)
Homeowners No. 1 Employers of Day Laborers
Chris James needed help moving a piano and three dozen boxes of records from his music studio, but instead of corralling some buddies he rented a truck and hired day laborers outside the local Home Depot. The two Guatemalan men finished the job in an hour and a half, hauling a piano and wedging a sofa into
his condo, then stacking the boxes in a back room, for less than $40. (Chron.com)
Dissenting Opinions About Outsourcing
There have been lots of "studies" on job migration and outsourcing over the past five years that try to position outsourcing as something political: outsourcing creates jobs … outsourcing is the inevitable consequence of globalization … outsourcing will destroy the U.S. labor force. But what's really going
on? We need to level set for a moment. First, outsourcing is about (1) core competency assessments, the (2) segmentation and distribution of expertise and (3) cost management. Nothing more, nothing less. Many companies have decided that they no longer want to be in the IT business or the check processing
business or even the R&D business. The smart ones have prioritized the tasks they should pursue as their core and decided that they really don't need to perform whole sets of tasks to remain competitive and profitable. The rise of the IT services industry is testimony to core competency (and other) analyses
that companies have performed about what's core and what's not. (Datamation)
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Deep Release:
Would You Hire Beerman@hotmail.com?
Junior Job Searchers Learn Hard Lessons About What Their Email Addresses Say About Them
he job hunting season is on and graduates entering the workforce are learning a hard lesson: the wrong email address can sink a resume.
"I'd never refer anyone for a job with the email Beerman@hotmail.com," says Marie Raperto, President, Cantor Executive Search Solutions. "That kind of email address may have been funny at the fraternity, but it'll send a resume right into the trash can. We've had candidates lose opportunities because they
sent a thank you note from an inappropriate email address."
College students making the transition to the professional world often overlook the impact of their online persona on their careers. Blogs, Facebook.com entries and message board postings are just a Google search away from an employer's fingertips. But the first line in establishing a new online persona is
a professional email address.
Mail.com, a provider of free personalized email address services, advises 2006 graduates to keep the following questions in mind when it comes to email:
1. Does my current email address send the wrong message to employers?
2. Will my .edu college email address stay live after I graduate?
3. Does my email address use any foul language that could be intercepted by a spam filter?
4. How can I positively differentiate myself from the competition?
5. Is my email address consistent with the name on my resume? For example, "Rich" versus "Richard" or "Dick."
"You only have one chance to make a first impression," says David Rosen, Mail.com spokesperson. "Why not market yourself around the type of job you're trying to get with an email address like Peter@engineer.com or JMartinez@chef.net? Not only is it more professional than your nickname followed by a string
of numbers -- it also says you're serious about your career."
About Mail.com
Mail.com provides free personalized email addresses that help people express themselves online. Customers can choose from more than 100 domain names, including lawyer.com, doctor.com, columnist.com, scientist.com, techie.com, and repairman.com to tell the world about their professions, location or
interests. www.mail.com
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