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Jobster has partnered with talent lifecycle software vendor VirtualEdge to deliver an integrated recruiting solution that helps employers more efficiently target, engage and hire the best candidates.

Workcircle's new tag-based online job search engine is out of beta. Developed by Simon Appleton and Tony Jewell, the original founders of PlanetRecruit, Workcircle specialises in cutting-edge Internet and web development jobs across the UK and internationally. Web developers with java, .net, perl and php skills, or web designers with dhtml, javascript or CSS expertise will find the site essential viewing.

Vurv Technology, formerly Recruitmax, a global provider of technology and services for building great workforces, today announced further details about the Company's 4th annual user conference. Entitled the "Vurv Revolution: An Inspiring User Conference," it will be held from May 21 to May 24 at Walt Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.

TruStar Solutions, a First Advantage company, today announced the release of the newest improvements to its popular job posting technology, PostMaster LX®. The additional functionality increases the system's reach, efficiency, and metrics development capabilities and enables the technology to address a wider range of job posting needs.

The Creative Portal enables international Creative agencies to bank and manage creative and client management talent. This dynamic, web-based, recruitment operating system has been developed over the last two years to offer real-time interaction between candidates, agencies and partner recruiters across the globe.

From Jeff Taylor:
We've kicked off the Eons "How Old Are You?" 50+ challenge. Eons is changing the way one thinks about age, pushing through the social taboos of sharing your age and the stereotypes around the limits of what can be accomplished as we get older.   This contest, which we just launched and which will culminate in July with the overall launch of our website, invites people to celebrate their age and challenges them to make a list of their life goals and go about getting them done.  Eons will award one person $15,000 toward making one of their life goals come true.

OccupationPro, a leading legal job site, has teamed with GreedyAssociates.com to provide law jobs to the GreedyAssociates community.

SearchPath International, a franchisor of talent acquisition professional services, announced today the launch of SearchPath International University (SPIU), one of the first corporate universities of its kind in the talent acquisition industry.

You Should Know
Afghanista:
Job Search in Kabul
"Karzai is asking typical Afghan expats like me to take part in the country's reconstruction."
So what's it like looking for a job in Kabul these days? New foreign investment and local entrepreneurship are fueling an economic boom, and many Afghan women are now back at work after years of forced unemployment under Taliban rule. Youth Radio's Roya Aziz, an Afghan expat, recently returned to Kabul to scope out the job scene for herself. When the president calls on you, you answer … only the president in this case is Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. Karzai is asking typical Afghan expats like me to take part in the country's reconstruction. I've been to Kabul a couple times in the last year. And with graduation looming, I can't help but check out my job prospects when I'm there. (Youth Radio)

Australia:
Boomers thinking long-term
AUSTRALIAN baby boomers are finally mapping out a plan for their retirement, backing away from criticism that they are financially irresponsible. But with most preparing to follow the same path, an industry analyst has warned the market may not be able to deliver desired results. (news.com.au)

The Australian Government on Baby Boomers

Canada:
HR exec keeps nose to grindstone as investor search continues
A well-established profitable company that wants to expand should be a hot investment target, but the founder of Ottawa's HRSG is still waiting for investors. Bill Cowperthwaite, who helped found the Human Resources Systems Group in 1989, is now considering moving his business to a receptive home in Quebec after investors turned their backs on the company. (Ottawa Business Journal)

Global:
Brazen Careerist - Hey, boomer: Get out of the way
The book I'm reading right now is by 25-year-old Ryan Heath: Please Just F* Off, It's Our Turn Now: Holding Baby Boomers to Account. The book is great and offers incredible insight into what young people have to offer at work and why baby boomers need to give them more space. It's published in Australia, so it'll cost you $40 to buy it from the publisher and have it shipped, but it's worth it. Here are some of my favorite parts. The premise is that baby boomers can't afford to retire, and even those who can afford it don't. Oh, and all of them refuse to admit that their ideas are outdated. Heath spends most of the book showing why boomers are making their institutions irrelevant to young people. Even if you don't agree with him, you can't help learning something about what's going on at in today's workplace. (The Hook)

The Mother Of All Jobs
They work harder than some CEOs. They put in more hours than the most driven executive. And their job is arguably more important than the head of any company. Which is why a firm that specializes in studying compensation is adamant they should be among the top wage earners in North America. The job: a full-time stay-at-home mother. Massachusetts-based Salary.com has calculated the pay scale for a non-working mother based on the tasks she performs every day. (Pulse24)

U.S. blacks claim immigration bias
Black leaders in the United States claim Hispanics get preferential immigration treatment and more tolerance as illegal workers, The Washington Times reports. William Spriggs, chairman of Howard University`s School of Economics and a senior fellow with the Economic Policy Institute offered Haitians as an example. 'We`ve told Haiti ... if you put them on a boat we will send them back. But for Mexico it`s OK,' Spriggs said. In addition, illegal aliens from Cuba are usually released as they apply for refugee status, while those from Haiti and other nations are jailed, the newspaper said. (Monsters and Critics)

Mentor goes east for talent
Mentor Graphics is making its moves across Eastern Europe to pick talent among its well-educated engineering force.
Its recently opened design center here is concentrating on automotive applications as more and more electronics is being use in each new car model. Already in its second year, the Budapest design center is concentrating on a system-level approach to the wire harness that feeds some 22 electronic control units found in today's luxury cars. (EETimes)

UK:
PCG welcomes ‘Talent on Tap'
The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has welcomed the publication of Talent on Tap: getting the best from freelancers, interims and consultants. The book, written by Emma Brierley and published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), aims to help organisations take advantage of a skilled, flexible and highly focused freelance talent pool. It takes a comprehensive look at how organisations can build and manage productive, long-term relationships with the best freelance consultants even when their skills are in high demand.  (Consultant News)

US:
Baby Boomer brain drain: Retirements sap work force
About once a month at International Truck and Engine Corp.'s headquarters in suburban Warrenville, Ill., a crowd gathers in a large room on the executive floor for cake and tributes to a retiring colleague. The occasion is a reminder of a worrisome reality. The truck maker's work force, like that of the nation, is swollen with employees approaching the end of their careers.  (KnightRidder)

The Color Of Immigration Reform Is Black
The current immigration debate that is raging across America is clearly thematically driven by the mainstream media. The average American is typically whipped into an anxiety-induced frenzy as the sagging economy is opportunistically linked with the onset of "Illegal Immigrants Taking Our Collective Jobs!" Sadly, there is no economic logic between these two dynamic poles.

I was born in a migrant workers' camp in Princess Anne, Maryland, in 1952. My mother gave birth to me in a tin shack, because back then, Blacks – or, as we were then legally described, "coloreds" – were not allowed in the public hospital. I am not unique. Virtually ALL of my relatives and friends in my community in Miami, Florida, shared migrant worker roots.

Obviously, I strongly relate with the migrant worker condition, as it is a part of my historical and cultural makeup. What is materially absent in the current emotionally tinged debate is the fact that a notable number of the newcomers to America are of African descent. (New American Media)

The Public Policy
With the urgent debate on demographic declines in some parts of the world, a historical reminder of what worked and what didn't may be useful. It offers insights into the far broader picture of the links between people's private decisions and public policy.  After Germany defeated France in 1870-1, and political leaders associated military strength with numerical superiority, declining population and the future of French language and culture became the focus of French politics. When ratifying the Treaty of Versailles, George Clemenceau, France's prime minister in 1919, announced: "The treaty does not say that France must undertake to have children, but it is the first thing which ought to have been put in it. For if France turns her back on large families, one can put all the clauses one wants in a treaty, one can take all the guns of Germany, one can do whatever one likes, France will be lost because there will be no more Frenchmen." Later, Vichy politicians embraced "pronatalism of the French population," and gave gold medals for women having more than ten children (silver to those with seven, and bronze to those with five). It did not help -- absurd policies rarely do. (American Spectator)

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