Reveille and Hyperbole
BrandoHR, a  company dedicated to providing branded recruiting tools for small and mid-size companies announced the introduction of its first product, TargetPort. A web-based tool, TargetPort is an affordable solution for even the smallest company to create and manage their branded career site.

Salary.com(TM) Inc., the compensation data and technology experts, today announced that it has acquired eComp(R) Data Services, a leading provider of executive compensation data, from Aon Consulting, a global human capital consulting firm. The Aon Consulting executive compensation group will focus on its core consulting services, partnering with Salary.com for executive compensation data.  With this acquisition, Salary.com becomes the largest provider of executive compensation data from surveys and proxy filings for named executive officers, with over 12,000 U.S. public companies and 50,000+ senior executives covered - more than twice as many as the nearest competitor. Salary.com will expand its enterprise software offering with the introduction of CompAnalyst(TM) Executive - an enhancement to their award-winning CompAnalyst(TM) suite of on-demand market pricing and survey management tools.

Vedior North America, a professional staffing subsidiary of VediorNV  has acquired CNC Global Ltd., a Toronto-based provider of IT staffing and recruitment process outsourcing solutions.

Accenture (ACN) has completed its previously announced acquisition of Pecaso Limited, a leading information technology firm specializing in SAP human capital management (HCM) consulting and integration services for multinational corporations and governments.

Workstream Inc(TM) (WSTM), a provider of On-Demand Enterprise Workforce Management software, today announced the general availability of Workstream Compensation 6.0. Already recognized as one of the premier, web-based Compensation applications in the market today, the new 6.0 release dramatically extends the Company's pay for performance solution capabilities.

At Insights 2006, its annual business partner conference, Sage Software is showcasing its broad selection of new products, major upgrades and services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and organizations. Among the introductions are new and enhanced accounting, online payroll, human resources (HR), fundraising and customer relationship management (CRM) products as well as integration plans for its merchant services for credit card and payment processing.

Primavera Systems, Inc., announced  that it has enhanced its market-leading solution to help business leaders in professional services organizations (PSOs) and embedded service organizations make the most effective and appropriate use of their available human assets to build lasting customer relationships and boost profitability. With budgets under close scrutiny, resource managers at PSOs need to identify which employees are available for work, schedule consultants for maximum efficiency on hundreds of simultaneous projects, and ensure that the organization has the resources available to meet current and future client needs. The latest Primavera solution equips resource managers with powerful new tools to meet these daily challenges.

According to experts at Ziggs, a Boston-based company that offers free online profiles for professionals, two ideas should be considered by everyone creating an online profile. First, the content used in a profile is important. Online content typically falls into one of two broad categories: professional or personal. Once posted, content is effectively public. Professionals in particular should therefore be conscious of the quality and tone of their online profile. Second, the profile site one chooses to present a profile on is important too. Is it a professionally branded profile site or is it a social profile site?

Deck Chairs:
Dustin Finer, previously serving as senior vice president global human resources of Ascent Media Group, LLC, has been named as senior vice president human resources of Gemstar-TV Guide International...Joshua Lurie, founder of eComp Data Services joined the Salary.com CompAnalyst team as Vice President of Executive Compensation and Business Development....Fred Keeton, vice president of external affairs and chief diversity officer of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (HET) received the "Spirit of Democracy" Award from the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation on May 5 in Washington, D.C.

You Should Know
China:
Poaching Staff
If you thought we were having problems on the hiring front in China, and we are, take a look at what is happening in India. The article shows how companies in India are sending their staff into competitor companies to take a job with the sole purpose of finding out who is working there. Then they come back and the company approaches the good ones. (ChinaTalent)

Global:
Use Online Networks to Find Your Star Employee
Recruiters can find valuable leads with online tools such as blogs, virtual communities, social networking sites, and biography-analysis software. Your dream employee is lurking out there. How do you find him or her? To track down those stars, recruiters are aggressively using online tools such as blogs, virtual communities, social-networking sites, and biography-analysis software. Here are some best practices in those areas: (Fast Company)

How About a Family-Friendly Workplace for Mothers Day?
Want a good Mothers Day present? How about making our workplaces more family-friendly, so that a sick child doesn't mean a crisis for a parent having to beg for time off? Or, how about providing paid family leave so that a parent can actually afford to stay home with their kids when they're born or can take the time to care for a sick family member? (TPRNCafe)

How To Improve Your Lousy Writing Skills In The Workplace
If there's one important reason why you need to write effectively in the workplace, it is this: the quality of your writing imprints a lasting impression on the reader. This reader may be your boss, a client, or a person who is ready to make a billion dollar business deal with you. Have you ever read a poorly-written document that made you lose interest right away? It was so poorly-written that you lost trust in the author and asked yourself why the author was wasting your time? How about those junk e-mails that sneak into your junk box like annoying cockroaches? You know the ones I'm referring to: the ones pitching vitamins, software, and sex aids. These e-mails are the biggest showcase of writing blunders, stricken to death with grammar mistakes, misspellings, and sloppy sentences. I doubt these e-mails pull a sale because their poor writing style immediately alienates the reader. (LiveArticles)



Bad competitors are on the rise...
Bad competitors can tear down entire industries
I've been thinking about "bad competitors" after coming across this excellent speech on the future of newspapers by Phil Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at a conference in August 2005. [Craig Newmark is founder of Craigslist, the classified advertising company.]

...they [newspapers] don't have a monopoly. As sure as Craig Newmark is sitting in this room, they don't have a monopoly on classified advertising, and there's lots of other stuff they no longer have a monopoly on. They have a monopoly on being newspapers. But that's not the point. The point is that the services they provide are being provided cheaper and more efficiently...by somebody else. I first met Craig at this meeting and I shook his hand and I said, "Craig, you are what the Harvard Business School calls a bad competitor." A bad competitor is somebody who will provide a better service at a lower profit margin. Since Craig isn't interested in any profit margin at all, he's about as bad a competitor as you can get. And this is going to continue.

Ireland:
Workplace racism biggest equality issue
Racism in the workplace is still the biggest issue being dealt with by the Equality Authority. The annual report for 2005, which was published today, shows that the Traveller community is still the group most discriminated against in Ireland. Last year the Equality Authority dealt with over 750 cases, with racism continuing to dominate their files. (RTE News)

US:
Newspaper circulation declines 2.5 percent
Daily circulation fell 2.5 percent at U.S. newspapers in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, reflecting the industry's ongoing struggle to retain paying customers amid competition from the Internet and other media outlets.  The Newspaper Association of America, analyzing data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, also reported that Sunday circulation fell 3.1 percent at the 610 newspapers reporting those figures. The 2.5 percent decline in average paid weekday circulation was based on data from 770 newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau. (Boston.com)

High-Tech Industry Employment Edged Upward in 2005
AeA, the trade association representing the high-tech industry, released its ninth annual Cyberstates report detailing national and state trends in high-tech employment, wages, exports, and other key economic factors. The report, "Cyberstates 2006: A Complete State-by-State Overview of the High-Technology Industry," covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The report shows that in 2005, the high-tech industry added some 61,000 net jobs for a total of 5.6 million in the United States. This growth is an important first step in the turnaround of the high-tech industry, and represents a significant change from a previous four-year decline. (DM Review)

Report shows mixed employment picture
Small employers are sending contradictory signals about hiring, a new survey shows, as the broader economy produced unexpectedly slim job gains last month. Filling jobs continues to be tough: 31% of 1,094 small employers in a just-released April survey reported at least one hard-to-fill job opening, says the National Federation of Independent Business trade group. That's the highest share in six years. Plus, 16% of those surveyed said they plan to add jobs in the next three months, up from 9% in March. Hiring plans were especially strong among construction firms — a sign that many still see strength in the housing market despite signs of a slowdown, says NFIB chief economist Bill Dunkelberg. Among construction companies, 39% plan to hire, up 1 percentage point from March; just 2% plan to cut jobs. (USAToday)



Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals
Jared Guinther is 18. Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June. Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands there -- silent. Diagnosed with autism at age 3, Jared is polite but won't talk to people unless they address him first. It's hard for him to make friends. He lives in his own private world. Jared didn't know there was a war raging in Iraq until his parents told him last fall -- shortly after a military recruiter stopped him outside a Portland strip mall and complimented his black Converse All-Stars. (Newhouse)

• A strong starting salary (58 percent)
• A well-defined career path (56 percent)
• Location (46 percent)

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