National PEO, LLC, a full-serve human resource outsourcing company, has found their service offerings fit in perfectly with the needs of several vertical businesses, one of them being the restaurant industry. To date, National PEO has provided their services to some highly recognizable local restaurants such as Streets of New York, My Big Fat Greek Restaurant, Stoudemier's, Carlsbad Tavern, Pasta Brioni, Cooperstown and many others. National PEO recently added recruiting to their service offerings, and have experienced tremendous response from the restaurant industry to help them fill positions ranging from managers to front of house staff to kitchen staff. The company offers their services in both English and Spanish to make the benefits process easier for those non-English-speaking employees.

Dillistone Systems, the market software suppliers to the Executive Search industry, is proud to sponsor the latest BDU Conference that will be held at the Steigenberger Grandhotel Petersberg in Königswinter near Bonn, Germany on the 18th May of this year.

www.theexecutiveclub.com announced a partnership with Bluesteps.com  theexecutiveclub.com is a leading service created for Non-Executives, Senior Managers and Directors to provide them with career information and opportunities. BlueSteps.com is the senior executive career management service of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC).

Millions of leaders in the workforce are expected to retire soon. Some say this will cause a vacuum of knowledge and experience across organizations and industries. To what extent learning can play a positive role depends on some demographic factors. The Environment feature in the May issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine looks at the baby boomers, their successors, the international angle and how education can be used as a weapon in the war for talent. A case study on Deloitte & Touche discusses how the organization launched next-generation recruiting and retention efforts with internal and external educational components.

Visible Path Corporation, the leading developer of relationship capital management (RCM) solutions, today announced that WebEx the leading provider of on-demand collaborative business applications, has selected Visible Path to help its sales team to build, manage and capitalize its network of professional relationships.

Lucas Group announced the expansion of its insurance recruiting practice to New York and surrounding areas.

Fieldglass, a leading provider of contingent workforce management solutions, today published the white paper "Evaluating Software as a Service for Contingent Workforce Management". This white paper emphasizes the role of technical due diligence during the evaluation process and provides guidance on what questions to ask software solution providers in order to assess the quality of the underlying technical infrastructure.

Ufi Ltd, the company behind learndirect and UK online centres - the government-backed network supporting e-learning and e-services – has selected the Jobtrain recruitment management system to manage all their resourcing online.

TalentFusion, a Recruitment Process Outsourcer, has opened a call center. operation in Liberia, Costa Rica.

The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), in partnership with Salary.com, has launched the 2006 ECOA Compensation Survey. The 2006 survey follows a similar survey done in 2005 which gathered compensation data for twelve ethics and compliance positions in over 100 companies, including thirty Fortune 500 companies.
 

Deck Chairs:
Engenium Corporation, a leading provider of conceptual search technology that speeds and improves electronic information retrieval, announced today that Marlin Fitzwater has been named to the Engenium board of directors....Bench International, a global retained executive search firm, announces the opening of its offices in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the appointment of Dr. Stephen J. Williams as the firm's President and Chief Business Officer...Marakon Associates has announced that Lori Massad, chief talent officer and a partner based in New York, has been promoted to COO...GAAPweb, the UK jobsite for accounting & finance professionals, has appointed Geoff Curry as new Managing Director and Ben Curthoys as new Head of IT....

You Should Know
Australia:
Immigration won't fix skills shortage: report
A BIG increase in skilled migration would not deliver the economic benefits its supporters claim, although it would have a small positive effect, the Productivity Commission has concluded. In a report commissioned by the Federal Government, commissioner Judith Sloan said modelling showed that while a 50 per cent increase in skilled migration would relieve some of the pressures of skills shortages, the overall effect would be fairly minor for the economy. (The Age)

Chinese guest workers are fine, skills shortage Beazley's fault
Australia's Federal Minister for Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs Amanda Vanstone discusses local issues about foreign guest workers, her future as minister and the need for the ABC to have a sense humour. "Well look I've come to Ballarat because I'm a bit concerned about your local member, Ms. King, and how I keep hearing her in Parliament speaking as if she's opposed to Chinese people coming here, and since Ballarat, Bendigo, gold rush, all of that, I thought 'what is going on down there?'," says Senator Amanda Vanstone, speaking in the studio with Kirsty Bradmore for the South West Mornings program. (ABC)

Global:
US divided about educational outsourcing
Welcome to the latest trend in the world of outsourcing. With the students in the US increasingly relying on overseas tutors, online tutoring has become the newest industry to be outsourced to other countries. The US demand for overseas tutors is creating such a thriving industry in India that about 80 per cent of India's 5 million dollars online tutoring industry is focused on students in the United States, according to a report in the Washington Post on Monday.  It said that thousands of US students rely on tutors, especially in India and China, to boost their grades and SAT scores. The tutors, who communicate with students over the Internet, are inexpensive and available around the clock. (Rediff)

For outsourcing, Bulgaria is 'in'
Proximity to Western Europe, U.S. makes it an attractive option
Bulgaria, finally shedding the shadows of its communist past, is riding the outsourcing wave with glee as Eastern Europe emerges as a hot new region for global outsourcing. "Bulgaria has a unique opportunity to attract more and more outsourcing in that it meets -- in some cases better than its neighbors -- the prime attractiveness criteria businesses look at," said Sasha Bezuhanova, general manager of Hewlett-Packard-Bulgaria. "The possibilities are monumental, and Bulgaria is more ready than ever."  (SFGate)

Middlesourcing: Leapfrog the Outsourcing Value Chain
Middlesourcing is a term that helps to illustrate how firms in Singapore and SE Asia can benefit from the technology waves in China and India, and create a new niche area for business. As a regional hub (with similar time zones with that of India and China) with a wired-up populace and strong e-government infrastructure, Singapore can leverage its position as a middleman and become specialists in managing outsourcing relationships that have started in India and China. SDA Asia's Dilip Thomas spoke to Graham Sowden to better understand this new buzzword in IT business. (SDAAsia)



Indian outsourcing firm Wipro buys Okemos company
One of India's largest outsourcing companies is buying Okemos mechanical engineering and design firm Quantech Global Services LLC. Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Ltd., is buying Quantech and its India subsidiary in a cash deal. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. (Lansing State Journal)

How to Buy a US Outsourcing Firm, Part 3: Deal Steps
Buyers can find that their profitability and competitiveness within the U.S. market can be improved and their risk exposure controlled by working with an investment bank or other qualified advisor on strategy development. Buying a U.S. company offers a quick and easy way to acquire a client base without having to build one up slowly through traditional sales and marketing efforts, efforts that can be expensive, time consuming and not always successful. As described in part one of this series, acquisitions can provide U.S.-based expertise and infrastructure that can be used to re-invent and re-energize a business by shifting some portion of its production and service operations to more competitive locations.  (CRMBuyer)

Never Too Late to Find the Right Job
Finding a position after the traditional hiring season doesn't have to mean settling for second best. Here are some tips to help
In recent weeks, the phone at the Notre Dame career center has been ringing more than it usually does at this time of year. Counselors have been fielding phone calls from companies that do most of their undergraduate hiring in the fall -- among them Microsoft (MSFT), Bear Stearns (BSC), and Accenture (ACN). The reason? The strong job market, which means that the early-bird job candidates can be more choosy, leaving some businesses shorthanded. (BusinessWeek)


Ways Google is shaking the security world
Ask Google anything--what's happening to GE's stock price, how to get to 881 Seventh Ave. in New York, where Mission Impossible 3 is showing, whatever happened to Brian W. after he moved away in the ninth grade--and you'll get an answer. That's the power of this US$6 billion search engine sensation, which is so good at what it does that the company name became a verb. (Computer Partner)

Microsoft Finds A Data Mining Gem David A. Utter
IBM's Rakesh Agrawal has departed the Almaden Institute in favor of the cozy confines of the Microsoft Search Labs. Microsoft may not be everyone's favorite company today, but there is no lack of attraction for working with the Redmond technology giant. Not long after drawing Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz to take over MSN, Microsoft has scored another recruiting win. (WebProNews)

CareerBuilder.com Starts Canada Job Site
Online job site CareerBuilder.com on Tuesday launched CareerBuilder.ca, a site for the recruitment and job search needs of Canadian employers and workers. It also teamed with AOL LLC unit AOL Canada in a one-year strategic alliance. CareerBuilder.ca will power the Careers section of AOL.ca, Netscape.ca and other Time Inc. interactive properties in Canada. (AP)

India:
Campus aftershock: Firms forced to redraw pay structures
Even as graduating MBAs fling their hats high to symbolise their placement success, companies are putting their thinking caps back.  Why? It might have been a bumper year for the MBAs bagging mouth-watering  salaries, but companies are now trying hard to maintain salary equivalence amongst the existing employees. (DNA)

Online job-seekers rise 71%: IAMAI survey
The number of Indians seeking jobs over the Internet are on the rise, with the total number of online jobhunters touching 6.5 million in 2005-06, 71 per cent rise over the previous year. The number of online job seekers is expected to cross 9.2 million this year (2006-07), according to a survey conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). (Business Standard)

UK:
Search and software firms form job site alliance
Search engine marketing firm Site Visibility has formed a partnership with Madgex, a UK provider of job board software and B2B web publishing systems. The deal will see Madgex offer clients an online job board solution designed to make vacancies more visible on search engines. Simon Conroy, CEO of Madgex said: "After speaking to several SEM companies, we felt Site Visibility offered the best fit for our clients, which include LexisNexis Butterworths, Centaur Publications and Incisive Media." (NetImperative)

US:
Alternative hiring methods help
For many small businesses, the administrative burdens of hiring, managing and paying employees are just too much to handle. Many are turning to alternate methods of hiring staff, including something called the professional employer organization, or PEO. PEOs are companies that help businesses find and hire staff and manage such things as health benefits, worker compensation claims, payroll and unemployment insurance. PEOs establish and maintain an employer relationship with your workers and assume many employer responsibilities. (Bucks County Courier Times )

Denny's: From worst to first, thanks to diversity officer
In the early 1990's, the Denny's restaurant chain was in turmoil. Blacks reported being asked to pay in advance, hostility when being served, and in some cases, not being served at all. The situation hit a boiling point in 1994 when Denny's paid out $54 million dollars in one of the most high-profile class action discrimination lawsuits in modern memory. But in 2006, there's a much different story to be told. Today, Denny's consistently finds itself on Fortune's list of the best companies for minorities, and the company boasts one of the most diverse management levels in corporate America. (Frost Illustrated)

Grads' job market best in years
This summer could offer U.S. college graduates the best job market in years, the Los Angeles Times says. An expanding economy and the first wave of retiring baby boomers are seen as the major reasons. Of this year's 1.4 million U.S. graduates, nearly two-thirds may get two or more job offers, the Times estimates. Best sites are in California, Texas and New York, according to MonsterTRAK, a Web site matching companies and college grads. At the same time, this year's class is expected to present new challenges as new workers bring new values and attitudes into the workplace and seem highly informed and confident. They are said to plot their careers like chess maters. (UPI)

Employee Confidence Continues to Climb
Facing low unemployment, companies are placing more emphasis on retention. With unemployment near record lows, many companies are working harder to keep their employees happy -- and the result has been a continued rise in worker confidence, according to a new survey. (Inc)

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