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SuccessFactors, Inc., provider of in on-demand software for human capital management, has raised $45 million in additional capital to fund continued business expansion and maintain its 100-plus-percent growth rate
in sales, customers and users through 2006 and beyond."Five years ago, we launched SuccessFactors with the belief that secure hosted applications would become the dominant delivery model for human capital management -- making it extremely easy to use on a global basis for organizations of every size," said
Lars Dalgaard, SuccessFactors founder, president and CEO. "We pioneered this space and evangelized this model, and continue to dominate the market through an intense commitment to customer success. We believe in Performance not Politics, and we won't rest until every employee in the world knows his or her job
expectations, and every manager knows how to get the best out of his or her team."
MrTed Ltd has selected Cape Clear 6.5 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to embed into its globally successful Talent Management Solution, MrTedTalentLink. The MrTed Software delivered as a Service (Saas) model helps organizations to optimize
the complex processes of acquiring and deploying Talent on a local and worldwide scale - as part of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy. MrTeds client list includes De Beers, France Telecom, and Siemens.
According to a research report by Jobscience, top talent in the healthcare industry is hard to come by and even harder to retain in this competitive hiring market. Hospitals cannot afford to continue operating without giving more serious consideration to recruiting, hiring, and retaining top talent, and then
addressing it as a primary improvement initiative for the hospital as a whole.These and other key findings can be found in the research report, "Healthcare Recruiting Best Practices 2006",
now available through Jobscience.
Entrepreneur Magazine released its latest hot 100 list of America's fastest-growing new businesses in America and Techlink
Northwest, one of only two Washington state companies to make the grade, is named for the second year in a row. Techlink Northwest is one of the top providers of hardware and software product development engineers on a contract and permanent basis to technology companies in the Puget Sound area; they were
one of 10 staffing companies to be named on the list.
Sage Software released Sage Abra eRecruiter, the new online recruiting solution for its award-winning Sage Abra HRMS product line. The recruiting solution is easy-to-use and affordable, helping HR professionals in the U.S. and Canada
to expand their Internet recruiting strategies, reduce hiring costs, and shorten the recruiting cycle by automating and simplifying the entire recruiting process.
Deck Chairs:
Valista(r), the global leader in the provision of multi-channel payments and merchandizing solutions, announced the appointment of Arlene Adams as Vice President of International Sales and Business Development. Arlene holds a First
Class BA Honours Degree in Business and Human Resource Management, a Diploma from Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and is a Member of the Institute of Directors (MIPD)....Market10(TM), the revolutionary new job marketplace that combines extensive
matching technology with The 10 Dimensions of a Good Job Fit(SM), announced Rich Ellinger, a 15-year Silicon Valley technology veteran, joined the company as its Chief Technology Officer. In this capacity Rich oversees Market10's visionary product development efforts. Rich joins Market10 from Saba, a leading
human capital management company he co-founded and served as its Vice President of Engineering....Veritude, a leading provider of strategic human resources, has named Diane Shelgren executive vice president of strategy and client development.......John
F. Ryan was named vice president of human resources at GE Infrastructure, Aviation. He has led global HR for the business since July 2005
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Australia:
Unearthing talent
JOHN Davidson started his career with a battered old contact book from Rio Tinto after the closure of the Bougainville Copper mine in Papua New Guinea. It was 1993 and Davidson had spent nearly 20 years working with Rio mainly at Bougainville where he held a variety of positions from supply officer
through to training co-ordinator and later, recruitment manager. The sudden closure of the mine was a shock for him and hundreds of other employees. "We were sitting around licking our wounds in the Rio office in Brisbane," he recalls. (CourierMail)
ASIO is recruiting via Google Ads?
It seems Australia's top spy agency ASIO is starting to recruit new spooks via a $1 million Google Adwords campaign. (Presshores)
Global:
An Inside Look at Google
I've represented Google at many events for women in engineering, and I'm always asked the same thing: "What's it like ... all » to work there?" I certainly don't mind discussing the subject, but I often think it would be great if more people could see it for themselves. Well, now you can. We invite you to
take a sneak peek inside Google and hear straight from some of our female engineers what life here is really like. Of course, our goal of recruiting as many gifted female engineers as we can also means encouraging young women who are still in school. So I'd like to issue a hearty congrats to the winners of
this year's Anita Borg scholarships. - Jen Fitzpatrick, Engineering Director, Google (Google)
Uncle Google Wants YOU!
Google has for a short while being showing Google Scholar as one of their tabs if they detect your IP address as coming from a college of some sort. According to Anthony, they're taking it to the next level, trying to recruit graduates right from the Google front page: (Inside
Google)
google adding video to arsenal for adwords' content network
I love this on so many levels.
According to Inside Adwords, the official blog, Google is now offering the option for advertisers to create targeted video campaigns to place on Adwords‘ content network. You know, those ads you see on sites saying, "Ads by Gooooogle": (cheezhead)
Online Recruiting Grows for Colleges
Students considering attending the University of Missouri are logging onto the Internet and reading online journals featuring tales of sipping coffee at a local hangout and signing a lease on a new apartment. The blogs are more than sophomoric ramblings about college life. They are one of several
Web-based recruitment strategies colleges across the country are employing as they attempt to lure tech-savvy high-schoolers to their campuses. As college admission deadlines loom, high-schoolers are increasingly turning to the Internet for behind-the-scenes insight. Next to campus visits, according to one
study, schools' Internet sites are the most important tool high-school seniors use when evaluating and choosing a college. (Washington Post)
Site Visibility and Madgex form partnership
Search engine marketing group Site Visibility have formed a partnership with UK job board software developer Madgex, to provide a complete solution for specialist publishers looking to replace revenues lost in classified advertising. The companies have already worked together for a number of clients,
including Incisive Media and Lexis Nexis Butterworth, and Site Visibility managing director Damon Lightley said that he believes the partnership is part of the evolution of B2B online publishing. (Netimperitive)
Adapt or Die
As newspaper companies confront a challenging future, they are increasingly viewing their trademark print product as the engine driving a diverse "portfolio" that embraces other "platforms" such as Web sites and niche publications. Is this a strategy for survival? For years, newspapers have treated
innovation like a trip to the dentist — a torture to be endured, not encouraged. True, newspapers finally got around to adding color. They shrank stories, hoping that pithier, flashier fare would help attract young people who don't like to read. They spruced up the front page by sprinkling uplifting, maudlin
or otherwise titillating features amid the news. But bold new thinking about the newspaper and a world of opportunities beyond it? Please. Tell the dentist to add a veneer and leave the rotting core alone. Now that's all changing, of necessity. Circulation is falling; newsprint costs are rising; retail,
auto and movie advertising is slumping; classified advertising is available free on craigslist and other online venues. Wall Street's dissatisfaction with newspapers boiled over in November, when money manager and Knight Ridder shareholder Bruce S. Sherman forced the company to put itself up for sale. (American
Journalism Review)
A Case Study of Google Recruiting
Can any firm compete against this recruiting machine?
As part of my continuing series of case studies and analyses of truly world-class recruiting functions, I will highlight some of the key features at Google, the world's only corporate "recruiting machine." In the past few months, I have spent a good deal of time researching Google and communicating with
Google managers and employees in an attempt to identify their best practices. (ERE)
The Battle to Recruit Intellectual Capital
When you think of Google, you think: Smart company. Smart people. Recruiters speak of the "Google factor"; companies that fear Google not just because the company could move into their markets -- from newspapers to book publishers, mapmakers and retailers -- but because Google may snag the "genius" talent
needed to invigorate today's businesses and think up tomorrow's innovations. So companies are not just thinking about Google, but thinking and recruiting like Google. Attracting smart, creative professionals with the brains needed to build a company's future can mean a pitched battle to recruit top-shelf
technical professionals. (Monster)
Starbucks: How to recruit for the love and meaning of it.
In the previous post, What's love got to do with it? I reported that most of today's aspiring entrepreneurs say they do NOT put money first when they think of launching something of their own. Instead, they want something they love, something that matters to them, where they can be their own boss, and then,
yes, also earn some money with it. I suggested that if we are to take them at their word, we'd better think of ways and language to attract these kinds of people to us. They're waiting for us. (KimKlaverBlogs)
Netherlands:
Netherlands Welcomes Top Foreign Talent
The cabinet is instituting a points system to make it easier for talented entrepreneurs from outside the EU to come to the Netherlands. They will be admitted on the basis of personal talents, even if they do not have a job at a company or institution. The government has decided to divide up its
immigration policy into five categories. The biggest change involves Category Three, regulating the admission of "high-value knowledge and work migrants." To supplement existing policy for this group, the option will be introduced of admission to the Netherlands on the basis of personal talents. "This
'talents scheme' will be worked out for work migrants who are not associated with a company or institution, such as innovative entrepreneurs, independent researchers or top creative talent," according to a cabinet statement. (NIS News)
UK:
Classifieds aggregator site launches in UK
A new website that hoovers up two million classified adverts from newspaper websites around the UK claims it is helping to boost the flagging market. US-based Oodle crawls the web for adverts placed on a variety of publishers' sites and offers them to users through a single gateway. (Journalism.co.uk)
US:
Xcel plant jobs going begging
Crew to build new Pueblo station still hundreds short
Xcel Energy is having trouble finding hundreds of people it needs for construction of a $1.4 billion power plant in Pueblo, partially because of a dearth of skilled workers and union restrictions on whom it can hire. The power company needs electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, carpenters, welders and
boiler makers. The project will have to hire more than 1,000 workers at peak of construction late next year, about two-thirds of them in a few months. But fewer than 400 turned up at a job fair in Pueblo last Monday. That compares with the 1,500 who had attended the first such fair in October, 160 of whom
went into apprenticeships. (Rocky Mountain News)
Farmers say to keep veggies on tables need for fieldworkers is great
It would be hard to find many people with a more comprehensive firsthand perspective on some of the problems of the U.S. immigration system than at Pasquinelli Produce Co., one of the largest employers in Yuma County, Ariz., bordered on one side by Mexico and on another by California. It takes
hundreds of workers to plant, thin, weed and harvest the highly perishable produce -- such as lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower -- grown on the 7,000-acre farm started by Pete Pasquinelli 60 years ago. And that brings special challenges for the founder's son, Deacon Gary Pasquinelli, and his general manager,
Deacon Paul Muthart. Both men bring to the job the Catholic Church's perspective on migration as deacons assigned to St. Francis of Assisi Church in Yuma. (Catholic News)
Get smart: A local company markets itself
using the 1st ‘Smart' car in the state
Joseph Stubblebine's nifty-thrifty Smart car is getting second and sometimes third looks -- exactly as he hoped it would. The president of Human Capital Solutions, the parent company of JobCircle.com, bought Pennsylvania's first legal Smart car in April, put his company's logo on the door and
let the fun begin. (DailyLocal)
Baby Boomer Survey Shows Big Appetite for Real Estate
Baby Boomers have a higher rate of homeownership than the national average and one out of four own more than one property, according to a new study of the largest generation in U.S. history commissioned by the National Association of Realtors®. Initial results were released at NAR's Midyear Legislative
Meetings & Trade Expo last week. (RISMedia)
Fed up with HR?
Peter McCann's HR troubles started in 2001, when a former employee filed a complaint alleging that Ideal Images, McCann's Omaha-based screen printing and embroidery company, fired her because of her race. McCann and his entire staff were questioned by investigators from the state's Equal Opportunity
Commission, and the investigation dragged on for several stressful weeks. The complaint was eventually dismissed, partly because the worker's replacement was also a minority, but the thought of another discrimination charge frightened McCann, who began to obsess over everything from background checks to
performance evaluations. (Inc)
Focused Candidates Visit Focused Job Boards
Deep Release:
Internet Entrepreneurs: Living off the Net
A new type of career has surfaced over the past few years, but you won't find it listed on Careerbuilder or Craigslist. Its most accurate title is "Internet Entrepreneur" and it can pay up to millions of dollars a year.
A new type of career has surfaced over the past few years, but you won't find it listed on Careerbuilder or Craigslist. Its most accurate title is "Internet Entrepreneur" and it can pay up to millions of dollars a year. Brandon Rowe is one such entrepreneur making $50,000 a year, and he expects his newest
website (http://www.linkexperiment.com) to rake in the cash.
Rowe, at only 23 years old, is his own boss and collects his monthly checks from various online endeavors. "My friends' joke that every month ‘The Internet' sends me a check," says Rowe. In his first month as a full-time entrepreneur he made $1,000. "That's when I realized I could actually make a career
out of this thing," says Rowe. Brandon's endeavors include selling advertising space on his websites, earning commissions on selling items, and for his newest website, selling links.
The concept of Rowe's newest website is to sell links on his homepage to the highest bidder and display the amount the site has earned in bids. He believes as the total amount the site earns increases, its popularity will increase, which in turn leads to more bids. "I think people like a story about an
ordinary person making a lot of money for a simple idea," says Rowe. That's the appeal that Rowe is banking on for his newest endeavor. However, Rowe says that it's not as easy as some might think for a website to succeed.
According to Rowe, succeeding online is about creativity, hard work, and persistence. "A lot of people trying to make a living online expect it to be easy and to sit back and just watch the money roll in," says Rowe, "You have to work hard and be persistent. For example my newest website made 21 cents its
first day. A lot of people will look at that and say ‘this isn't working'. I look at that and say ‘great' with minimal work I made 21 cents now I'll put some work into the site and I'll be making two dollars a day."
When asked how much he thought his newest site would make, Rowe responded, "I'd say in the thousands of dollars… Websites like this one are how I make my living."
Rowe's newest website ( http://www.linkexperiment.com) features 100 links sold to the highest bidders. The starting bid was one cent for a link.
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