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Nurse recruitment drive targets school students
The New South Wales Government has announced a new recruitment campaign in schools to further boost nurse numbers. Career advisers will be given DVDs and booklets portraying real-life stories of nurses, in the hope of enticing students to take up the career choice. (ABC)
Indigenous workers in the spotlight
The Child Support Agency used NAIDOC Week recently to launch its Indigenous Recruitment and Career Development Strategy 2005-08. "This Strategy is part of the whole-of-government approach to make the Australian Public Service more representative of Australian society," said CSA General Manager, Matt Miller.
"It's part of CSA's commitment to supporting our people to do the best job that we can for our customers." (Indigenous Times)
China:
Success in training China's managers
Shortage of management talent has become a major problem for many fast-growing industries in China, nowhere better illustrated than in the pharmaceutical industry. (Asia Times)
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Australasian employers embrace online recruitment
Australasian employers are embracing online recruitment tools and are playing a more active role in attracting candidates, according to a new report. The Australasian Top 500 Internet Recruiting Study, by online recruitment consultancy Catch22, reports a massive 300% increase in the use of tools such as
applicant tracking systems, in-house recruitment solutions and job boards among Australasian top 500 companies. However, Australasian companies are significantly lagging overseas employers in utilising online recruitment tools and are "generally failing to fully exploit the benefits of online recruiting",
according to Catch22 executive director Elizabeth O'Leary. (eRecruiting)
Help Wanted: RECRUITMENT MANAGER, WESTERN CONTINENTAL EUROPE
We are looking for a Senior Manager to actively lead and take responsibility for all Oracle recruitment activity across the Western Continental Europe region.
This role can be based in France, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, or Ireland. The recruitment function at Oracle is a world leader in proactive, direct in-house recruitment. Due to the recent growth of this function we are looking for a Senior Manager to actively lead and take
responsibility for all Oracle recruitment activity across the WCE region. This region is spread across approximately 13 countries and currently has a team of 9 recruiters. (Jobbank.dk)
India:
Hire the hirers
The HR sector has been busy filling up talent slots in IT and other sectors - missing the growing gaps in its own line-up. Hire the hirers first, experts tell the sector. A study by Elixir Web Solutions, a New Delhibased recruitment process outsourcing firm, shows that the recruitment industry is going
through a crunch of 200 professionals every day. (Hindu Business Line)
Ireland:
Weird science as students ignore buoyant tech sector
Rather like house prices spiralling ever upwards when interest rates are rising, the dearth of students taking science, engineering and computing courses seems to defy logic. The economy remains strong, the technology sector has strongly rebounded from the dotcom crash and Ireland's future self-evidently will
be as a high-tech nation. But despite all this, the great majority of school leavers don't see themselves making a career in science and technology. (Silicon
Republic)
UK:
Recruitment agency for accountants is launched
A 31-year-old native of South Wales has launched what he believes to be Scotland's first recruitment agency concentrating solely on accountants in public practice. (TheHerald) Hays caught up in OFT price-fixing inquiry
The Office of Fair Trading has launched an inquiry into the recruitment market for construction workers, to investigate allegations of price fixing and an organised industry boycott. News of the investigation emerged yesterday morning, as the recruitment consultants Hays revealed that its offices had been
"visited" by the OFT last month. The company said it had been co-operating with the regulator in accordance with its leniency programme, under which companies are promised smaller penalties if they are found in breach of competition laws. The US recruitment firm CDI, which owns AndersElite in the UK, said it
was also being investigated by the OFT. (The Independent)
Ethical Recruiters pay source markets back
As the tally of Polish Workers in the UK hits the record half million mark*, award-winning international recruitment firm, Eutopia Solutions, has moved quickly to balance the debate surrounding British firms falsely accused of depleting Eastern Europe and wider overseas markets of key workers. (OnRec)
H2Office.co.uk Makes A Splash In Office Recruitment
Totaljobs Group today announces the launch of H2Office.co.uk, a specialist website focusing on office, secretarial, customer service, and call centre recruitment. Totaljobs Group already operates a stable of specialist job boards used by thousands of recruiters, and H2Office.co.uk will benefit from the
Group's proven track record in recruitment services. (OnRec)
Turn the Page - The Net Benefit of Digital Publishing
Is this the Last Chapter for Paper?
Digital media means more content, more channels and more ways to consume than ever before. For publishers, it means more challenges in operating their businesses and a greater effort to understand an increasingly complex customer....(Deloitte,
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US:
Options scandal grew out of 1990s strategy
Many Silicon Valley businesses offered the incentives to attract and retain their top employees in a competitive market
Stock options were the crack cocaine of the late 1990s. "It's the new American dream, getting rich off your company's stock," Forbes magazine gushed in 1998. "And it's a dream that's becoming ever more real." Everyone wanted in on the gravy train. Job hunters, corporate executives and outside
vendors all lusted after stock options. And it was in that climate that the options backdating scandal now making headlines was born. (SFChronicle) U.S employers split on talent crunch
Are U.S. employers about to be hit by a long-anticipated shortage of talent, or are all the dire warnings just scaremongering? According to a survey of 3,100 senior human resources executives by Novations Group, a consulting organisation based in Boston, employers are divided. While most companies have seen
some signs of a talent shortage, four out of 10 have had no difficulty finding the staff they need. At the same time, however, a third of organisations have already taken pre-emptive steps to update their selection and recruitment criteria in anticipation of recruitment problems on the horizon. But as to
whether the U.S. will experience a shortage of talent in the next decade, employers are split. One in 10 are convinced that a shortage is imminent while a similar proportion appear equally sure that the problem has been blown out of all proportion. (Management
Issues)
Few companies plan for losing boomers
As baby boomers transition en masse from the office to retirement, the majority of companies are anticipating a brain drain. But only a third of them are planning for it, according to one survey. (CourierPost)
Looking for a MySpace buddy? How about the U.S. Marine Corps?
Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular Web site MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps. So far, more than 12,000 Web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic. MySpace.com, the Internet's most popular social
networking site with over 94 million registered users, has helped redefine the way a generation communicates. Users, many in their teens and 20s, post personal profiles and accumulate lists of friends and contacts with common interests. (Post-Gazette)
Monster Sees Dip In Online Recruitment
Rising gas prices and interest rates appear to be taking their toll on the pace of hiring, as Monster Worldwide Inc. reported Thursday that online recruitment activity has declined in 24 of the top 28 Metro markets. The sharpest recruitment downturn was reported in Denver, Sacramento and Cincinnati, which all
showed lower overall demand for workers. On the plus side, Minneapolis and St. Louis saw an increase in online hiring activity while Atlanta and Baltimore were unchanged from May's hiring. The Monster report marked a reversal in online hiring trends, which had been on an uptick in recent months. (InternetWeek)
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