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Eons(TM), the 50+ media company for boomers and seniors created by Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor, today announced its Corporate Founding Partners. Industry giants Harrah's Entertainment, Hyatt Corp., Humana, Inc., Liberty Mutual Group and
Verizon Wireless sign on to show unprecedented support of the boomer and senior market as premier and exclusive Eons partners.
Taleo Corporation (TLEO) , a provider of on demand talent management solutions, today announced the University of Toronto has selected Taleo's talent management solutions to help recruit and assess employees for all three of its campuses. With
the addition of the University of Toronto, Taleo now delivers its talent management solutions to more than 50 Canadian companies across a variety of industries including public sector, financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, technology, and telecommunications.
National PEO, LLC, a professional Employer Organization specializing in HR outsourcing, workers' compensation, payroll services, employee benefits and recruiting, recommends employers enforce stronger security measures to protect and dispose of sensitive data. These
include locking and/or limiting access to employee information files, developing strict guidelines regarding information release via subpoena or other requests, enforcing a clean desk policy, masking social security numbers and shredding unnecessary files. One of the leading causes of identity theft, says a
recent TransUnion report, is confidential employer record theft. This avenue surpasses that of mail, credit card and wallet theft. The Federal Trade Commission cites an astounding 90 percent of all business record thefts from employment and payroll data. These compromised records include legal names, birth
dates, social security numbers, addresses and telephone numbers, banking and account numbers.
After the successful launch of the new candidate feedback service, the UK No1 executive job board executivesontheweb.com has now launched a recruiter feedback league table, highlighting the companies which respond the most to candidate job applications. Operations Director, Justin Finch said:
"Our recently launched auto candidate feedback service has been well received by both candidates and recruiters. This league table will help promote feedback to our candidates on a regular basis. The top five companies currently using the
system are Boyden International, Burns Carlton, Ellis Fairbank, JMC Consulting and Nigel Wright.
PeopleFilter(R) Technology, developers of the PeopleFilter applicant tracking system, today unveiled details of its new brand identity. The new PeopleFilter brand was designed by Chicago-based Biersma Creative and conveys the depth of subject matter and technical
expertise possessed by the PeopleFilter Technology team. Frank Pirri, CEO and co-founder of PeopleFilter Technology observed, "Brand definition is a rigorous exercise in further defining who you are and what value you deliver to your customers. In this case, the end result truly reflects our stance as a
national leading provider of applicant tracking solutions to the mid-market." www.CVtrumpet.co.uk, the UK's No.1 CV sending service, has just released access to its 21,000 strong, executive & management candidate database.
Recruiters can search the candidate database by function, sector, salary, location and keywords. Recruiters can also test search the database for free.
AdStar, Inc. (ADST), a provider of e-commerce transaction software and services for the advertising and
publishing industries, and LiveDeal.com, one of the nation's leading free local online classifieds sites, announced a strategic partnership to integrate AdStar's functionality into LiveDeal.com. The combined capabilities of AdStar and LiveDeal will enable LiveDeal.com classified advertisers to effortlessly
broaden their online classifieds listings to local newspapers and offer the newspaper industry a lucrative new revenue-generating opportunity.
VirtualEdge Corporation (VE), a worldwide provider of Talent Lifecycle Software solutions, announced today continued market momentum highlighted by outstanding financial revenue growth of 97% over the first half of 2005. In support of this momentum, VirtualEdge has moved its corporate
headquarters into a new 25,000 square foot facility and continues to be profitable during this expansion. VE's growth was fueled by great go-to-market success from their innovative new products for onboarding
(VE Salute), Talent CRM solution (VE
Pilot) and multiple replacement opportunities. Over 25 enterprise contracts were signed in the first half such as United Rentals, Genesis HealthCare, Wolters Kluwer, Gwinnett Health System, Advocate Health Care, Johnsonville Sausage, HealthEast Care System, James Hardie, Brady Corporation and one of the
world's most innovative manufacturers and marketers of personal computers and related software, services, peripherals and networking solutions.
The Development staff at BrightMove Inc has announced the release of the latest version of their "SaaS" (software as a service) applicant tracking software: BrightMove version 2.2. The company president, James Hurff, states, "One of the major goals of
this release was to increase the user friendliness from an interface point of view. We made major revisions to the search engine module specifically to make the access to the applicant resume and contact history data faster and easier to digest."
Deck Chairs:
Cott Corporation (COT) announced
Abilio Gonzales has been appointed Cott's Chief People Officer...Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster Inc., today announced the executive hires of Brad Kendall and Kerry Rupp. Kendall joins Jobster as senior vice president of sales, responsible for leading
Jobster's strategic global expansion. Kerry Rupp also recently joined Jobster, as vice president of business development responsible for building and managing Jobster's business development initiatives....Leading workforce solutions provider Adecco Group North America
has named Michael Beygelman to the post of senior vice president of business development. Beygelman was most recently the executive director of the HR Outsourcing Association, where he ran all operating activities. ...
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Elance helps free lancers and small businesses connect.
As a ghost writer, Jeff Haden has penned an assortment of books for a wide variety of clients. He wrote a real estate manuscript for a French mortgage banker, a book about pregnancy for a Seattle-based doctor and a guide on cultivating roses for a landscape artist in Peru. Haden, a 46-year-old ad
agency executive, earns extra income by writing from the comfort of his Harrisonburg home. "I get paid whether the book sells or not," he said. His secret? He finds writing work on Elance, a virtual marketplace where freelancers bid on business projects. (Fredericksburg.com)
Out-of-tiffin-box ideas crowd job board for women
In a city which walks up casually to a woman bartender for a Cosmo or comes home in the midnight BPO car-drop discussing friends with female colleagues, boundaries of career choice are bound to be blurred, bastions shaky. DNA speaks to women who are trying out jobs once un-glam or unexplored. Two for tiffin:
The idea of cooking a meal usually gets an office-goer's brains cooked. Akhila Sundaram Iyer and her mother Meenakshi prevents such mishaps every day. The two work from their homes in Ghatkopar, making tiffin for employees and offering catering services at marriages and parties since the last 11 years. "We
make both south and north Indian meals," says Akhila, adding that they do not take orders for non-veg food since they are "pure" Iyer Brahmins. (DNA Mumbai)
CareerBuilder.com Partners with FAST for Global Expansion and Unmatched User Satisfaction
Fast Search & Transfer, a developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions, and CareerBuilder.com, the largest online job site in the U.S., announced an expansion of their partnership to drive further innovations and global expansion in the online recruitment market. CareerBuilder.com has signed a
four-year enterprise agreement to use FAST Enterprise Search Platform(TM) (FAST ESP(TM)) to power its mission-critical online job and resume search. As part of the agreement, CareerBuilder.com will continue to serve on FAST's Technology Advisory Board. Both companies will work together to develop a highly
differentiated online recruitment experience through best-in-class search technology, keeping CareerBuilder.com at the forefront of innovation and customer satisfaction domestically and overseas. (Media Workstation)
NCPERS, the nation's leading advocate for public employee pension plans, today calls into question the results of a study by Deloitte on public pensions. According to NCPERS' analysis of the study, Deloitte provides little in the way
of well-researched facts on public pension plans, and instead relies on misleading information and commonly perpetuated myths to create the impression that public pensions are in bad condition. While some public retirement systems have been challenged with regard to plan funding, the vast majority are well
funded and prepared to meet all obligations now and in the future. The report fails to mention that returns on equity investments over the last few years and politicians and legislatures that have refused to budget for or contribute to the plans are prime reasons that some funds, including the ones the report
highlights, are facing funding shortfalls.
The Long Tail Book Review (95%): Why The Future Of Business Is Selling Less Of More
The Long Tail is an important manual for the new economics of the Internet and digital culture. As well as demystifying the numbers it provides an essential guide to how to navigate a world where everything is available, all the time. (Digital
Lifestyles)
Can Investigative Journalism Be Done in Collaboration Online?
Robert Parry, an investigative reporter who broke stories about the Iran-Contra scandal in the '80s, wrote about the importance of investigative journalism for his ConsortiumNews.com site: Investigative reporting is to journalism what theoretical research is to science, having the potential to present new
realities and shatter old paradigms — how people see and understand the world around them — which, in turn, can transform politics. That is why investigative journalism is so important to the health of a democracy. But the health of investigative journalism is in danger. The best investigative pieces are
filed by newspaper and magazine reporters. Readership of newspapers and news magazines are in decline as people migrate to new media such as the Internet. Corporate owners of these publications see no boost to the bottom line by investigative reports that require months and perhaps years of work with little
financial payoff at the end. (Media Shift)
Tata, Microsoft to set up Chinese outsourcing venture
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is setting up an IT outsourcing services joint venture in China with Microsoft Corp., along with two software parks in the country and a Chinese software company, Uniware Co. Ltd. in Beijing., TCS announced Thursday. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is setting up an IT
outsourcing services joint venture in China with Microsoft Corp., along with two software parks in the country and a Chinese software company, Uniware Co. Ltd. in Beijing., TCS announced Thursday. TCS and Microsoft were selected as strategic partners by the Sino-India Cooperative Office (SICO) of the Chinese
government, according to a statement from TCS, in Mumbai. (PCWelt)
Gates warns against reliance on outsourcing
Companies should not outsource their core business functions and staff, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told a group of Japan's top businessmen in a speech in Tokyo on Wednesday. Companies should not outsource their core business functions and staff, Microsoft Chairman and Chief
Software Architect Bill Gates told a group of Japan's top businessmen in a speech in Tokyo on Wednesday. Gates, who was speaking at the Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), Japan's biggest and most influential business group, urged IT companies to beware of outsourcing too much to save
costs and to keep their key engineering resources and IP (intellectual property) at home. (PCWelt)
$118 Billion in Outsourcing Contracts Up for Renewal between 2006-2008, According to New Everest Research Institute Report
Growing Competition Among Suppliers Creating Buyer's Market for IT and Business Process Outsourcing Services
The major outsourcing services providers face a changed marketplace, as many first generation outsourcing deals, estimated at $118 billion in annualized contract value (ACV), are set to expire in 2006-2008 and new suppliers position themselves aggressively for this business. Approximately one-quarter of these
deals have already been renewed, based on confirmation by key suppliers in Q1 2006, but the majority of these contracts, valued at $88 billion, have not. "Our analysis revealed that more than 40 percent of these deals face a medium to high risk of being restructured, which opens the door for new suppliers,"
said Vipul Taneja, Market Research Analyst, Everest Research Institute. "This restructuring risk reflects key structural changes in the marketplace." (PrimeZone)
US:
Baby boomer retirements unlikely to cause stock market "meltdown", GAO says
A congressional investigation is downplaying fears of a stock market meltdown caused by millions of retiring baby boomers unloading their assets. The Government Accountability Office concludes most boomers have few assets to sell, retirees tend to spend their assets slowly, and longer life expectancies may
stretch that out even more. And, says the GAO, many will probably continue working past their normal retirement ages. (TampaBay) Local job market heats up as U.S. economy simmers
Get out your resumes. This summer is shaping up as Hampton Roads' best mid-year job market in years, with unemployment dipping from 2005 and companies adding thousands of jobs. Unemployment in Hampton Roads fell to 3.7 percent in June from 4.3 percent the same month a year ago, and the area added 11,500
private, nonfarm jobs in that time, according to statistics released Friday by the Virginia Employment Commission. (PilotOnline)
Deep Release:
Pockets of Employment Crisis Covered in Red Alert 2006
The employment marketplace is heating up. Every month more jobs are created and jobless claims go down. Soon cocooning employees unhappy with their present circumstances will jump their corporate ships.
This exodus from jobs people have hated for years is already happening in some geographical areas, some occupations, and some industries. The term Pockets of CrisisTM was coined in late 2002 to describe the employment market at that time. "And those Pockets of CrisisTM are spreading," says
Joyce Gioia (joy-yah), president of The Herman Group.
During the early part of the decade, the country had fewer than ten markets with less than 3.0% unemployment, now we have 44. And we had fewer than 50 markets with less than 4.5% unemployment; now we have 196. The 4.5% level is significant because economists define full employment to be
between 4.5 and 5.0% unemployment. Therefore, any rate that is lower than 4.5% indicates that the particular geographical market is in a workforce shortage situation.
Each year, during the summer, the Principles of The Herman Group, a think-tank of workforce futurists, and VetJobs, the job board that caters to employers looking for retired military, conduct a survey of the leading-edge thought about the employment marketplace. The Principles are Joyce
Gioia (joy-yah), Roger Herman, and Ted Daywalt, well respected in the fields of retention and recruiting. The knowledge gleaned from their research is complied in a special paper called the Red Alert Report.
Some industries form their own Pocket of CrisisTM. The Red Alert document details job growth in four such pockets, the hottest industries: healthcare, education, construction, and hospitality. The Red Alert employment advisory covers a number of hot issues in addition to Pockets of Crisis,TM.
Issues like offshoring and reverse offshoring, as well as onboarding and workers unemployed by choice are discussed in depth. In addition, this year the researchers extend an international reach to Canada and Asia, to discuss the global challenges employers face.
This special report was named Red Alert in 2004 when readers told the researchers that their white paper had information so hot they needed to give it a more descriptive name.
Joyce L. Gioia (Joy-yah) (roger@hermangroup.com)
President
The Herman Group
4057 Battleground Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410
Phone : 336-210-3548
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