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Boomers to Bust Age Bias?
Baby Boomers Redefine Retirement
Reveille and Hyperbole:
How well a candidate fits a company's culture is
key to predicting their performance and job longevity, according to a new
whitepaper from TalentPen titled
Personality Matters: Using Personality Assessment for Competitive Advantage in
Talent Acquisition. The paper also explores how modern personality
assessment is rooted in a rigorous methodology required of any scientific
discipline.
Cook Ross has released its
Cultural Communication
Guide™, designed to help organizations and individuals learn the nuances of
communicating in a multi-cultural business environment.
Fieldglass Inc., a leading provider of
contingent workforce management solutions, today published "Vendor
Accountability for Contingent Workforce Management." This new report explores
the history and development of vendor neutrality and offers an alternative
model.
Mentora Group, Inc., pioneer in the new
generation of application hosting providers, announced today the launch of its
new corporate Web site, highlighting its unique combination of services testing,
hosting and managing business applications and its thought-leadership in
application performance testing.
You Should Know:
China:
China: A Brief Introduction to Chinese Employment
Law
The current employment law in China is mainly regulated by the PRC Employment
Law (PEL) which took effect on 1st January 1995. Local governments make
regulations based on their different area's local policies. However, all
regulations are guided by the PEL and will be regarded as void if they are
conflict with PEL (Pinsent
Masons ... Registration Required)
Germany:
Online Business Networks in Focus:
The Electronics Industry Does Its Networking at Ge-Club.net
The "Global electronics Club" (http://www.ge-club.net) is the only online
business network dedicated exclusively to the international electronics industry
Industry-specific networks provide individualized assistance in the areas of
technology, business, and personal development Everyone is talking about online
business networks, and there are good reasons why that is the case: In today's
fast-moving business world, there are many who appreciate the value of having
access to good contacts and understand the advantages of being able to form and
maintain such a network of relationships effectively via the Internet. The
Global electronics Club http://www.ge-club.net is the international electronics
industry's meeting place on the World Wide Web, and is thus one of the few
networking platforms that is specifically geared toward meeting the needs of a
particular industry. (Mexperts)
Global:
Recruitment
Recruitment refers to the process of finding possible candidates for a
job or function, undertaken by
recruiters. It may be undertaken by an
employment agency or a member of staff at the business or
organization looking for recruits.
Advertising is commonly part of the recruiting process, and
can occur through several means: through newspapers, using
newspaper dedicated to job advertisement, through professional
publication, using adverisements placed in windows, through a
job center, through campus interviews, etc. ( From
Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia)
Valley Boys
It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the grungy offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill. This was the day Rose would test everything. Two years earlier, Rose had gambled
on his idea to change newsgathering, letting the masses "dig up" the most interesting stories on the Web and vote them onto his online "front page" on Digg.com. Rose had given every last piece of himself to the project -- all his time, all his cash, and even his girlfriend, who fought with him after he poured
his savings into Digg instead of a downpayment on a house. Today, Digg, Version 3, the one that would go beyond tech news to include politics, gossip, business, and videos, was going live. At 29, Rose was on his way either to a cool $60 million or to total failure. (Yahoo)
What If Guy Kawasaki Was The CEO of Yahoo?
Cameron Olthuis of Pronet Advertising recently interviewed Guy Kawasaki; blogger
extraordinaire and venture capitalist on an array of subjects ranging from Apple
to blogging to Yahoo. Seems that Kawasaki actually turned down an interview for
the CEO position at Yahoo! back in the early days because he "didn't want to
drive from San Francisco every day, and … didn't see how a collection of web
sites could be a business." (Search
Engine Journal)
Offshore Outsourcing and Staff Leasing
Business Outsourcing is a widely known compelling strategic management option
several companies are adopting nowadays. From small to large scale
establishments, they have been using it to continually maintain their stable
status in today s overly competitive market. Its emerging power as a business
tool is undoubted... Offshore Outsourcing is a program in which non-core
operations are delegated from a company s internal unit to an overseas external
supplier. This set-up enables you to focus on your business core competencies.
Companies in various parts of the word deploy this program in the purpose of
obtaining better profit margins and decreasing overhead costs. (PowerHomeBiz)
India:
India's outsourcing revenue jumps
India's outsourcing revenue rose 32 percent to US$6.6 billion in the April–June
quarter, a trade body said Saturday, suggesting the South Asian country remains
a preferred destination for Western companies to shift back–office work. Exports
of software and information technology–related services totalled US$6.57 billion
in the fiscal's first quarter, up 32. 3 percent from a year ago, said the
Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council. (Cayman
Island Compass)
Cognizant scouts campuses in hiring drive
With the demand side for information technology companies continuing to be
robust, the focus has now shifted to the supply side and it's a war for
recruiting talent. (DNA)
UK:
Half of IT directors unsure on TUPE outsourcing compliance
Almost half (48%) of UK IT directors are not confident of their grasp of
outsourcing compliance issues such as TUPE, according to research undertaken by
Vanson Bourne for global IT services firm HCL Technologies (HCL) released today.
(Security
Park)
U.K. Employers Add Staff at Fastest Rate in Two Years, REC
Says
U.K. companies added workers at the fastest pace in more than two years in July,
spurring wage growth, a survey of recruiters showed. (Bloomberg)
US:
U.S. Tech Workers In Hot Demand Despite More Outsourcing
So much for predictions that outsourcing would turn the United States into a
nation of burger flippers. A new survey shows that most tech professionals are
too busy working to worry about competition from low-cost labor in India. And
here's the most stunning thing about all this. IT employment in the United
States is growing even as more businesses outsource tech work overseas. Hudson,
a professional staffing firm, reports in their July survey that hiring and pay
in the tech sector is up, as is worker confidence. At the same time, India's
revenues from outsourcing are climbing--up 32% in the second quarter, according
to an Indian trade group. (Information
Week) Military Self-Sufficiency Undermined
by Outsourcing
The U.S. Army's decision to award military contracts to overseas manufacturers
highlights a disturbing "short-term" ideology and America's growing dependence
on foreign nations. On June 29, the United States Army announced it would spend
$3 billion to purchase up to 352 UH-145 helicopters from Eurocopter, a
subsidiary of European aerospace group eads (Agence France Presse, July 4). With
this deal, Eurocopter, after decades of delivering to the U.S. government and
commercial operators, has at last broken into the U.S. military market. This
represents a "major shift in Pentagon procurement policies" . (The
Trumpet)
Deep Release:
Benchmarking Report Shows Vast Differences Between Plant
Staffing Levels
The degree to which companies staff various areas within their plants is
widely varied and could have strong implications on a company's ability to
become best-in-class. With the completion of ARC Advisory Group's second
quarterly Benchmarking Consortium Report on July 28th, participating companies
found the assessment of automation staffing levels one of the most useful
insights.
Manufacturing Metrics
Companies are using these statistics for a variety of
purposes, including determining if they have the correct staffing levels for
specific tasks such as maintaining control systems, managing their hardware and
software, field instrumentation, and control systems used in automating their
production," said Dick Hill, ARC Vice President and General Manager, and leader
of the ARC Benchmarking Consortium. Dick adds, "The work we are doing with
Consortium members is very exciting, as we facilitate learning from other
manufacturing plants from around the world."
Staffing levels are just one of the 23 metrics manufacturing
companies are using to compare to others, both cross-company and cross-industry.
Each metric is composed of several measures approved by the Consortium as being
valuable, with clearly defined calculation methods in order to remain
consistently measured from plant to plant. The recently released Benchmarking
Report compared data from 51 different plants.
Aside from staffing levels, companies are finding the
comparison of the adoption of performance management solutions to be
enlightening. This allows members to compare where they are in the adoption of
new innovative technologies versus the industry, a measure especially attractive
to a company's management. Other areas of interest range from project costs of
deploying automation to utilization of advanced process control.
For more information on the Benchmarking Consortium and to
find out how to join, contact John Wason at 781-471-1150 or email at
jwason@arcweb.com .
Founded in 1986, ARC Advisory Group has grown to become the
Thought Leader in Manufacturing and Supply Chain solutions. No matter how
complex your business issues, our analysts have the expert industry knowledge
and first-hand experience to help you find the best answer. We focus on simple
yet critical goals: improving your return on assets, operational performance,
total cost of ownership, project time-to-benefit, and shareholder value. Further
information can be obtained from ARC, Three Allied Drive, Dedham, MA 02026,
781-471-1000, Fax 781-471-1100, E-mail
info@arcweb.com , Web www.arcweb.com .
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