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Management Special Edition (PDF)
Demographic
Surprises Report (PDF), Trends In The
Changing Workplace (PDF)
Reveille and Hyperbole:
Interchange Corporation (INCX),
owner of Local.com, a leading local-search engine, announced today at the Search
Engine Strategies (SES) 2006 Conference & Expo that Local.com has reached the
top 80 in traffic among all U.S. websites according to the July, 2006 report
from comScore. Local.com has passed Yellowpages.com and is now ranked as the
fourth busiest pure-play local search engine, behind only Superpages.com,
Whitepages.com and Citysearch.com.
JobsInTheUS.com, one of the largest Internet recruiting companies
in the Northeast, was honored recently as one of 12 finalists in a new survey on
the 2006 Best Places to Work in Maine, in the medium-sized company category.
JobsInTheUS.com is owned by Journal Register Company (JRC)
and currently operates JobsInME.com, JobsInNH.com, JobsInVT.com, JobsInRI.com,
JobsInMA.com, JobsInCT.com and JobsInNewYork.com.
The
WhiteRock Group LLC., a New
York-based global financial services executive firm, continues to achieve
success building the premier executive search firm on Wall Street. Recent
additions to the team include seven new interns who are being trained through a
unique hands-on internship program developed by WhiteRock.
Deck Chairs:
Benchmark Brands, the company that
created the category of lower body healthcare with its direct-to-consumer brand
FootSmart(R), and its newest brand, WalkSmart(R), today announced the
appointment of Neil M. Cohen to Vice President, Human Resources. Cohen joins
Benchmark Brands from Treadways Corporation, a subsidiary of one of the world's
largest global companies, Sumitomo Corporation....Brooks
Savage, CEO of The Executive Staffing
Group (ESG), a firm specializing in strategic staffing, human resources,
payroll services, and training, has announced Dee Ann D'Agostino as a new
account executive. In this position, D'Agostino will focus her activities on
outside sales, business development, and maintain existing clients. ...The
leading learning strategies and leadership development company,
Interaction Associates (IA),
has named industry veteran Andy Atkins to the key leadership role of Director of
Client Services. Atkins is an industry expert with decades of experience as a
leader in developing and implementing HR strategies, leadership development
initiatives, learning solutions, and change management strategies for a broad
range of companies and organizations....Cari
M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces civil rights
laws, announced Tuesday that she will step down at the end of her five-year
term, on August 31, 2006.
You Should Know:
Australia:
More women entering mining workforce
The resources boom has led to a more women enter the mining workforce across
Australia. More than 3,500 women have started work on mine sites over the past
three years and now make up 18 per cent of the workforce. And Mitch Hooke from
the Minerals Council says the trend will have to continue to make up for a
severe shortage of workers.(ABCRural)
Canada:
Business continues to wrestle with staffing crunch
Can a job pay reasonably well and still be a dime a dozen? You bet. It's
happening right now in Slave Lake. It seems that every store is hiring, from Tim
Horton's and Wal-Mart to the little movie store on the corner. Business owners
are finding they have to be creative to attract competent staff."There are just
not enough people here for the amount of work," says Tyler Warman who manages
the local Boston Pizza. Recently, several key personnel left the restaurant.
Warman says he would love to hire somebody but it's hard when he can count on
one hand the number of job applications he's seen in the last three months. (Lakeside
Leader) Migrants filling the gap
Farm owners look offshore for dependable workforce
"If Canadians had to rely on Canadians to feed themselves, I think they'd get a
little on the gaunt side," says Curtis Millen, a Glenholme berry producer who
employs offshore workers to harvest his crops. Workers from Mexico and the
Caribbean have been working on Mr. Millen's farm for the last six years because
he can't find local people to do the work. An aging rural population and
the out-migration of young people to Western Canada or cities to find work means
there simply aren't enough people capable of doing the physical work required
for hand-harvesting fruit and vegetables. (Chronicle-Herald)
Global:
Free, On-Line Guide
to Staffing
Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD | Applies to nonprofits and for-profits
unless noted Firms value access to skills from
outsourcing R&D
A new survey shows how companies benefit from overseas research and development
The most valuable aspect of research & development (R&D) outsourcing is the
opportunity it provides to tap into worldwide skills and capabilities, according
to a survey by Indian IT services firm Wipro. (Vnunet)
India:
After SEZs, now Special Education Zones
As Indian corporates are busy building special economic zones (SEZ), the Indian
IT industry is planning to form a new form of SEZ - a Special Education Zone. At
a time when Wipro, TCS, Infosys are increasing their headcount, the IT and BPO
industry is facing a talent crunch due to lack of sufficient qualified hands.
The industry is trying to find innovative ways to overcome the problem and they
have decided to set up a special education zone. (DNA)
Norway:
Make your own search engine with the Yahoo Search Builder
Yahoo! Has launched what it calls a search builder. It lets you build a
specialized search engine tailored to your interests, your business, your web
site etc. This is done in four easy steps: Define your search engine, design the
search box, brand the search results and add it to your site. Here at Pandia we
tested it this morning and it took us all of 20 minutes. (Pandia)
Spain:
Unemployed man to lose home as public loo condemned
Jose Tormo has been without a job for the last twenty years, but for the last
fifteen, he has been living in the reduced space of just three square metres
inside a public lavatory in Carcaixent. The Town Hall had previously authorised
his "stay" in one of the lavatories in the Navarro Dias Park, but now Mr Tormo
is being forced to move as the Town Hall wants to tear the building down. (Think
Spain)
Uganda:
Call Centres Driving Business Outsourcing
IN what is termed business outsourcing, Ugandans have started pocketing millions
of shillings by simply sitting behind computers and answering phone calls from
prospective clients. In January, the ministry of Education entered in
partnership with Global Management Consortium-Trade Information Network
(GMC-TIN), a Canadian learning corporation, to provide low cost and affordable
training in ICT, professional development and call centre management. The
programme dubbed EasyLearning has so far trained over 600 Ugandans. (The
Monitor (Kampala))
UK:
Outsourcing of employee benefit admin to
double
The worldwide market for outsourced employee benefit administration is set to
double in size to reach $22bn (£64bn) over the next five years, analysts have
predicted. Outsourcing the administration of staff benefits is increasingly
driven by the need to offer staff more flexible benefit packages as part of
recruitment and retention initiatives, analyst firm NelsonHall says in a new
report. (Computer
Weekly) Ageing workforce changing the way
managers plan their strategy
The ageing workforce and approaching retirement of the "baby boom" generation is
changing how companies plan and execute their business strategies, with a
greater emphasis on workforce planning as a way of improving competitiveness and
boosting productivity. A study by U.S researcher The Conference Board has found
more companies are spending more time and effort analysing and forecasting the
talent they have or need to acquire in order to execute their business strategy.
(Management
Issues)
US:
Employees at war still a challenge for HR at home
Uncertainty about the length of time employees will be away from the job while
they serve in the National Guard or Army Reserve remains the top concern for
employers whose workers are on active duty, a Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM) poll shows. This was the main concern, cited by 79 percent of
the 327 HR professionals surveyed online the week of July 18. That concern has
lessened, however, from the 86 percent in 2004 who cited this as the top
challenge of having active-duty employees. (SHRM)
Oodle Hires Ex-KR Exec Lem Lloyd as VP, Sales and
Development
Oodle, the online search engine for local classified ads, has hired former
Knight Ridder executive Lem Lloyd as vice president of sales and business
development. Lloyd's duties will include growing traffic through partnerships
and distribution deals. Most recently Lloyd oversaw the print and online
classified business for Knight Ridder including its partnerships with
CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com, and Apartments.com. He was also in charge of Knight
Ridder's online national sales and its Real Cities Network. (Editor
and Publisher)
Employers Using Vacation Time as Recruiting Tool
The competition for talent is prompting many employers to offer more vacation
time, according to the Washington Post. Companies that cannot afford to pay
large salaries, such as smaller companies and nonprofits, can especially benefit
from offering more vacation time as a way to attract candidates. (BLR)
Wasting time on job not always a waste, some managers say
One-and-a-half hours into his lunch break Wednesday, Phil Heaps was in no rush
to get back to work. Instead, the RV sales consultant enjoyed a Cuban cigar and
idle banter with his co-workers under the shade next to Riverside's Mission Inn.
"Vacations here aren't like they are in other countries," said Heaps, 23, to the
nodding approval of his colleagues. "So we reap benefits in small amounts of
downtime." (PE.com)
Apple makes desired employer list
Apple is among the top five Most Desired Technology Employers in 2006, according
to the 8th Annual State of Student Recruiting Report. The other companies
to make it into the top five are Google, Microsoft, IBM and Yahoo!. The
new report from Research and Markets "presents results of an in-depth survey of
787 undergrad and MBA technology students. The report reveals how technology
students view prospective employers, how they determine where to apply, where
they choose to work, and much more."(Spymac)
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