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The
Human Capital Foundation (HCF),
an international charitable organization that provides direct assistance
programs to help AIDS orphans and children living in extreme poverty in
developing countries, announced progress in its efforts to help AIDS
orphans in Ethiopia. The Human Capital Foundation's first project in Ethiopia
was the Selamta (be at peace) Project, which includes a children's home,
sponsorship and reunification programs, a clinic, and the creation of small
group homes to accommodate the growing number of AIDS orphans. The Selamta
Children's Center is now home to 23 children, ages 4 to 13.
Proactel, an executive recruitment company operating throughout
Latin America, and Hogan Assessment
Systems, a firm that provides personality assessment tests for employee
selection and development, have announced a partnership that expands the
international scope of each business. The partnership with Proactel is the sixth
international distributorship formed this year by Hogan. In addition to Hogan's
partnership with Proactel, it has expanded the representation of its assessment
tools and reports in 2006 to Iceland, Kenya, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia,
China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional
association and educator in talent management strategies, and
TalentTrack, a recruitment process
outsourcing firm, announced today that TalentTrack will sponsor HCI's
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) education and research track. The track is
one of several topics addressed in HCI's Talent Acquisition community of
interest, a community HCI considers critical to organizations working to
leverage human capital.
First Advantage's Recruiting Solutions Division, formerly TruStar
Solutions, announced the release of a recruitment whitepaper detailing new best
practices in targeting and recruiting college and recent-graduate level talent.
The whitepaper is non-promotional, and is available for free download at:
www.fadvrecruiting.com.
Todays Staffing, a subsidiary of staffing and outsourcing leader
CDI Corporation, announces today the results of their 2006 client satisfaction
survey. Satisfaction with Todays overall performance was ranked at 95 percent
(satisfied or better) – well above the industry average of 88 percent as
reported by Staffing Industry Analysts, Inc (SIA) after a February 2006 survey.
Deck Chairs: RELO Direct®,
Inc., a
full-service relocation management company headquartered in Chicago,has hired Robin Bassett as vice president of sales, David Smith as
vice president of client services and Thomas Loncar as director of emerging
market sales.
You Should Know:
Australia: Purse strings among the ties that bind
AN ABC radio program this week had a call-in on the issue of older children
staying at home with their parents. The announcer said we were about to hear
from a woman with a dilemma. Amid all the news of trouble in the Middle East and
potential terrorist threats in the air broadcast earlier that morning, this
woman was seriously agonising about something else closer to home. Her
19-year-old son was at university and had a part-time job. He lived at home and
paid some board. But when she took him to the doctor the other day, he had paid
for the prescriptions for his illness. Her problem: should she have paid for it
or should she have let her son pay for the medicine? (The
Australian)
Global: NGF newsletter looks at future impact of baby
boomers on golf
Most of the third quarter issue of NGF's Golf Industry Report newsletter is
devoted to an analysis of the potential impact of the baby boom generation on
the golf industry over the next 20 years. The issue will arrive in members'
mailboxes in a few days. Meanwhile, we're presenting a sneak peek at some of the
key points from the study. Baby boomers are the 78 million Americans born
between 1946 and 1964. They are ages 42 to 60 in 2006. One in four Americans is
a baby boomer; a boomer turns 60 every seven seconds. Boomers were responsible
for many dramatic cultural changes that occurred after World War II, from the
peace movement to the yuppie phenomenon. (World
Golf)
Skilled Workers Island-Hop in Caribbean Caribbean Experiments With More Mobile Workers, Sparking Competition Fears
With construction stagnant in her native Jamaica, architect Mandilee Newton left
one island for another -- taking a design job in oil- and gas-rich Trinidad. By
finding a position across the Caribbean, the bespectacled Newton, 27, said she
managed to boost her career without migrating to Europe or North America like so
many skilled workers from the region. (Yahoo)
Baby Boomer
A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased
birth
rates when economic prosperity rose in many countries following
World
War II. In the
United States, the term is
iconic and more
properly capitalized as Baby Boomers and commonly applied to people with birth
years from the span
1946 to 1964,
which may comprise more than one generation.
The Baby Boom
is the iconic term widely used to refer to the American population and culture
in particular, as post
WW II
demographics abroad did not mirror the sustained growth in American families
over the same interval. Baby boomers also had the
highest median household incomes in the United States.[1] (Wikipedia)
Philippines:
We are turning 45, a good age to be
We are 45. Yes, the newspaper you now hold in your hands (or which you read in
your PCs) has been continuously around for a full four and a half decades. If
this seems like a long time, it may be because it really is. For the past 45
years, we have been witness to the growth of the Filipino American community
here in the U.S., as well as objective reporter to the historic events in our
homeland, the Republic of the Philippines. (Philipine
News)
UK:
Baby boom proves economic power
The first of the Baby Boomers are turning 60 this year - and the BBC is running
a series of articles and interviews to mark the milestone. Here the BBC News
website's economics reporter Steve Schifferes considers the generation as an
economic force. (BBC)
Baby boom... and bust
Baby boomers like to trumpet their generation's achievements. But their fondness
for conspicuous consumption and foreign travel has led to many a modern-day ill,
from rising debt to environmental woes. (BBC)
US: Caskets for the Obese, Eternal Reefs Await
Baby-Boom Generation
In ``Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death,'' Time
magazine writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen takes an anthropological field trip through
the varied ways that baby boomers are rejecting the solemn funeral traditions of
earlier generations. We learn of a tango devotee whose last rites have her pals
dancing to a sexy bandoneon and downing Argentine-style empanadas and sangria.
We attend a New Orleans jazz funeral conducted by New Jersey Jews, whose rabbi
conveniently plays brass. We listen to ukeleles at the Maui memorial of a man
who loved the Hawaiian Islands. (Bloomberg)
Survey: No negative impact on natives' job
A survey says rapid increases in U.S. foreign-born population weren't associated
with negative effects on the employment of native-born workers. The survey by
the Pew Hispanic Center examined data in the boom years of the 1990s and the
downturn and recovery since 2000, the center announced. (Big
News Network.com)
Baby Boomer Nation
There are 78 million baby boomers in the United States today. This generation,
born between 1946 and 1964, comprises about 30 percent of the population. In
addition to their sheer size and accumulated wealth, baby boomers have been
given an incredible gift with a longer life expectancy than previous generations
… perhaps one to two decades more. The important question becomes: "What are you
going to do with all of this extra time?" (SDS
Universe)
Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
Ecclesiastes's message that things of this world are all ultimately meaningless
resurfaced with a bang when the Baby Boomer activists of the 1960s and 70s
rebelled against what they perceived to be the emptiness and hypocrisy of their
parents' goal-oriented lives in the 1950s. (News
By Us)
A new generation of students Speaker tells teachers they must relate differently as year begins
Getting students' attention today requires a shift in thinking by Baby Boomer
teachers, and even younger teachers who are just starting their careers, a
motivational speaker said at the annual opening convocation for USD 470 staff
members on Monday. (Arkcity.net)
Elder Care Website and Book Target Baby Boomer Caregivers
Doctor Marion launched by company claiming to be first with such media for
boomers
Older adults carrying for even older parents is a growing trend as American life
spans continue to lengthen. The latest effort at serving the need for caregiving
information is a new Website that also promotes an upcoming book. Marion Somers,
Ph.D., who calls herself "Doctor Marion," has announced her site is online now
and her book will be published next month (Senior
Journal)
Deep Release:
Boomer Labor Shortage Threatens Critical Sectors;
Age Lessons Proposes ''Skills Brokerage'' Concept To Guarantee Labor Supply,
Save Industries
Baby Boomer retirements and a too-small baby bust generation (12 million fewer
workers per retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan) will conspire to
create a brain drain of unprecedented proportions starting in less than four
years according to Laurel Kennedy, president of Age Lessons, the Baby Boomer
solutions firm. "Vulnerable sectors such as air traffic control, health care and
the government should tap into the older worker pool, keeping these valuable
personnel employed beyond age 65. One retention mechanism would be to re-purpose
professional groups and trade associations as "Skills Brokerages" that match
qualified workers to employer needs and maintain performance standards."
Age Lessons Consultant Tom Conley, a long-time association
executive and former President of the National Housewares Manufacturers
Association and Toy Industry Association, concurs. "Older workers may prove to
be the lifeline that reinvigorates associations, giving them a renewed purpose
and the ability to access an entire generation of workers for a longer period of
time, capturing revenue from membership dues and fees associated with continuing
education, certification and placement activities."
More than 80% of Boomers intend to work during retirement, but
no mechanism currently exists for plugging them into the employment picture once
retired. At the same time, associations are struggling in the post 9/11
environment, losing revenue streams as exhibit and destination-based programs
get re-directed to the Web for convenience, safety and cost-cutting reasons.
Conley added," Morphing into Skills Brokerages would transform associations into
more relevant entities capable of responding to the employer and Boomer need for
more flexible and creative employment options."
For more information about the Skills Brokerage concept and
other Age Lessons working retirement solutions, contact Laurel Kennedy at
773.252.0123 or visit the company web site www.agelessons.com.
About Age Lessons
Age Lessons offers innovative solutions addressing the unique
needs of the Baby Boomer cohort including working retirement programs designed
to help companies retain and attract mature workers such as LinkAGEs(TM), as
well as BoomerView(TM) audits that evaluate advertising messages, packaging and
product designs against Boomer normative benchmarks.
Laurel Kennedy, Age Lessons president, is writing a book about
Boomer women and elder care, proposing actionable ideas for employers,
government agencies and local communities.
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