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A non-profit association of over 200 leading U. S. corporations announced
the launch of JobCentral National Labor Exchange to provide job seekers,
employers and states a corporate-sponsored, cost-effective transition from
federally-funded America's Job Bank (AJB) when it is phased out in June
2007 as announced earlier this year by the U. S. Department of Labor. The
announcement was made by DirectEmployers Association board member David H.
Williams, Manager of Professional Recruiting Services at Xerox Corporation.
JobCentral National Labor Exchange, a service of
DirectEmployers Association, allows job seekers to search jobs with one search
across thousands of corporate web sites, Google, networking site Jobster, and
leading Internet employment search engines such as Indeed.com and
SimplyHired.com. Over five million (5,000,000) jobs are available to job seekers
from corporate web sites, newspapers, trade associations, and other Internet
sources in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, 230 major metropolitan
areas, and all U.S. cities and postal zip code areas. The service is available
free-of-charge to job seekers.
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You Should Know:
Australia: Over 50s go online
THE online posts appear earnest, but not plaintive.
Ladybird calls herself a "transplanted grandma" living in another state who
hopes to trade email with new friends.
JoeMarty – who has never been in a chat room or posted a message online – wants
to know if "anyone out there" is into bikes, the kind with pedals, he notes, not
internal-combustion engines. Like some 300,000 others in recent weeks, they have
logged on to a new website, Eons.com. The site is banking on a digital awakening
among recreation-minded baby boomers and those more mature, a growing and
increasingly active demographic, online and everywhere else. (Courier
Mail)
Canada:
Drowning in a sea of HR difficulties?
A website set to launch next year could end the confusion, TERRENCE BELFORD
reports
This January, the 16,500-member Human Resources Professionals Association of
Ontario plans to launch a new website directed toward simplifying one of the
greatest challenges facing small business today: finding, recruiting and then
retaining employees. For a $300 a year fee, businesses will have unlimited
access to the site's 40 modules, which deal with the ins and outs of hiring,
firing, training and retaining staff. If the site delivers as billed then it
will be a significant resource, says Catherine Swift, president of the
Canadian Federation of Independent Business. (Globe
and Mail )
Global: VentureBlog: VCs Are Marketing Geniuses
VCs like to think that they are marketing geniuses. We really do. We meddle more
in the marketing of our portfolio companies than any other area. If you have a
chance to sit in on a startup board meeting, you can see this in action. The CFO
gives a finance update and a few cursory questions are asked. The VP of
Engineering talks about development and board members sit around the table
nodding appreciatively. Then the VP of Marketing gets up and suddenly everyone
around the table has a point of view. Poor VPs of Marketing. Their role at board
meetings is to be diplomats and pretend that we investors are marketing
geniuses. Frankly, the reason investors have so many opinions about marketing is
that we can fake it far more convincingly than in other areas of the operations
-- faking it when it comes to scalability issues, or which technical standard to
endorse, or revenue recognition for term licenses, etc. is a lot harder. But
show us a proposed product name, web page layout or advertising slogan and we
are full of suggestions. (NewsFactor)
UK: Stage set for age employment laws
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister again at the age of 77 One of the
most important changes in UK employment law for many years starts on 1 October.
The new rules will outlaw age discrimination in employment and vocational
training. They will be just as important as the laws outlawing discrimination on
grounds of race, sex, disability, religion and sexual orientation. But so far
remarkably little official publicity has been given to the impending changes.
(BBC)
US: AAIA Town Hall to
Address Workforce Shortage
On stage at this year's Town Hall will be NBC, CNN, PBS broadcast journalist
Judy Woodruff; the Walt Disney Company's senior vice president of human
resources, organization and leadership development Steven Milovich; and the
co-presidents of O'Reilly Auto Parts, Greg Henslee, CEO and Ted Wise, COO.
Kathleen Schmatz, AAIA president and CEO, will serve as discussion moderator.
Schmatz will moderate a candid discussion and presentation of data, trends and
strategies exploring the impact of the impending workforce shortage on corporate
America and the aftermarket industry. The AAIA Town Hall, sponsored by NASCAR
Performance, will be held Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 7 a.m. in the new Palazzo
Ballroom in the Venetian Hotel. (The
Auto Channel)
Groundbreaking Research on Workforce
Management Practices Finds 41% Dissatisfied
Trotter, Monger, and Davis partner to deliver greater insights into WFM
Practices
Customer Relationship Metrics, L.C., announced that it has completed the
analysis of a 3-month study into Contact Center Workforce Management Practices
sponsored by Aspect, Witness Systems and Pipkins, Inc. The research was
performed in partnership with Mike Trotter- Purdue University, Dr. Jodie Monger—
President, Customer Relationship Metrics, and Scott Davis — Principal, Customer
Cubed, LLC. (CRM Today)
Report Says Local Workers Lag Others in State
Sacramento Group Paints Grim Employment Picture, But Some Disagree With Findings
A report issued last week says that workers in Los Angeles County are lagging
behind their counterparts across the state, earning less money and having
reduced purchasing power. The result, according to the study, raises troubling
questions for the future. But those aren't the only questions. Some local
observers are expressing doubts about the findings and the stances of the
organization that came up with them. (LA
Downtown News)
Where are the women in tech? At least 1200 will be in San Diego
In about two weeks, more than 1200 women plus a handful of men will meet in San
Diego for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It is organized by
the Anita Borg Institute, the leading advocate for women in technology
leadership roles, and the Association of Computing Machinery. I recently I met
with Telle Whitney, the energetic and passionate head of the Anita Borg
Institute, housed within HP Labs in the heart of Silicon Valley. Also at the
meeting was Alan Eustace. VP of engineering at Google. Both Mr Eustace and Ms
Whitney had once worked with Anita Borg, one of the world's top women computer
scientists. (ZDNet)
Missouri recruiters will target 8 industries
The Missouri Department of Economic Development detailed a plan Friday to
recruit companies of various sizes from outside the state to help bolster eight
industries. \The department said it will hire eight people to concentrate on
bringing in companies in agribusiness, information technology, energy, logistics
and trade, life sciences, financial services, transportation and defense and
homeland security. These recruiters will be employees of the department. In
addition, the economic development department will contract with five additional
experts in other states to recruit businesses to Missouri. (STLToday)
After a slip in 2005, Army meets recruiting goal with eight days to spare
The Army is ending its best recruiting year since 1997 and expecting similar
success in 2007, despite the weight of grim war news from Iraq, Army Secretary
Francis Harvey said Thursday. In an interview, Harvey said the Army would enlist
its 80,000th soldier on Friday, reaching its goal for the year with eight days
to spare. That is a considerable turnaround from last year when the Army missed
its target for the first time since 1999 and by the widest margin in more than
two decades. At the start of this recruiting year, which began Oct. 1, 2005,
many questioned whether the Army would reach 80,000, given the many alternative
career options available to young people and the growing unpopularity of the
Iraq war. But a package of new financial incentives, new recruiting approaches
and a bigger recruiting corps did the trick. (Seattle
Times)
Deep Release:
Older Workers In
Demand, Shatter Myths OLDEST AMERICANS
GAIN JOBS FASTEST; BOOMER COMPETITION COULD SLOW GROWTH
The most compelling quality a job seeker can possess in today's employment
market apparently is to be over the age of 55, according to newly revealed
statistics.
Older workers are in high demand. As a result, the number of Americans working
in their 50s, 60s, 70s and even 80s is at a record high, according to a new
analysis of federal employment data by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
However, it will become increasingly
difficult for older job seekers to find positions. The reason? It is not age
discrimination, but fierce competition from job-seeking baby boomers, 70 percent
of whom plan to stay in the workplace beyond the traditional retirement age of
65.
Unpublished Bureau of Labor Statistics
data analyzed by Challenger show that employers are indeed embracing older
workers and job seekers. As of August, the number of workers 55 and older
reached 24.6 million, the highest level ever recorded. About one-fourth of these
older workers (5.2 million) were 65 and older. That is a giant leap of 45
percent from 3,617,000 in August 1996 and just below the record high of 5.4
million set in May.
The number of older workers is not
only growing, it is growing faster than any other age group. The Challenger
analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that employment among workers
55 and older grew 10.5 percent between 2003 and 2005. The pace did not drop for
those 65 and older, whose ranks of employed grew 10.5 percent from an average of
4.6 million in 2003 to 5.1 million in 2005.
Those increases are more than double
the 4.1 percent growth rate experienced by 45- to 54-year-olds. Meanwhile, 35-
to 45-year-olds saw employment fall 0.7 percent. The preference for older
workers has also resulted in a significant drop in the amount of time it takes
job seekers 50 and older to find new positions. The Challenger survey of 3,000
job seekers in the second quarter of 2006 found that the median job search time
for those 50 and older was virtually equal to that of younger job seekers.
Further evidence of employers'
acceptance of older workers is found in the latest charge statistics from the
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The number of age
discrimination filed in fiscal year 2005 fell to 16,585, down 7.0 percent
from 17,837 in 2004 -- the fewest charges since 2000 when 16,008 age-related
charges were filed with the age.
In 1948, one in four 65-year-olds was
employed. That percentage steadily fell to a low of 10 percent in the mid-1980s.
The percentage of working retirees has been on the rise since the mid-1990s and
it may not be long until we are back to the 25 percent level not seen since
1951," said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray &
Christmas. The coming surge in the percentage of employed retirees will be led
by the baby boomer generation, 70 percent of whom plan to continue working
during their retirement years, according to recent surveys by AARP.
"Employers are learning through experience that most if not all of the long-held
common perceptions about older workers simply are not true. For example, the
greatest misperception about older workers was that the diminishing health that
accompanies aging would be too costly in terms of increased absenteeism and
higher health insurance costs.
"However, today's seniors are much
healthier. Many employers have probably found that older workers take no more
sick days than their younger counterparts," said Challenger.
Older workers have also put to rest
age-related myths regarding their energy levels, productivity, enthusiasm, and
ability to learn new concepts and techniques and get along with younger workers.
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