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Reveille and Hyperbole:
Arbita,
the leading provider of global jobs cross posting solutions, is pleased to
announce controlled distribution of their client's job ads to Google Base. The
Arbita - Google Base solution provides clients with the ability to select Google
Base as a destination for their job ads and to have responses routed directly to
their corporate careers website on demand. "In crafting our integration with
Google Base it was important to assure that our clients were empowered to
control the distribution process," said Arbita's CTO, Ed Haswell. "The benefits
of increased visibility and traffic to our clients career and employment web
sites are clear." Haswell continued, "Our integration is differentiated by the
fact that every job posting to Google Base will be directly controlled by our
users, while page views, click-throughs and responses will be tracked and
reported through our media analytics platform. Delivering measurable results is
a core value in our development philosophy and we are very pleased to have
received the support and cooperation of Google's engineering team to achieve
this outcome for our clients."
JobCloud.com
has just launched an online portal where jobseekers, employers and recruiters
can register free. The new site allows IT jobseekers to post their resumes and
gigs at no cost. Employers can also post one free job every month. JobCloud.com
is the first job site to combine job and gig (classifieds) posting under one
roof. JobCloud.com is based on the web 2.0 concepts of tag clouds. (Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia defines tags as: keywords or terms used to classify
content by means of a folksonomy. Tags are usually chosen informally and
personally by the author/creator of the item).
iCIMS, a
leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Web-based Hiring Management
Solutions, announced that the company has formed a marketing alliance with Human
Capital Resources, LLC (HCR), a software company specializing in Employee
Performance and Salary management solutions.
Forbes.com today
launched a new career center specifically aimed at currently employed executives
and professionals who require total privacy and anonymity. The new
Forbes.com Career Center, (
www.forbes.com/quietagent ) powered by QuietAgent.com, is free for job seekers;
employers pay a fee once a job seeker accepts an invitation from the employer
to release their personal information. After the
untimely events of Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath that resulted in many
unnecessary deaths and displaced families,
Collegiate Recruitment Team (CRT) Executive Director Wendell Tull decided
that he wanted to get in the game and not stand on the sidelines and complain
about what was not done to help victims of Hurricane Katrina or other natural
and unnatural disasters. So Tull, a former division 1 basketball player and
Executive Director of CRT, made a decision that his organization is going to
raise 1 million or more in order to have a more dramatic impact on those who are
affected by catastrophic events. Tull's organization operates a job board that
is comprised of college graduates who competed as student-athletes while
undergraduates at their respective institutions.
Cornerstone
OnDemand, Inc., will participate in the industry's first Integrated
Performance & Learning Management Shootout against three other vendors at "Human
Resource Executive's" 9th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition on
October 5, 2006 in Chicago.
HighRoads'
Benefits Lifecycle Management (BLM) solution has been
named one of Human Resources Executive's 2006
Top HR Products of the Year. The solution enables more than a quarter of the
Fortune 500 to elevate administrative processes – that
historically had been paper-based and resource-intensive –
into an intelligence-driven platform for high-quality and economical benefit
programs.
Trovix Inc.,
a leading provider of intelligent search technology, announced that its
full-featured intelligent search and applicant tracking solution, Trovix
Recruit™, has been selected by Human Resource Executive® magazine as a Top HR
Product of the Year.
Judicial Watch,
the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government
corruption, announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the Orange County
Superior Court against the City of Laguna Beach for spending taxpayer funds to
operate the Laguna Day Worker Center, a day laborer site that helps illegal
aliens find jobs and provides other public benefits, including English language
instruction. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Laguna Beach taxpayers Eileen
Garcia and George Riviere, who have been very active challenging the day laborer
site.
Plateau Systems,
a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing
organizational skills and talent, will be showcasing its industry-leading talent
management solutions in the industry's first
Integrated Performance and Learning Management Shootout during the 9th annual HR
Technology Conference and Expo from October 4 – 6,
2006, in Chicago.
PayScale,
Inc., a leader in real-time online compensation information for employers and
individuals, today announced that PayScale Professional, its new compensation
data service for HR professionals and hiring managers, has been named as one of
the "Top 10 HR Products of the Year" by Human Resource Executive magazine.
PayScale Professional's service was recognized for ease-of-use, innovation and
value because it enables HR professionals to perform salary comparisons based on
the specific factors that influence a position's compensation, such as;
education, workplace skills, certifications, and length of service rather than
on the job title alone.
Resume Mirror, a division of
Talent Technology Corporation,
and providers of award winning applicant data management components and
solutions, announced it has been recognized and awarded the Human Resource
Executive magazine's Top HR Product for 2006. The award recognizes the company's
Enterprise Applicant Manager™ (EAM™) solution which allows virtually instant
capture, processing and delivery of resume data into the leading ERP human
capital management applications including Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP.
Psichometrics International LLC (PI), an industry leader in
workplace assessments, is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with
HRsmart, Inc. that will allow seamless
delivery of assessments within the HRsmart ATS platform.
GettingHired,
LLC, provider of advanced screening and matching capabilities for employers and
job seekers via its job portal GettingHired.com, announced today it will host
two executive breakfast seminars titled "Using
Assessment Results to Make Smart Hiring Decisions."
The seminars will be given by Dr. Charles Handler, President of Rocket-Hire.com
- a noted author and expert in the field of applying psychometrics to the
workplace.
Taleo, a
provider of on demand talent management solutions, released findings from its
study entitled, "Career Site Recruiting in the FTSE 100 companies: A Missed
Opportunity." The results show just under half (49 per cent) of FTSE 100
companies do not have full online application functionality on their websites,
limiting their ability to automate and improve their end to end recruitment
process.
Students can learn a lot in school, but when it comes to
real-life skills like getting a job, managing money and balancing your life,
Nicholas Aretakis and 20-somethings from coast to coast say the classroom falls
short in a new book titled No More
Ramen: The 20-something's real world survival guide, which is available in
bookstores now.
You Should Know:
Global:
Training HR managers to encounter the age
and gender bias in IT
A new Leonardo da Vinci project has kicked off recently. The project coordinated
by the Vienna based Centre for Social Innovation, aims at developing training
tools for HR managers in IT in order to get over the age and gender bias that
characterises the industry. The project called MATURE brings together a
consortium of 16 partners, including IT companies, universities, NGOs and UNI
Europa's IT Committee. The need for remedies is obvious: the IT industry is
still primarily male and young. Over 80% of all IT professionals are under the
age of 45 and less than 20% are female. As study by the University of Cambridge,
analyzing IT employment in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, shows that less
than 5% of the IT workforces in these three countries are in the age group of 55
– 64. (UNI)
Norway:
Link building, Web 2.0 style
Getting listed in social sites or "folksonomies" like digg, Netscape, Reddit and
Fanpop, may help generate links and improve your search engine ranking. Web 2.0
is a buzzword for the increasing importance of social sites, i.e. websites where
the readers contribute more to the content of the site than the owners
themselves. There are especially three types of Web 2.0 sites that are of
importance for search engine marketers: bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, blog
trackers and search engines like Technorati, and article recommendation sites
like digg. (Pandia)
South Africa:
ACA introduces HR forum
The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has launched a Human
Resources (HR) Forum that will focus on staff welfare issues, made up of
experienced HR directors from among ACA members. ACA chief executive Zandile
Nzalo says the formation of the forum has been vital because human capital is
key to the success of the industry, which relies heavily on intellectual and
creative capabilities. (BizCommunity)
UK:
Bottomley Predicts
Executive Search Industry Consolidation
Virginia Bottomley, an executive director of OPD, has
forecast a wave of consolidation in the executive search industry. Addressing
the Recruitment Society last week on the subject New Developments in Search, she
said there would be "fewer, larger" firms as the search industry followed the
trend set by the bigger law and accountancy firms. Bottomley served in the last
Conservative government, from 1992 to 1995 as health secretary, and then
national heritage secretary until 1997. She was an MP from 1984 until last year,
when she became Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone. She joined Odgers, now part
of OPD, in 1999. Among the roles she has recruited for was chief executive of
the London Organising Committee for the Olympics, when she headhunted Paul
Deighton from Goldman Sachs. (recruitermagazine.co.uk)
A Million Pixels for the Recruitment Industry
British entrepreneur, Justin Hodnett 28, is changing the way recruiters
advertise by cashing in on the latest internet advertising craze of selling 1
million pixels for £1 each solely for the recruitment industry. Justin, CEO of
the JustGroup based in Preston, Lancashire who owns JustFindAJob.com Job Board
hopes that this will become a unique venture as it is the first one of its kind
for the recruitment industry in the UK. (Onrec)
IT firms ignorant of UK ageism clampdown
An "alarming" number of IT companies are struggling to understand new age
discrimination legislation which came into force in the UK yesterday. (VNUNet)
New legislation sees recruitment receiving the process
management touch
Online recruitment technology can play a major part in helping businesses
implement appropriate new procedures, when it comes to the new Age
Discrimination legislation. By using online applications and back office support
systems, businesses can control and record the recruitment process, to help
ensure that hiring decisions are based on skills and capabilities rather than
age related information. (OnRec)
US:
Labor Shortage: Recruitment and Retention Strategies
The labor market has gotten so tight that one employer at the recent Loudoun
County Chamber of Commerce job fair refused to divulge the company's recruiting
methods, saying he didn't want to reveal his "secrets" to competitors. Others,
however, were happy to comment on what they're seeing and doing not just to
recruit, but also to retain, workers. (Leesburg2Day)
Help Wanted In Central Florida
The signs of a booming economy are up in Central Florida. Help wanted signs are
posted everywhere, including signs on gas pumps that offer jobs to people ready
to work at the convenience stores inside. Even though the abundance of signs
represents an opportunity for local workers, it is an obstacle for employers who
aren't paying high-end wages,
WESH 2 News reported.
Finding a Job: What's Your Passion?
For a generation, workers would decide on a career and stick with it
until retirement. Today, it's very common for people to change their
careers as many as four to seven times in a lifetime. And as many as
half of all employees in this country say they'd love to make a job
change if they could. The reasons for changing careers vary from
displeasure with initial choices and boredom to new values and
dreams for yourself or even the desire to make more money. (ABCNews)
Dream home wish lists are unique for every
individual
If only Ty Pennington would build a dream house for all of us. He
would arrive with builders and decorators and landscape crews and
turn our everyday habitat into a space that goes beyond our wildest
expectations in a television nanosecond. Hit the snooze button.
Because that kind of miracle only happens in our sleep cycle.
A survey done by GFK Roper, a global research organization, found
that different generations have different aspirations for their
living space. The survey outlined dream living arrangements by age
group — Generation Y (born from 1978 to the present); Generation X
(born from 1965 to 1977) and the Baby Boomers (born from 1946 to
1964). (Journalstar)
Being young isn't as easy as some old-timers
think it is
Spare me from the folks who complain that today's young people have
it easy. Life is much tougher for the average person starting out
today as opposed to the circumstances that confronted many baby
boomers leaving the nest in the 1960s and '70s. Think about the
economic and educational hurdles that are much higher today. Members
of Generation X and Generation Y often pay more just to rent an
apartment than their parents pay for a mortgage on a house. (PensacolaNewsJournal.com)
New England Universities Launch Recruitment
Site
The region's academic institutions are collaborating online to court
talent. Thirty-six New England universities and colleges launched an
Internet site Monday with more than 3,000 job openings for faculty,
administrators, and hospital personnel. The New England Higher
Education Recruitment Consortium's site, found at
www.newenglandherc.org, is free to job seekers and not restricted to
people who work in academia. Jobs listed range from positions for
professors and lecturers to openings for physicians, scientists,
laboratory technicians, researchers, and medical and support staff.
(MIT)
Employers' recruitment conference planned
The first Employers' Recruitment, Retention & Resources Conference
will be held on Oct. 4 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Delaware Technical
Community College Terry Campus in Dover. Workforce development
experts will discuss best practices in recruiting and retaining top
employees in a competitive market. Employers will learn the latest
information on training and education grants, tax credit updates,
transportation options, child-care resources and mediation services.
(DelawareOnline)
Deep Release:
APSCREEN Warns Businesses of Common Background Check
Mistakes That Could Lead to Negligent Hiring Lawsuits
Background check pioneer Tom Lawson serves as expert witness on many court cases
that he says could have been avoided.
"If they only knew what I know," says Thomas Lawson, CEO of
APSCREEN, "then businesses could avoid negligent hiring lawsuits altogether."
According to Lawson, today background checks are becoming a standard procedure
that provides a false sense of security due to processes fraught with pitfalls.
Lawson pioneered the background check industry in 1980 when he
was among the first to provide corporations with a comprehensive pre-employment
screening service. His first clients were from the aerospace industry who
demanded the highest level of background checking.
A Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified International
Investigator, Lawson is also recognized as one of the first court-certified
"expert" witnesses on cases requiring testimony (in trial and depositions)
related to negligent hiring, human resource management, employment screening,
and use, interpretation, as well as compliance of Fair and Accurate Credit
Transactions Act (FACTA), Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act (CCRRA), and the
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in the Human
Resource context. He has been listed in O'Brien's Legal Expert Pages since 1993
and also has testified regarding hidden assets research, white collar
crime/fraud, embezzlement, factual due diligence, internal theft and
investigative standards of care.
To help avoid negligent hiring, Lawson suggests the following:
1. Know the rules. The FCRA and FACTA contain crucial
information for anyone hiring. For example, "you must always tell your applicant
that you are running a background check and you must get written consent to do
so. The applicant must also receive a copy of the report within three days
whether or not the state law requires it," Lawson said.
2. Get positive candidate identification. Lawson also said it
is critical to verify the applicant's name, including akas and aliases, social
security numbers as well as dig up a complete address history and confirmation
of date of birth. "Better to confirm the applicant is who they say they are or
you may be opening yourself up to a variety of possibilities."
3. Know your applicant's responsibility attitudes. Lawson
says, "use common sense when reviewing financial records including credit
reports and driving history. How a person handles this part of their lives tells
you a lot about how their responsibility will translate into the workplace."
4. Check criminal history in the courts, not online databases.
The FACTA/FCRA allows reporting of felonies and misdemeanors back seven years.
"With this kind of search, knowledge is power so be sure to use a certified
consumer reporting agency and not an online database," he said. "Databases are
often out of date and incomplete." He added businesses should include a national
sex offender registry and terrorist watch list checks.
5. Determine other screening options. "Each applicant may
require different background checks depending on their employment
classification," Lawson said. "Know everything necessary to assure the applicant
will fit into your organization including drug screening, I-9 verification
(immigration), personality testing, and reference checks. You should always
verify education and previous employment."
Founded in 1980, APSCREEN is based in Rancho Santa Margarita,
California and is the originator of the factual employment-screening concept.
APSCREEN provides nationwide coverage for businesses seeking the highest
caliber, most comprehensive background checks for pre-employment screening.
Thomas Lawson, CEO of APSCREEN and a Certified Fraud Examiner, authored the
Pre-Employment Screening series, published in The Complete Workplace Violence
Prevention Manual, which is used as the gold standard in Best Hiring Practices.
APSCREEN also offers tenant screening and employee locate services. More
information is available by calling toll-free (800) 277-2733 or register online
at www.APSCREEN.com .
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2006 SHRM Workplace Diversity Conference
October 16-18, 2006
Century Plaza Hotel
and Spa
Los Angeles, California
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9th Annual Talent Acquisition & Staffing Summit
October 16-19 2006
Renaissance Atlanta Downtown Hotel
$2099
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Hunt Scanlon Advisors present
"Defining
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New
York city
October 18 - 20, 2006
New York Palace
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HR.com's Employers of Excellence 2006
October 25 - 27,
2006
Red Rock Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada
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HR-XML Consortium's
Summit
Oct. 25-26
Barcelona, Spain
$265
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8th
Annual Corporate University Week
Design, Deliver & Evaluate Effective Training
November 13-16, 2006
Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando FL.
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Bangalore HR Summit 2006
December 15 & 16, 2006
Leela Palace, Airport Road, Bangalore-1,India
$250
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