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Reveille and Hyperbole:
TSRI,
pioneer and leader in the delivery of staffing services and technology workforce
solutions announced that Joe Kurtzke, RFID Sales Director, will serve as a
guest lecturer at the Oakton Community College's
Skokie Campus, 7701 North Lincoln Avenue, Skokie, IL on October 25, 2006. Mr.
Kurtzke will address current challenges associated with the RFID labor shortage.
Oakton Community College is a pioneer in RFID education. Oakton recently
announced the availability of two new certificate programs starting this fall
including Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFIDT) and Transportation,
Warehousing, and Logistics Management (TWL). Both programs focus on the use of
RFID for tracking and data collection through the supply chain, as well as in a
variety of other applications. Certificate recipients will be able to develop an
RFID deployment plan based on understanding how the technology can effectively
be used in their industry.
Plateau Systems,
a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing
organizational skills and talent, won the "Industry's First Integrated
Performance & Learning Management Shootout" at the 9th Annual HR Technology
Conference and Exposition in Chicago, Oct 5. The more than 350 human resource
professionals in attendance at the shootout voted Plateau the winner after
viewing live product demonstrations from all four competitors. The custom
demonstrations followed scripted scenarios written by industry experts CEO and
Principal Josh Bersin and Principal Analyst Leighanne Levensaler from Bersin &
Associates, and HR Technology Conference Co-Chair Bill Kutik. The three other
competitors were Cornerstone OnDemand, KnowledgePlanet and Saba.
Datatel, Inc.,
a leading provider of technology solutions and professional services to higher
education, today introduced the ActiveCampus Experience™,
a groundbreaking vision and strategic approach that gives faculty, staff,
students, and alumni complete access to the information and enterprise resources
they need to achieve their goals. The announcement was made at the EDUCAUSE 2006
Conference and Expo in Dallas, TX.
Axiom Consulting Partners (www.axiomcp.com)
today announced that it has received a 2006 WebAward for outstanding achievement
in website development from The Web Marketing Association (www.webaward.org).
More than 2,300 websites from 35 countries were adjudicated in 96 industry
categories during this year's WebAward competition. Entries were judged on top
website design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation and
use of technology.
95% of HR leaders recently surveyed by SHL
recognize that candidates could deliberately mislead organizations or exaggerate
their education or skills when applying for a job. 70% believe it is possible to
cheat in an online ability test. These figures— gathered in a recent survey
conducted by
SHL—
demonstrate the concern that US HR executives have about the validity of data
that is collected in the job application and interview process. They also help
to explain why only 30% of those surveyed report that they currently use online
testing in their hiring processes.
Spectrum Human Resource
Systems Corp. (Spectrum) headquartered in Denver,
Colo., and Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. (EASi), headquartered in
Pleasanton, Calif., announce the formation of a cooperative marketing agreement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Spectrum will offer EASi's equity
administration product, EMS™, for use in conjunction with Spectrum's iVantage®
human resource management system (HRMS).
TRUE.com®,
the leading scientifically based online relationship service, and Friendster, a
leading social network, have created a strategic relationship to help people
make relationship connections online. This multi-faceted alliance offers TRUE's
service to Friendster users in a new and innovative way."As social networking
online continues to grow, these sites want to expand their offering with an
online dating service," explains Herb Vest, founder and CEO of TRUE. "The
relationship between TRUE and Friendster is a logical one because we're both
pioneers and share similar target audiences. We can help each other's members
realize more from their online experience."
AestheticJobs.com announced its launch as the premier
site for careers in Medical Aesthetics and Wellness. The new website will ease
the recruiting process for thousands of medical aesthetics and cosmetic medicine
professionals worldwide. "As a medical spa owner, I understand the need and
difficulty in finding exceptional aesthetic talent" says S.J. Shah, Founder and
President of AestheticJobs.com. "This
site helps to fill a huge void by providing a central location for employers and
top medical aesthetics professionals to meet."
Reach Personal Branding
announced the launch of 360°Reach™ V3, a web-based 360-degree personal
branding assessment that provides users with critical, candid feedback from
respondents. Although there are numerous assessments that support talent
development and career growth, few provide valuable insights that relate to a
person's reputation. This new version of 360°Reach enables executives and
professionals to obtain objective, candid and actionable feedback about their
personal brands.
Waterstone Human Capital Ltd., a leading
retainer-based search firm, announces Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate
Cultures(TM) of 2006. The winning organizations have been selected as a result
of face-to-face interviews with 185 leading executives, who participated in
Waterstone's 2nd Annual Canadian Corporate Culture Study(TM). Participants were
asked the following question: What Canadian organizations do you admire most in
terms of having a corporate culture that has helped them be successful?
Responses delivered the following results:
Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures of 2006(TM)
1. WestJet Airlines Ltd.
.
2. Royal Bank of Canada
3. Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
4. Tim Hortons Inc.
5. Dell Canada Inc.
6. Microsoft Canada Co.
7. Four Seasons Hotels Inc
8. Research in Motion, Limited
9. Starbucks Coffee Canada Inc.
10. Yellow Pages Group Co. and Manulife Financial Corp. (Tie)
Experience.com
The Nation's Largest Network of Student and Alumni Candidates
When you need to hire the best college grads, think Experience.
Post - to 3 million college students & recent grads.
Target - your ideal candidates, by school, major, location & more.
Brand - your company as the place where they want to work.
Learn - about the candidates you want to hire & how to reach them.
Find your next great hires with Experience.
You Should Know:
Canada:
From social to serious
University groups have experienced massive change Partying replaced by
religion, charity and noble causes
If looking at student groups is a good way to gauge student life, universities
have made a massive shift over the past four decades away from dances, keggers,
drama clubs and drugs. That university experience died decades ago. We know it
existed, once. We've heard our parents talk about protests, about sit-ins turned
violent. About drinking too much. About parties and Pink Floyd and the time they
met the love of their lives. We've heard them talk about a time when you didn't
need more than one kind of birth control (TorontoStar)
Global:
U.K., Germany lead September Europe
recruitment dip: Monster survey
recruitment dipped in Europe during September, led by falls in both the U.K. and
Germany, an industry survey showed Tuesday.
In its latest look at employment trends based on online recruitment Web sites in
the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, Web-based recruiter
Monster Worldwide (MNST) said there was a general decrease in job availability
across most key sectors in September. The Monster Employment Index Europe
dropped to 124 in September from 126 in August, the first decline it has
experienced since April. A fall in the German index to 119 from 121 the month
before had the most significant downward impact on the overall index, as it is
Europe's largest employer.
"The decline in recruiting activity mirrors the downward change in investor and
analyst confidence in Germany in the past month," said Monster Worldwide Europe
Chief Executive Officer Peter Dolphin. (MarketWatch)
Spherion survey: Social sites not for work
A survey from Spherion Corp. shows six in 10 workers report they would not post
their resume on social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook or Friendster
for employers to see. However, employees don't appear to be ashamed of their
online activities. The Fort Lauderdale-based staffing firm said 37 percent of
respondents said they would not remove any content they have posted on their
MySpace, Facebook or Friendster site, even if they knew their employer could see
it. Spherion said 19 percent of respondents said they would post their resume on
such sites, while a third would remove content from their site if they knew
their employer could see it. (South
Florida Business Journal)
LinkedIn, Anyone?
Social networking for professionals
Like many journalists, I like to think that I am not just in the journalism
business, but that I am also in the connecting business -- helping various
people find and connect with one another. These people can range from reporters
looking for additional sources after they interview me, to students looking to
be introduced to editors in certain news outlets, to random requests over the
transom. Connecting people, however, is a dicey game. Every time you connect a
requester and a requestee (are these real words?), you are putting your own
reputation on the line. If the requester asks to be connected to a certain kind
of requestee and the person you connect him or her to isn't appropriate, you
have wasted the requester's time. Similarly, for each connection you try to make
of a requestee, you have to be sure it's a worthwhile connection and that the
requestee won't end up irritated with you for sending along someone less than
professional. (Poynter)
There is no privacy in the workplace computer
If you are convinced the folks in IT enjoy reading your e-mail, they will soon
have even more to keep them entertained. Your company may be getting new
software to capture every screen you ever pulled up -- and it's perfectly legal.
Thanks to executives who brought down companies like Enron and WorldCom, the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was created requiring every publicly traded company
to maintain electronic records of all information passing through a company
system. British computer company Chronicle Solutions has created software
designed for businesses that will capture every e-mail (including your personal
Yahoo account), all instant messages, Web pages viewed, and voice-over IP phone
calls. It's a sort of TiVo, or digital video recorder, for the business world. (Weblog)
Jamaica:
Surveys show key shifts in national
demographics
The latest survey of living conditions in Jamaica, in which consumption is used
as proxy for income, was published last week and officials were happy to trumpet
a further decline in poverty in the country. By this measure, the proportion of
Jamaicans living below the poverty line declined last year to 14.8 per cent,
from 16.9 per cent in 2004. This is relatively good news, despite the warning by
Dr. Wesley Hughes that it will be particularly difficult to pull poverty in
Jamaica into single digit. The significant problem here, according to Dr.
Hughes, is education underachievement in the country. This translates to a
surfeit of untrained people and, therefore, a labour force of marginal
productivity. (Gleaner)
UK:
Length of service could still leave
employers liable for equal pay claims
Employers must not be complacent about the European Court of Justice ruling on
the Cadman equal pay claim, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel
and Development (CIPD). The court rejected a claim by Bernadette Cadman, who
said her employer, the Health and Safety Executive, was unjustified in paying
her male colleagues more because they had not taken time off for childcare. (PersonnelToday)
US:
Farmers Facing A Growing Shortage Of
Field Workers
Farmers across the country are facing a growing shortage
of people in their fields. Agriculture is a $31 billion
dollar a year industry in California with Kern County
making up 11% of that amount. Historically there have
always been enough farm laborers to bring in the crops,
but for the first time ever California farmer's and
labor contractors are facing a growing labor shortage. (Turnto23)
Deep Release:
Halloween Trick or Treat:
Your Unconscious Workplace Masks May Be Stunting Your Career
by Ellen A. KayeThink October. What comes to mind? For
most people, it's Halloween, pumpkins and pint-sized goblins on a sugar-fueled,
door-to-door feeding frenzy. Me? I think about strategic re-positioning. That's
because Halloween is the perfect time to gain a major competitive business
advantage by doing an up-close evaluation of your everyday workplace masks. I
promise that if you do the following exercises correctly you will achieve
powerful results to benefit you, your company, your clients and your bottom
line.
The exercises are rooted in the theory that we all wear masks
in our daily lives. We show different parts of our personalities to different
people at different times. The person you are with your family is not the person
you are with your clients or your boss. At work, our deep-rooted fear of
exposing our weaknesses prompts us to put on our mask of perfection. It's a
survival instinct from our earliest days. We are innately driven to protect
those vulnerable areas because an animal's exposed weakness usually results in
its demise.
There are countless workplace masks. For example, there's the
SUPERHERO MASK, a very common mask worn by people who say yes to every request
of their time and energy because they want to be perceived as go-to, can-do,
team players. Men sometimes wear the GODFATHER MASK, presenting a cool, gruff
exterior so others won't think them soft. And one of the most prevalent masks I
see, especially when I coach women, is the GLINDA MASK. Remember Glinda? She was
"The Good Witch of the North" in The Wizard of Oz and she always wanted everyone
to be happy and never wanted to offend anyone.
We all believe these masks make us stronger. On the contrary,
it is our willingness to take off these masks and reveal the fears, concerns,
weaknesses and skeletons in our highly reinforced, double-bolted, hermetically
sealed inner-sanctums that accomplishes many dramatic, life-enhancing, career
jettisoning results. Some of these results include more honest communication, a
greater sense of teamwork and a deeper feeling of community. These are all
things that are sorely missing for most of us in both our personal and our
business lives.
Let's look closely at three exercises you can do to
consciously and strategically remove your mask and examine your current image.
Exercise #1: The 360-degree evaluation. Despite the old adage
that you can't judge a book by its cover, the fact remains that you are judged
every day, by every person with whom you come into contact. You are judged on
how you look, what you say and how you say it. And those silent judgments all
too often cap your potential. Therefore, it is useful for every business person
to know how they are perceived by those all around them at every level – their
bosses, their peers, their subordinates and their customers. In other words,
what do your masks look like to others? That's the idea behind the 360-degree
evaluation.
What should the 360 chart and evaluation reporting process
look like? That's up to you. You can call me to receive a copy of my "360
Self-Diagnosis and Vision Chart" or you can create your own. The format isn't as
important as the fact that you solicit feedback in every important area from all
the levels immediately surrounding an employee – his subordinates, his peers,
his immediate superiors and his customers. Armed with this information, an
employee can make the changes necessary to rise quickly to the top.
There are two important points to remember as you ask people
to complete these evaluation forms. First, ask everyone to be entirely honest
with themselves and with others. This is a powerful, unique opportunity to make
a real impact on careers and lives – but only if honesty and conscientious
thought are the foundations of the exercise. Second, remind everyone that they
must complete their evaluations of others with carefully constructed, positively
worded, specific feedback. In other words, criticism must be constructive and
must be offered with tact. Done right, this exercise can provide the fuel to
skyrocket employees to unimagined successes.
Exercise #2: Costume party. But not just any old costume. Your
employees should come dressed either as who they want to be or as the person
they think others perceive them to be. This takes a lot of creativity and forces
people to really think about their masks and costumes and about how their masks
are perceived by others. For our purposes, we will use mask, costume, persona
and image interchangeable. For instance, a really dynamic individual who is very
athletic might come dressed as Lance Armstrong. A dark-haired recluse might come
dressed as a member of the Addams Family. You're likely to get some surprises:
perhaps a mid-performing sales rep will come dressed as Chuck Yeager because he
dreams of breaking records and flying high.
So once you've got everyone gathered in costume, what do you
do? The group leader or the person that is facilitating this event should begin
by explaining the rules and guides and confirm that they will be strictly upheld
to maintain the integrity and purpose of the meeting. What is the purpose? To
kick-off the new you in the way in which you want to be and be seen. Start by
asking everyone to talk about their costume, why they chose it and what it
reveals about the person they want to become. Then ask people whether they were
treated differently in their costumes and how, and use that question to segue
into a discussion about how they might be treated differently if they dressed
with impeccable professionalism every day. You might even bring up the movie
Trading Places in which a businessman and a vagrant swapped clothes and were
instantly treated according to how they looked.
It's important to explore the use of masks and costumes in
terms of how they subconsciously and consciously define our inner and outer
realities. A change of costume will shift our internal self-view as well as the
way others view us. Hidden safely behind a mask and costume, we might express
ourselves in very different ways than we do in our everyday business attire.
When I was studying acting and performing in New York City, I found it much
easier to become my character when I was in the full costume of that character.
In costume, you experience the world differently and the world experiences you
differently. Done right, this costume party should be a revealing, possibly
painful process of self-discovery and revelation for every employee that will
help them move to a place of greater success and happiness.
Exercise #3: Mirror, mirror. Periodically, we all need to take
a hard look at our outer trappings – our physical mask as others see it. To do
this, carve out an hour or two one evening and dress as if you're going to work.
Now take a good look in the mirror and think about what you see – about what
your clients see. Is your clothing neat and professional? Does it fit well? Is
it appropriate for your job? Does it make you look and feel powerful? Is your
hair neatly trimmed and stylish? Does anything strike you as potentially
negative? For instance, are you earrings too long? Is your tie too loud? If it
strikes you when you look in the mirror, get rid of it because it will strike
your clients as well.
Go through your whole closet with these questions in mind. If
an item is outdated, doesn't fit or looks the least bit unprofessional, get rid
of it. When I work with clients to help them create a more professional image,
clients sometimes tell me they are simply expressing themselves by not
conforming to the most professional standards of dress. But my question to them
is this: Is it worth "expressing yourself" if you're losing out on customers and
promotions in the process? Perhaps you do feel most comfortable in tattoos and
earrings, but how do you look to others? Don't risk alienating potential clients
or employers because your mask looks too foreign, too revealing or too
intimidating. Explore the masks you're wearing and be conscious of the effects
they have on others.
Don't wait for the end of the year to make a resolution about
your workplace and business masks. Take the time now, during the Halloween
season, to honestly evaluate which masks are working, which masks are
off-putting to those with whom you work. The next step, the fun and exciting
part, is how you solve and resolve your challenges and re-strategize your future
to achieve all that you require, desire and deserve. An unexpected, free bonus
that comes with your empowering, renewing, self-evolution is how you can change
yourself for the better. After you do this, you'll be amazed at how quickly your
professional life turns from tricks into treats!
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About Ellen A. Kaye
Ellen A. Kaye is one of the nation's foremost experts on image and
communication, body language and presentation skills. She is author of the
bestselling business book, Maximize Your Presentation Skills: How to Speak, Look
and Act on Your Way to the Top (Crown, 2002) and owner of Scottsdale, AZ-based
Perfect Presentation. For a copy of her "360 Self-Diagnosis and Vision Chart" or
to inquire about Ellen's availability to facilitate your own Halloween mask
assessment initiative, call her at 480-391-9888 or visit www.ellenkaye.com.
Ellen Kaye (ellen@ellenkaye.com)
Perfect Presentation
P.O. Box 6064
Scottsdale, AZ 85261-6064
Phone : 480-391-9888
Ellen A. Kaye and Perfect Presentation
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