Reveille and Hyperbole: Adicio, Inc., leading and shaping the online classified marketspace since 1997, announced the launch of Adicio Real Estate 3.0. The service upgrades the look and feel of real estate platforms while allowing clients to easily customize their user interface. The newly designed platform improves the user experience and the overall appeal of their customers' real estate sites.
Korn/Ferry International (NYSE: KFY), a premier global provider of talent management solutions, announced that the firm will be conducting a conference call and simultaneous live webcast to investors to report Q2 fiscal year 2007 earnings on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 9:00 am EST. The call and webcast will be hosted by Paul C. Reilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Gary D. Burnison, Chief Operating Officer and CFO.
Deck Chairs: Inktel Direct, a leading outsource provider of direct marketing services, has announced the appointment of Manny Hernandez as Corporate Controller. Hernandez will oversee the accounting and finance efforts for Inktel Direct's continued expansion. With the addition of Hernandez, Inktel Direct will continue to expand its call center, fulfillment, direct mail and ecommerce service and solution offerings while diversifying into new industries and markets.
You Should Know: France:
Online job recruitment activity and related employment opportunities across France rose significantly in October, pushing the Monster Employment Index France to its second highest level to date. The Index rose eight points to 136 in October, showing year-on year growth of 25 points, or 22.5 percent.
UK: Next Generation of Solicitors and Lawyers Meet at BCL Legal Recruitment Party
UK legal recruitment agency BCL Legal held a party to inaugurate the new Trainee Solicitors from law firms in Manchester, Preston, Cheshire and Liverpool.
BCL Legal Recruitment Director James Batt commented, "It's a great opportunity for the solicitors and lawyers of tomorrow to network with solicitors and partners from law firms across the region. The North West is a relatively small legal community and it's important we promote ourselves nationally to encourage more legal work to travel out of London. The North of England is thriving and these events allow everyone to let their hair down and have some fun."
Thailand:
Thailand has a labor force of 35 million people. Political unrest and poverty in neighboring Myanmar has also driven hundreds of thousands of Burmese to find work illegally in Thailand. Between 2004 and 2006, the Thai government administered a temporary work permit program for migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, but it is unclear whether this will continue.
While there is an emerging middle class in Bangkok and other major cities, a lack of skilled labor remains a serious problem in Thailand. More than half of the national workforce is still employed in the agricultural sector. This sector, however, accounts for less than 10% of GDP. While unskilled labor is flowing in from neighboring countries, talent seems to be slipping away. The "Reverse Brain Drain" program set up by the Thai government to attract Thai expatriates back to their homeland has had little success. In the first half of 2005 alone, 105,000 Thais left the country to find work overseas (1). This is an annual net emigration rate of around 6 per 1,000 members of the labor force. The political unrest in 2006 is only likely to increase these figures.
(Pacific Bridge, Inc.)
Deep Release:
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) Go Head-to-Head with Human Resources and Recruiting Professionals from Across the United States
You are invited to participate in our next Webinar Debate with the EEOC and OFCCP on December 5th from 10:30am to noon Pacific Time. For more event details and to register, go to http://www.accolo.com/streets/.
PeopleClick and Accolo, Inc., announces The Great Recruiting Discrimination Debate - Round 2.5. This is a redo of the debate we held on November 14, 2006, where there were difficulties with the sound. Thanks to the willingness of the panelists and vastly better technology, we are holding another live Webinar debate. The great news is that you can now participate in a bigger and better event. The audio will be delivered through the speakers on your computer.
Title: The Great Recruiting Discrimination Debate - Round 2.5 with sound
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Time: 10:30am to Noon Pacific Standard Time
Cost: Free
Capacity: Limited to the first 1,500 participants
Link: http://www.accolo.com/streets/
As a bonus, we will be combining all the questions and answers into a web page for easy reference after the December event. We will send you an e-mail with the web page link when this is ready. If you have any burning questions for the EEOC/OFCCP, you can ask it when you register. Even if there is not enough time to have your question answered during the debate, we will make sure it is added to the Q&A section on the web page following the event.
Round 1 was held in May 2006, and 94% of all participants wanted to hear more. Round 2.5 with sound will be bigger and contain tougher questions. The panel not only includes additional senior members of the EEOC and OFCCP, but also a litigator representing companies fighting these agencies.
This content rich Webinar is free thanks to the generous donations from PeopleClick and Accolo, and the tireless volunteer efforts from Daniel Parrillo of Strategi LLC, Karen Mattonen of Advanced Career Solutions Inc. Pre-registration is required.
We know how valuable your time is and hope you will join us for The Great Recruiting Discrimination Debate – Round 2.5 – with sound.
A 2006 survey by Quint Wellington Redwood provides insight into the current outsourcing market internationally. Four key findings: IT Outsourcing has become a mature market with a strong growth in application outsourcing, a more selective sourcing strategy is on the rise. Over 75% of the respondents still focus on cost reduction and control as their main outsourcing goal and vendors perform well on costs but do a poor job when it comes to innovation.
Amsterdam (PRWeb) November 28, 2006 -- A survey conducted recently by Quint Wellington Redwood, the independent management consultancy dedicated to solving IT-related organizational issues, reveals that for 75% of companies, cost reduction is still the most compelling reason for IT outsourcing. However, outsourcing to reduce costs has a negative impact on commercial innovation. The survey actually shows that too sharp a focus on cost reduction is a clear impediment to innovation. Other findings are that the outsourcing market is continuing to mature and that companies are tending to become more selective in their outsourcing.
The major role in outsourcing still played by cost reduction is the most striking outcome of the Quint Wellington Redwood survey. 75% of companies still view outsourcing as the definitive way of enhancing employee productivity and cutting costs. 50% of the outsourcing suppliers succeed in saving costs through outsourcing as agreed with their customers. Half of this group have severe constraints on their innovative capacity. Outsourcing motivated by cost reduction is often at the expense of commercial innovation, because companies tend to enter into inflexible outsourcing contracts without allowing freedom for innovation, or at least failing to document it.
Most IT outsourcing contracts are still concerned with the IT infrastructure. The need for cost containment and a focus on core activities is boosting the popularity of this type of outsourcing. The survey also shows the strong growth in the outsourcing market. Compared with 2004, the proportion of companies outsourcing application administration and development has risen from 15% to 32%. Expectations are that this trend will continue. Companies would also appear to be becoming more selective in their outsourcing. Rather than opting to outsource all IT, they are choosing only certain items, such as the IT infrastructure. The partners would appear to assess the most suitable supplier on an item by item basis. This approach demands a more extensive outsourcing policy of companies and a more professional controlling organization.
"Outsourcing IT applications can make a valuable contribution to commercial innovation", says Arno IJmker, partner at Quint Wellington Redwood. "Properly thinking through and planning outsourcing can lead to a strategic partnership between the supplier and the partner. This partnership stimulates the partners to be innovative, and so to retain their distinguishing features, which leads to the constant improvement of business processes."
About the survey
The survey was conducted among 107 people with ultimate responsibility for IT (in the business and ICT domains) in companies based in Europe and South America, distributed over all sectors. Several IT outsourcing experts were also interviewed in order to gather more qualitative information. The number of employees in the participating organizations varied from 100 to over 10,000, and the IT budgets ranged from 50,000 euros to more than 200 million euros.
About Quint Wellington Redwood Quint Wellington Redwood - or simply 'Quint' - is an independent management consultancy that is devoted exclusively to IT-related organizational change. We supply our services in more than 30 countries from fourteen internationally distributed offices. Quint focuses on strategy, sourcing issues and the implementation of processes.
Quint's customers are prominent profit-based and non-profit organizations that rely heavily on IT. We help our clients establish integrated management of the business and IT domain and so to achieve strategic advantage over their competitors. These ideas are captured in our mission, Orchestrating Business Excellence. For additional information: www.quint.nl or www.quintgroup.com.
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