StlRecruiting.com
is joining up with the
Marketing Headhunter's Harry Joiner to
write
People Management, a small business
recruiting blog that is part of John
Jantsch's
DuctTapeMarketing Channel. Duct Tape
Marketing is recognized as the leading small
business website on the web, and John's
approach to building a community of small
business experts has paid off for everyone
involved.
AARP
announced that it is collaborating with
Florida-based Spherion Corporation to expand
its National Employer Team, which helps
connect individuals aged 50 and over with
job opportunities. The companies that AARP
selects for its National Employer Team value
the experience and abilities of mature
workers and are committed to an aggressive
program of recruiting, hiring and retaining
mature workers. In addition to Spherion,
five other companies -- Staples, Robert Half
International, Toys R Us/Babies R Us, APAC
and Client Logic -- are joining the AARP
National Employer Team this year.
SuccessFactors, Inc., the leader in
on-demand performance and talent management
solutions, and Palladium Group, Inc., the
world's leading authority on strategy
execution and co-creator of the Balanced
Scorecard (BSC), have teamed to jointly
deliver talent management solutions that
incorporate the world's most widely
recognized Human Capital strategy management
and execution methodologies with the most
robust, scalable and widely used on-demand
performance and talent management
technology. Joint customers will benefit
from implementing cutting edge technology
that incorporates standardized best
practices based on the successes of close to
1,000 different customers including industry
leaders Kimberly Clark, Reebok
International, Direct Energy and others.
Additionally, the combination of Palladium's
world renowned strategic management system
with particular focus on human capital
strategies and alignment from their Human
Capital Practice and SuccessFactors' easy to
use, scalable technology will enable
customers to quickly and efficiently
implement a strategy-focused performance and
talent management system architected to
deliver quick, measurable results.
Adapt
Technologies, Inc., a technology company
developing self-service search engine
marketing products, today announced the
milestone of 1,000 subscribers for its free
Keyword Finder tool. This keyword generation
tool was created to help search marketers
improve the reach of their PPC campaigns by
suggesting lists of highly relevant keywords
from an analysis of their Web site.
Lee Enterprises,
Incorporated (LEE),
reported today that same property(1) revenue
increased 3.7 percent in November compared
with a year ago. Same property advertising
revenue increased 3.5 percent, including
online advertising revenue growth of 51.1
percent. On a same property basis, which
excludes the impact of acquisitions and
divestitures made in the current or prior
year, retail advertising revenue increased
2.8 percent. Classified advertising revenue
decreased 1.1 percent, with employment down
8.8 percent, automotive down 1.0 percent,
real estate down 5.3 percent, other
newspaper classified categories up 5.1
percent, and classified in non-daily
publications up 14.1 percent. National
advertising revenue increased 7.5 percent.
Niche publication advertising revenue
increased 4.7 percent. Circulation revenue
increased 0.6 percent.
Deck Chairs: WestLake Financial
Group, Inc. announced that Bo Kaburov has joined the
executive team as Vice President of sales. Mr. Kaburov utilizes his extensive
background in best practices for HR outsourcing and technology solutions
focusing on people, processes and technology in a variety of business
development and sales leadership positions with Employease, Inc., Mercer Human
Resource Consulting and ADP National Accounts Employer Services. WestLake
is a leading HR consulting and employee benefits solution provider. ...
Gateway Inc. named Lazane Smith to the
position of senior vice president, human resources Smith has more than 14 years
of experience in the technology industry, and will oversee all the company's
HR-related processes and activities, including organization design and
development. ... Adecco, the world's
largest human resource solutions provider, announced the appointment of Stephan
Howeg as the Group's new Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications and
Global Marketing Partnerships. In his new role, Stephan Howeg (41) will be as of
February 1, 2007 responsible for Adecco's global Public Relations and Internal
Communications as well as its worldwide marketing partnerships, including
sponsorships. ...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) announced the
appointment of Jean Marie Cacciatore as vice president of human resources for
the company's South America and Southeast Asia (SAM/SEA) region. She will be
based in the company's offices in Torrance, Calif., and report to Rob Levy, the
region's senior vice president and managing director.
You Should Know:
Global: Craigslist Meets the Capitalists
Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of
head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types
why his company is not interested in "monetizing" his ridiculously popular Web
operation. Appearing at the UBS global media conference in New York, Mr.
Buckmaster took questions from the bemused audience, which apparently could not
get its collective mind around the notion that Craigslist exists to help Web
users find jobs, cars, apartments and dates — and not so much to make money.
Wendy Davis of MediaPost describes the presentation as a "a culture clash of
near-epic proportions." She recounts how UBS analyst Ben Schachter wanted to
know how Craigslist plans to maximize revenue. It doesn't, Mr. Buckmaster
replied (perhaps wondering how Mr. Schachter could possibly not already know
this). "That definitely is not part of the equation," he said, according to
MediaPost. "It's not part of the goal." (NYT)
Newspapers to begin recovery in 2007
MediaPost Publications reports that industry analysts and organizations are
predicting that newspapers' decline will slow and maybe even stop in 2007.
Although it's far too soon to tell if the print newspaper market is bottoming
out, there are a few encouraging signs. A forecast from the Newspaper
Association of America expects total print advertising revenue to fall 1.1
percent in 2006 compared to 2005, but then stabilize in 2007. (Los
Angeles Times)
Online travel bookings to surpass
offline bookings for the first time in 2007
According to a new report from PhoCusWright Inc., next year for the first time
transactions on the Internet will account for over half (54 percent) of all U.S.
travel bookings. The report , PhoCusWright`s U.S. Online Travel Overview, is now
in its sixth edition and is used by members of the travel, tourism and
hospitality industries to assess the domestic leisure/unmanaged business online
travel market. It analyzes this market by segment, channel and major players,
projecting trends through 2008. (Travel
Daily News)
New Haven Register Enrolls In Google Ad Program
GOOGLE WILL SELL PRINT ADS for the Journal Register Co.'s New Haven Register,
under a deal between the two companies announced Thursday. With the partnership,
the New Haven Register joins a roster of more than 50 newspapers nationwide,
including papers published by Gannett, the Tribune Company, The New York Times
Company, the Washington Post Company, and Hearst, to outsource some ad sales
duties to Google. (Media
Post)
Silly Recruiters
I discovered something funny recently while being back in the job market. When a
recruiter calls you up and insinsts that they've sent you an email multiple
times with a job description (which btw was looking for a Software Engineer to
fill a Project Management position eh?) be sure to check your spam box On both
hotmail and gmail this recruiter's emails kept landing in my bit bucket. (The
Code Project)
Spring Welcomes Thaw in Chill with JBoss
Despite an often tense relationship between leaders in their respective
open-source communities, the Spring and JBoss leaders are now talking about a
truce. Rod Johnson, chief executive of Interface21, the company that
maintains the Spring Framework, told eWEEK that he would welcome an opportunity
to work with JBoss. Johnson spoke with eWEEK just weeks after JBoss leader Marc
Fleury told eWEEK he was open to working with the Spring community in some
fashion. The apparent thaw in the often chilly relationship could signal a big
boon to Java developers who use the Spring Framework with JBoss' Hibernate
technology. Spring is a lightweight Java application framework that helps
developers avoid the complexity of the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
(J2EE), while Hibernate is an object/relational persistence and query service
for Java. The height of the friction between the two camps was perhaps best
captured in a blog post from last year by Scott Haug, a developer at Jobster,
entitled "Hibernate Hates Spring." (eWeek)
Marketing Your Business on Craigslist
From e-commerce websites to furniture wholesalers, small businesses both online
and off are realizing the marketing power of Craigslist.org. Founded in 1996 by
Craig Newmark, Craigslist.org gets an estimated 10 million unique visitors per
day. With an online classified ads format organized by either region or city,
Craigslist connects buyers and sellers in more than 300 communities; for the
most part, posting on the site is free. (MSNBC)
Web Based Tools: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google Calendar
There are a lot of web based tools that I use on a day to day basis. Some of
them are small, silly, time savers. Others allow communication and collaboration
in ways that were never before possible. Here are a few of those tools. If you
find this information useful, let me know and I'll write about some more of the
tools I use. Even if you've heard of these tools before, or even used them once
or twice and decided you didn't like them, read over my comments on each of
them. You may find that it does more than you initially realized. (Revjim)
More value for Google employees
Google employs a lot of brilliant minds, but even smart people have trouble
figuring out how much their stock options are really worth.
The company hopes to simplify the task by creating a new online market that will
show how much sophisticated investors are willing to pay for the company's
options - allowing rank-and-file workers to cash out at the prices being
dangled. "We think this will be very valuable in helping our employees
understand what they own right from the beginning," said Dave Rolefson, Google's
equity and executive compensation manager. (New
York Daily News)
NewAssignment.net and 'The Future of News'
I can never decide how useful it is to attend panels and conferences about "the
future of news." I've been to a few this year, and for the most part they seem
to hit pretty much the same notes. But, beyond all the talk, New York University
journalism professor Jay Rosen is about to to put one bold new idea into action.
(Editor
and Publisher)
India: Catching Them Young with Esops
It's the sign of changing times. India Inc is now resorting to employee
retention strategies from day one. In what could be a literal case of
catching-them-young, companies are offering stock options at the entry level to
management and engineering grads. Though it's still at a nascent stage, a few
companies like Ranbaxy, Adobe, Dabur, NetApp and Air Deccan are offering stock
options to new recruits. Up until now, Esops were used as an HR tool to retain
talent at the mid-senior management level. (TIMES
NEWS NETWORK)
India stint's now the in-thing for advertising execs
Over the past few months, foreign advertising executives and interns have made a
beeline for a stint at India's advertising agencies. Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) now
has three foreign interns, two of whom are from Italy in their Mumbai office who
have come for a stint in India for the last six-eight months. Lintas has
one senior creative director from Indonesia, who has come to India to develop
his work skills and get a regional perspective. McCann also has a couple of
interns who have come to Mumbai from South-East Asia. (TIMES
NEWS NETWORK)
Stepping up the wooing
Tech firms are becoming more creative in devising initiatives to keep employees
happy. Sample these. (Hindu
Business Line)
Gender diversity vital for business More women in the workforce could add to the GDP.
Did you know that IBM hired its first woman employee way back in 1899, declared
equal pay for equal work in 1935, and appointed its first woman vice-president
in 1943? Clearly, as Pari Sadasivam, IBM India's vice-president (HR), has
pointed out, "IBM has a long heritage of firsts in the advancement of women in
the workplace," and women's leadership continues to be a strong focus area for
the company. In India, too, gender barriers in the workplace are becoming a
thing of the past, and women managers in the corporate sector have begun
piercing the glass ceiling. (Banking
and Finance)
UK: Web 2.0 sends web developer pay skyrocketing MyPaypacket.com doing very nicely thank you…
A surge in demand for web skills on the back of web 2.0 successes
including MySpace and YouTube has propelled pay for top web
developers up a quarter over the last year. Web developers saw
demand for their skills droop after the dot-com boom but it is now
bouncing back up according to research from SkillsMarket/Association
of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCo). (Silicon.com)
US: Valley native wins acclaim as
recruiter Downey High grad honored for his efforts in the Navy.
Victor Delatorre began his Navy career cleaning teeth. Now the Modesto native
has left the dental grind behind and won acclaim as one of the nation's best
Navy recruiters. On Thursday night, the 30-year-old graduate of Thomas Downey
High School stepped forward, sang the solo for the National Anthem and accepted
his award as Diversity Officer Recruiter of the Year. He beat out some 4,800
other Navy recruiters for the prize. (Bee)
PAGE Co-Op Taking Position In Lee Enterprises Job Site
Page Co-op, the purchasing cooperative with 568 daily newspaper members, said
Monday it is taking an equity stake in The Job Network, the online help-wanted
network owned by TownNews.com and Redmatch North America, the software
development company. (Editor
and Publisher)
Deep Release:
Leading Analyst Firm Positions Kenexa in
e-Recruitment Software Leaders Quadrant
-Two Products in Leaders Quadrant Due to Recent Acquisition of BrassRing-
Kenexa® (KNXA), a leading
provider of talent acquisition and retention solutions, today announced it has
been positioned in the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for
E-Recruitment Software.(1) Kenexa has two products in the leaders' quadrant due
to its recent acquisition of BrassRing.
Gartner evaluated more than 15 vendors that provide Internet recruitment
applications to companies with more than 2,500 employees. Gartner identified
several key product differentiators, such as the flexibility of data and
workflow, job board posting, onboarding, content and multinational support. "The
products have developed to the point that many vendors can provide solid
functionality for the full requisition-to-hire process," states the Gartner
report. It continues, "Leaders in the e-recruitment software market have
products that can meet the challenges presented by large, complex global
organizations. These vendors have strong track records in the market, and
demonstrate strong sales and marketing execution. The leaders also typically
have a well-articulated strategy that includes deeper focus on talent
acquisition or a broader focus on talent management, succession management and
compensation management."
Kenexa has two products in the leaders' quadrant: Kenexa Recruiter and Kenexa
Recruiter BrassRing. The latter is the result of Kenexa's acquisition of
BrassRing, which was completed on November 13, 2006.
Rudy Karsan, CEO of Kenexa, shared, "Kenexa's family of recruiting solutions
addresses the needs of companies large and small. We believe the inclusion of
our enterprise offerings - Kenexa Recruiter and Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing - in
the leaders quadrant, as well as the evaluation of our corporate strengths by
Gartner in this well-respected report, reflect the hard work of our team and the
value we deliver to customers every day."
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is
reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of
how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the
Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely
as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner
disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research,
including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Kenexa
Kenexa Corporation (Nasdaq: KNXA - News) provides outsourcing, employee
research and software to help organizations more effectively recruit and retain
a productive workforce. Kenexa solutions include applicant tracking, employment
process outsourcing, onboarding, skills and behavioral assessments, structured
interviews, performance management, multi-rater feedback surveys, employee
engagement surveys and HR Analytics. Headquartered in Wayne, Pa. (outside
Philadelphia), Kenexa employs more than 1200 people worldwide. More information
about Kenexa and its global locations can be accessed at http://www.kenexa.com.
(1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software, 2006," by
James Holincheck, 28 November 2006.
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