Reveille and Hyperbole: With small- and medium-sized businesses increasingly
in need of skilled employees, JobsWorkCareers.com today announced its free
Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help match employers with individuals looking
for career opportunities. When users sign up for a free membership on
JobsWorkCareers.com, they receive
free applicant tracking complete with a corporate career site and recruiting
desktop.
In most developed economies around the globe
the unemployment rate decreased in the last few months. According to The
Economist Intelligence Unit in the Euro area it decreased from 8.5% to 7.7%, in
the United States from 4.9% to 4.4% and in Singapore from 4.5% to 3.8% compared
to last year. Additionally the logistics industry is doing extremely well. In
2005 it grew globally by 10%, compared to an overall GDP growth of 4%. The
combination of these two factors lead to a shortage of talent in the industry.
To provide the industry with the required information to effectively attract
talent, Europhia Consulting has just launched an International Salary Survey.
The collected data will enable human resource managers to benchmark their
compensation strategies against industry practices. Additionally it will provide
them with information about career motivations and benefits important to
industry professionals. Also individuals will take advantage from this broad
analysis on compensation. They will get a better understanding of the impact of
various factors on salaries and will benefit from attractive compensations
packages, customized to their needs. The survey will be running until February
15 at http://www.europhia-survey.com
. Participants will receive a copy of the summary report in appreciation of
their support.
JobShark Corporation, Canada's largest independent online
recruitment firm, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement
to be acquired by global leader
JobServe Ltd. of the United
Kingdom. The two privately-held companies did not disclose financial terms of
the deal. JobServe, the world first online recruitment company, has its global
headquarters in Essex, United Kingdom. The fast-growing British firm has been
aggressively acquiring competitors in the United States and elsewhere in the
world. JobShark is its first Canadian acquisition in what has become a rapidly
consolidating industry.
Search4Grads announces its most
competitive graduate recruitment offering to date. Employers and agencies of all
sizes will find Search4Grads new free advertising service a valuable tool in the
forthcoming hunt for graduate talent Search4Grads has established itself
as a high quality graduate jobs-board since its introduction to the graduate
recruitment market in 2004. Originally offering a low cost annual subscription
service including unlimited job advertising and unrestricted access to its CV
database, Search4Grads unique model provided employers with a cost effective and
time efficient advertising medium targeting university students and graduates.
Deck Chairs:
David Eckert, the former chief financial officer at Informed
Medical Communications, Sightward, GoAhead Software and
Devonshire Technology, has
joined Jobster as the new CFO.He replaces Ron Stevens
who left the Seattle startup
after 11 months on the job in October. Jobster has
raised
$48 million from Ignition Partners, Trinity Ventures,
Mayfield Fund and Reed Elsevier Ventures....Cornelius Eason
was elected to the American
Staffing Association board of directors. He is president and owner of
Priority Staffing USA, headquartered in Las Vegas.
You Should Know:
Global: Measuring Employer Brand Effectiveness
In employer brand executive briefings and workshops Brett has conducted with
CEO's, HR Directors and their teams over the past year the most common questions
asked are, "How do you measure whether your employer brand program is worth the
investment?" and "What metrics should you use to track and report on progress?".
(PageUp)
Diploma Mills 101 When a university is not really a university
As a staffing professional, how many resumes have you reviewed in your career?
Hundreds? Thousands? Do you ever find yourself pausing over something in a
resume just because it seems strange? I recently found myself doing just that,
and it ended up taking me down a very interesting path. The resume in question
was that of an IT professional who was under consideration for a full-time
position. I was reviewing the resume when I noticed that, under the Education
section, the job-seeker had indicated that he had "matriculated" at a school in
Europe, had obtained an IT certification, and had received a B.S. degree in
Computer Science. (ERE)
Boomers Redefine Retirement STEVE PERRY OF ANNAPOLIS, MD., recently completed his degree in counseling
and psychotherapy at Johns Hopkins University. He enrolled as a night-school
student two and a half years ago because he was looking for a career that not
only would be financially and spiritually rewarding for him but would also make
a difference in other people's lives. Perry is 55 years old, and he hopes to
complete a few licensing requirements and hang out a shingle for private
practice by age 61 — just in time to retire from his job as a senior. (Newsnet5)
Corporate recruiters turn to networking sites to find
executives
With the Valley's continued low unemployment rate, corporate recruiters are
having a difficult time finding executives. So some have turned to social
networking Web sites for help. No, they haven't started scanning the personal
pages of MySpace or Facebook, which are more apt to include memories of drunken
trips to Mexico or lists of favorite bands. (The
Arizona Republic)
India:
Firms concerned over high attrition
rate
`The exorbitantly high salaries demanded are posing a threat to the viability of
companies, especially in services sector' Bangalore: Industry surveys related to
salaries in major cities in the middle of the year ranked employees, especially
in the technology sector in Bangalore, among those drawing the highest pay
packages. There was correspondingly high employee turnover compared to other
cities such as Chennai. (The
Hindu)
UK:
All I want for Christmas is a new
job, say managers
A fifth of British managers are unhappy with their lot and plan to move jobs
next year, according to a new poll. The survey by the UK-based Chartered
Management Institute, which was unveiling its predictions for 2007, found 21 per
cent said they planned to change jobs in the next twelve months. This was almost
double the 12 per cent national labour turnover figure for 2006 reported in a
National Management Salary Survey published by the CMI earlier this year. (Management
Issues)
US:
Accounting Firm Executives Emphasize Integrity, Expanding Job Market Chief executives of two of the nation's largest accounting firms traveled to
Fordham University in October and November, telling students that the profession
is in the midst of a "global war for talent" and highlighting the importance of
integrity in a business that has been rocked by controversy in recent years.
Timothy P. Flynn, chairman and chief executive of KPMG, LLP, and Barry Salzberg,
managing partner of Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP, visited the Fordham Business
School on Oct. 27 and Nov. 2, respectively, each addressing the state of the
profession to packed audiences of students, faculty and administrators. Perhaps
no profession has faced more public scrutiny in recent years than accounting.
Scandals from Enron to Tyco International shook the capital markets and led to
the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which implemented tougher reporting and
disclosure standards. Flynn told students that ethics and integrity are not
negotiable, nor can they be adjusted case-by-case or client-by-client. (Fordham)
U.S. Tourism Sales Drop for First Time in Four Years Real Tourism Output Down 1.7 Percent in Third Quarter 2006
U.S. Tourism Sales Drop for First Time in Four Years
Washington, DC – December 2006 – Real tourism output declined at an annual rate
of 1.7 percent in the third quarter of 2006 – largely due to heightened security
concerns over air travel – according to data released Thursday (December 14) by
the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter of 2006, real
tourism output grew 1.9 percent (revised). By comparison, real gross domestic
product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 2.2 percent (preliminary) in the third
quarter of 2006, and 2.6 percent (final) in the second quarter of 2006. Direct
tourism employment rose 0.1 percent in the second quarter of 2006 (the most
recent period for which data are available), after growing 2.9 percent (revised)
in the first quarter of 2006. By comparison, overall U.S. employment grew 1.2
percent in the second quarter of 2006, and 1.7 percent in the first quarter of
2006. (bea)
Where's That Recession?
Another FOMC meeting come and gone, with no change in policy and little
indication that policy is about to change. Yes, the FOMC did acknowledge a
"substantial" cooling of the housing market, but this was not exactly news given
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's October 31 speech. More important was that the FOMC
explicitly noted that they intend to look through the current slowdown to the
other side: Although recent indicators have been mixed, the economy seems likely
to expand at a moderate pace on balance over coming quarters. The Fed continues
to view the current weakness as a transitory event related to the housing and
auto slowdowns rather than a fundamental shift in cyclical activity. Simply put,
this is not 2000 and the housing slowdown is not equal to the tech slowdown. In
my mind, the data as a whole supports this view. (Economist's
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