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Monster Worldwide (MNST:NASDAQ) announced that it has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006. Monster Worldwide is now current in all of its periodic filings, and has also fully satisfied the conditions for continued listing established by NASDAQ's qualifications panel.
WorkGiant, the new Perfomance Based online recruiter website will compete head on with other online employment websites such as Monster, Career Builder and Hot Jobs and has agents now in Philadelphia PA at 4hiring.biz. WorkGiant's new "Performance Based Recruting" allows Employers to post ALL their open jobs and leave them posted until the position is filled. They can also search through the resume database for an unlimited period of time at no cost.
CareerBoard.com and Computerwork.com's parent company, JobServe.com, has aquired Canadian job site JobShark.com. This continues JobServe's interest in North America, following the recent US purchase of ComputerJobs.com and establishment of JobServe USA. JobShark.com was founded in 1997 and quickly became one the most popular job boards in Canada. The site now has nearly 1 million registered users and more than 4 million visitors a year.
The Other Side:
2007 Top Ten Value Towns for Those Considering Retirement
Not all great retirement towns come with a high price tag. A leading industry expert issues his "top ten" list for 2007.
Thinking of retiring and relocating? Warren Bland, PhD., an award winning geographer at Cal State has just released his new "Top Ten Value Towns" picks for 2007. According to Bland,"not all great retirement towns come with a high price tag."
The top US "value" towns to retire are (in order of least to most expensive):
1. Hot Springs, Arkansas
2. Winston-Salem, North Carolina
3. Fayetteville, Arkansas
4. Bowling Green, Kentucky
5. Lawrence, Kansas
6. Columbia, Missouri
7. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
8. Gainesville, Florida
9. San Antonio, Texas
10. Colorado Springs, Colorado
Dr. Bland's model uses 12 criteria most important to retirees. They are landscape, climate, quality of life, cost of living, transportation, retail services, health care, community services, cultural activities, recreational activities, work/volunteer activities, and crime.
Bland is a well-known expert in his field. He has been quoted in AARP Magazine, the NY Times, the LA Times, Consumer's Digest, US News and World Report and many others. He is also the author of "Retire in Style, 60 Outstanding Places Across the USA and Canada", published by Next Decade, Inc. and available through all booksellers.
Deck Chairs:
Monster Worldwide, Inc., the parent company of Monster, the leading global online careers and recruitment resource, announced that its board of directors has elected Philip R. Lochner, Jr. as a member of the board, effective immediately.
Deep Release:
January Job Market Shows Strong Employment Growth
According to new numbers from the Leading Indicator of National Employment (LINE™) report, there will be more job growth in January 2007 than in January 2006, and employers from both the manufacturing and the service sectors revealed no evidence of increasing wage inflation. The findings are reported in the January report of the LINE™ index, a collaborative effort between the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.
This LINE™ employment expectations report references the same January period as the report the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release on February 2, 2007.
Despite the major decline in overall job vacancies, firms continue to face considerable difficulty in finding highly qualified applicants to fill key positions. Within both the manufacturing and service sectors, recruiting difficulty continues to be a major concern, due to a drop in the large pool of qualified job seekers eager to take open positions. The recruiting difficulty indexes for the manufacturing and service sectors remain at nearly the same level (19.5 percent and 22.3 percent). The LINE "net increasing index" is calculated by taking the percentage increasing minus the percentage decreasing.
The indicator reports on four employment measures: job expectations, job vacancies, new-hire compensation and recruitment difficulty. The LINE™ employment expectations index has consistently provided an early indication of the upcoming BLS numbers. The figure below shows how the LINE™ employment expectations index, in red, has correlated with the BLS numbers, which come out five weeks later. To view the full report, visit www.shrm.org/LINE.
Manufacturing
Employment expectations among manufacturing firms declined between December 2006 and January 2007. This dip may be attributed to seasonality, but the January 2007 index (28.2 percent) remains substantially above the level of January 2006 (21.3 percent). Fewer manufacturers plan to shrink their workforces in January 2007 than in January 2006 (11.6 percent versus 16.9 percent). The new-hire compensation index for December 2006 (9.8 percent) is below the level of December 2005 (11.3 percent). The percentage of manufacturers with exempt vacancy reductions rose from 12.0 percent to 22.0 percent. As a result of more firms with vacancy declines, the manufacturing sector nonexempt vacancy index dipped to 0.0 percent. However, the December 2006 recruiting difficulty index (19.5 percent) in manufacturing remains at approximately the same level as in December 2005 (18.7 percent).
Service
Within the service sector, the January 2007 index is essentially unchanged from December 2006 but well above the level of January 2006. Service-sector employment is expected to increase in January 2007. Like manufacturing, the new-hire compensation index for December 2006 is also below the level of December 2005 (10.7 compared with 12.3 percent). The percentage of service-sector firms reporting exempt vacancy reductions rose from 9.8 percent in December 2005 to nearly 17 percent this month. The decline in the nonexempt vacancy index was the result of fewer firms reporting employment vacancy growth compared to a year ago. This indicates that vacancy growth has slowed and fewer firms are increasing the wage and benefit packages offered to new hires. A boost in new-hire compensation is less needed in order to attract more applicants. The overall number of job vacancies is declining. The recruiting difficulty index has climbed from 16.9 in December 2005 to 22.3 in December 2006.
The LINE™ index is an economic indicator that identifies early economic trends and changes in the national job market by surveying human resource (HR) executives at manufacturing and service-sector firms. The indicator is released at 8:30 am ET on the fourth Tuesday of each month.
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 210,000 individual members, the Society's mission is both to serve human resource management professionals and to advance the profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM currently has more than 550 affiliated chapters within the United States and members in more than 100 countries.
The School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is a leading center of scholarly and applied research on human resource management issues. The school creates and disseminates knowledge that fosters a better understanding of the nature of employment and work in modern society. The Rutgers Master of Human Resource Management degree is one of the top human resource management programs in the nation.
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Boomers to Bust Age Bias? Baby Boomers Redefine Retirement
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