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Birkman International, a personality assessment firm that offers leadership development best practices to HR professionals, has released its latest article, "Transformational Leadership in Business: A Framework for Best Practice in Executive Coaching". This report explores the concept of transformational leadership and strategies to successfully implement an executive training program to encourage transformational, rather than transactional, leadership in organizations. For a limited time, Birkman International is offering "Transformational Leadership in Business: A Framework for Best Practice in Executive Coaching" online at no charge to HR professionals and executives. To access the report, go to http://www.starrtincup.com/birkman/CFR/signup.asp?refer=MPR121506.
JobsWorkCareers.com Job Board provides employers in the USA, Canada and worldwide with a free Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help match employers with individuals looking for career opportunities. The ATS is provided to all employers at no cost when they sign up for a free membership with JobsWorkCareers.com.
Internet Broadcasting, the nation's largest publisher of local news online, announced that more than 13.28 million unique visitors tuned into the company's network of websites during the month of November. According to data released recently by Nielsen/NetRatings, Internet Broadcasting's number of unique visitors in November jumped nearly 20 percent from October.
Web 2.0:
The ever growing developer community using the state-of-the-art imagelooop API recently published a new desktop tool based on the Yahoo! widget engine technology: the 'MySpace SlideShows' widget.
This helpful widget enables users to create slideshows and embed them into their MySpace profile right from their desktop. Uploading images is as easy as drag-and-drop, and embedding the resulting imagelooop slideshows into the user's MySpace profile is as simple as one click of the mouse.
"More than 1,400 downloads within the first 10 days indicate that my little slideshow tool is really helpful for many MySpace users," says Saed Ghorani who developed the MySpace SlideShow widget. "The imagelooop API provided me with all necessary functions for the development of my Yahoo! Widget. I can strongly recommend this API for creating new photo- or slideshow-related tools and applications as it is easy to understand, well documented and very reliable".
You Should Know:
India:
ByIndia.com is now ranked #1 by Alexa.com among all of the Indian-centric search engines. Its sustained growth over the last three months -- a remarkable 888% according to Alexa.com -- has far outpaced all of its competitors, dethroning established Indian sites like Guruji.com, Raftaar.com, and SearchIndia.com.
ByIndia.com was re-launched in the middle of October after being acquired by Web2Corp. Added to the search engine were news, classifieds, video sharing, personal pages, and blogs, providing Indian users with functionality that is similar to eBay.com, Craigslist.com, YouTube.com, MySpace.com, and Blogger.com, all from a single web portal.
ByIndia.com will be adding support in January for Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi as well as English for all searches and menu text. Also in January, ByIndia.com will start its $5 million USD sweepstakes promoting new member registrations, which is expected to boost traffic to the site even more.
China:
The New Superpower: China's Emerging Middle Class
Qian Zhi Ying is the epitome of the stylish Shanghainese working mother. Dressed in her Dolce & Gabbana jeans and Mickey Mouse T-shirt, the 30-year-old greets American visitors in her sunny, lemon-colored living room in one of the city's average-income neighborhoods. In the three-bedroom apartment, there's a modern sectional sofa, polished stone floors, Toshiba large-screen TV, recessed lighting and faux stainless steel in the kitchen.
Across the room sits her mother, Zhu Zhao Ling, separated by 26 years in age and a lifetime of change in China. Zhao Ling sits quietly, knitting and drinking tea, as her daughter talks about her new Internet fashion business, which supplements the income from her customer service day job at an IT company.
(Noreen O'Leary)
Deep Release:
Employers Need to Prepare Now for 2007 Spring Internships
Internship Programs Offer Untapped Productivity to Employers, While Helping Students Prepare for the Workforce
Student internships offer an untapped pipeline of productivity for employers, and companies should plan now if they wish to establish intern programs in spring 2007. That's the message to both employers and non-profit organizations from ,a href="http://www.ZUniversity.org">Z University.org (ZU), a leading advocate and provider of workforce readiness solutions.
"There are more students in need of internships than there are employer ‘site sponsors' to host them," states Matthew Zinman, president of Z University.org. "This is not just unfortunate for students' workforce readiness needs, but at least as much for businesses and organizations to leverage the opportunity to add intern productivity to the bottom line."
As 2007 approaches, ZU strongly recommends that organizations take advantage of the opportunity to host college interns during the spring academic term. Besides added resources, student interns represent the "next generation" of employee talent, and workforce development is vital in an era where Baby Boomers are retiring in mass numbers.
"Internships present the single best opportunity for students to gain practical training," Zinman adds. "New reports, such as from The Conference Board (10.06), validate that the workforce is ‘ill-prepared.' It's time for businesses to take action where their interests lie."
ZU created its Intern Toolkit™ as a complete resource to enable employers to establish and easily maintain an internship program and create real value for companies and students alike. Z University also helps enable host sites by developing and providing many free internship-related resources, articles, webinars, assessment tools, white papers, etc.
"Any business that hires college graduates or simply needs added resources stands to benefit from having college interns," states Zinman. "Businesses will find college students to be highly capable, highly motivated and, if well-managed, highly valuable. They can quickly perform a variety of routine tasks, such as any involving research, writing, event planning, making phone calls and computer work. When you add the opportunity to apply students' chosen career skills, the value of internships quickly becomes clear."
About Z University.org
Z University.org (ZU) is a leading change advocate and innovator of workforce development solutions to close the gaps of knowledge and experience that exist between school and work. ZU's principle initiative is to help employers and non-profits to create best-in-class internships and related experiential education programs. The goal is to provide college students with the vital experience and career training to best prepare them to succeed all the more upon entering the workforce and beyond. For more information go to www.ZUniversity.org
Other initiatives involve: creating proprietary internship program assessment tools, formalizing a student mentoring curriculum for professionals to support student development, innovating specialized training programs for entry-level professionals, establishing a scholarship foundation to support merit-based internships, and taking action as a leader in promoting experiential education.
About Intern Toolkit
Intern Toolkit features a proprietary "core system" designed to make students highly productive and contribute business value. The Toolkit has seven modules and nearly 60 components with step-by-step best practices, adaptable templates (i.e., worksheets, checklists, questionnaires, evaluations, and legal forms), and tools and resources to support program management needs that range from the most basic to the most advanced. It also contains exclusive business skills training materials. Intern Toolkit comes in a spiral bound reference guide with all contents on a CD-ROM for users to adapt as needed.
Intern Toolkit™ was created by Matthew Zinman, president and founder of Z University.org, based on a system he developed through nearly 20 years of first-hand experience with internship programs and personally managing more than 200 student interns.
Press Contact: Matthew Zinman
Company Name: Z University
Phone: 877-982-4769
Website: http://www.ZUniversity.org
White Papers and so on:
Lean Staffing Institute on Referrals from The Empower Network.
ATS Sourcing Whitepaper written by Jake Firth of JobsInLogistics.com.
Staffing Strategies: Can You Find, Recruit, and Retain the Talent You Need?
Authoria's complimentary white paper
Multigenerational Recruiting Slide Presentation done at OnRec by John and Bridget Sumser.
Virtual Edge offers
7 "Must Haves" of Next Generation Power Recruiting Technology and many other White Papers.
interbiznet and RetirementJobs.com present
Boomers to Bust Age Bias? Baby Boomers Redefine Retirement
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