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2006 Top Ten Series:
Amitai
Givertz,
David
Hurst,
Scott
Dow,
Kevin
Wheeler,
Hank
Stringer,
Tim
Driver,
Steve
Levy,
Martin
Snyder,
Don Ramer
,
Hans Geiskes
.
Reveille and Hyperbole:
HotGigs Inc., an innovator in web-based staffing solutions, announced that it has been named among Twin Cities Business magazine's 2007 "20 To Watch," a prestigious list of influential companies in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Twin Cities Business magazine's editors considered hundreds of companies in building the list, identifying outstanding Twin Cities area companies and business people who are poised to make major strides in 2007. This year's featured individuals include executives from UnitedHealth Group, HealthPartners and Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad.
Market10, the revolutionary online job marketplace, announced the results of its job seeker/candidate pool research—demonstrating to recruiters it has unique access to top candidates not available on Monster or CareerBuilder.
The research was conducted using a candidate pool of 200 job seekers from November 15 to December 31,
2006. MarketInk, a provider of Internet market research since 1998, originated the research on
Market10's behalf and WEDDLE's – the leading publisher of print guides to career success online and
off, used a random subset of the same candidate pool to confirm the results.
Trovix, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent search
technology, announced that Trend Micro Incorporated, a leader in
network antivirus and Internet content security and services, is using Trovix Recruit™ intelligent
candidate matching technology and applicant tracking management to accelerate and streamline its
hiring processes.
Bernard Hodes Group, a leading provider of integrated talent solutions, launched the first in a series of HR interactive learning podcasts on Web 2.0 and Social Media titled, "Casting the Interactive Net". This first podcast focuses on recruitment blogging. The podcast is available at http://www.hodes.com/publications/podcasts/index.asp. RSS Users can subscribe to this podcast series and receive all future episodes via our feed: http://www.hodes.com/rss/index.asp.
Deck Chairs:
Home Depot Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli was fired from the world's largest home- improvement retailer, with a $210 million golden boot package, including a $20 million severance payment. Vice Chairman Frank Blake, who worked with Nardelli at General Electric Co., will replace him.
You Should Know:
US:
US nonfarm employment increased by 167,000 in December, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor reported. Job gains occurred in several service-providing industries, including professional and business services, health care, and food services. Average hourly earnings rose by 8 cents, or 0.5 percent, in December.
The number of unemployed persons (6.8 million) was about unchanged in December, and the unemployment rate held at 4.5 percent. Over the year, these measures declined from 7.3 million and 4.9 percent, respectively.
In December, unemployment rates for the major worker groups--adult men (4.0 percent), adult women (3.9 percent), teenagers (15.2 percent), whites (4.0 percent), blacks (8.4 percent), and Hispanics (4.9 percent)--showed little or no change. The unemployment rate for Asians was 2.4 percent not seasonally adjusted.
In December, both total employment, at 145.9 million, and the employment-population ratio, at 63.4 percent, were little changed. Over the year, total employment grew by 3.1 million and the employment-population ratio rose by 0.6 percentage point. The civilian labor force edged up in December to 152.8 million. The labor force participation rate, at 66.4 percent, was little changed over the month, but the rate was 0.4 percentage point higher than a year earlier.
(Bureau of Labor Statistics)
UK:
Britain's Lunch Hour is Dead.
Office culture has killed the British workers' traditional lunch hour. An astonishing 85% of the nation's workforce don't take a full hour's break. And they blame the fact they're tied to their desk on fear of the boss and the office culture, according to a new survey by Britain's biggest health and fitness website, realbuzz.com.
realbuzz.com quizzed more than 2,000 people in an online survey and found that 62% of UK workers are forced to eat lunch at their desks, with a sandwich in one hand and a computer mouse in the other.
realbuzz.com founder Tim Rogers said: "Britain's workforce is over-worked and over tired. Today we spend our lunches as an extension of our already overburdened day, stressing over what we have yet to accomplish.
"Working long hours without a break increases workplace stress, contributes to low morale in the organisation and has serious health and safety implications.
(RealBuzz)
Could Not Pass It Up:
TrendHunter.com has released a free online guide the most popular trends in 2006. The lists showcase 13 categories of top trends, including: sex, alcohol, fashion, bizarre, ultra luxury, unique inventions, hip hotels, marketing, toys for kids and more. Over 200 hot trends are featured from Trend Hunter's 2006 archive of over 10,000 trends.
Deep Release:
According to the 2007 Talent Outlook Survey conducted by Cytiva Software Inc.,
HR professionals and recruiters had a harder time this finding good candidates in 2006.
And they expect things to get worse in 2007.
Cytiva, developers of the SonicRecruit on demand talent acquisition system, surveyed over 100 HR and recruiting professionals. The survey was designed to find out if finding good candidates is getting more difficult and learn what companies are planning to do about increasing their staffing success.
According to the survey, 62% of respondents believed that finding good candidates was more difficult in 2006 than in 2005. What's more 61% believed this trend would continue in 2007. The difficulty in finding good candidates was felt most in professional and management employee categories. Fewer respondents felt that finding good hourly position candidates was harder, with only 54% reporting more difficulty in 2006.
When asked to name the top three programs they planned to implement to combat the scarcity of good candidates, the largest portion, 27% of those surveyed, indicated they would focus on better retention programs, 20% indicated they would focus on new or upgraded application tracking systems and 15% indicated they would step up employee referral programs.
The combination of a poor 2007 outlook, and focus on better retention programs and hiring technologies reinforces those who believe a talent shortage is on the horizon, and bolsters those who say it has already begun.
"While we are nowhere near crisis levels, the survey clearly shows that companies are finding it harder and harder to find the right people for their open positions," said Jason Moreau, CEO of Cytiva. "Organizations are saying ‘we need to get better at keeping our best employees, and we need to invest in technologies to help us better source and onboard good candidates.'"
According to the survey, one initiative not being widely considered is outsourcing the recruiting function. Less than one and a half percent of those responding indicated they had plans to outsource the recruiting function within their organization.
"People are an organization's biggest expense and most potent competitive weapon," said Ian Alexander, Cytiva's Vice President of Marketing. "So it's not surprising that outsourcing the entire recruiting function is one of the less popular responses. Especially when the better talent acquisition systems allow you to work seamlessly with external recruiters so you can use selective outsourcing as a way to bolster your internal efforts."
The results of the survey will serve to inform Cytiva's enhancement of their SonicRecruit recruiting system in 2007. Recent releases related to better recruiting and retention include an onboarding module and a new analytics dashboard.
The Cytiva / SonicRecruit 2007 Talent Outlook Survey, conducted in November 2006, featured responses from over 100 human-resources and recruiting professionals at U.S.-based corporations. Over 50% of respondents were from companies with 500-10,000 employees.
About Cytiva Software Inc.
Cytiva Software Inc. (CRX:TSX-V) provides innovative recruiting products and services to mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies. With its flagship product, SonicRecruit, corporations can automate their recruiting efforts and customize their corporate career sites. SonicRecruit, a premier talent acquisition system, improves recruiting effectiveness, speeding up the hiring process and reducing cost per hire. Cytiva has over 160 clients and is based in Emeryville, CA, with six offices in the U.S. and Canada.
For more information:
http://www.sonicrecruit.com
Ian Alexander
mediarelations@sonicrecruit.com
510-984-1986
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