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EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defence and other related services recently chose StepStone's ETWeb™ Enterprise as the best solution for supporting their strategic HR processes for Succession Planning and Performance Management. As a result, ETWeb will be deployed on a global scale to support 25,000 managers via self-service.
As a global leader in biometric security, Artemis Solutions Group (ASG) announced the immediate availability of the iQBioDrive™ Portable Biometric Hard Drive With BioCert® CryptoLokr™ AES 256 Bit Cipher Encryption.
The iQBioDrive is being marketed by ASG as a device for secure personal portable data and an enabling solution for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SARBOX and GLBa compliance.
Authoria, the leader in integrated talent management
solutions, announced that Vice
President of Corporate Development Pete Mann will present at two premier financial
conferences focused on high-growth technology sectors.
The 2007 Montgomery Technology Conference surveys opportunities in software and other
fast-growing sectors for the benefit of investors and technology executives.
The Pacific Crest 2007 On-Demand Conference explores the rapid growth of on-demand services.
2nd Annual Pacific Crest On-Demand Conference, Thursday March 8, at 11:25 a.m.
(Pacific time), St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco.
More information on this event is available at:
http://www.pacific-crest.com/about_newspage.aspx?ID=49
Deck Chairs:
Orange County's human resources director, Tyrone Jackson, is leaving the county after a little more than a year on the job.
Jackson will begin a new job Monday as human resources director for the city of Richmond, Va.
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London: Culture Campus launched to put creative talent in spotlightMar 7 2007
An evening at the Tate last week drew an excited audience of private sector directors, senior local and national government officers, and leaders in the arts and creative industries, for the launch of Culture Campus Liverpool.
Culture Campus is hailed as an effective and imaginative project which will attract and retain talent which is prone to leave Liverpool.
Liverpool's renaissance and regeneration, and its position as European Capital of Culture for 2008, makes it a matter of growing importance that the talent produced by our universities stays here, and builds up a skill pool to rival Madrid or Barcelona.
Barriers to staying in the city were discussed by some of the young creatives at the launch, who felt they would have benefited from an earlier relationship with industry, and a knowledge of industrial and commercial standards.
Culture Campus will provide this through brokering a range of internships and graduate and postgraduate placements from a central "dating agency" web-based service, which will operate across both the University of Liverpool and LJMU to source the cream of artists, designers, photographers, film makers and so forth.
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Women still scarce in top-level jobs Study finds that ranks of female executives in America shrank in 2006
So far in my seven-year career, I've had -- count them -- one female boss who has directly supervised me. It's even harder to think of many top-tier female managers I know.
I point this out not because I don't like male managers, but because my experience seems to reflect a larger concern about the dearth of female leaders in corporate America.
Despite some highly publicized appointments of women in executive roles during the past year, a new study of women corporate officers, top earners and directors in Fortune 500 companies shows that the number of females holding corporate officer positions declined in 2006.
Catalyst, a nonprofit research organization that works to expand opportunities for women at work, found that women held 15.6 percent of corporate officer positions, down from 16.4 percent in 2005, among all Fortune 500 companies.
The most recent figure puts female executives in almost the same rank as in 2002, when women held 15.7 percent of corporate officer positions.
"Women are still dramatically underrepresented in corporate officer positions and also underrepresented on boards of directors," says Lois Joy, Catalyst's director of research. "Growth has been glacially slow … in the last five years."
Yet, there are examples of women climbing to the top of the corporate ladder.
Last week, WellPoint Inc. named Angela Braly, the insurer's executive vice president and general counsel, as its president and chief executive officer after the company's CEO steps down June 1. WellPoint will become the largest Fortune 500 company headed by a woman.
And PepsiCo. recently said Chief Executive Indra K. Nooyi would assume the additional role of chairwoman of the soft drink and snack food company. Nooyi was appointed the company's chief executive last year after climbing the ranks since joining the PepsiCo. in 1994.
Catalyst says there are currently 10 female chief executives officers, or 2 percent of CEOs, among Fortune 500 companies. In 2005, there were a total of 11 women who served as the head of a company.
The reality is that women still face obstacles such as stereotypes and lack of access to informal networks, mentors and role models, Joy says.
"Advancement into those positions and gaining that leadership experience and having those opportunities are all things women aspire to but because of the barriers they face, they're not able to reach those goals," Joy says, noting some companies have put in place initiatives to help women advance in the workplace.
Among the study's other findings:
The number of women holding board seats remained stagnant in 2006 at 14.6 percent compared with 14.7 percent in 2005.
Women of color held 3.1 percent of director positions last year, down from 3.4 percent in 2005.
Women in top-paying positions rose slightly to 6.7 percent in 2006 from 6.4 percent.
HotJobs catching up to Monster, CareerBuilder
Who'd a thunk it? I just came across this little nugget.
"Yahoo's strategy of snagging newspapers partnerships is working, according to a note released by Wachovia Equity Research senior analyst John Janedis and his team.
The Internet company's recruitment arm, HotJobs is catching up with its two major competitors. Delving into comScore data, a third-party that measures Web site traffic, Wachovia found that Monster and CareerBuilder are losing share to HotJobs.
"We estimate that Yahoo HotJobs gained over 5% [points] of share among the top three sites in January 2007, which happens to coincide with the initial rollout of HotJobs on some newspaper partner sites," wrote Wachovia analysts. "We think this is a trend worth watching."
For the same time period -- December 2006 to January 2007 -- CareerBuilder lost approximately three percentage points. Monster's share fell too, down about 1.5 percentage points.
Granted, HotJobs is working off a smaller base. In December, HotJobs claimed a little more than 6 million unique visitors, while CareerBuilder and Monster had more than 10 million and 11 million, respectively. But in January, the gap was closing, with more than 10 million unique visitors for HotJobs, more than 12 million for CareerBuilder, and more than 14 million for Monster."
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