What's Going On V: Waste Removal
Recruiting is not an art. It is not some sort of magic performed by people with very special mystical knowledge. While it is very specialized in each niche, Recruiting is repeatable.
Unlike most of the jobs that they help fill, the job of recruiter usually has no technical requirements, no experience requirements, no education requirements. There are no degree granting programs and there is precious little training available.
These factors tend to make recruiters overly certain of what they are doing. For individual recruiters, it often seems like an art.
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Reveille and Hyperbole: CyberShift, a leading provider of global workforce
management and expense management software and services, today announced that the City of High
Point, North Carolina, has selected CyberShift's Workforce Management 3G suite of products as
its new workforce management system.
Friendster, Inc. an online community that connects
people through networks of friends, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
has awarded the social networking pioneer a new U.S. Patent titled, "System and Method for
Managing Connections in an Online Social Network" (U.S. Patent No. 7,188,153 B2). This is the third in a growing portfolio of patents granted to Friendster, highlighting the company's innovation in online social networking.
RelocateTriangle.com has announced the expansion of its online resources to include the Relocate Triangle Job Board feature. Relocate Triangle is a locally managed blog offering practical and straightforward information for people that move, and plan to move, to the Triangle (North Carolina).
Deck Chairs: Cognizant Technology Solutions has promoted
its Senior Vice- President Mr T. Sridhar, as Chief People Officer (CPO).
According to a press release, the newly created CPO position will bring together all talent
related functions in the organisation. This includes recruiting, talent management, immigration
and learning. Besides these areas, Mr Sridhar will also be responsible for human resources
leadership across Cognizant's geographies
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You Should Know: USA: Boomer health decline reported
Are they less well than earlier group? Or is it imagined?
University of Pennsylvania sociologist Beth Soldo, an early-wave baby boomer, wasn't seeking potentially ominous news about the health of her generation, but it was staring her in the face.
Studying data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, she and her colleagues found that people in their early to mid-50s were reporting more health problems than people that age had described previously.
New Zealand: HRshopper.com Inc. and Starf Ltd Enter into US Sales and Marketing Deal for Applicant Tracking
System (ATS)
In an aggressive international expansion, Starf Ltd known for its leading ATS, "Rogerjob" will sell and market its web based tracking system in the US, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. HRshopper will handle all of the sales and marketing distribution arrangements in the US. A portion of the sales proceeds will go to local United Way charities.
In a move to expand internationally, Starf Ltd is targeting the US with its ATS product "Rogerjob." The product will be available for distribution and purchase in March 2007.
HRshopper is well known for its lead generation strategies and affiliate relationships with human resource providers. Some of their clients include Business Training Library, Successfactors, Intellicorp, ResumeGrabber, Careerbuilder and many more.
Rogerjob is a state-of-the-art product that was established in 2000, designed by recruiters - for recruiters. It will improve the efficiencies of any recruitment process, by managing communications with the job applicants/candidates (talent pool). The system is web-based operating in real time, and is feature rich for the small and mid-size organization (25-5,000 employees).
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Statistics State:
Fewer Employers Offer Health Coverage to Lower Income Parents
As debate about how much federal funding to devote to the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP), this new analysis provides a clearer look at uninsured children in every state.
The analysis, released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shows that since 1997,
employer offers of health insurance to parents with lower incomes have fallen three times as
fast as offers to parents who earn more money. The figures underscore that working parents
who earn modest incomes are experiencing dramatic erosion in employee benefits. Analysis for
this report was conducted by SHADAC.
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC)
is state-level health policy analysis and research center at the University of Minnesota School
of Public Health. SHADAC's affiliated faculty and staff conduct a variety of research and
consultation projects for state and federal agencies. It was founded in 2000 with principal
funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Deep Release:
Medical Marijuana and Oregon's Workforce
Last year, the Oregon Supreme Court essentially upheld an employer's ability to fire an employee who tests positive for marijuana, regardless that the employee had a prescription for medical marijuana and was not stoned on the job (previous blog here). Our legislature is now working on a law that would clear up much of the uncertainty in such situations.
Employers could fire medical marijuana users who fail drug tests under a bill passed Wednesday by the Oregon Senate.
If it becomes law, the measure could shield employers from potential lawsuits filed by medical marijuana patients who have been fired or disciplined for testing positive for the drug when they show up for work.
Without the bill, "employers will be left with individual lawsuits and appeals," said Sen. Rick Metsger, D-Welches. "I believe this is good policy for our state, and it is strongly supported by both labor and management."
The employee who lost his appeal to the Supreme Court offered to take blood tests that would provide feedback as to whether he was impaired on or when arriving at the job (previous blog here). The company refused. Yes, that would be more expensive, as would the offering of impairment testing--unless done on a large scale. There's also the issue that people who for instance are sick or exhausted can fail impairment tests, something that would seemingly matter to employers from a safety and efficiency perspective. Attempting to enforce a "drug-free workplace" is simpler, in part because we're more used to it.
Obviously the fact that the feds consider medical marijuana illegal complicates the situation. But, it's looking like Oregon's political leaders are simply trying to take the easy way out. The majority of our state senators are okay with this type of discrimination.
According to Michael Cohen, an employment attorney with the Philadelphia-based law firm, Wolf Block, only California and Montana have provisions in their medical marijuana statutes that clearly protect workers from being fired or disciplined if they are state approved users.
States that don't forbid employers from taking action against workers who use medical marijuana have created a gray area, legal experts say.
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Prozanski said he would try to persuade the House to change the bill so that it would not discriminate against workers who are cardholders under the Oregon medical marijuana program.
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