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Reveille and Hyperbole:
Vangent, Inc., a leading provider of human capital management solutions, announced the launch of its P3 Talent Management™ application. The new product is designed to help organizations identify and predict high potential and job fit for critical positions; plan for talent placement, development, and succession; and perform at the highest levels by aligning the right people with the right responsibilities at the right time.

Jobs in Pods, the web's first ever podcast service for recruiting, announced today that Denver based Exempla Healthcare has begun a new recruitment campaign which highlights the different career opportunities inside one of Colorado's top hospital systems. Exempla is the first such hospital system in the U.S. to utilize this new recruiting platform.

Ceridian Cardiovascular Health Management will help employers address health care costs, lost productivity and other issues they face when an employee encounters heart-related health problems.

CoreSpeed, LLC., an Atlanta-based provider of branded online community and enterprise social media platforms, has launched an online community specifically focused on sharing best practices for online community and enterprise social media. CoreSpeed's platform incorporates Web 2.0 social media tools to provide collaboration and communications around traditional customer, prospect, employee, supply chain, and partner touch-points.

Comings and Goings:
Capital H Group, a rapidly expanding human capital consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, has hired John Hancock, formerly Vice President of Talent Solutions at Hudson Highland Group, to lead Capital H Group's growing recruiting division.




Upcoming Events:
Talent acquisition and management consulting firm to highlight global implementation strategies of Fortune 500 Companies at HR Technology Conference and Exposition. HR Technology Conference and Exposition is in Chicago on October 11, 2007.

Survey Says:
The Praxi Group, Inc.
Market Overview:
The Aging U.S. Marketplace Key Issues and Considerations for Designing and Managing Primary Market Research
Summary A large volume of information has been published over the past decade regarding the aging of the U.S. consumer population, particularly in relation to the migration of baby boomers into the 55+ segment. This shift in the median age of U.S. consumers will have significant implications for the marketing strategies pursued by corporations, particularly with regard to the development of new products targeted specifically toward elderly consumers. Researchers asked to assist in these efforts will face similar challenges in terms of the methodological and analytical approaches utilized when accessing the voice of this important segment.

This overview discusses a variety of issues and considerations related to the design and management of primary research among senior consumers and provides valuable direction for firms in the initial stages of developing or reviewing their approach to this area of research.

Background
The increasing median age of consumers in the U.S. is an often-discussed and frequently documented trend. The marketing-related implications of this change in the age profile of U.S. consumers will be significant and widespread, as evidenced by the following data points:

• The number of U.S. consumers aged 65 / over will increase from 35 million in 2000 to an estimated 71 million in 2030. The number of consumers over the age of 80 will more than double during the same time period.
Consumers will be significant and widespread, as evidenced by the following data points: The number of adults aged 55 to 64 will increase by nearly 50 percent between 2000 and 2010, a rate of growth more than six times higher than that estimated for the remainder of the population; the number aged 65 to 74 will increase by nearly 20 percent during the same decade consumers will be significant and widespread, as evidenced by the following data points:
• Empty Nester households were projected to spend nearly $650 billion on consumer packaged goods in 2003.
consumers will be significant and widespread, as evidenced by the following data points:
• Consumers over the age of 55 have a per capita income that is 25% higher than that of the general population.
consumers will be significant and widespread, as evidenced by the following data points:
• Consumers over the age of 55 own 77% of all financial assets in the U.S. and purchase nearly half of all luxury automobiles sold.
• Nearly half of all consumers over the age of 55 own a computer, 70% of whom use the Internet regularly.