It's "more better" when hiring is the result of a relationship. It's "less better" when hiring is the cause of the relationship. The trick in recruiting is building the network of relationships required to keep the organization growing and operating.   (More.)








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Magnificent Women Organization, which serves women executives, professionals and women business owners with products such as executive career concierge information services, personal branding implementation packages, conferences and coaching, partners with Dress for Success, an international non-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women.

Cytiva announced its inclusion on Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 25th year. Cytiva was ranked 483.

Accountancyjobsabroad.com is the newest addition to recruitment consultancies specializing in placing accountants and finance candidates into tax-free (often 'off-shore') locations. The main locations http://www.accountancyjobsabroad.com seeks to place candidates include Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and also the ever-expanding China. The main business sectors recruited for are Audit & Advisory, Finance & Banking. Fund Services and Industry & Commerce.

Billed as America's foremost online community for people age 50 and above, ActiveAmericans.com announced its launch as a dynamic new source of information designed to transform people's lives for the better.

JobApp Network, a Michigan-based provider of an automated hourly hiring solution has announced the successful implementation of their solution for SHP Senior Living Services LLC, a group of assisted living and retirement communities across Florida. The solution improves SHP's hiring capabilities across the enterprise meeting HR compliance and EEO standards.

Care2Learn announces a new Elearning solution for the full time staff of Senior Solutions Healthcare Management and Consulting, LLC based in Milton, Massachusetts. Senior Solutions University - the customized Learning Management System created by Care2Learn- was developed last fall with the purpose of educating, training, testing, reporting and tracking continuing education for over 700 of the Senior Solutions Licensed heath care professionals on staff.

Comings and Goings:
UCSF University-Community Partnerships Program recently welcomed Damon Lew in his new role as workforce development coordinator ...

Wisconsin Workforce Development Secretary Gassman Appoints Hector Colon As Executive Assistant ...

Upcoming Events:
Human Resources Experts to Convene in Singapore WorldatWork Presents Total Rewards Asia Pacific 2007 WorldatWork, an association of human resource professionals from FORTUNE 500 and other leading organizations worldwide, is scheduled to present WorldatWork Total Rewards Asia Pacific 2007 from 31 October-2 November at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore.




Survey Says:
Benchmark Professional Careers Announce Job Survey Results

Benchmark Professional Careers, along with several of their affiliates in the Midwest and South East released their results. The findings: 58% landed a job through networking; 33% through advertised postings; and 9% through a recruiter.

In a collective effort with several of their affiliates Benchmark Professional Careers is releasing the results of a survey that demonstrates how people land jobs.

Benchmark Professional Careers, along with affiliates in the Midwest and South East released their results today. The findings: 58% landed a job through networking; 33% through advertised postings; and 9% through a recruiter.

A spokesperson for the company stated, "This is just a sampling, but it coincides with past findings on a national level. There has been little done to review this subject in the past several years and we felt it was timely to look into this important subject. People don't seem to know how to network effectively any more, or feel that there networks have dried up. They don't know how to energize their existing networks or more importantly, how to develop new networks."

The company makes it clear that this is not a scientific poll, but a good representative sampling from their own clients.

Benchmark Professional Careers works with professionals on the best ways to re-package their most marketable skills and then to network themselves into career positions. When asked what is most difficult for a job seeker today, Benchmark Careers say that complaints about ineffective online campaigns, "searching the online job boards" leads the pack in what job seekers find most difficult. The second biggest complaint is "difficulty in getting to the decision maker" that will ultimately choose who he or she works with.

They also feels that the percentage of people in their survey who found a job through advertised positions is higher than previous surveys is due to the manner in which their clients approach that segment of the job market. The percentage for jobs through recruiters is in line with other survey results from the past. Borden Elliott says that complaints from jobs seekers still resonate when talking about the lack of response from online postings.

Benchmark Careers is encouraging other affiliates to survey their clients in order to get a more national overview of how people are finding jobs. "We feel confident that the percentage of professionals who get jobs through networking will to continue to climb as additional results are revealed."

Benchmark Professional Careers is a Chicago area based career management firm based, assisting executive level professionals. To learn more about them visit their website www.benchmarkcareers.com.