Niche Boards
This
graphic
appeared in a Wall Street Journal Article last week. 66% of the $5.9
Billion Job Board Market is held by niche boards. That's $4B in annual
revenue for the niche boards. I am sure that the figure is much, much higher.
(Maybe as much as $10B in total.)
Read more of the
Electronic Recruiting News.
Reveille and Hyperbole:
Cytiva Software Inc. (CRX:TSX.V), a leading provider of on-demand talent management software solutions, announced that world renown Vancouver Aquarium selected SonicRecruit to power its talent acquisition efforts.
Time Recruitment has been awarded the Seek Annual Recruitment Awards (SARA) award, an award voted for by the candidates and clients who have utilised their service.
Manpower launches employment law blogadvertisement. To commemorate Labor Day, Manpower Inc. developed a new blog that will focus on what the company calls the often-ignored, sometimes boring but highly important topic of employment law. The employment law blog, dubbed a blawg, can be found online at www.manpowerblogs.com, and will be written by Mark Toth, North American chief legal officer for Manpower, which is in the process of moving its corporate headquarters to Milwaukee from Glendale.
Comings and Goings:
Pfizer announced that Dr. Tanya Clemons, a senior executive with extensive experience in leadership and organization change at Microsoft and IBM, will join Pfizer as vice president and Chief Talent Officer in November ...
Tina Cochrane, a recruiter at HireNetworks for nearly 2 ½ years, has been promoted to the firm's director ...
You Should Know:
DC:
Social Media & Its Impact On Recruiting
Check out the online version of the Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster, Inc., presentation that kicked off the Electronic Recruiting Exchange conference in Washington D.C.
The presentation, designed for recruiting organizations, walks through:
The rise of web 2.0 and social media
The impact of social media on recruitment
How Jobster is enabling employers to harness social media via LinkedIn contacts, online people search mashups, integrating social media into their career sites, and building their own employer talent networks on Facebook.
Survey Says:
CIPD launches a one-stop guide to employer branding
An effective employer brand can make a dramatic difference to how successful businesses are, in recruiting, engaging and keeping their people as shown in a new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) practical guide: Employer branding: a no-nonsense approach. This echoes recent CIPD research that shows around three-quarters (75%) of organisations that use employer branding as a recruitment tool believe it to be effective.
Employer branding: a no-nonsense approach features case studies from leading organisations, British Library, Diesel, Kings College NHS Trust, Lakeland, Orange and ScottishPower. It illustrates why and how they have developed and communicated an employee brand. (Read more at Onrec.com)
Deep Release:
SHRM 2007 Human Capital Leadership Award Winners Announced
The Coca-Cola Company and IBM among Top Organizations Honored for Excellence in Organizational Strategy
Three organizations and a corporate human resource (HR) leader were recognized today by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) as the winners of the 2nd Annual SHRM Human Capital Leadership Awards®. The awards program recognizes HR leaders and programs for excellence in developing and executing organizational strategy. Winners were recognized at the SHRM Strategic HR Conference in Tampa.
The SHRM Human Capital Leadership Awards recognize excellence in four categories: three awards honoring exemplary HR departments—Innovative Business Solution Award, Competitive Workforce Award and Strategic HR Leadership Award—and the Human Capital Business Leader of the Year Award, recognizing a senior HR leader.
"We applaud the exceptional work and professionalism of these leadership award winners," said Susan R. Meisinger, SPHR, SHRM's president and CEO. "Their effective strategies and accomplishments illustrate the significant role human resource professionals play in organizational success in a competitive global market."
Innovative Business Solution Award Winner
The Innovative Business Solution Award is presented to a human resource department that successfully develops a creative and ethical solution to a new or ongoing organizational challenge. Initiatives will demonstrate the bottom-line value of people strategies.
IBM, Research Triangle Park, N.C., for "Blue Opportunities, an Innovative Approach to Career Development." This employee-driven program was created to offer staff developmental opportunities to enhance and acquire skills as well as help repurpose on-the-job learning activities by crossing worldwide virtual borders without leaving home locations. IBM is an information technology and solutions business with 356,000 employees.
Competitive Workforce Award Winner
The Competitive Workforce Award is presented to a human resource department that recognizes and successfully responds to key workforce trends and needs in an ever-changing economic climate. These efforts will serve to directly impact the organization's long-term business objectives.
Liverpool, Mexico City, Mexico, for the "The Liverpool Virtual University." Liverpool, the biggest chain of department stores in Mexico, developed high quality yet affordable training for more than 33,000 employees. Leveraging the program's success, Liverpool is now extending training services to external businesses.
Strategic HR Leadership Award Winner
The Strategic HR Award Leadership Award is presented to a human resource department that plays a key role in driving performance by leveraging organizational human capital and demonstrating how HR aligns with corporate strategic goals.
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga., for its "Manifesto for Growth." The Coca-Cola Company's 71,000 employees embarked on a journey inspired by the desire for sustainable growth. Manifesto is the company's strategic initiative to reinvent itself and reinvigorate growth through the partnership of senior leaders, human resources, and aligning and leveraging the power of their global network.
Human Capital Business Leader of the Year Award Winner
The Human Capital Business Leader of the Year Award is presented to a senior human resource professional who is a leading force and an effective partner in executing organizational strategy that directly impacts the company's performance and prominence.
Mark Fogel, corporate VP of HR and Customer Care, Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., Little Neck, N.Y., for his commitment to making human resources a true strategic business partner. With the reputation as the "get it done" executive, Mr. Fogel has oversight for HR globally, for a total of 11,000 employees. As an architect of transforming HR from an administrative function to a strategic group, he has successfully aligned HR with the corporation's business initiatives that support the top line goals.
In addition to being recognized at the SHRM Strategic HR Conference, award winners will be featured in stories in the November issue of HR Magazine, and highlighted on the SHRM Web site. Winners also will be profiled in SHRM research as a company with "best practices."
The 2008 Call for Entries will open in March. For additional program information or to subscribe to Leadership Award e-updates, please contact SHRM Media Affairs at (703) 535-6356/6273 or visit www.shrm.org/leadershipawards.
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 225,000 individual members, the Society's mission is both to serve human resource management professionals and to advance the profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM currently has more than 576 affiliated chapters within the United States and members in more than 135 countries. Visit SHRM Online at www.shrm.org.
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