Kenexa Performance Indicators is a web-based suite of pre-employment assessment tools designed to identify prospective employees, who have a propensity to be engaged, to work well in a team and to demonstrate excellent customer service orientation, is now available.

Employee retention solutions firm TalentKeepers has been awarded a U.S. Patent for their web-based employee retention system, RetentionWorks.

5 Secrets of Talent -- What the World's Best Organizations Don't Want You to Know About Recruitment & Talent Management, an e-book, available as a free download from Recruitment process outsourcing specialist RPO Group, is a strategic resource for C-level and Human Resource executives, highlighting the changes taking place in the talent market, and the recruitment and talent management strategies leading organizations already use to win.

Salary.com, Inc., provider of on-demand compensation and talent management solutions, announced a new alliance with Convergys, offering outsourced compensation advisory, analytical, and administrative services. Convergys will utilize Salary.com's on-demand compensation data and software to help clients automate, streamline, and reduce costs of traditional compensation processes such as market pricing, survey management, and U.S. executive pay research. Salary.com will expand their compensation management offering by drawing on Convergys's outsourced compensation advisory and analytical capabilities to help customers analyze, design and deploy strategic compensation initiatives.

The Human Capital Institute, a global professional association that is advancing the science of strategic talent management, and Taleo, a provider of on demand talent management solutions, announced that Taleo is sponsoring HCI's High-Performance Organization education and research track.

Applicant tracking systsemmyStaffingPro increases its offering with the Hiring Manager Quick Response module. The module enables HR professionals to seamlessly request and receive hiring manager feedback on applicants. It features a feedback request form, a hiring manager interface and progress notifications via email.

Jobvite, a provider of next-generation recruitment solutions, has published results of its 2008 Social Recruitment Survey. Social recruitment is the practice of leveraging social and professional networks, online and offline, for talent acquisition. The survey shows that companies are increasingly tapping social networks to find employees. But most have yet to implement a comprehensive social recruitment strategy that fully leverages companies' most valuable social networks - those of their employees.

In addition to providing relocation transition assistance, outplacement and retirement services that support specific workforce transitions, IMPACT Group expanded services help any type of organizational transition need through additional offerings and enhance partnerships to support recruitment, retention, redeployment and talent planning.

MyPhoneResume.com, from Metafy LLC, is a new website that makes it easy for anyone to create a resume that looks great on Apple's iPhone.