Domain Strategies, a Monster Venture Partners company, partners with Marc D. Snyder to build on the success of Careers.org and develop the site into the next generation career development and management resource.

The Human Capital Institute (HCI) and .New Learning Playbook, a blog that tracks innovations and trends in corporate learning and talent management, have partnered to launch the Learning Innovation Network (LIN), a think tank of senior learning and talent management professionals working in FORTUNE 1000 organizations.

Jobpartners PLC, a European leader of solutions dedicated to the Talent Management market, has successfully achieved 11 million Euros of funding in its third round since its creation in 2000.

Abso, a provider of talent management and screening solutions, has partnered with PeopleClues to offer award-winning personality, cognitive, and attitude assessments through Abso's Talent EditionTM application. Now HR managers can seamlessly initiate and evaluate the results of PeopleClues assessments within a single interface, helping them hire the best candidates more efficiently.

Going from ragtag to riches. Philadelphia's Urban Outfitters defies trends, thriving on youthful talent.

In May 2008, there were 3,795,400 online advertised job vacancies, a decline of 579,000 or 13.2 percent from the May 2007 level, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series. This is the third consecutive month of declines for the Nation as a whole (year-over-year). In May, there were 2.5 advertised vacancies posted online for every 100 persons in the labor force, down from a high of 2.9 in May 2007.

Outbound e-mails spell inbound legal trouble for corporations.
From The National Law Journal.
Outbound e-mail continues to be a big source of liability for employers, not to mention the legal headaches that message boards and blogs are causing, according to a new survey of more than 300 U.S. corporations.

In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint, Inc., an e-mail security and data loss prevention company, found a number of legal threats that arise from corporate communications. The study found that companies are battling information leaks from outbound e-mail, as well as newer communications media such as blogs, message boards, media sharing sites and mobile devices.

Among the findings:
o More than one-third (34%) of large U.S. companies had employee e-mail subpoenaed by a court or regulatory body in the last year.
o 44% of companies investigated the leak of confidential or proprietary company data during that same time.
o More than a quarter, 26%, of U.S. companies terminated an employee for violating email policies in the last year.
o 41% of larger companies (those with more than 20,000 employees) employ staff to read or analyze outbound e-mail.

But e-mail is not the only source of risk for information leakage.

Respondents indicated significant risk also resulting from employee use of blogs, message boards and media sharing sites, such as YouTube. And mobile devices.

Some of the key findings include:
o 27% of companies investigated the exposure of confidential, sensitive or private information from lost or stolen mobile devices in the past 12 months.
o 11% of U.S. companies surveyed disciplined employees for improper use of blogs/message boards in the past 12 months.
o 13% disciplined employees for social network violations and 14% for improper use of media sharing .