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Monster enhances and expands its Career Ad Network (CAN), a tool designed to help employers better target optimal talent by transforming job postings into dynamic ads thereby reaching a broader set of potential candidates where they live and transact online. The company also released metrics that speak to the efficacy of the product, including employers seeing a 50-percent rise in job views and 100-percent more applicants responding to their postings.
ZeroChaos, a global workforce solutions company, acquires PayWise, Inc., a division of Adecco USA focused on providing professional payrolling services. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Adicio announced the launch of its New Hampshire Network, an alliance of job postings from the web sites of local and community media companies across the state of New Hampshire. All jobs in Adicio's New Hampshire Network are posted first on a local participating site, which then has the ability to add those listings into the state-wide job database.
Kenexa, a provider of recruitment and retention solutions, partners with the RACER Benchmark Group, a consortium of German blue-chip companies, to provide thought leadership, benchmark data, support and best practices for employee-based research.
HRchitect, HR systems strategic consulting, and Human Capital Management and Talent Management systems consulting firm, announced it is a recent winner of the
2008 Comerica Bank Collin 60 award. Winners are determined by the percentage of growth over the past three years as compared to the base year of 2004.
RPO Group Case Study Highlights Success of New Outsourced Recruitment Process. \The recruitment strategies and talent management expertise of RPO Group and a re-vamped recruitment process deliver double-digit reductions in staff turnover and a spike in productivity at BRW Fast 100 company BCI Group. This practical case study is packed with real-world recruitment strategies that will work for anyone.
HireAbility.com, a recruiting software and services firm, is once again offering hundreds of dollars off its membership prices as a way to help the staffing and recruiting industry during the nation's tough economic times.
Survey Says
More than 40 percent of employees report they are very satisfied with their jobs, according to the annual SHRM 2008 Job Satisfaction survey. Eight out of 10 employees report overall satisfaction.
The percentage of very satisfied employees rose from 38 percent in 2007 to 41 percent this year. The figure has remained relatively consistent since SHRMfirst conducted this survey in 2002, with 30 percent responding very satisfied. The overall satisfaction score -- 82 percent this year -- was 79 percent last year, and 77 percent in 2002.
In this year's survey, female employees reported higher levels of job satisfaction than men, as did employees aged 56 and older, compared with those 35 and younger.
This year's unstable economic climate is reflected in employees' perceptions of job security (59 percent), where it was cited as the top aspect of satisfaction. Ranked in importance, it was followed by benefits, compensation, feeling safe in the workplace, communication between employees and senior management, and opportunities to use skills and abilities. These results were similar to last year's findings.
One significant difference in this year's findings was the decrease in the importance of "work/life balance" by employees, compared to 2002 and 2007. It reached its lowest average level in the history of the survey. Contrary to previous years, this aspect dropped out of the top five list for employees: 44 percent of employees reported that work/life balance is a very important aspect of job satisfaction, compared to 62 percent in 2002.
In Memoriam
A comedic genius with a sharp eye and oft times untamed tongue, George Carlin died on June 22. He was 71.
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