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nowHIRE.com introduced the nowHIRE Elite Business Edition, providing small to mid-size businesses all the hiring management advantages enjoyed by the company's large corporate clients. The Elite Business Edition is a Web-based applicant tracking system focused on the targeted hiring needs of smaller organizations. Its features focus on automating the paper-laden and often manual process or recruiting, hiring and on-boarding candidates.

TalentKeepers, the global leader in employee retention solutions, introduces Onboard Conncection, a unique orientation and employee engagement program designed to develop strong relationships between new employees and their leaders, as well as strengthen relationships between existing employees and their leaders. It can be used on its own or to augment an organization's existing orientation process.

SuccessFactors, Inc., an on-demand performance and talent management solutions firm, and HR Solutions Inc., a provider of Employee Engagement Survey instruments, announced an alliance to provide organizations with the tools they need to increase employee performance, engagement and loyalty. The combination of the two vendors provides an opportunity for joint customers to accelerate employee engagement levels, attract and retain employees, boost productivity and advance business results.

SolomonEdwardsGroup, LLC, a national CFO services firm, has acquired TWG Global Inc., a management consulting firm in the Dallas/Fort Worth market.

Accolo Inc., providing Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) for small and mid-sized companies, opens new offices in Chicago and New York. The company also launched an upgraded version of its website. With a streamlined user-friendly navigation, the site now provides executives, HR professionals and job seekers with numerous free resources and new online community tools to assist companies and their prospective employees.

TheLadders.com, online platform for $100k+ jobs, has unveiled two new applications on its RecruitLadder service. ResumeViewer and SmartMatch have been created to further aid recruiters in their search processes, enabling them to quickly scan and review candidate resumes and automate the candidate match process based on the unique attributes of each job posting.

Totaljobs.com launches a new Oil, Gas, and Alternative Energy sector. The site now covers more than 30 industries.

Salary.com, Inc., provider of on-demand compensation and talent management solutions, recently partnered with The Conference Board to provide executive compensation data for The 2007 Top Executive Compensation Report. The report reveals that CEOs of the largest companies have a substantial amount of their compensation tied to company performance.

IT professionals, who aren't groomed for executive roles, are more likely to leave. Companies will be at risk with gaping holes in their organization.