NotchUp, is a virtual career agent focused on passive candidates and designed to help companies quickly and cost-effectively source top-tier candidates. Enhancements include integration across Facebook and OpenSocial networking platforms, and unique Personal Identification Numbers allowing interested companies a way to access candidates through the NotchUp system, at the candidate's discretion.

Verbal Summary is a presentation tool that allows the recruiter to easily combine audio with a resume for effective and powerful presentations to their clients. The recruiter simply records a conversation with his/her candidate creating an MP3 file, and then easily uploads the resume and audio to the website. Verbal Summary also combines keyword search, resume indexing and group emailing to address the most fundamental needs in organizing candidates and client requirements.

Optimum Hong Kong Limited, is a newly launched full-service recruitment company targeted exclusively at the financial and investment banking sectors. Its founder and managing director Nicholas Neal.

Crdentia Corp., a provider of healthcare staffing services, announced its plan to immediately begin the process to take the Company private.

Verified Person releases its newest version of Taleo Verify, a fully integrated background screening solution to achieve complete compatibility with Taleo Recruiting 7.5. Also included in this release is the integration of the new Verified Person I-9 verification and retention tool.

Deloitte LLP announced it will invest approximately $300 million in the creation of a state-of-the-art learning and leadership development center in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Westlake, Texas. Construction on the new facility will begin in 2009 and the center is expected to open in 2011. The facility will serve as a central destination for all of Deloitte's talent, including everyone from new hires to senior leadership to partners, principals and directors.

Survey Says
According to TheLadders.com Quarterly Executive Job Market Trends Report for Q208, which tracks hiring patterns in 20 major cities and surveys in-the-trenches job seekers nationwide, 71% of $100,000+ job seekers said they have noticed a slow-down in interview opportunities this quarter. However, undeterred by the economic slow-down, 58% of those surveyed described the high-end job markets in their cities as stable and 59% said they expect to land a new job in 6 months or less. Regional markets with the most favorable $100,000+ climates were San Francisco, San Diego, Washington DC, Seattle, and Boston. The ratio of job seekers to job postings sits at a favorable 2:1 in San Francisco, 3.1 in San Diego and 4:1 in Washington DC, Seattle and Boston. Job markets attracting the highest number of job seekers from other parts of the country are New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Tampa and Detroit continue to be among the tightest markets.