Sermo Jobs, is a new service from physician-only online community Sermo. It is designed to replace traditional recruitment channels by providing practicing physicians with access to each other in a thriving online community of 70,000 colleagues. Physicians can now freely post, respond to and exchange information about new jobs every day.

The legal firm of Dreier LLP, along with Philip A. Berry, will launch a management consulting firm to be known as Berry Block & Bernstein LLC. The new firm will assist companies in attracting, developing, and retaining highly talented executives and employees and provide consulting services to help clients improve working relationships in their businesses and maximize their human capital effectiveness.

CareerBuilder.com announced its new iPhone application "Jobs,"which enables you to search for a new job on the go. Using the iPhone's built-in geolocation technology, the CareerBuilder.com application automatically determines the city you are standing in and then allows you to find a job using a simple keyword search.

Agile-1, provider of global workforce management software and services, announced a software integration partnership with the eQuest Internet job-board posting software. The integration will support on-demand job-board posting and metrics directly from Agile-1's AccelerationATS human capital procurement software.

the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM), reports that nearly a third of the more than 720 attendees, who attended its HRMStrategies 2008 Conference and Technology Exposition, were first-time attendees from as far away as Asia and Europe, who sought to better leverage technology to drive workplace strategy. It also reports that sessions on talent management, Web 2.0, workforce metrics and analytics, and HR strategy had standing-room-only crowds, and conference registration increased over last year.

GalaxE.Solutions, Inc, designing and deploying business processes and decision support systems, and Siperian, Inc developers of a Master Data Management (MDM) platform, have entered into an alliance agreement, in which GalaxE.Solutions will be a provider of an Employee Master solution enabled by Siperian MDM Hub.. The alliance helps companies quickly deploy a solution that utilizes employee information across the enterprise.

The Wall Street Journal interviews Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.

Survey Says
An uncertain global economy and labor market are not significantly affecting hiring plans for new graduates, according to survey results released today. The latest Executive Quiz from Korn/Ferry International, global provider of talent management solutions, was tabulated in June 2008 as the majority of new university graduates hit the job market. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of executives surveyed say that their organization is planning to hire recent graduates with either a bachelor's or master's degree this year. In addition, 65% also say they are hiring either the same number (35%) or more (30%) new graduates this year than in recent years. The good news was tempered by 36% of executives, who say they are hiring fewer new graduates than in past years.