Reveille & Hyperbole
Kenexa, a global provider of talent acquisition and retention solutions, today announced that Fairfax County Public Schools, the largest school district in Virginia, has selected Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing to give the schools the solution they need to locate and track candidates as they move through the hiring process.

Salary.com, Inc. announced a number of important new subscribers, such as Guess?, Inc., Sonoco Products Company, Union Pacific Corp., and Gap, Inc., and Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc to its executive compensation benchmarking software, CompAnalyst Executive, which offers instant access to compensation data for the top five executive officers at virtually all publicly-held companies in the United States.

Sendouts, provider of on-demand recruitment management software, has partnered with the Bernard Hodes Group SmartPost to help recruiting and staffing agencies streamline and manage job postings and applicants. With the integration of SmartPost, Sendouts customers will have the ability to automatically post job orders to a multitude of boards simultaneously from within applicant tracking system, Sendouts Pro.

Visibility Software, provider of online recruiting technology, and eQuest, specializing in job posting and Internet recruitment management services, partner to offer clients a robust job posting service through Visibility's line of Applicant Tracking System's software. Offerings include simplified job posting capabilities reaching a global audience of candidates, job board metric suites to evaluate job board effectiveness for candidate sourcing, and job board consulting, including Internet marketing strategies, consolidated billing, and job board contract negotiating.

The top 3 RPO providers in HRO Today Magazine's 2008 Baker's Dozen List are The RightThing, Spherion Corporation, and PeopleScout. (Read more.)

BLS Says
JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER: JUNE 2008. On the last business day of June, there were 3.6 million job openings in the United States, and the job openings rate was 2.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The job openings rate, hires rate, and total separations rate were all essentially unchanged in June. Although the month-to-month changes in job openings, hires, and turnover data are often small, the trends over time are notable. The job openings rate remained essentially flat from August 2006 through September 2007, followed by a downward trend until March 2008 when the rate leveled off at 2.6 percent for four consecutive months. The hires rate has trended downward since July 2006 and experienced a large drop in May 2008. The uptick in the hires rate in June 2008 was not statistically significant, and the rate remains at the lowest levels since 2003. After remaining essentially flat for much of 2007, the separations rate began an overall downward trend in December 2007.

BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS: FOURTH QUARTER 2007. From September to December 2007, the number of job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments was 7.7 million, and the number of job losses from closing and contracting establishments was 7.3 million, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Over this period, firms with 1,000 or more employees experienced a significant increase in their share of gross job gains (19.3 percent).