The Sun-Times News Groupand Monster have entered into a strategic alliance and the launch of co-branded Web sites to offer combined online and print services via the Chicago Sun-Times and 70 other newspaper titles to the greater Chicago area and Northwest Indiana.
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and JobTarget have collaborated on a coupon book of over 1,000 niche, diversity and regional job boards, all offering a 5-50% savings on job postings throughout 2009. The Job Board Savings Book is a directory of job boards categorized by industry, so finding and selecting the perfect place to post any position has been simplified. The majority of coupons are redeemable on SHRM's Job Posting Center.
Pyramid Recruiting Pyramid Recruiting, located in Tiffin, Ohio, is celebrating its 20th year in business and the launch of its new website.
HRsmart, a talent management software company, announced it was awarded a $3.3 million, one-year contract to provide Employment and Recruitment e-Service solutions to the State of Qatar.
Reuters reports that the FBI is launching one of the largest hiring blitzes in its 100-year history involving 2,100 professional staff vacancies and 850 special agents aimed at filling its most critical vacancies.
Forbes.com reports on America's Most Educated Small Towns. The most-educated small town on the list is Bethesda, Md. The city hosts the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as well as the corporate headquarters of Marriott (nyse: MAR - news - people ), Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) and COMSAT. Bethesda also boasts the highest percentage of residents with advanced degrees in the country, with 51.5% of residents over 25 who have master's degrees or Ph.D.'s. (read more)
Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies Asia-Pacific roundtable find that the current HR challenges facing companies doing business in Asia-Pacific include: Finding, Developing/Growing and Retaining Talent, Managing talent across the diverse cultures and economies in Asia, Integrating outside talent into the organization, Engaging the workforce in the face of immense change, Optimizing the impact of expatriates, Creating a compelling employee value proposition, Optimizing organizational structures to increase effectiveness and decrease costs. Facing the rising threat of unions, Reacting to changing governmental regulatory policies.
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