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Monster, a global online career and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc., unveils its new global seeker experience. Launched in 24 countries, it offers an innovative, intuitive, and personal experience designed to deliver a fulfilling career management resource. Available initially in the U.S and rolling out to other countries in the coming months, these include: Monster Career Mapping, patent-pending career exploration tool, Monster Career Snapshots, allowing users to access thousands of occupational profiles describing various roles, the skills required, the compensation and work/life balance associated with them, and Monster Career Benchmarking, an assessment tool that helps candidates measure themselves against other individuals or jobs in their industry so they can compete more effectively for the positions they desire.

Envision Telephony, Inc., a global provider of workforce optimization solutions for the contact center and enterprise, announced the signing of a strategic sales partnership with Comunycarse, provider and distributor of customer service solutions. Under the partnership, Comunycarse will add Envision's contact center workforce optimization solutions to its suite of offerings.

The Judge Group, a professional services firm specializing in Technology Consulting, Enterprise-Wide Staffing and Corporate Training, has expanded the firm's East Coast network of operations with the grand opening of the downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office located at 2205 Strawberry Square.

A new executive recruiting firm has been launched by James Rafferty and Leslie MacDonald, both formerly of Human Capital Solutions, Inc. Market Shapers applies a proprietary analytical approach to executive search Talent, Tools, Techniques and Technology and is designed to create a sophisticated matrix to match senior-level executives with prominent global organizations.

PreVisor announced that Contact Center Solution has received a 2008 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine, covering CRM, call centers and teleservices since 1982.

CyberShift, a global provider of workforce management and expense management software and services, announced a partnership with Chicago-based SDI (System Development Integration, LLC), a systems integrator that specializes in the public sector, aviation and other industries involved in the management of the safety, security and surveillance of people and operations.

Adicio, developer of web-based classified advertising solutions, launches a new job-search portal, CareerCast.com, containing extensive job listings from Adicio client websites across the U.S. and Canada. It is designed to enable job seekers to access job opportunities from the leading career sites in their local area or region, while also providing employers and recruiters with a quick and easy way to post listings to more than 500 newspaper, broadcast, trade publishing and niche sites in a single transaction.