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CareerBuilder.com has introduced CB Transitions, a new service for companies faced with trimming their work force. Employers can purchase CB Transitions services to help displaced employees jump start their job search through a variety of job seeking tools, including career assessments, resume writing and critiques and interview and negotiation skills raining.

Adecco is opening a Canadian RPO Center in Montreal as of March 1, 2009, offering businesses complete or partial outsourcing of their staffing process.

The Greening of HR conducted by Buck Consultants, a human resource and benefits consulting firms, finds that 54 percent of respondents incorporate environmental management into their business operations. Whether they are part of a strategic business plan or a one-off practice, some common green human resource initiatives include:

• Using Web or teleconferencing to reduce travel (78 percent)
• Promoting the reduction of paper use (76 percent)
• Implementing wellness programs to foster employees' proper nutrition, fitness, and healthy living (68 percent).

The Beacon Group is launching its annual Human Capital Leaders survey to collect the expert opinion of Canadian executives on the economy and on the state of Human Capital Management.

The 2008 Human Capital Leaders study highlighted the following points:

-- Where are we going? was the resounding question confronting nearly three quarters of Canadian corporate leaders last year. Economic conditions and competitive pressures were posing strategic questions that leaders know their companies cannot answer.

-- 66% of Canadian executives overwhelmingly indicated that external market challenges are the biggest threats to their companies. A telling figure, given where organizations find themselves in today's market conditions.

-- More than half of Canadian corporate leaders pointed to retention and succession planning as the biggest blindspots in their corporate strategies.

-- Human Resource departments in Canada admitted they were still heavily focused on attracting and retaining talent through compensation - a strategy dismissed as out of step with younger Generation Y employees entering the workforce.

-- Identified WestJet, Research in Motion and Canadian Tire topped the 2008 study as the most admired Canadian companies for their overall management of People & Human Capital.

The group, comprising 22 priests, 22 musicians and 19 sculptors representing 31 temples throughout the country, was the first in Malaysia to receive the certificate from the institute, the Human Resources Ministry said today.

Yesterday, the group went through a one-day induction programme, which was also to familiarise them with the essential aspects of workplace communication, as part of the conditions imposed by the Immigration Department.

The course, organised by HRI, was conducted by religious and labour experts from the Malaysian Hindu Sangam and Immigration Department in line with the Cabinet decision last July to allow the recruitment of Hindu priests, musicians and sculptors from India.

The group was also exposed to the administration of local Hindu temples so that they would be able to communicate effectively with devotees and temple administrators, the statement said. Thanks to The Malaysian Insider.

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