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A Healthy Dose of ERN
John Sumser's delving into the differences between lunacy and genius are the subject of today's ERN. Years of therapy finally pay off.
Gets To Brag
E-Cruiter.com shares rose 30 percent
at its Wall Street debut despite the fact that analysts had been lukewarm about
the initial public offering.
Check Out the Competition
ComputerJobs.com now has a
start-up site for those looking for opportunities with a start-up company.
WorkExchange
is a Recruiters Network of freelancers and independent professionals.
!Trak-It Train, a training system
to monitor the training progress within an organization.
HR Integration, a web-based
application reported to build an interactive recruiting solution into the
jobs/career section of a company website.
SmartSearch, a database application
that manages information on candidates, jobs, hiring managers, and
businesses.
A New Place To Look
A recent nationwide compensation survey
reports that although linking individual goals to the company's business
goals is the primary objective of short-term incentives, 30 percent of
those surveyed don't find these plans effective in improving organizational
performance. One thinks it worthwhile to research why not. (Hint: look at
relationships within corporate structure.)
New Combinations
PepsiCo selects HotJobs' Softshoe to
manage its hiring and recruiting efforts.
American Vantage Companies
acquired an 80-percent interest in Placement
2000 for $1 million in cash.
Market Report
The dollar drifted lower during the trading session, in what has become a
rather thin market. This volatile price action is laying waste to traders'
positions as first the shorts were squeezed, followed by the longs. No follow-through in the Euro,
and given the recent spate of economic news out of Euroland, this certainly leaves a question mark
in one's mind as to the next direction. But talk out of Europe seems to bode well
for the economic prospectus for next year. So, one might also want to tag along
with the HKMA and look to buy the Euro at these levels for the medium term.
Corporate Layoffs Surge
After hitting a 25-month low in October, U.S. corporations returned to the
job-chopping block, announcing 50,907 layoffs in November, a 123-percent
surge over the previous month, according to Challenger, Gray &
Christmas, an international outplacement firm.
What You Don't Know You Don't Know
The December issue of Scientific
America reports that the most important discoveries of the next 50
years are likely to be ones of which we cannot now even consider
The End of Musak?
Otis Elevator Company announced its plan
to join forces with Next Generation Network and IBM Corp. to provide
information from the Internet into elevator cars worldwide.
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