Stocking Stuffer
John Sumser considers an innovative Recruiting accessory being offered by Personic for the Palm Pilot. Something to add to your ERN wish list.
New Combinations
Heidrick & Struggles announces its intent to acquire Baines Gwinner, a London-based executive search firm for the financial services and legal industries.
HotJobs.com will provide LawStreet members with job-search tools and employment listings.
Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch joins the WorkExchange network.
Check Out The Competition
ResuMMe, a career marketing service.
The techpool, techies.com's online service, manages the relationship between recruiter and job seeker. The company also reports that it now offers over 300 Web-based technology and personal development courses to its members.
The Career Center, accessed through Law.com, offers job listings, articles and tools to job seekers, including profiles from Vault.com.
USatWork.com, a directory that claims to have 10 million businesses indexed in its database, and allows you to sort by category, name, and ZIP code.
Multi-Industry Compensation Projections
Merit increases for all corporate positions in the computer and IT sectors are projected to average 4.85 percent in the Year 2000, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of compensation planning practices.
Gets To Brag
Fortune's Top 100 Best Companies To Work For and America's Best Companies for Minorities.
Icarian's flagship product, Workforce, was awarded the "1999 Top HR Product of the Year Award" from Human Resource Executive, an HR business magazine.
Corporate Marriages Will Continue
A survey of financial consultants by RHI Management Resources reports that 68 percent of respondents believe the current level of merger and acquisition activity will increase over the next 3 years.
Corporate Outlook Survey
The Financial Executives Institute and Duke University Corporate Outlook Survey reports on the changes CFOs predict for the economy by Year 2025, including shared currency, the labor force, wages and healthcare, productivity, capital expenditures, and inflation.
Job Growth To Slow?
A U.C.L.A. Anderson Forecast predicts California's booming economy may be slowing down, and that the Bay Area may see an even bigger drop in new jobs than the rest of the state due to its high cost of living.
SIX WAYS NOT TO BUILD YOUR CAREER SITE
If a talented candidate dropped by your office, would you make her wait forever in the lobby, staring aimlessly at your company logo?
Would you demand her name, e-mail address, date of birth, current job and zip code before offering even the most basic information about your company? Would you force her to fill out complex applications just to find out if you're even hiring?
Of course not. You'd never do these things. No HR pro would--in real life.
But online, where nearly all potential hires begin their experience with your firm, many of us do all this and more. Maybe that's why 50 percent of all online job seekers describe the experience as unpleasant or frustrating.
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