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From the Bureau
Regional and State Employment: April. Unemployment rates declined in all four regions and in more than half the States in April. Over the year, unemployment rates declined in all regions and in 47 States. Over the month, the national jobless rate was essentially unchanged at 5.6 percent. Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 45 States.

New Combinations
Softscape, a human capital management and case management solutions, acquires Nelson Group, a management consulting and organizational development. The acquisition provides the foundation for Softscape's new Management Consulting division, Abacos Group.

Reveille
Hodes IQ, HRsmart, Recruitmax, and Web Recruiter will offer Voice Recruiting as part of their client implementations. The speech-recognition powered service from Job Flash allows candidates to create a talking resume and apply for jobs over the phone.

Applause
BrassRing, a talent management solutions provider, wins a 2004 Codie Award for Best Human Resources Product from the Software & Information Industry Association.

Marc Cenedella, founder of TheLadders.com, a new job search service for the 100k+ segment, is named Entrepreneur of the Year by MarketingSherpa at the ContentBiz's 4th Annual Paid Content Summit.

Executive career site CareerJournal.com wins a 2004 Eppy Award for the Best Internet Classified Service under 1 million monthly visitors. CareerCast powers the site's job and resume databases.

Thinking Like A Customer
What separates the best-performing companies in America from the rivals that are trying to catch them? To a remarkable degree, the companies that lead the BusinessWeek 50 roster of top performers have a deeper understanding than their rivals of what makes their customers tick. From BusinessWeek.

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