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From the Bureau
Consumer Price Index: August 2004. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 percent in August, before seasonal adjustment. The August level of 189.5 was 2.7 percent higher than in August 2003. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) also increased 0.1 percent in August, prior to seasonal adjustment. The August level of 185.0 was 2.6 percent higher than in August 2003. The Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) was unchanged in August on a not-seasonally-adjusted basis. The August level of 110.3 was 2.1 percent higher than in August 2003.

Real Earnings In August 2004. Real average weekly earnings increased by 0.3 percent from July to August after seasonal adjustment, according to preliminary data. A 0.3-percent increase in average hourly earnings was partially offset by a 0.1-percent increase in CPI-W. Average weekly hours were unchanged. Average weekly earnings rose by 2.9 percent, seasonally adjusted, from August 2003 to August 2004.

Check Out the Competition
ZeroRisk HR, is a web-based hiring tool to assist in interviewing and selecting successful tellers for the banking industry. It is designed to evaluate those competencies critical to success in that particular role and it is customizable.

New Combinations
Dice, an online job board for technology and engineering professionals, acquires the assets of ClearanceJobs.com, a Georgia-based job board focused on candidates with U.S. government security clearances. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Up The Ladder
A recent survey conducted by ExecuNet, an executive career network, reveals that executives remain cautious about the employment market's recovery, with 24 percent of those surveyed feeling very confident that the market will improve within the next 6 months, 19 percent are not confident at all, and the remaining 57 percent are somewhere in the middle.

According to a survey conducted by executive job search service TheLadders.com, 52 percent of responding executives in the $100k+ job market said they search new job listings at work. The rapid rise in online recruiting is helping to fuel this phenomenon. When asked in a related survey: "Has the Internet made job-seeking easier or harder?", 63 percent said that it's made job-seeking easier, with 37 percent stating that the Internet has actually made things harder.

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