Kelly Services surveyed 440 companies in Asia Pacific, and the results of its first information technology skills study suggest that an IT skills shortage is real and is fast approaching a critical state. “Changing demographic profiles, globalization, and innovation in technology open up new opportunities and put a greater focus on jobs which require specialized IT [...]
Kelly: IT Skills Shortage in Asia Pacific
October 9th, 2008
TempWorks Software Sues Avionte
October 8th, 2008
TempWorks Software, which has been around since 1959, has filed a lawsuit against Avionté, alleging copyright infringement of TempWorks source code, database design, and marketing materials. TempWorks Software alleges that Avionté principals were employed by TempWorks Software between 1997 and 2006. TempWorks CEO Gregg Dourgarian said in a statement, “When my father wrote the ancestor programs from [...]
Emerging Trends for Workers
October 7th, 2008
A few worker trends from CareerBuilder’s Q4 2008 job forecast: Workers are taking on second jobs. How else to pay for the increased cost of gas and food? About 25% of workers are considering a second job, while 9% already have taken on a second job in 2008 to help make ends meet. Workers are postponing active [...]
Phony Degrees and Other Resume Lies
September 30th, 2008
employeescreenIQ says about 10% of the education verifications it completed during the second quarter of 2008 uncovered discrepancies between the information it obtained through its investigations and facts provided by job candidates. This is shocking — not as electrocuting as Fordyce writer and attorney Jeff Allen’s past findings that over 60% of all resumes [...]
Authoria Gets New Owner
September 29th, 2008
Talent management provider Authoria announced Monday that it is being acquired by Bedford Funding for $63 million. This news is big among corporate recruiters, naturally, who wonder about the next phase of growth for Authoria, a company that started in 1997 and counts Aetna and Intuit, among others, as clients. The private-equity firm will also help [...]
The Dayak Model Grows
September 29th, 2008
The Dayak team is keeping up its impressive growth, particularly among independent recruiters who like the company for the exposure it provides to larger companies. Dayak, which was nominated for OnRec’s “2008 Game Changing Recruiting Technology Award,” is also flaunting its 832 new recruiters who joined the site in August. This figure, the Carlsbad, California-based company [...]
C++ Job Ads Get an F for Fake
September 25th, 2008
Are tech firms faking job ads to avoid hiring U.S. workers? That’s the allegation that executives from Cisco to Hewlett Packard are facing, according to spurned computer programmers who are looking for answers. According to the Programmers Guild, an association that advocates for the interests of U.S. computer programmers and other tech workers, Hewlett Packard has [...]
A Merrill Feeding Frenzy
September 23rd, 2008
It’s going to become a talent feeding frenzy on Wall Street, according to Darin Manis, CEO of RJ & Makay, a financial recruiting firm. Once the dust settles, he says, Merrill Lynch brokers will be waiting to hear what their retention packages will be. “Even if the pending announcement of the retention package is competitive [...]
Launching a Career, 2008-Style
September 22nd, 2008
With the exceptions of #21 (Merrill Lynch), #28 (Lehman Brothers), and #68 (AIG), this compilation of the best places to start a career by BusinessWeek is pretty comprehensive. The number-one spot is Ernst & Young (in fact, the top three companies are in the accounting sector). What sets E&Y apart, the list reports, is its internship [...]
New Doctors as Blue-Chip Athletes
September 18th, 2008
Is a national physician shortage turning new doctors into blue-chip athletes? Over 90% of newly minted physicians received at least 10 job solicitations during their training, and 80% percent received two dozen or more solicitations, according to a new survey. New doctors are the subject of intense recruiting efforts because there are simply not enough physicians coming [...]
Lynch, Lehman: Mumbai, Dubai, Shanghai, or Goodbye?
September 16th, 2008
Looking for the next step, Lehman and Merrill Lynch workers are connecting on Facebook’s Lehman profile as well as on MySpace’s Lehman and Merrill Lynch forum. Here are some other glimpses into what is happening to the world’s financial workers: The collapse of Lehman has pitched thousands of investment bankers into the jobs market and [...]
As Lehman Fails, LinkedIn Flourishes
September 15th, 2008
As “the tectonic plates beneath the world financial system are shifting,” LinkedIn is surviving — thriving, in fact — and launching its own ad network to target what it calls the “new influencers.” LinkedIn, which has chosen to work with ad network Collective Media (which targets high-end media sites), will tag its 27 million users using [...]
Have you heard the one about the new career network that shifts the commission fees to the candidates? If you’re waiting for the punchline, sorry, but this is no joke. The reality is that PaidInterviews has launched a new service that pays candidates when hired. It combines social networking and matching technology in a new way, [...]
Arbita, Boxwood Partner
September 11th, 2008
Arbita and Boxwood Technology say they are teaming up to improve access to niche communities and networks. This partnership, they say, is intended to improve the ways in which members of trade associations and professional societies interact and connect with employers. “A network of interconnected associations creates a virtuous circle,” says Don Ramer, Arbita’s CEO. “Association [...]
Itzbig to Shut Down
September 8th, 2008
Maybe resumes are important. That’ll be the question of the hour for folks watching the demise of Itzbig.com, the startup that launched in 2007 with $6 million in venture capital. The company says it is closing because it has been unable to secure enough additional funding to continue. Itzbig used online surveys, not resumes, to match [...]
Slideshow: 100 Most Influential Executive Recruiters
September 8th, 2008
Business Week has expanded its list of the 100 most influential leaders in our field and turned it into a slideshow-style article. Among other things, we learn that Ignacio Bao, chairman of Signium International, says “Surround yourself with great people –people who play to win the right way, by the rules,” while Linda Bialecki, president of [...]
Industry to Watch: Search Marketing Professionals
September 8th, 2008
Onward Search has teamed with the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization to promote search marketing as a career choice for job seekers across the country. The two will partner to develop content modules, training programs, and other offerings around search marketing career development. Will this partnership increase the pool of search marketing talent available to the [...]
Employment Services Lost 53,000 Jobs in August; U.S. Unemployment at 6.1%
September 5th, 2008
We’ve heard from Obama, we’ve heard from McCain. And while this country is distracted by debating which candidate had the better speech (writer), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released sobering statistics early Friday morning. U.S. unemployment hit 6.1% in August, a five-year high. The unemployment rate was 5.7% in July. According to the BLS report, [...]
A Hire Versus THE Hire
September 3rd, 2008
Michael C. Munger, chair of political science at Duke University, has written a very insightful article on how to treat candidates. Now, before you think these are “over-simplified” tips beneath your level of expertise, consider his amusing article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, Munger describes two separate instances when he was in the [...]
VisaNow: Immigration System Virtually Beyond Repair
August 28th, 2008
As the presidential election and debates approach, now is the perfect time to consider what the next four years will look like with respect to recruiting foreign workers. After all, the National Foundation for American Policy pointed out in a study that “the reality of the global economy is that employers and their capital will follow [...]
The Compensation Question
August 27th, 2008
Despite the economy, or perhaps because of the economy, professionals are increasingly inclined to negotiate better compensation levels as fuel, food, healthcare, and other expenses grow. A new survey finds that 63% are more likely to try to negotiate a better compensation package with a new employer, compared to 58% in 2007. This is making more [...]
ASA: Staffing Employment Down
August 26th, 2008
Data released by the American Staffing Association shows that staffing industry employment was lower in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period last year and flat compared with the first quarter of this year. “As American businesses have cut jobs and reduced hiring, staffing employment has been directly affected, even more so [...]
The RightThing Tops HRO Today’s Baker’s Dozen List
August 25th, 2008
Here’s a glimpse into HRO Today Magazine’s annual baker’s dozen list for top recruitment process outsourcing firms. The results were based upon a survey completed by 262 HR executives who are current buyers of RPO services.
Royal Dutch Shell Grows, Airline Staffing Slows
August 21st, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell has extended its contract, started earlier this year, with Intellecor, the human capital management firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. As part of the expanded contract, Intellecor expects to increase the resources assigned to Royal Dutch Shell by an additional 75% over the next six months. Under the contract, Intellecor says it will recruit professional-level [...]
eMarketer: Online Ad Revenues Keep Climbing
August 19th, 2008
Despite the wobbly economic market, Google’s online ad revenues will increase by 27.4% in the United States this year. According to a new eMarketer.com report, the top four Web portals in the United States still account for more than one-half of all online advertising revenues. In 2009, 10% of all U.S. ad dollars will go [...]
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