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IN THIS ISSUE
Newsletter Sponsors
A Note from the Editor
Breaking News
Today's Recruiting News Headlines
Featured Recruiting Jobs
Recent Recruiting Blog Headlines
Weekly Article:
Internet Recruiting and "People
Search Engines"
Employment and
Economy Stats
Special Trials and Discounts
Employment Studies and Trends
Upcoming Conferences
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Final Note - On The Lighter Side
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A Note From The Editor
The Conference Board
Help-Wanted Advertising Index Increases One Point
The Conference Board
Help-Wanted Advertising Index — a key measure of job
offerings in major newspapers across America — increased
one point in October. The Index currently stands at 30.
It was 37 one year ago. The Conference Board is the
global business research and membership organization.
In the last three months, help-wanted advertising
declined in eight of the nine U.S. regions. Steepest
declines occurred in the East North Central (-15.4%),
South Atlantic (-13.6%) and Mountain (-13.2%) regions.
The West South Central region improved substantially
(19.2%).
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Breaking News
Online job board
CareerBuilder.com
has released its R2 (Recommended Resumes) matching
engine that automatically locates resumes that best
match another resume, an uploaded document or a job
posting -- providing faster access to more relevant
candidates. After browsing the database and finding one
resume that meets their qualifications, employers can
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closely match their selected document. Hiring managers
can also use the R2 feature to automatically find
resumes that match their online job postings, or upload
a document directly into the search engine to find
related resumes.
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Today's Recruiting News Headlines
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Featured Recruiting
Jobs
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Recruiting Jobs. To view all jobs or to register
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Recent Recruiting Blog Headlines
LOTS and LOTS of SOURCING TIPS!
Is it too late for Cyber-Monday or Black Friday? Not
sure, but either way I want to make available my
sourcing training guides at a discounted...
12/6/2006 9:56:15 AM [Jim Stroud 2.0]
Is Your Employer a Scrooge?
My shuttle bus ride into work today provided a full
range of holiday and year-end bonus stories. One rider
said her employer will be giving employees...
12/5/2006 10:44:32 AM [The Monster Blog]
All
Recruiting/HR Blog Headlines >>
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Weekly Article
Internet Recruiting and
"People Search Engines"
As the saying goes, "Information wants to be free."
Savvy job-seekers know this. Millions of people go
online every day to research companies and compare
potential employers. Company web sites, job boards and
other recruiting sites, and blogs posted by disgruntled
former employees and upset customers provide a treasure
trove of information to help us make career decisions.
The web is also finding application for recruiting
purposes. Increasingly, employers are using social and
professional networking sites and "people-focused search
engines" to identify and evaluate candidates early in
the recruiting process.
 While
referrals still rank as the most valuable recruiting
source, according to a recent Direct Employers/Booz
Allen Hamilton study, social networking sites have edged
out employment web sites as the number two recruiting
source, based on the number of new hires recruited and
employers' recruitment budget allocations.
One such tool is
Zoominfo, which bills itself as "the premier
summarization search engine." Zoominfo approaches
information found on the web like pieces of a digital
jigsaw puzzle. It aggregates and cleans data and
manipulates the pieces until a clearer picture of each
subject emerges. As of November, 2006, the site boasts
profiles on more than 33 million individuals and 2.6
million companies.
Variations include
Ziggs,
which focuses only on professionals and
Blue Chip Expert, an invitation-only site for
top-caliber hires.
Newcomer
Spock will take the invitation-only approach to the
masses. Spock aims to have 100 million profiles when it
goes live in late 2006.
Internet recruiting isn't limited to third-party
search tools, however. Some recruiters use candidates'
own words to weed them out. According to the University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, one in four employers uses
social networking web sites such as Facebook.com or
MySpace.com to screen out applicants based on the
information they post there. A CareerBuilder.com survey
found that about 63 percent of employers decided against
hiring someone after seeing content the person had
posted online. Remarkable!
As user adoption reaches the tipping point, expect
these sites to become even more robust and include more
tools and options that delve even deeper into personal
and professional lives.
About Author
From "The
Herman Trend Alert," by Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia,
Strategic Business Futurists. (800) 227-3566 or http://www.hermangroup.com.
The Herman Trend Alert is a trademark of The Herman
Group, Inc."
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Employment and Economy Stats
|
Current Stats
Unemployment Rate:
4.4% in Oct 2006
Payroll Employment:
+92,000 in Oct 2006
Average Hourly Earnings:
+$0.06(p) in Oct 2006
CPI:
-0.5% in Oct 2006
ECI:
+0.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2006
Productivity:
+0.2% in 3rd Qtr of 2006
Source:
BLS.gov
(p) = projected |
Trends Unemployment Rate
4.4% in Oct 2006
4.7% in Aug 2006
4.8% in Jul 2006
4.6% in May 2006
4.7% in Apr 2006
4.7% in Mar 2006
Employment Cost Index
+1.0% in 3rd Qtr of 2006
+0.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2006
+0.8% in 4th Qtr of 2005
+0.8% in 3rd Qtr of 2005
Change in Payroll Employment
+92,000(p) in Oct 2006
+128,000 in Aug 2006
+113,000 in Jul 2006
+138,000 in Apr 2006
+211,000 in Mar 2006
Source:
BLS.gov |
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Employment Studies
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Recent trends in employment from the BLS household and
payroll surveys (PDF)
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Upcoming Seminars &
Conferences
Feb 20, 2007:
19th Annual Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity
Feb 28, 2007:
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Final Note - On The
Lighter Side
CareerBuilder.com and
ShopLocal Survey Reveals How Many Bosses and Workers
Will Give Holiday Gifts at the Office, How Much They'll
Spend and the Most Popular and Least Popular Gifts
Fifty-six percent of
managers will be spreading holiday cheer around the
office this year by giving presents to their employees,
according to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com and
ShopLocalTM (www.ShopLocal.com). While one-third of
bosses who will purchase gifts plan to spend $10 or less
per staff member, one-in-five bosses expect to spend
more than $25 and nearly one-in-ten expect to spend more
than $50. Twenty-nine percent of workers will
reciprocate the gesture, with those making less than
$50K being the most likely to buy holiday gifts for
their bosses. The survey, "Holidays at the Office," was
completed in September 2006 and included 1,650 workers
and 1,150 hiring managers nationwide.
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