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Monday, 23 August 2010 |
Job Market Recovery Stronger Than Many Think; Stronger Than 2001 Recovery  CHICAGO, August 23, 2010 – As Labor Day approaches, many Americans want signs of a job-market recovery. While many are frustrated with the pace of job creation, a new analysis reveals that the job market is well on the road to recovery and that it is rebounding sooner and faster compared to the jobless recoveries that followed the previous two recessions.
In its annual Labor Day outlook, global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. says that positive trends in a number of employment indicators, including the pace of layoffs, the unemployment rate and job creation, are shrouded by the fact that the economy began its recovery in a much deeper hole; the deepest since the Great Depression.
“By most accounts, we are barely a year into the recovery. At this point in the previous two recoveries – following the 1991 and 2001 recessions – the job market was actually getting worse. Many people are so caught up looking at the weekly and monthly numbers, that they fail to look at the bigger trends, which indicate just how much the job market has improved over the last 12 months,” said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
“There is no doubt that the job market has a long way to go before it fully recovers. After all, this is the worst recession this country has experienced in decades, with unemployment climbing to 10.1 percent as the number of jobless American grew by more 8.3 million, reaching a record high of 15.6 million. It doesn’t take an economist or jobs expert to tell you that it is going to take longer to get all of these people back onto payrolls,” said Challenger.
“However, the statistics indicate that the job market has made great strides over the last 12 months and appears to rebounding sooner compared to the previous two recessions,” he added.
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 |
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Green Jobs for Engineers: GE Energy And A Whole Lot More!  At our sister media property, Jobs In Pods, August has become "International Month." We're working with GE Energy in Europe on a series of "Jobcasts" promoting a wide range of "green job" opportunities throughout the EU. Our latest podcast features Stefan Ivarsson, Model and Site Manager with GE Energy Water and Power Division in Karlstad Sweden, discussing engineering opportunities for this fast growing R&D facility. Last year, GE Energy bought a small R&D firm called Scanwind, and are in the process of investing 340 million Euro in the European offshore wind market.
Also this week, we're featuring Intel's Software Development Center in Cordoba, Argentina.
Jobs in Pods is "The only podcast where you can hear real employers and leading recruiters talk about their jobs, and how to get them."
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Dodd-Frank Act: New Governance Provisions Mean New Roles and Responsibilities NEW YORK, August 4, 2010…The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act significantly modifies the roles and responsibilities of companies, boards of directors, and shareholders, and requires companies to re-examine and refine their corporate governance practices, The Conference Board Governance Center said today.
“Regulators have increasingly intervened in the management and oversight of public companies embroiled in regulatory issues,” said R. William Ide, III, chairman of The Conference Board Governance Center Advisory Board, citing the consent decrees and settlement agreements that have led to adoption of governance reforms, increased board oversight responsibilities, and the appointment of federal monitors to oversee compliance with these and other requirements.
“The Dodd-Frank Act signals a sea change in the roles of boards, managements, shareholders, and regulators concerning the governance of all U.S. public companies,” said Paul DeNicola, director of The Conference Board Governance Center and Directors’ Institute. “It necessitates that corporations—now more than ever—improve the ways in which they communicate with their institutional and retail shareholders.
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Monday, 02 August 2010 |
Starr Tincup, the Global Leader in Human Capital Marketing, Adds Four Partners Innovators in strategic HCM brand development build bench strength, respond to rapid growth
 Bret Starr
“Starr Tincup is growing at a rapid pace because of increased demand for strategic services in the human capital space,” said managing partner Bret Starr. “After more than a decade marketing human capital and talent management companies across the spectrum, I appreciate the value of a strong team. To keep up with the volume of new business from our North American and global clients, we chose to bring in four new partners with extensive experience delivering strategic services in this industry. Our future is brighter than ever, and we are well positioned for growth.”
Watch for our exclusive interview with William Tincup, coming this week!
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 |
Improving Employment Market Could Catch Many Off Guard Lauryn Franzoni
According to a survey of 2,939 executives with an average annual compensation of more than $200,000, just one in three (34 percent) believe they are prepared for a successful job search – down from 43 percent last year and 69 percent in 2007.
“The early stages of an economic recovery are a great time to explore new opportunities,” says Lauryn Franzoni, Vice President of ExecuNet, the private membership network for business executives. “Unfortunately, many professionals remain on the sidelines waiting for more evidence of a rebound. This strategy will inevitably stall your career development, as many rewarding, high-level roles are quietly filled in the interim.”
Franzoni recommends that professionals take the following measures to prepare for a stronger employment market:
Revisit Your Resume – Despite being an obvious first step in the job search process, only 54% of executives have recently updated their resume according to ExecuNet’s 2010 Executive Job Market Intelligence Report. Traditionally, a resume that synthesized your experience into a bulleted, two-page document was sufficient. In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, resumes that highlight your experience, demonstrate your ability to be a problem-solver, and offer examples and data that underscore your individual value proposition are far more effective in generating interviews and opportunities.
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Monday, 21 June 2010 |
Jobs in Pods Proving Jobcasts Are Employment Branding Gold  Chris Russell
According to the research firm eMarketer, podcasts have a great retention rate among users. In a report from October 2009, they say that 74% of internet users had a more positive impression of companies that utilized new tools like podcasts to communicate with them.
Jobs in Pods has been at the forefront of this ‘new media recruiting’ since early 2007. In that time they have produced hundreds of jobcasts with dozens of Fortune 500 companies including GE, Walgreens, Johnson&Johnson, GEICO, Progressive Insurance, McDonalds and Sodexo. Combined downloads for this audio has reached well over 250,000 downloads in the past 3 years.
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
Salesforce.com Enters into a Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jigsaw  Jim Fowler
Jigsaw's unique Wikipedia-style crowd-sourcing model delivers the world's most complete, accurate and up-to-date business contact data. Since Jigsaw's offering is delivered in the cloud, companies can focus on realizing success instead of focusing on legacy enterprise data management models that require expensive integration and continuous, dedicated maintenance. The acquisition will combine the power of salesforce.com's suite of CRM applications and leading enterprise cloud platform with Jigsaw's cloud-based model for the automation of acquiring, completing and cleansing business contact data. Jigsaw's data cloud platform also creates an enormous opportunity for developers and independent software vendors to deliver entirely new applications that leverage the business contact data found in Jigsaw. The proposed acquisition will mark salesforce.com's strategic entry into the $3 billion market for cloud-based business to business data services, and will create new opportunities for salesforce.com to partner with information services companies like D&B, Hoover's and LexisNexis.
Companies and professionals, whether or not already salesforce.com customers, can become members of the Jigsaw community by sharing common contact data that is found on a business card, including name, title, company, mailing address, business telephone number and e-mail address. Any Jigsaw.com community member can access the database, and can accumulate points through helping to maintain data quality. These points may be redeemed for access to additional records. In addition, companies or professionals may utilize the Jigsaw service by purchasing contact data. Jigsaw also offers premium automated data cleansing services to update and enrich data critical to success for any CRM deployment for a subscription-based fee. Jigsaw sets the standard among business contact data service providers by allowing business professionals included in the database to easily edit their information, set their contact preferences or if they choose, opt out of the listing.
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Monday, 19 April 2010 |
Monster Teams with RecruitingBlogs.com to Present RecruitFest! 2010 RecruitingBlogs.com, the social network for Recruiting and HR Professionals, announced its 3rd Annual RecruitFest! today.
 April 18, 2010 – The 25,000 RecruitingBlogs.com member network has teamed with Monster.com to present the event, which will be held this fall, with dates to be announced shortly.
“RecruitingBlogs.com and Monster.com are proud to produce our first joint two-day conference in Boston,” said RecruitingBlogs.com founder and CEO Jason Davis. “This is a tremendously exciting undertaking for us and we’re happy to be able to work with Monster to make it happen.”
RecruitFest! 2010 will depart from its previous events in Toronto, Canada and will be held this year in Boston, Mass. RecruitFest! has historically been a recruiting unconference event. However, both RecruitingBlogs.com and Monster felt that recruiting and HR professionals would be better served by an event focused around current issues and real-world problem solving.
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