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Permanent Job Placements Fall in April: LONDON (Reuters UK) - The number of permanent job placements fell for the second time in three months in April as growth in vacancies for permanent staff languished at its weakest since mid-2003, a survey showed on Wednesday. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation/KPMG Report on ...; Tags: Human Resources, Job, Oukbs, Placement, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management; News items 2008-05-06
BNET Launches in UK and Australia: We took to the streets of London, Sydney, and the original home of BNET, San Francisco, to see how our work lives are similar and different. How many hours per week do Aussies work? Do the Brits really get 6 weeks off? Is it true that Americans spend less time...; Tags: U.K.; Videos 2008-04-30
Recruiting Top Performers: Irina Haydon, executive director of sales and service at Heartland Payment Systems, says there are three things she wants in a salesperson: chemistry, integrity and competence.; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, recruiting, sales; Videos 2008-04-24
How to Handle a Hiring Freeze With Finesse: Chances are you've been there, on one side of the fence or the other. You're looking to hire a new employee when -- whoops! -- the powers that be yank your budget. Or you've been interviewing for a plum position and suddenly it's no longer available. ...; Tags: Hiring, Freeze, Hiring Freeze, Chances, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UK Survey: Pregnancy Discrimination Is the Status Quo: The Find: More than 75 percent of UK managers would not hire a woman if they suspect she will become pregnant within six months of taking the job. The Source: A recent survey by UK-based Employment Law Advisory Services ELAS mentioned in the Harvard Business Review Conversation...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jessica Stillman, job; Blog posts 2008-05-01

Japan's Pioneer Plans to Cut 5 Percent of Workforce: Media: TOKYO (Reuters) - Pioneer Corp plans to slash nearly 5 percent of its workforce, or about 2,000 jobs, Japan's Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday, as the electronics maker restructures its struggling plasma TV operations. As part of the restructuring, Pioneer may...; Tags: Pioneer Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Tokyo, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-05-12
There's No 'Mom' in Team: Just in time (okay, a day late) for Mother's Day comes an article in the Des Moines Register dissecting a new and disturbing trend: The interference of parents in the workplace. Blogger Rebecca Thurman defended this influence, claiming that Gen Y's helicopter parents are a good thing...; Tags: Team, Workplace, Workplace Dynamic, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Do You Secretly Hate Your Job?: "I hate being in Sales," a woman recently confessed to me. Even so, she's pretty successful, and was recently netting $40,000 a month in commissions. But here she was, telling me that she hated the very job that she was so good at. This surprised...; Tags: Sales strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Sales force management, Geoffrey James, job, sales; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Bring Back the Typing Pool: There's just so much to distract us these days, isn't there? Bring back the discipline of the typing pool I say. Well, maybe not. If we see distractions for what they are and confront rather than succumb, we can quickly get on with tackling our real business priorities....; Tags: Distraction, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Robert Gerrish; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Chunk of Chevron's Job Cuts Seen in 2008: Filing: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pointing at a slew of job cuts, Chevron Corp CVX said in a regulatory filing that about 1,100 employees were eligible for severance payments, after it implemented a restructuring plan in 2007. Severance payments for about 300 staffers, mostly...; Tags: Strategic planning, Recruitment & Selection, Chevron Corp., restructuring plan, regulatory filing, payment, New York, job, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-05-09
Diageo to Build New Irish Guinness Brewery: By David Jones LONDON (Reuters UK) - Diageo DGE will spend 520 million pounds on a new brewery on the edge of Dublin, but Guinness fans in Britain and Ireland will still get their dark beer from the historic brewery in the heart of the Irish...; Tags: Diageo Plc., Brewery, St James, Gate, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Accounting, Human Resources; News items 2008-05-09
Medtronic to Cut About 1,100 Jobs: By Susan Kelly CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc MDT on Tuesday said it would eliminate about 1,100 jobs this year, or almost 3 percent of its work force, in businesses whose growth has slowed, including its flagship heart rhythm device unit. The company...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, HEALTHCARE, Medtronic Inc., medical device, earnings, Chicago, Thomson Reuters Corp., acquisition; News items 2008-05-06
Wachovia Cutting Fixed-income and Support Jobs: By Joseph A. Giannone NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wachovia Corp WB Chief Executive Ken Thompson told investors on Monday his hard-hit U.S. regional bank was cutting back corporate and investment bank jobs to reduce costs. The Charlotte, North Carolina, bank reaffirmed plans to...; Tags: Mortgages, Recruitment & Selection, Financial services, Financial accounting, Investment, Wachovia Corp., headcount, investment banking, mortgage, bank, investor, job, financial market, New York, CEO, Thomson Reuters Corp., U.S., financial; News items 2008-05-12
Jobs Shed For 4th Straight Month: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers cut jobs for a fourth straight month in April, though not as vigorously as feared, according to a government report on Friday that also showed an unexpected improvement in the unemployment rate last month. The Labor Department said 20,000...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Washington, Thomson Reuters Corp., payroll, hiring, health care; News items 2008-05-02
Professional Payrolls Hold Clues to Job Market: NEW YORK (Reuters) - An April rebound in professional jobs such as health care and technology has boosted the spirits of staffing executives, although few of them see big job additions anytime soon. Demand for workers with professional and technical skills ...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Adecco, staffing, job, manufacturing, hiring, CEO, finance, New York, health care, Thomson Reuters Corp., layoff, financial service, accounting, career, insurance, worker, survey, Internet; News items 2008-05-02
Ensuring a Safe Work Experience: Many organisations have work experience placements that allow students to get a feel for different workplaces --- enabling them to better make educated decisions on future occupations. What you may not be aware of, is that those host employers are required to provide the same occupational health and safety (OH&S)...; Tags: Student, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Campbell Fisher; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Sleep Affecting Workâ€¦Or Vice Versa?: A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that job-related conflicts and issues can cause sleep problems. In fact, the study found that work conditions affected sleep patterns, instead of the other way around. "Massive changes over the past half-century have reshaped the workplace, with major...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Does Meaningful Work Matter?: Today's employees want to do something meaningful, according to the Work Foundation. Identity and individualism at work are rising as corporate hierarchies and trades unions decline. Likewise, shifting social values mean employees are as concerned with self-expression and fulfillment as they are with high...; Tags: Fulfillment, Employee, Aerospace & Defense, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Accounting, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, BNET UK Staff; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Terra Firma Set to Cut More EMI Jobs: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Terra Firma, the private equity owner of EMI, plans to cut more jobs at the music company, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. EMI had around 5,200 employees when it was taken over by the Guy Hands-led group and...; Tags: Job, Private Equity, EMI Group Plc., Redundancies, Investment, Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Recruitment & Selection; News items 2008-05-13
Managers' Survey: Interviewees Flunking Etiquette 101: The Find: 59 percent of hiring managers say that job candidates' manners have deteriorated in recent years. The Source: A recent survey from Vault. The Takeaway: With a plethora of sources of advice for interviewees, it...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jessica Stillman, hiring manager, hiring, interviewee, job, survey; Blog posts 2008-04-23