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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
Firms Jostle For Managers in China as Business Booms: By Susan Fenton HONG KONG (Reuters UK) - American-born Thomas Kwan's career has taken off since he moved to China to work as the country manager for a U.S. health products company. "If I'd stayed in the U.S. I wouldn't have had the same opportunity for...; Tags: China, Human Resources, Manager, Oukbs, Talent, Workforce Management; News items 2008-04-27
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
Shelby Meade: Multi-Platform Promotions: Shelby Meade is the owner of Fresh and Clean Media, a talent management company that represents multiple verticals. Meade talks about why career diversification is important and how her talent pools compare to each other.; Tags: Professional development, Workforce management, talent, career, talent management; Videos 2008-05-08

Tick Tock: Tips for Allocating Your Time: Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No. Whether you are a CEO or front-line manager, we all squander our most valuable resource -- time -- like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our time to create real value...; Tags: Time Management, Workforce Management, E-mail, Financial Accounting, Productivity, Human Resources, Online Communications, Finance, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-05-13
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
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
Euro v. U.S. Execs on Globalization: It's All About Retaining Talent: The Find: While 90 percent of CEOs worldwide view globalization as both inevitable and positive, American business leaders are significantly more worried about retaining talent in a flat world than their counterparts in Europe. The Source: The EquaTerra Globalization Study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit on...; Tags: Talent, Business Leader, Globalization, Workforce Management, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Layoffs Rise 68 Percent in April Vs March: Survey: NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies' planned layoffs jumped 68 percent in April from the prior month to the highest since September 2006, pointing to further deterioration in the labor market, a report showed on Thursday. Planned job cuts in U.S. companies totaled...; Tags: Workforce management, Challenger Gray & Christmas Inc., layoff, deterioration, U.S. company, New York, transportation, Thomson Reuters Corp., financial service, job, survey, telecommunications, financial, industry; News items 2008-05-01
Rumors Swirl of Layoffs at Oglivy NY: Two ad bloggers today said they've heard rumors of lay offs coming down the pike at Ogilvy NY. George Packer, the funny, foul-mouthed blogger behind AdScam and AdHurl, reported this morning: One of my "deep throats" in New York tells me there have been big layoffs this morning at...; Tags: Layoff, Blogger, Workforce Management, Blogging, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Internet, Sales, Jake Swearingen; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Ethical Decisions: For Leadership Only?: Monster.com, the Internet job-listing giant, has a quiz on its site called "Test Your Business Ethics." The quiz is aimed at entry-level employees who are new to business and presents five ethical dilemmas, each with three possible courses of action. What's interesting is that the correct answer for three of...; Tags: Business ethics, Workforce management, William Baker, leadership, ethical dilemma; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Fed to Teach Groups How to Buy Foreclosed Homes: CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Board Governor Randall Kroszner said on Wednesday that the Fed would work with a national affordable housing group to help stabilize neighborhoods with high foreclosure rates. Kroszner, in remarks to a training conference sponsored by NeighborWorks...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, SECURITY, inflation, Federal Reserve Board, risk, business investment, patch, housing market, profit margin, U.S., interest rate, Thomson Reuters Corp., monitor; News items 2008-05-07
Does the CEO Track Include a Stop in 'Design Thinking'?: The find: An executive training program at Stanford claims executives can benefit from being taught to tinker like designers. The source: Work Matters, the blog of Bob Sutton, Stanford business school and author of "The No Asshole Rule" and other books. The takeaway: First...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, Bob Sutton; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Ignite your Company's Innovation: A Hot Spot is a moment when people are working together in exceptionally creative and collaborative ways. Hot spots occur when the energy within and between people ﬂares. Ideas become contagious and new possibilities appear. Hot spots ﬂare through the spontaneous combustion of three elements and the multiplier effect...; Tags: Innovation, Hot Spot, Relationship, Mindset, Workforce Management, Leadership, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Lynda Gratton; Blog posts 2008-05-02
GM to Cut Truck Production and Negotiate Union Layoffs: DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp GM on Monday said it would cut planned truck production at four North American plants in the coming quarter because of weaker demand for its full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. GM said it would cut...; Tags: General Motors Corp., SUV, Detroit, layoff, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-04-28
Merrill Lynch Hires Montag to Head Global Trading: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc MER said it hired Thomas Montag, former co-head of global securities trading at Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS, as Chief Executive John Thain looks to new talent to turn around the largest ...; Tags: Workforce management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., NYSE Euronext, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., brokerage, talent, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., CEO, security; News items 2008-04-28
State Of The Global Talent Nation: Organizations Struggle To Ready Workforces To Meet Growth Demands: The demands on the rapidly changing workforce continue to increase, and the need for improved employee productivity and effectiveness has become paramount. However, as organizations are faced with increasing pressures to achieve more with less, they continue to struggle with keeping pace in measuring and preparing their workforce to meet...; Tags: Talent, Softscape Inc., Workforce, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources; White papers 2008-01-01
Training Is Key To Harassment Defense: The article says that recent legal developments highlight the importance of regular employee training in the areas of discrimination and harassment. The training should cover the types of behavior and statements that would be considered illegal harassment as well as the procedures in the company's policy that should be used...; Tags: Workforce management, HR.com, harassment, training, supervisor; White papers
Carvins Rules for Hiring the Best: These rules are designed to be used as Red Flags when screening resumes/applications and interviewing applicants. A red flag is an area that may or may not be a concern but MUST be explored further with the applicant. Read on to know more about them.; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Nobscot Corp., hiring; White papers