Hunt Valley, MD and Stamford, CT, February 28, 2011 – The .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition (the “Coalition”) today applauds the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) for delivering a strongly worded breach notice to Employ Media regarding its improper expansion of the .JOBS Top-Level Domain (“TLD”). The breach notice details how Employ Media, along with its alliance partner DirectEmployers Association and its sponsoring organization The Society for Human Resource Management (“SHRM”), failed to operate and manage the .JOBS TLD in a manner that was compliant with the .JOBS Charter.
McLean, Va. (2/24/2011) — Jobfox, one of the nation’s fastest-growing online job sites, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking new product, Jobfox Boost℠- the first social recruiting and career networking engine that automates the process of building talent networks, and makes it easy for recruiting professionals to fulfill their high-volume staffing needs.
With Jobfox Boost, HR professionals and recruiters can quickly create their own private networks of pre-qualified individuals and recruit talent directly from them, or request a “Boost” in the form of candidate referrals from their network connections. Network members can respond to job opportunities themselves or Boost their own connections who may be a more appropriate fit for the position.
U.S. employers are planning to give employees this year the largest merit increases since the start of the financial crisis, according to a new survey by Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW), a global professional services company. The survey also found that the hiring freezes that were put into place during the recession are beginning to thaw, especially for professional and technical workers, and positions that require employees with critical skills.
With the nation’s unemployment still above 9%, hundreds of thousands of Americans find themselves looking for work today in intrepid weather. The job search does not take into account such things as weather or travel expenses. You go where the employers are, and if that means battling the weather, then that is what you do. Until now that is! More and more employers and job seekers are recognizing the value of virtual career fairs, and given the winter we have experienced to date, I think we would all agree that it couldn’t come at a better time. Two recent examples of inclement weather forcing scheduled career fairs to be canceled are University of Illinois and Texas Tech College of Engineering, which both canceled due to employers being unable to make it to the venue.
According to the recent quarterly Job Market Index (JMI) from global outplacement and executive coaching consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the percentage of job seekers starting their own businesses or relocating for new positions fell to historic lows in 2010. As the report attributes the declines to an increased aversion to risk-taking just as the job market begins to show some signs of life, it is important to note the low risks some organization are taking in hiring – as the January 26th Data Watch shows, the tech sector, one of the lowest “financial” risk operations of business, has been seen an increase in job openings – decreasing overall unemployment. Nevertheless, an even more evident drop in teenage hiring has proved employers are looking for more experienced workers – and less experienced workers (often the teenage and young adult population) have faced strong cuts.
OrcaEyes, developer of SonarVision Workforce Intelligence Software and the leading authority in business-workforce analytics, announces the release of SonarVision Insights 2.0, a talent supply market intelligence tool. The new ecommerce-based application houses demographic information from a variety of sources and presents it in an easily navigable format. In an enterprise environment, it provides the Talent Supply side of the workforce planning equation.
Young people today have a sense of urgency when they search for information. That is where social media comes in. Social media sites offer an element of involvement instead of the static information of traditional Web sites. Millennials want to be involved, be able to comment and chat with others.
Many companies have not grasped what interaction on social media entails. They may think they’re active when all they do is have a page on Facebook. Many decisions regarding communication are made without first asking why. Why are we choosing to communicate this message?
Why are we choosing this communication channel? Why are we choosing this target group?
3 Trends That Are Changing the World of Talent. Presented by Jason Warner, Former Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Intellectual Ventures. Conference Emcee & Keynote Presenter, onrec Expo 2010 – THE Recruiting Conference.
Manpower Professional observes National Engineers Week, February 20-26, and shares tips for employers looking to recruit top engineering talent. Despite high unemployment, Manpower Professional continues to see increased demand for engineers. According to the annual Manpower Talent Shortage Survey, engineers ranked eighth in the top 10 U.S. jobs most in demand in 2010 and first in 2009.
Within three short weeks of its launch, the .Jobs Universe Web site (www.universe.jobs) is fulfilling its vision of providing job seekers easy access to employment listings on the Internet. Over half a million Americans have visited the .Jobs Top-Level Domain (TLD) that includes over forty-thousand geographical, occupational, and country-name domains ending in the intuitive .Jobs suffix.
