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Blog Post: Why HR is like the Yellow Pages: Added by Michael VanDervort at 7:29pm on September 28, 2009

Blog Post: How to Improve Your Business and Increase Efficiency: Stagnation can be a fatal disease for any business, regardless of industry or size. As a business owner, you'll want to make sure that your business processes are…; Added by Sheryl Wright at 12:02pm on August 24, 2021

Blog Post: Get Smart with HR: Value your People and Maximize Profits

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Blog Post: Why I Don't Like Proprietary Software for HR: When a former boss told me about a new project IT was working on, my eyes lit up. For the longest time…; Added by Trent Jacobs at 4:48pm on June 25, 2013

Blog Post: Ouch! Google bashes Hays and Adecco?: Alex posted this on his excellent blog ( http://onlinerecruiter.blogspot.com ) and asked if we'd be interested in publishing this via our…; Added by Paul Harrison at 7:05pm on July 10, 2008

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Topic: Déjà Vu - At least the headhunter's business is up!: r, office staff and sales help. But the current slump is painfully hitting corporate managers and administrators, who in the past were relatively immune from layoffs. In January unemployment among managers hit the highest point in more than 15 years. Two typical examples: > Until last November, Ed Bogota, 30, was earning more than $25,000 a year as trust investment manager in the Manhattan office of the Corning Glass Works. Abruptly, his job was abolished. "I got caught in cost cutting," he explains. BOgota is willing now to take a 15% reduction in salary. But with jobs scarce in the investment field, he acknowledges that "it is a matter of luck taking it from here." > After 21 years with Taplinger, Inc., a public relations firm, Bertha Kelly, 50, was making $20,000 a year as vice president in charge of West Coast operations. When Taplinger merged with Rogers, Cowan & Brenner, Kelly was dismissed without severance. "I've had to learn to avoid all extravagance," she says. "In fact, I'm just scratching along." Her job prospects: dim. Since 1958, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics first tracked unemployment by occupational categories, the jobless rate for managers and administrators had exceeded 2% only once (in 1961) until late last year. Then it shot up to 2.6% in December and 3.3% last month. Compared with the overall national unemployment rate, these figures seem low. But while total unemployment between December 1973 and December 1974 rose by 48%, from 4.4 million to 6.5 million, unemployment among managers and administrators jumped by 85%, from 125,000 to 231,000. That was a sharper increase than for any other white-collar occupational group. One reason for the vulnerability of executives in the current recession, says Social Scientist Peter Drucker, is that middle management in the past 20 years has grown three times as fast as total employment, and executive ranks are bloated. Hordes of postwar babies—now 28 years of age on the average —are crowding into middle-management positions in the $25,000-and-up level. Says Eugene Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University: "The older employees seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones. The psychological toll, Jennings adds, is severe. "This is not part of the life-style for a middle-management person. It is literally a period of mental shock. They wonder: 'Why me?' " Yet at the same time, there are plenty of job vacancies—for the right people in the right places. Robert Olivier, a Manhattan-based executive headhunter, reports the highest level of assignments in four years. "The distinct difference," he points out, "is that companies are generally upgrading their demands now. They are not settling for second best." Demand also varies geographically and by industry. Oil companies in the Southwest, for instance, need executives; housing, brokerage and merchant banking firms almost everywhere do not. One particularly promising area for experienced managers is the Middle East, where skilled Americans are often paid two or three times what they earned at home. Jobless managers aged 40 or over have been seeking help from a nonprofit organization called Forty Plus that has branches in eleven cities. Staffed and directed entirely by volunteers, the organization keeps lists of the "right people" to contact at local companies and instructs new members in job-interview tactics and in the art of writing a competent resume. Some resume tips: eliminate all references to age—including college class and dates of employment—and stress accomplishment in describing previous jobs rather than simply listing the job title. Discouragement and frustration pursue even the best-bankrolled members. A British Airways employee for 15 years, Ed Maynes lost his $30,000-a-year New York sales manager's job in December. "I know I am not going to be destitute," says Maynes, who has a sizable severance check and his wife's $14,000-a-year salary to cushion his fall. But the 150 resumes he has sent out—125 of them to airlines—have evoked no favorable responses so far. "To be 50 years of age and looking for a job," he admits, "is a bitter pill to swallow."…; Added by Jason Yillik Telephone Researcher jyillik@suncoastdata.com at 4:03pm on December 10, 2008

Topic: D. Zachary Misko, Director - RPO of Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group, to Speak at Onrec Online Recruiting EXPO 2009 November, 3-4 in Chicago: ment Conference & Expo 2009, to be held at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center, in Chicago, on November 3 & 4, 2009. Onrec.com EXPO 2009 is widely regarded as the “must attend” online recruitment event of 2009. Onrec.com is the world’s leading information resource for Human Resource professionals and recruiters using the Internet to recruit. Onrec.com EXPO 2009 is the only global gathering of online recruiting leaders and game-changing technologies. For more information about Onrec.com EXPO 2009 visit: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/031109/default.html Running off of last year’s success, Onrec.com EXPO 2009 will bring together delegates and exhibitors involved in online recruitment from around the world to share their common interests, provide a business driven networking environment and stimulate discussion, debate, and beneficial partnerships. Zachary’s knowledge and solutions to all things recruiting will provide a great opportunity for those attending Onrec EXPO 2009, in which he will be among over 40 expert speakers in attendance. Session Topic: A LEAN (mean) Recruiting Machine...incorporating a LEAN philosophy into Recruitment Session Description: LEAN is the most powerful and effective way to build and sustain continuously improving businesses. Using LEAN, any business in any industry regardless of size or type can improve itself continuously over the long term. Learn how General Electric (GE) and Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group (KellyOCG) partnered to introduce LEAN into the recruitment process. We will also educate you on: ¤ Basic LEAN principles ¤ Provide examples of introducing and sustaining LEAN as well as lessons learned ¤ Help you better understand how being LEAN can improve process. ¤ Strategies for implementing LEAN in recruitment ¤ Benefits of LEAN (learn more about how we reduced cost by 50% and decreased our current process by over 30 steps!) ¤ Sustaining a LEAN environment ¤ Who should attend? ¤ Recruitment Professionals ¤ HR Directors & Leaders who want to learn practical solutions to help them operate more effectively and efficiently. ¤ Hiring Managers This webinar is being co-presented by D. Zachary Misko, Global RPO Director at Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group along with Kimberly (Kim) Martin, Global Head of Talent Acquisition GE Healthcare. Speaker Bio: D. Zachary Misko is the Global RPO Director and member of the Leadership Team at Kelly Services, Inc. Outsourcing & Consulting Group (KellyOCG - www.KellyOCG.com), Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) business unit. KellyOCG - RPO provides outsourced hiring process management and Human Resource skills to a variety of different companies. As the Global RPO Director, Zachary works with Fortune 500 clients throughout the world to develop and implement processes that improve and drive the hiring process, recruitment, on-boarding, retention and selection functions within a company. He also works to provide Kelly OCG-RPO and its employees with leadership and support as they continue to grow. Prior to joining Kelly Services, Zachary managed Human Resource functions at a world-wide leader in Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Promega Corp, Madison, WI, and was employed as the Sr. Training Manager for Lands’ End, Dodgeville, WI. Zachary has over 15 years of broad Human Resource and management expertise in the Direct Merchant arena, Retail, Finance, Biotechnology, and Professional Services. Additionally, he has held various positions in the areas of Recruitment, Employment Law, Employee Relations, Consulting, Strategic HR Planning, Performance Management Programs, Training/Development and Compensation. Zachary has several certifications within the training and development arena and has delivered 100+ seminars to date. He has completed advanced certification from DILHR and is certified in Affirmative Action and Diversity Hiring. Additionally, Zachary has been a member of SHRM for the past 14 years and is the Past President of Metro Milwaukee SHRM. Metro Milwaukee SHRM is an association with over 900+ members and 12 Board of Directors. In addition, Zachary is an active member of the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS) and has previously served on the board of directors for JMB Properties. The Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2009, will be hosted by both recruiting powerhouses Kennedy Information and Onrec - for more information visit: Two Recruiting Conference Powerhouses Join Forces For other Onrec session topics visit: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/031109/topics.html For more information on all of the speakers participating at this event visit: http://www.onrec.com/conferences/031109/speakers.html For more information on The Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2009, contact RD Whitney at rd@onrec.com or go to www.onrec.com/Expo2009…; Added by RD Whitney at 4:12pm on September 10, 2009

Blog Post: What is Factoring?: In my normal course of daily activities, I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs and business owners. We discuss everything from how they may have gotten started in their particular line of business,…; Added by Dale Busbee at 3:52pm on May 4, 2009

Blog Post: Twilight: Pattinson in New Moon breaks midnight record: The new Twilight vampire movie took a record $26.3m (?15.9m) in midnight showings at North American box offices, studio Summit Entertainment has said.

That beats the previous North…; Added by Dmitry at 10:41am on November 21, 2009