PEOs provide outsourced HR services and are widely used by employers who need more than payroll handling.

Prior to joining iCIMS, Dutter was employed with CareerBuilder.com in multiple positions from May of 2006 to February of 2010. As director of strategic services, Dutter managed sales associates nationwide in the North American sector, which contributed over $700 million in annual revenue. Dutter also reestablished relations with the organization's business partners in order to stimulate indirect sales revenue. He previously was international director of sales for CareerBuilder's Western European division.

The “Recruiting and Hiring Environment in the New Decade” survey (not avilable, except in summary). found:

• 44 percent of companies increased hiring budgets for 2010;
• 50 percent plan to begin hiring most actively in Q2 and Q3 2010;
• Over 75 percent are not prepared for the return of hiring
• Top tools for recruiting new talent? 52 percent proactive recruitment marketing; 31% sourcing technologies; 60 percentsocial media;
• 38 percent are afraid the competition will recruit their top talent.

According to the Sendouts study, 72 percent of U.S. recruiters expect to have more job orders in 2010, and nearly 31 percent expect their placement fees to increase as much as 10 percent. A detailed look at the survey's results are available now in the new Sendouts research report, "2010 Recruitment Outlook: Sunshine after the Storm." 

Paxman has been PreVisor’s Chief Product Officer and SVP of Professional Services since 2007, having joined the company in 2005 from ePredix. Prior to PreVisor, Paxman worked at Retek Inc., an international software company, where she was Vice President of Worldwide Services and a member of the executive team. She began her career in business consulting with Accenture, the global management consulting firm.

The new tagline is  the tagline is "Quality Research, Recruiting, Intelligence, and Education."

It is now reflected on the company website, which also now includes sample research results including organizational charts, details about the educational training programs, and an outline of the start-to-finish process of a recruiting assignment.

Over the next four months StepStone Solutions’s performance management, career and succession planning and 360-degree feedback modules will be deployed initially to a population of 5,000 employees globally across Europe, U.S., Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Named Cloud 9, the release earned MrTed a place in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Gartner Group's 2009 Magic Quadrant for e-Recruitment Software.

Salary.com also announced that its board of directors has appointed Paul R. Daoust as interim chief executive officer while it conducts a formal search for a permanent chief executive officer.

The February 24 webinar will be presented by Ron Raslowsky, President of National Safety Compliance, a leading provider of commercial driver safety services and training.

Go here to register.

The forum will be held on February 26 in downtown San Francisco. For more information on the forum email info@aftercollege.com.

Breaking down age groups, more than half (53 percent) of workers ages 45 and up said they have a boss younger than them, followed by 69 percent of workers ages 55 and up.

SilkRoad's integration with Indeed will allow SilkRoad customers to expand their reach to potential candidates. Jobs delivered directly to Indeed from OpenHire will be included in Indeed's organic results and its network of more than 10,000 websites. 

JobJobHealth is a vertical search engine focused exclusively on jobs in the healthcare industry. Besides aggregating listings on its own site, jobs  can be distributed to the homepages and career centers of other healthcare job boards, medical blogs, universities, on-line newspapers, medical associations, and healthcare employers.

“Performance Management in a Recovering Economy” is available free by clicking here. 

AXA, the first Sino-French insurance company in China, is introducing the new system to support its rapid business development and help the company succeed in the growing competition for financial services talent in China’s rapidly expanding economy.

The  job fair will be held at Lakeview Terrace at Chicago Navy Pier on March 18th from 10am-3pm.

Wednesday (Feb. 17) LatPro will be in Houston, at the Westin Galleria.

Among the new or enhanced features are: configurable dashboards;On-click research of applicants and contacts Across the web; and tools to post to over 200 social media networks.

Marvin Smith, a talent sourcer for Microsoft, reported that within 24 hours of deploying LeadResearcher, MS received responses from 117 new applicants for a specific project from a pool of candidates that were short listed, but couldn't be easily contacted.

Go here to read the full Marvin Smith / Microsoft case study.

DiSimone has more than 15 years of management experience. Most recently, she was director of operations at Hireright where she was responsible for vendor and operations management. In addition to leading 175 employees and 800 vendors domestically and globally, DiSimone was instrumental in re-engineering the operations process and developing techniques for improved product delivery.    

The Outlook add-In expands the integration with the Microsoft Office Suite. It also improves a recruiter's ability to track their work quickly and efficiently.

Jobscience received its award for its TalentStaffing application in the recruiting category which enables clients to efficiently manage a job board, receive and process online applications, and use  industry-standard recruitment advertising and sourcing mechanisms. This is the second consecutive year that Jobscience has garnered recognition for providing the best recruiting solution on the salesforce.com AppExchange. 

The report gave the distinction of “leader” to only those vendors that fell into the top 20 percent of customer satisfaction scores. StepStone Solutions, grouped with other providers addressing global enterprises, achieved this distinction in every one of nine satisfaction categories, which included implementation satisfaction, service satisfaction, and product satisfaction.

According to the latest research, an organization's senior leadership team has a significant impact on its employees' overall opinions of the company and engagement levels, which have been linked to both earnings per share and total shareholder return. The data come from an analysis of the WorkTrends database, an annual survey of worker opinions conducted by KRI.

Recruiting industry Master Cybersleuths Glenn Gutmacher and Shally Steckerl are the hosts of the free pre-recorded webinar "Beyond Job Boards: Use No-Cost Social Networking and Web 2.0 Search to Uncover Full-Time Careers and Freelance Work." To view the webinar, register here. 

Employers advertising on the website will be able to reach over 2.8 million qualified candidates in the AfterCollege network.

Prior to joining Kenexa, Horigan served as a senior vice president at SAP. He has also held executive leadership positions at PeopleSoft, Inc, OutlookSoft, Sand Technology Systems and Oracle Corporation. 

The streaming video recording of the presentation attended by some 1,000 recruiters and HR professionals, features Arbita ACES's master cybersleuth, Glenn Gutmacher. It is available for a limited time here.

The first will be held Feb. 9th at the BWI Marriott in Linthicum Heights, MD. The second will be held Feb. 10th at The Ritz Carlton, Pentagon City, Arlington, VA. 

Winners will be announced at the 4th annual awards program on Monday, February 22nd at Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

The webinar will take place on February 4th at 1pm EST. Register here for the free webinar.

Cloud features two major enhancements: integration with Google Analytics allowing customers to have their Web site traffic metrics displayed on their HRmarketer dashboard, and a new Twitter feature embedded into HRmarketer's social media press release distribution platform that sends an automatic Tweet about the release at the time of distribution.

Caldon joins the new company (formed by the merger of Peopleclick and Authoria) from Fidelity Investments where was Vice President and Head of Product Management at Fidelity HR Services.

Get a free copy of the report here.

He will lead Vangent's business development efforts for the Military Health System, Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service.

Dubbed "30 in 30", this live, monthly discussion will be conducted by HRchitect experts who will tackle the previous 30 days, look ahead to the next 30 days, and give listeners an HR technology industry recap.The first program will be held  Feb. 25.

For a complimentary copy of the report, which was sponsored by iCIMS, click here. 

The award goes to a joint project team comprised of Walter C. Borman, Janis S. Houston, Tracy M. Kantrowitz, Richard A. McLellan, and Robert J. Schneider, in recognition of their work developing and validating computer adaptive personality assessments.

Topping the list is the HR and Payroll Software Buyers Guide, followed by the highly detailed and thorough RFP HRIS/HRMS Template. Access is free.

The live webcast will take place Wednesday, January 20, from 2-3 p.m. Eastern Time (11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pacific Time). Register here for the free webinar.

Register here.

Patti T. Mayer, chief operating officer, was named interim president.

The iNOVA awards, sponsored by MerComm, Inc., honor the world's best corporate Web sites, representing world-class achievement. Entries competed with over 200 submissions from 11 countries around the world.

He was most recently the security director at California State University, responsible for the operational management of a  system infrastructure in support of the Oracle/PeopleSoft enterprise system, known as the Common Management System (CMS). CMS is the largest administration system of its kind in higher education and is utilized by all 23 California State University campuses with an estimated 450,000 users.

In the first three quarters of the year Taleo's new customers included Aaron Rents, Inc., Batesville Casket Company, Healthways, Inc., Hitachi Data Systems, Major League Baseball, McAfee, Inc., MTV, New South Wales Government, and SkyMall.

Employers and job seekers can see the complete 2010 ConferenceHire schedule on the website where they can also register for BMI's services or call 1-800-330-4950. 

The scope of the SAS 70 audit focused on Bullhorn’s production operations, including its data center, technical management and service delivery.

The Dec. 10 show celebrates the one-year anniversary of HRchitects HRtechnology Happy Hour WebMingle. During the Web Mingle, Grossman will cover best practices in marketing, as well as provide HR marketplace insight from HRmarketer's latest human resource buyer survey. 

Halogen Software's Talent Profiles are an integrated feature of the company's talent management suite. The employee profiles that come standard with the solution, enable organizations to gather the specific employee information they require for emergency planning, making it easy to identify qualified replacement and/or additional staff in times of emergency.

TalentLink Cloud 9, as the product is also known, integrates apps into its talent acquisition solution and has an improved user interface. 

There's no minimum number of contacts required and the offer is good for two months of service. You must use Outlook and download a plug-in that automatically transfers the addressbook to ZoomInfo. The service rejects consumer email addresses (to the extent it can identify them), then scrubs the rest.

Signup at FreshContacts.

The report, Recovery: Are We There Yet?, says 60 percent of respondentsreported their business has already improved or would improve before the end of this year and a further 22 percent believe business will pick up by the end of the first quarter of 2010.

The feature is smart so you'll know if applicants are assigned to other jobs or have received previous thank you messages.

Taleo will directly enable Boomi integration technology in its Taleo Business Edition applications for small and medium-sized businesses. In addition, Boomi will now support data migration for Taleo customers moving from their existing talent management systems to Taleo Business Edition.

The partnership streamlines candidate search on the web, enabling companies to target the right talent for open jobs and reach prospective candidates easily. Using Jobvite Source, employers can match their jobs to profiles in Jigsaw and easily secure comprehensive contact information when they identify a good candidate.

Monster’s media alliances now include more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers and over 100 television outlets. 

Customers can recruit, qualify, and track applicants with myStaffingPro's highly regarded applicant tracking functionality. Upon hire, the applicant data is seamlessly imported into Bamboo HR. The integration provides an automated approach to increasing organizational efficiency and reducing costs.

A free copy of the Aberdeen Group study, sponsored in part by SilkRoad technology, inc., is available here.

SEO and Social Media Guide is designed to optimize the visibility of employer job postings on sites across the Web, from search engines to today's most popular social media sites.

The goal of "Post Recession & Seasonal HR Practices" is to prepare companies of all industries for the new types of necessary HR practices via the retail industry's experience with seasonal hiring.

The one-hour webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, November 18th at 1:00 pm (ET). Register for the event here.

Now user's of Bond's Adapt Researcher will be able to use Broadlook to search for passive candidates or conduct other research directly from their dashboard  and bring the results seamlessly into Adapt.

The study, conducted by Bersin & Associates, the only research and advisory firm focused solely on enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition, is a comprehensive market review and buyers' guide for talent management software systems. Out of 24 companies profiled, Kenexa ranked No. 4 in market share by revenue and by number of enterprise customers. 

Chequed is an assessment provider offering predictions about a new hire's performance.

The partnership will give MrTed’s customers the ability to instantly advertise positions to any job board.

The Mediacom SonicPerform Case Study can be downloaded free.

The service utilizes social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter enabling customers to expand the reach of their job postings.

John F. Moore, regional manager of Beeline, has been selected by Staffing Industry Analysts as a panelist and will also be facilitating a roundtable session titled, “Ensuring You Are Getting the Best Rates.” 

"We've redesigned HealthCareerWeb.com with the user in mind. Healthcare recruiters and job seekers can now more easily engage with one another through our professional networking environment. And the best part is--it's all free!" said Denise Tanner, business development manager of HealthCareerWeb.com.

Coinciding with the height of the college football season, Career Athletes is targeting former and current college athletes via an integrated media campaign, including television, digital and social media extensions.

The specialized search firm has consultants in Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. All consultants are supported by the firm’s research centre in Chennai, India.

BrightMove's recruiting blog discusses the risks, and practices used by applicants and recruiters.

With dozens of vendors all claiming to be leaders, it's a daunting challenge for an organization to pick a system that meets its needs today and can grow as it does in the future.

To help, MrTed is sponsoring a free webinar to help employers understand the differences that define today's talent acquisition systems.

Taleo placed 494th on the list, based on percentage of revenue growth from 2004 to 2008.

Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five year period from 2004–2008. Kenexa grew 340 percent during this period. Kenexa was also ranked 17 in Deloitte’s 2009 Greater Philadelphia Fast 50.

The free guide will help avoid some of the missteps companies make in their social media recruiting. Written in partnership with veteran recruiter and writer Nanci Lamborn the guide includes:

• 10 steps to get you moving in the right direction;
• Quick reference for searching passive candidates through Google and other engines;
• Access to a list of sites, tools and resources.

Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five year period from 2004–2008. Bullhorn grew 615% percent during this period.

Get the free paper here.

Kornblum will be responsible for leading the development and launch of new businesses and corporate strategy through new products and services.

Before joining Bullhorn, Kornblum consulted to a number of firms in the recruiting and Internet industries.  He was previously vice president of business development for Monster Worldwide.

Joel Passen, VP of Marketing, will lead the audience of entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts on a live tour of the firm's Newton applicant tracking software.

At 4,200 members strong and growing, the Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup, is one of the largest Meetup groups in the country.

CompareHRIS.com offers free tools to assist HR professionals with their search, evaluation, selection, and implementation of HRIS or HRMS systems.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2009 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern time). Register here.

On the list is the site's software buyer's guide and a companion model RFP companies can customize to seek bids from HR vendors. Whitepapers on system implementation, training and common mistakes in system selection round out the list.

Now in addition to running criminal background checks, motor vehicle records, social security numbers, credit checks and employment references, there is an option to request personal references as well.

Through this partnership, Simply Hired will provide job seekers on the Talent Exchange with direct access to their database of more than three million U.S. job listings and provide Taleo customers with the ability to expose their own job openings.

Talent Technology ranks 45th among all technology companies nationwide based on percentage of revenue growth over five years.

McVey, 45, joins Kroll from USIS, where he served as president of the Commercial Services Division and worked on mergers and acquisitions. He was previously vice president of business operations at ADT Security Services.

Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski, Chairman, President and CEO of SilkRoad technology, made the announcement, and unveiled the new name: HeartBeat, core HR.

TechConnect is a forum created and moderated by Talent Technology Corporation that brings together people passionate about delivering software products and solutions to the HR and recruiting industry.

Beeline 7.0 features include a new idesign that reduces the number of clicks needed to complete most tasks as well as a new interactive candidate comparison tool that facilitates the effective qualification and selection of candidates. User experience and application performance are also enhanced with this new version.

Surge is an evolution of Sendouts Pro and comes with a completely redesigned user interface enabling recruiting professionals to spend less time managing their software and more time focusing on building relationships with clients and candidates.

See it at the NAPS Annual Conference in Las Vegas September 30th – October 2nd.

Two of the leaders in online search today, Shally Steckerl of Arbita and Bryan Starbuck of TalentSpring, have teamed up to author this paper and explain to recruiters how these search techniques can improve quality and reduce time-to-fill and cost.

The project supports a nationwide initiative to develop and leverage online talent acquisition services to increase speed and accuracy of hiring for tens of thousands of companies across all industries throughout the country

Fully customizable to meet a client's needs, e-Vents can be used for online career/job fairs, open houses or networking events.

e-Vents is made possible via a joint partnership between CKR Interactive's account, creative and interactive teams, InXpo and AfterCollege. 

Through its sponsorship of NurseTogether.com, Nursefinders has secured exclusive discounts for its client hospitals on recruitment advertising geared at filling their own permanent staff positions, as well as special incentives on per diem and travel services from Nursefinders and its sister divisions. The sponsorship also provides Nursefinders’ caregivers with specially negotiated discounts, unmatched original content, interactive career tools and social networking through NurseTogether.com.

The survey of 4,400 workers found that even among those earning $100k or more, 30 percent say they too live paycheck to paycheck, up from 21 percent in 2008.

This year’s academy session will be held in Chicago on Oct. 13 at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Gleacher Center  8 a.m. to 3 p.m. followed by a free STARnetwork sessio.

Register or find more information here.

Additionally, Monster's advanced integration components will let organizations view available inventory in real-time without ever leaving OpenHire.

"Win the Recruiting War!" is an outline for employers looking ahead to the worker shortages of the next decades. The report has both broad general guidance for assesing a company's current needs, predicting the number and type of workers that will have to be recruited in the future, and how to find and hire them. Get a copy here.

From job search engine Indeed.com, the whitepaper says that determining your recruitment ROI is not hard if you: Assign someone to the task; Automate the data collection; Analyze the data, and: Adjust your spend. Download the paper here.

In his series on RecruitingBlogs, Sumser called Mayeux "pure good guy" and described Novotus as an RPO "that appears to be really shaping the future."

The estimate comes from a survey of 35 federal agencies representing nearly 99 percent of the federal workforce, which was released today in the report WHERE THE JOBS ARE 2009: Mission-Critical Opportunities for America.

The survey was funded by Monster Government Solutions and the AON Consulting.

The service will also track HR-specific online news, blogs and social media sites such as Twitter.

In addition to serving its North American operations in the U.S. and Canada, two new Career Center portals were launched for recruiting management trainees throughout Africa and for TSKI, the largest microfinance organization in the Philippines. A third portal is scheduled to be deployed soon for Opportunity International Savings and Loan in Ghana.

The video was designed, produced and filmed by ReachingTalent, a division of Novotus, an Austin-based RPO.

To register, send an email to Slomski.

Schulte’s interview can be heard by visiting HRmarketer’s blog, subscribing to the podcast in iTunes or by visiting Hipcast. 

The company attributed much of the growth to the introduction of EmpCenter Fatigue Management, a program that enables utilities with nuclear facilities to comply with a new regulation from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Nearly 70 percent of the utility companies that operate nuclear power reactor sites, which includes 16 nuclear companies, 4 contractors, 32 locations, and approximately 90,000 employees, are using EmpCenter.

The survey will compare the recruitment practices of Onrec.com and Kennedy Information communities with those of the broader recruitment community. Results will be released later this year and  presented during  the Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference and Expo, November 3 and 4 in Chicago.

Once the economy recovers, this will be a competitive advantage for finding mission critical talent, Ryan explains in an Inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio.

Listen to it or read the full transcript.

The new org chart feature creates a graphical illustration showing where in a corporate hierarchy a contact stands. Ideal for staffing agency, executive search, and consulting agency users to analyze sales activity, the mapping capability also lets users “hover” over a contact record for quick viewing or click-through to a list of managers the contact reports to as well as a list of subordinates.

"Social media offers direct personal interaction for our customers. It allows recruiters to reach out to a target audience with relevant career options. Gone are the days of blind recruitment calls," says CEO David Webb.

Get "Are you dead in the water leading into the next hiring boom? The New Breed of Recruiter and Web 2.0" here.

The whitepaper is available here.

With over 21 years of global human resources experience in the US, Canada and Asia-Pacific, Cadigan has worked on acquisition integrations around the globe. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he served as vice president of HR at Electronic Arts where he was responsible for the Games Label group, with 2,500 employees and some $2B in revenue, as well as M&A integrations.

Cadigan helped build Cisco’s world class acquisition integration team from 1998 to 2002. He also held key HR leadership roles at PMC-Sierra, AMD, Fireman's Fund, and Esprit.

Adam will assume responsibility for executive level oversight of client service and creative activities at NAS. He will also continue to serve as NAS' Chief Talent Strategist.

Van Leer will continue to serve clients by helping organizations integrate their brands into the ongoing digital space evolution as well as oversee all of NAS' digital initiatives for clients. She will additionally retain her title as Chief Interactive Strategist for NAS.

The hospital produced detailed reports using UltiPro’s human capital management solution during an audit by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). In previous audits, before UltiPro, the hospital struggled to provide the reports requested by OFCCP auditors.

Based on year over year revenue growth for the past three years, Knowledge Infusion placed 1091 with a growth rate of 285.7 percent.

“Workforce Optimization: What Is It and How Do I Do It?" will be presented on August 18, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

Read the case study on how it was done.

Now, three years after PDS deployed the solution for its client, Premier Election Solutions, the success of the program has been documented in a case study.

The details are available on HRchitect's blog.

Yound adults will find multiple insurance options for auto, health, home and rentals at GradGuard.com.

The New York Enterprise Report's Small Business Awards named iCIMS a finalist in its Customer Service Best Practice category, while the UK-based Software Satisfaction Awards included iCIMS in its shortlist for Talent Management Software.

The finding is part of Beyond's Second Quarter 2009 Career Trend Analysis and Industry Outlook Report, released today.

Experts from PC Magazine reviewed hundreds of website nominations from readers, industry insiders, social media experts and staff to evaluate this year’s hottest websites based on content quality, design and originality. SimplyHired.com is the only job search site named to the 2009 list.

In addition to Brooklyn, the tour stops in Vienna, Va., today, Whippany, N.J., on August 6 and Braintree, Mass. on August 7.

Now comes PreVisor, the employment assessments company, with AtHome Agent, an assessment tool  that identifies job candidates who have the ability to thrive when working from home, even for extended periods of time.

The clients are multinational giant Tyco International, with 110,000 employees, ARINC, a provider of communications, engineering, and integration solutions, and Boots and Coots, a pressure control company for the oil and gas industry.

The privately held company reported closing 30 new enterprise product contracts across both the Position Manager (ATS) and Performance Manager solutions. The company said its ATS posted record new sales and the largest sale ever. Additionally, an increased number of clients purchased both the recruiting and performance solutions together.

SourceFirst enables users to search for qualified candidates across hundreds of sites, including paid job boards, major search engines, free boards, niche boards, associations, colleges and social networks.

Bullhorn says membership is an important important part of its initiatives to establish itself as a leading player in the UK market. The company opened an office in London in June.

APSCo is the UK’s leading professional recruitment industry trade group.

San Francisco’s community is the largest of it’s kind with nearly 4000 active members.

Berkshire says most federal contractors and other companies have two distinct departments: Affirmative Action (AA) and Recruiting. However, during an audit, the AA department will be the one dealing with the OFCCP. How to help the two groups work together more effectively is the subject of Ronnenburg's presentation.

The analyst recommendation also raised the target price for Kenexa from $9 a share to  $15.

In the 30 days prior to this post, Kenexa's stock has been trading mostly in a range between $10 and $11.50 a share.

Jobing.com will provide job board content and technology for the NetIP website, increasing offerings for job seekers and exposure for employers listing jobs on Jobing.com. 

These are among the more unconventional ways a CareerBuilder survey found, that workers are finding to earn extra money.

As the recession wears on and hours are cut and overtime eliminated, cash-strapped workers have been taking second jobs or launching their own sideline businesses. One-in-10 workers told CareerBuilder they've taken second jobs in the last year.

Colvin will be honored as part of the Small Private Company category.

Grid Alternatives helps communities by providing renewable energy services, equipment and training.  Grid Alternatives uses Newton’s recruiting software to announce new openings, review and share applicants, track progress and analyze results.

CEO Jason Averbrook will moderate the third talent management panel - HR Technology Doesn't Stop in a Down Economy. VP Jason Corsello will present a session he's calling "Great New Technologies Just for You." "Evaluating the Edge Technologies for Recruiting", will be  presented by Elaine Orler, VP of talent acquisition management.

Conference show co-chair Bill Kutik explained the profusion of  Knowledge Infusion leaders this way: "It might seem like favoritism that more executives from Knowledge Infusion are presenting than from any other consultancy or analyst firm. But the simple fact is they are the best experts I know on their subjects."

The company says the new design coupled with enhanced technology has "improved the speed of searches, added new sites to source, and created a tool that requires literally no training."

Version 3.0 of TalentFilter was released in June.

Unlike publicly held companies, iCIMS is not required to release financial data and its press release includes no revenue or profit numbers.

The announcement came at the Society of Human Resource Management Annual Conference and Exposition in New Orleans. Peopleclick Reach provides the tools to expand their referral network and extend their company brand.

The program allows qualified individuals to refer Newton to friends, contacts, and companies and earn a percentage of the revenue generated from each sale. Ideal affiliate partners include agency recruiters, contract recruiters, human resources consultants, and other service providers.

Prior to Quigo, Abbott spent nearly six years at eBay, most recently as SVP/CTO, during which time he was also a member of eBay’s executive staff.

The campaign, launched in 2008, has won HealthLeaders Media and Aster awards,

Worswick previously was senior vice president, sales, at IntraLinks, Inc., a SaaS provider of information exchange solutions. During his tenure the company’s revenues increased from $8 million to $150 million. Worswick also was a director of business development at Walker Digital, the company that founded Priceline.com.  He began his career as a consultant and financial analyst at KPMG.  Worswick is a graduate of Cornell University.

M5 provides Voice-over-IP managed phone systems. The new M5Connect for JobDiva allows users to track their phone traffic as part of the workflow process within JobDiva. It can also shave 20-30 seconds off each phone call and with staffing recruiters making 50 or more calls a day, the time savings alone can amount to almost a half-hour a day.

The multi-service recruitment marketing and promotions firm not long ago launched a promotions division, with an online mall offering a variety of gifts and recognition awards.

With employees battered by plummeting pension plans, dwindling 401Ks and the layoffs of co-workers, “Anything that a company can do to reduce stress and worry of their employees is important,” says Jill Waldorf, senior vice president, Bayard Promotions. “These simple gestures can go a long way in engaging employees and showing them that the company appreciates their hard work and understands what they are feeling."

The new edition offers a number of new features and enhancements including video profiles, built-in applicant tracking, pre-screening questions, tasks and calendar functions.

The survey, which measured the workplace attitudes and job search behaviors of diverse audiences within the millennial generation, found  women tend to be more open about speaking with friends and family about career options and information while more men than women would walk into a company to apply for a job. Men and women are nearly equal (50 percent vs. 48 percent) in utilizing social networking for career and employment information.

Get the survey summary here.

Part of the reason is satisfaction with the quality of the candidates. Cost is also a factor, say the surveyed companies, a factor in the 72 percent of  the surveyed companies who say they expect to spend more on social networks this year.

Get a copy of the survey here.

The company earlier this year opened an office in London and has since signed several international organizations including ALEC, which is based in Dubai and serves the middle east, and Optical Express, based in the UK and operating in Europe and California.

The winners will be announced in New York City June 22.

The list was compiled by taking a snapshot of entry-level jobs and internships currently available on AfterCollege and on AfterCollege career networks. Rankings were determined based on the number of unique employers posting opportunities in each city, versus taking the number of opportunities posted per city, in order to

Get a copy of Cahill's webinar “Driving Sales in Any Economy” by downloading it here from Bullhorn. 

The company's First Quarter 2009 Career Trends Analysis and Industry Outlook Reports, released today, provides an in-depth look at the latest job market trends.It found a 15.2 percent increase in healthcare workers, with a majority of having 1-3 years experience, while job postings call for a year or less. There was a 54.5 percent in IT workers looking for a job. Most had 5-10 years experience, while recruiters were seeking 3-5 years.

"Create Your Own Bailout with Employee Engagement" will be offered May 19th at 1 p.m. EDT. The webcast will cover calculating the bottom line impact of engagement, the connection between employee engagement and the customer experience, and the actions managers and employees can quickly, affordably, and easily take to increase engagement.

The second webcast, scheduled for June 3 at 1 p.m. EDT, will deal with "Why Taking Action on Employee Survey Results is More Critical Than Ever and What You Can Do."

Less than five percent of the 670 students and alums said finding work was easy. Of that group, the most effective method was networking followed by applying to jobs online.

In addition to searching for job opportunities, users can send relevant jobs to themselves or a friend right from their mobile device

Among the services are free copies of resumes and free business cards through June 13. Online, the company's Career Stimulus Program provides jobseekers help with their resume, networking how-tos, and other job-hunting assistance.

Jobs indexed by Simply Hired through OpenHire, SilkRoad's recruiting management solution, will provide customers the ability to distribute and include their jobs in the organic listings on Simply Hired's network of over 5000 new locations, including social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo.

nowHIRE.com will host a webinar to shed light on the implications of this mandate on U.S. businesses and the importance of being I-9 compliant. The webinar will take place  April 30 at 10 a.m. PDT.

Register here for the webinar.

Ironically, Herrera is from Hawaii, which has no NFL team, though the Pro Bowl was played in the island state for the last 29 years. Next year, it will be played in Miami.

Restout was previously director of products and technology for Talent Technology Corporation, where he managed product roadmaps and synthesized product initiatives for the company’s Resume Mirror and HireDesk divisions. He was also principal for technology practice at Humanuo, an HR technology consulting and development firm in Los Angeles.

Bullhorn achieved a 290 percent growth rate in revenues during the past four year period.  In 2008, Bullhorn added 3,400 new users and over 475 new customers.  Annual revenues also increased by 42 percent.

Other nominees are: Monster, Bernard Hodes Group for the NYPD careers site, TSL Education for Tes Connect, and TheLadders.

Garrity retired last year after nine seasons in Orlando.

The Qualigence Stimulus Package now offers research rates at $80/hour, rather than the standard research rate of $100/hour. The company also offers a rate of $95/hour for passive candidate development and recruiting – the standard rate for this service at Qualigence is $115/hour. The standard rates at Qualigence had been in effect since the company’s founding in 1999.

Her new book, "Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business," was recently released and is available through Amazon.

“We rolled out our Featured Announcement email product in response to shrinking recruitment budgets and in order to make it as easy as possible for employers to share entry level opportunities that they would normally not share this way," says  Roberto Angulo, CEO of AfterCollege.

The webcast is scheduled for April 16, 2-3 PM EDT. Register here to participate.

Focusing on bright, bold close-up photos of infants and children, NAS developed the new brand with the headline, "Every child deserves our very best," and tagline for the logo, "Careers in Caring."

Check out the video on YouTube here.

Prior to joining Career Athletes, Heres was a franchise owner with Management Recruiters International. He also served as corporate office general manager, and leader of the national supply chain practice. His team was named MRI Business Unit of the Year for three consecutive years.

DeChant was formerly an area sales manager for CareerBuilder where he led sales, operations and the financial activities of CareerBuilder’s Phoenix office. He also acted as an account executive responsible for driving more than $1 million incremental revenue growth for Fortune 1,000 companies.

Those are some of the findings in PreVisor's 2009 Business Outcomes Study Report. The 3rd annual report released today summarizes 33 business outcomes studies. The rerport found that assessments had a strong and measurable impact on most or all of the firms’ performance metrics.

Register here to get a copy of the report.

Regarding the economy Greco said what sets this recession apart from others is “The immediacy of how it happened. Around the end of September, the light switch was turned off. Everything just stopped. Companies shut down, all the layoffs started.” She added, “Companies went out of business the quickest I’ve ever seen, and spending came to a screeching halt as well.”

Using a risk rating scale, the Dependability Index can effectively predict a candidate’s focus on customer service, accident rates and attendance rates. This level of screening is particularly suited for the hospitality, retail, call center and telecom sectors, as well as potentially hazardous or high risk professions in the construction, engineering, health care and security sectors.

Bullhorn Resource Center also serves as a portal to other Bullhorn knowledge bases with links to Bullhorn Brainstorm, the Bullhorn Blogger, the Bullhorn Service Status page and the Bullhorn Support Forums.

Arbita OneSource automates much of the routine tasks of Internet candidate research quickly extracting resumes, candidate profiles and contact information from major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Alltheweb, AltaVista and Microsoft Live.

Arbita OneSource was made possible in large part by a recent partnership with Broadlook Technologies.

The SARTA Technology Index measures the health of the Sacramento, Calif. economy by tracking the performance of the top 50 high tech and life science companies in the region. Abso, headquartered in Roseville, California, has been included in the SARTA Tech Index since 2003.

Riviera Advisors, Velocity Resource Group, Iris Libby Consulting, and J. Morrison Group launched ASHER in February. The companies historically have operated in separate areas with Riviera concentrating on internal talent acquisition strategies, capabilities and tools; Velocity focuses on sourcing, screening and qualification services; J. Morrison specializes in employer branding and HR communications, and; Iris Libby provides competitive intelligence and passive candidate research.

For more information, visit www.ashertalent.com.

“In conjunction with the industry leading guarantee we introduced on this product a few weeks ago, it made sense to change the name to make it more identifiable,” said Novotus CEO and founder Mike Mayeux.

Founded in 1930, City Line is an independent, full-service food distributor in New England. The company processes approximately 2,500 employment applications per year and previously used a paper application process.

It's new “Research Zone” technology allows users to identify and research senior executives who may be found in various websites – including newspaper aggregators, corporate websites and social networks. The Research Zone takes target company lists identified by the researcher, and returns potential candidates, biographies, compensation information and even organization charts.

In one of this first posts to LinkedIn Tips For Sales, Jobs, HR, O'Malley tells jobseekers to add common misspellings of their last name in case they are being sought by someone who doesn't have the spelling quite right.

New SonicFeedback allows organizations to create and assign feedback forms to any step of the recruiting process and gather key data to better manage their hiring.

Dubbed ConferenceHire, these are contingency hiring events  for employers seeking military-experienced candidates in a variety of fields.

For the complete schedule and information about participating, visit the Bradley-Morris website.

The conferences are:

• The Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009; Wed, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. PST
• The Pacific Crest 2009 Emerging Technology Summit; Thurs., Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. PST

Register here.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. During the webinar, Clark Hill’s Michael P. Nowlan will provide an overview of E-Verify, including the importance of automating I-9 compliance, the latest legal updates about E-Verify, who is impacted by E-Verify and how employers can avoid penalties and fines. Register here.

Gartner defines leaders in this Magic Quadrant as companies that had “strong product functionality and superior customer experience with the vendor and its products… and strong or emerging multinational solutions (with corresponding service and support).” 

Papas' keynote discussed Bullhorn, but he also talked about technology innovations to enable staffing and recruiting firms to work more efficiently with their client and candidate networks.

There's also an interview with Bill Vick on xtremerecruiting.tv which includes a discussion of trends in the recruiting industry. 

Sign up here.

These are some of the trends identified in a survey sponsored by PreVisor that is intended to help practitioners and consultants evaluate their employee assessment practices.

PreVisor is a provider of on demand pre-employment assessments and talent measurement solutions. The complete report is available here.

Most telling is the optimsm of the 7,500 staffing firms surveyed for the TalentDrive-sponsored report. Some 57 percent predicted that the predict the staffing situation will improve by the third quarter of the year.

The survey was conducted byTalentDrive, creator of SaaS recruitment software TalentFilter.

Jobvite involves all employees in the hiring process and leverage their social networks to find quality candidates

Knowledge Infusion Optimization Services are offered on a tiered engagement level varying from 1-2 day workshops, to short-term diagnostic engagements, to custom, client-configured packages

The SuccessFactors study, entitled ‘Workforce Optimization’, which surveyed 277 business in the UK and Ireland, gauged how, if at all, organizations are ready and able to optimize their workforce when faced with issues such as declining revenues, and how to ensure their workforce is contributing to the bottom line by identifying its top performers and cultivating that talent to help develop the right competencies to achieve strategic organizational goals. 

While that may not be much of a surprise, the SHL research finds men more likely to be de-motivated by poor senior management (38 percent) and poor line management (29 percent) than women. On the other hand 17 percent of women are more affected by  criticism and poor relationships with colleagues (19 percent) than their male counterparts. Age also can have an impact on motivation, with young employees (aged 18 to 34) more likely to be de-motivated by uninteresting work (37 percent) than those over age 35 (26 percent). Young workers also are more motivated by company culture and their work environment than older colleagues.

The complete report is not on the SHL website.

The report says, “SuccessFactors’ Talent management suite offers a prominent end-to-end solution leading the marketplace and illustrating the continuous circle and strategic interdependency of the various talent management functions within an organization."

Other companies reviewed in the $25,000 report (that is not a misprint) are: Authoria, Cornerstone, Halogen, Kenexa, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Plateau Systems, Saba, Salary.com, SAP, Silkroad, Softscape, Stepstone, Taleo and Workscape.

These and other trends are detailed in the survey.

Shaker Consulting conducted the survey at the 2008 Taleo World User Conference.

Go here to register.

The New Voices Project survey measured the workplace attitudes and job search behaviors of the millennial generation, young adults between the ages of 16 and 29. According to those surveyed, 89 percent stated they spend their free time on social networking sites at least once a week, second only to watching television (91 percent).

Get a summary of the survey here.

A similar analysis of a layoff's psychic impact by Leadership IQ found three-quarters of the surviving employees believe productivity has suffered while 61 percent fear for their company's future.

To get a copy of "Leveraging Social Networking & Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools in Enterprises" you must be a member of the HCI. Membership is free.

The partnership allows FRF to share information on available retail jobs with its members and other users of the association’s website. Thanks to a job search function that is placed on the FRF website, individuals will now be able to search for retail jobs on the FRF site, which will ultimately lead them to www.allretailjobs.com.

The show is being billed as a regional HR tech expo offering sessions on topics ranging from recruiting, workforce planning and managing talent to cutting-edge ideas and technologies. The promotional info gives the appearance that HRchitect is developing a trade show to rival HR Executive's fall Tech Show in Chicago.

These and other insights uncovered in the research will be presented in a free webinar next month. Register here.

Other professional networks are also growing, Reuters says, the beneficiaries of a global recession that is pushing ever more workers to join sites that may help them find new jobs.

Under the terms of the joint venture agreements, which remain private, Monster will own a 50 percent stake in CareerOne. The joint venture will initially carry the CareerOne and Monster brands, and the organization will continue to operate from its existing headquarters in Sydney. 

Its part of a marketing deal Monster struck with the NFL that will give it sponsorship of the NFL Draft, NFL Kickoff, NFL Playoffs, Super Bowl and NFL Pro Bowl.

Monster and the NFL will also jointly create a customized, year-long promotion that will be introduced during the Super Bowl on February 1, 2009.

Lawson said the district will use the software to support data-driven decision making and improve its ability to recruit, retain and develop teachers and staff.

In making the announcement, Bullhorn said Basemer, who also has served as executive vice president at Lotus Development, "brings extensive executive experience on organizational optimization, direct sales and channel strategy and globalization."

AfterCollege, Inc., a career network for college students and alumni, and MBA Focus, LLC, provider of recruitment technology to graduate business schools, will now be able to crosspost listings to each other.

To help HR suppliers continue their most critical marketing campaigns, while being sensitive and flexible to their budget constraints in these tough times, HRmarketer is offering new and existing clients flexible payment terms as a solution to the credit and cash crunch. 

The announcement says the program will "feature industry news and interviews with industry executives, analysts, practitioners, consultants, and really anybody who has an interest and stake in the puzzling world of HR Technology."

First program is December 5 featuring the leadership team for HRmarketer. 

Accurate is ranked 414th based on revenue growth between 2003–2007. Accurate had $11.88 million in revenue in 2007 versus $2.84 million in 2003 for a 318.4 percent increase.

"How Danny Sees It: Danny Cahill's Four Big Ideas for Today's Economy"  is an interview with the industry "guru" and president of Hobson Associates, Cahill Consulting, and AccordingToDanny.com.

Get it here.

Sponsored by iCIMS, a SaaS provider of talent platforms, and the Human Capital Institute, a global professional association and educator, the webcast will offer new and innovative methodologies that companies of all sizes can us..

 Register here for the free webcast, “Great Product, Real People: How Your Corporate Environment Can Build Your Talent Pool.”

Shally Steckerl, whose JobMachine merged with Arbita earlier this year, joins the company as executive vice president. George LaRocque joins as executive vice president of sales and marketing. He previously was with Bullhorn. Glenn Gutmacher joins as vice president of Arbita Consulting and Education Services. He had been with JobMachine.

The schedule is here (scroll down).

A hearing with respect to final approval of the settlement of the federal shareholder class action is scheduled for November 21, 2008.

In hopes of getting new talent in the door quicker, nearly a quarter (23 percent) of human resource managers say they have shortened the time from initial meeting to offer, and close to one-in-ten (8 percent) have removed steps from the application process.

On the half-full side of the equation, 15 percent did say thier employer is offering increased telecommuting opportunities.

With this partnership, Taleo Business Edition customers can subscribe to the HRhome web portal—a members-only online portal created to meet everyday Human Resource challenges. HRhome provides information, tools, and resources in the critical areas of compliance requirements, employment law, HRIS, immigration, workplace safety and policies.

Obtain your free copy of the report here.

The other vendors are: networx, SuccessFactors and Couraud.

Bullhorn also ranked as the 64th fastest growing company in the software category and the #1 fastest growing software company to serve the staffing and recruiting industry.  Bullhorn is also ranked the 31st fastest growing firm in greater Boston and Southern New Hampshire.  Twenty Bullhorn customers were also honored, including OnDemand Resources (#69) and Catalyst Search (#730).

Designed to be easy to use. the system delivers fundamental features to post jobs, collect candidate resumes, and manage the hiring process.

Arbita clients will now be able toreach the professionals who frequent  these sites.

When the company decided to give its careersite a look to match the elegance of the interiors for which the company is know, it chose Hiring Solutions, the region's dominant player in the enterprise e-recruitment solutions industry.

AutoZone implemented nowHIRE's applicant tracking and talent acquisition system in November 2007. That has lead to the imprements in hiring and retention and in other areas as well, according to a case study just published by nowHIRE.

E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration.

A survey from CareerBuilder says 47 percent of workers report they always or usually live paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet, up from 43 percent last year. One-in-five (21 percent) workers with salaries of $100,000 or more report they too live paycheck to paycheck. 

Solidarity Fund is a labor-sponsored investment fund dedicated to investing in the economic development of Quebec, where Inscape is headquartered. Series A investors Rho Canada Ventures, L.P., Rho Investment Partners Canada, L.P. ("Rho") and Garage Technology Ventures Canada L.P. ("Garage") also participated.

Inscape Software will use the funding to continue the development of its innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that helps organizations author and deploy selection, employee development and succession assessment solutions.

The Jobfox Most Wanted U.S. Job Candidates: August 2008 report finds that job seekers' salary expectations -across 25 of the most in-demand professions - have remained flat or have decreased over  the five months from March through July.

"From the Oval Office to Your Office" is billed as an interactive presentation dealing with the impact of the election on changes in immigration, healthcare, taxes and Social Security. Attendees will look at each candidate’s priorities, proposals, and policies, uncovering their impact on HR. Ronnenburg will discuss how employees’ needs might change, and where to shift funds to prepare for changes in DC.

Silkroad also noted the $54 million in venture capital it received and its two industry honors during the quarter: Network Products Guide named SilkRoad technology's Life Suite winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award, while American Business Awards named SilkRoad a finalist for “Best Customer Service Organization/Department” in the computer software category.

So says recruitment nowHIRE in a new whitepaper called Social Networking and Your Career Site: Innovating for a Better Applicant Experience. Click this link to get a free copy.

The company chose Inscape because it refers to "the unique essence or inner nature of a person" and thus "evokes the company's mission of helping organizations obtain a more complete profile of their job applicants and candidates for promotion."

Says the CareerBuilder.com press release:

"Comparing salaries, 40 percent of men surveyed reported they make $50,000 or more, compared to 21 percent of women surveyed. Nineteen percent of men earn $75,000 or more, compared to 7 percent of women. On the other end of the pay scale, 47 percent of women reported they make $35,000 or less compared to 28 percent of men."

Perhaps hoping to blunt the bad news (which might not quite so bad, since the company has now twice surprised analysts by doing less poorly than expected), the company said it "added 25 healthcare entities which represented 45 hospitals in 2007, and is rapidly extending its customer adoption in 2008."

A new survey from CareerBuilder says 49 percent)of hiring managers reported catching a candidate lying on their resume.And when they did, 57 percent tossed out the applicant. Curiously, 6 percent hired the liar.

 The most common lies are:

• Embellished responsibilities - 38 percent
• Skill set - 18 percent
• Dates of employment - 12 percent
• Academic degree - 10 percent
• Companies worked for - 7 percent
• Job title - 5 percent

Each guide costs $350 and can be ordered here.

Bullhorn also said it had "79% growth in licensed revenue from the enterprise market. In terms of new users, the company experienced a 65% year-over-year increase to 1,322 in the quarter, led by a 127% increase in sales to new enterprise customers..."

But elsewhere, employment ads continue to grow and Craigslist exec Jim Buckmaster says the company may start charging for job postings in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Phoenix.

Topics covered in the $495 report and webinar include the state of the ITM Software Market, the definition of Integrated Talent Management (ITM), and ITM decision drivers that consumers should consider before purchasing Talent Management software.

Go here to register for the webinar.

The company is hosting a webinar on July 24th for businesses to learn more about the new release. For more information or to register for the webinar, visit: http://www.successfactors.com/webinars/.

“From now on,” says Nic Beesley,  a senior HR vice president with M.H. Alshaya Co., “All jobseekers applying for Alshaya vacancies will henceforth know exactly where they stand. Whether they are short-listed or called for an interview, every candidate will receive real-time SMS updates, regardless of which part of the world they live in.”

An article in the Virginian Pilot, the paper of record for the Navy town of Norfolk, Va. says job board RecruitMilitary 1ill hold 104 career fairs this year, up from last year's 45.

For more information or to register go here.

CareerBuilder bought Jobbguiden.se last year, about the same time Microsoft, which owns MSN, acquired a part interest in CareerBuilder. 

Read the announcement here. Or here to get the free executive summary.

That's the sound you just heard as Taleo (profile; site) swooped in and gobbled up Vurv Technology (profile; site) for approximately $128.8 million in cash and stock.

Geared to grad students PhD comics already has launched the new job site for its 400,000-plus unique monthly visitors.