The Strategic Talent Acquisition Roundtable (STARoundtable) today announced its 2008 schedule of Corporate Recruiting & Staffing Leadership Academies. This fall staffing and recruiting professionals seeking to improve their leadership skills will have three opportunities to participate in the highly specialized educational workshops. view article »

Qualifying.org, Inc, a talent management firm, together with test and assessment publisher Pearson has released three certification programs for the Golden Personality Type Profile. The training programs are designed for human resource specialists and consultants seeking to use the Golden for individual and team development. view article »

Berkshire Associates Inc., a provider of human resources services and software, is expanding its training program to include online HR options. These online training programs are designed to keep professionals abreast of current HR trends and best practices, and can be accessed anytime, anywhere through the Web. view article »

How do you leverage a corporate brand to build a pipeline of strong talent? Helene Richter, director of talent operations for Liz Claiborne Inc., will explain how the well known fashion design house and retail marketer does it in a webcast November 4, at 1:00 PM ET.

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.”

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Authoria, Inc., provider of talent management solutions, will hold a free webcast Dec. 11th exploring innovative approaches employers can use to meet the workforce challenges of the coming year. In this live event, Authoria Chairman Tod Loofbourrow and Bersin & Associates President Josh Bersin will explain how tough economic times require employers to adopt new strategies for their management of people. Register here.

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Jobs2Web will sponsor the Web 2.0 for Recruitment online education and research track for the Human Capital Institute.

The next webinar in the ongoing series is "Best Buy's Career Site 2.0." The free online workshop will detail how Best Buy made its career site Web 2.0 compatible and the benefits have been.

Register here for the free webinar.

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Abso, a provider of pre-employment screening services and talent management technology, is launching a free webinar series on the use of background checks and screening services.

The content prepares HR managers to use background check reports correctly and compliantly as well as to use the applicant tracking system to work faster and reduce risk

Sign up here.

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Cytiva, developer of talent management solutions, SonicRecruit, SonicPerform and SonicOnboard, is offering a series of free webcasts to help  practitioners deal with current topics in recruiting and performance management.

Cyitva's in house experts will cover everything from rethinking your recruiting metrics to onboarding and socialization for better retention. The new Sonic TalentTalk webcasts will begin March 19th and run through the end of the year.

Register here.

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Jobseekers have a new LinedIn help blog. But the tips and shortcuts that trainer and speaker Patrick O'Malley is offering will benefit recruiters, too.

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.

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As social networking becomes an integral part of recruiting, AIRS, a provider of recruitment training, announced today at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 61st Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, a new certification aimed at equipping recruiters with an understanding of sourcing via social media. view article »

Beth Ronnenburg, of Berkshire Associates, a human resources consulting and technology firm, will show attendees at the upcoming Industry Liaison Group National Conference, how to get out of the boxing ring and back into the office in her presentation, “One Goal -- Two Departments: How to Win the Compliance Match-up.”

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.

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