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Transferring abroad is an exciting experience. Returning home can be a foreign experience! Hues Consulting & Management Inc bridges the cultural divide.

Long considered champions for global inclusive diversity amongst the ranks of management in the United States, Hues Consulting & Management Inc has taken things a step further and introduced a new focus to their practice.

Hues Consulting & Management Inc recently introduced Expatriate and Repatriate Recruiting to their portfolio of services. The firm specializes in diversity recruiting with an emphasis on industries traditionally not know for diversity in Management through C-Suite levels. Inclusive diversity is an important issue for companies around the world. Companies have increasingly shown an interest in diversity initiatives in Expatriate assignments. Studies show there is a lack of diverse candidates exploring expat opportunities due to lack of interest or knowledge of how to get into the programs.

Major corporations are looking to take advantage of diversity abroad to level the playing field and create an image of global inclusion for their customers. Similarly, companies are also looking to leverage Repatriate Programs to bring top talent back to their native countries to help improve the company’s bottom line. Repatriation gives a competitive advantage in allowing companies to not just explore diversity, but also the opportunity to bring top workers who left for experience abroad back home to contribute their expertise.

“We listened to what our clients wanted and developed these new services to accommodate clients, and better prepare our Recruiters and Candidates for the process” says Adrienne Graham, Chief Talent Acquisition Consultant and CEO.

The firm’s services include contract & project recruiting, exclusive retained search, recruiter training, recruitment strategy & process consulting, and career management for domestic and international clients. Practice areas include IT /IS/MIS, Engineering, Aerospace, Defense, Communications, Financial (including Accounting, Tax, Investment Banking), Venture Capital, Energy (including Oil, Power, Wind, Gas), Architecture, Construction, Scientific, Sports, Media, Retail & Fashion, Internet & New Media, Advertising, Public Relations, Biotechnology, Real Estate Development, and Aviation.

For more information on Hues Consulting & Management, Inc, please visit www.huesconsulting.com, please send email to info@huesconsulting.com or call (678) 549-4028. Source: PRLog

Jun 20, 2008 – The Estes Group, a Greenville, South Carolina consulting firm, is now offering the unique, patented Job Benchmarking system developed by Target Training International of Scottsdale, AZ.
This new process “let’s the job talk” to define the key accountabilities and required attitudes and behaviors needed for a company to recruit and retain superior performers.
“We are pleased to offer Job Benchmarking to our clients,” says Annette Estes, Managing Director of The Estes Group. “We’re impressed with the success stories of companies that have improved their hiring practices, reduced turnover, and increased employee morale by using this human resource benchmarking program.”
This process involves benchmarking the job itself rather than the people in the job to determine what the position requires for superior performance.
Estes says Job Benchmarking has proven to help companies achieve amazing benefits. It can:

• Pinpoint why some employees aren’t measuring up to job standards
• Help managers coach employees to improve performance
• Aid in doing employee evaluations and meeting job performance objectives
• Enhance compliance management and training
• Increase job satisfaction and team morale
• Reduce employee turnover
• Reduce accidents and job injuries
• Assure the company that recruiters are getting the best person for the job
• Save the company hundreds of thousands – even millions of dollars

For a complimentary Job Benchmarking session, email Annette Estes at Annette@coachannette.com or call 864-244-1156 between 9:00am and 6:00pm Monday through Friday.

Source: PRLog

Chennai, India

24×7 Software Technologies officially launched ResumeWand a powerful, easy to use resume search tool for local folders and outlook inbox.

There must be thousands of resumes in a Recruiter’s computer buried in various folders, outlook inboxes, etc.

ResumeWand, helps Recruiter’s save all resumes from outlook and PC folders into a database and search them 50 times faster & more accurately. Now all they have to do is install ResumeWand in their computer, migrate the resume into the program without actually doing any data entry & your entire resume database is available for instant search.

The software uses SQL Express or SQL 2005 server developed in .net 2.0

A trial of the software is available for download at 24×7 software technologies website which is valid for one week.

Source: PRLog

Employee Onboarding (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbupj/employee-onboarding) is an innovative approach to employee orientation designed to get the new hire up to speed and integrated into the corporate culture more quickly.

This seminar is directed to human resource professionals and recruiters who do the interviews, make the selection and handle new employee orientation.

Presented by SkillPath Seminars one of the premier provider of business training in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The company was launched in 1989, and offered 82 seminars, today they deliver more than 20,000 “how-to” sessions to over 500,000 people in 450 cities.

Visitors to the SeminarInformation.com (http://www.seminarinformation.com/index.cfm) site can read a complete outline for this seminar, find a date and location and enroll in the seminar online or by phone at 877-SEM-INFO.

The SeminarInformation.com website lists over 360,000 seminars given by over 600 sponsors including Fred Pryor Seminars, CareerTrack, Padgett Thompson, National Seminars, the American Management Association, Linkage, Learning Tree International, Cross Country Education and Lorman.

Seminar experts are available to answer questions, assist with registrations or to make recommendations.

Source: PRLog.org

Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc, the provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, has announced the availability of its Spring 2008 release. Currently available to all new and existing clients, Cornerstone’s Spring 2008 release is designed to help organisations of all sizes to engage their workforce with strategic talent pooling, evolve their talent strategy with new certification functionality to drive up compliance rates, and empower organisations with self-service tools for talent data management.

With the Spring 2008 release, organisations can run talent assessment and succession planning tasks on specific pools of employees to identify critical roles and readiness for movement.

Succession plans can be developed using assessors outside of the strict managerial hierarchy - across the organisation for real value. With Cornerstone’s broad integrated talent management suite, this means that talent pools can be identified by choosing from a great diversity of learning, performance, succession, and workforce factors.

Cornerstone’s existing compliance and certification tools have been enhanced to improve the way in which end users manage ongoing certifications and to bolster compliance reporting and analytics for managers. Also new with the Spring 2008 release are self-service upload tools, which will provide clients with a great deal of flexibility in importing historical training and talent data.

“Cornerstone’s product development evolves from on-going collaboration and dialogue with our clients,” said Adam Miller, President and CEO, Cornerstone OnDemand. “With this release, Cornerstone is taking client-tested, cutting-edge practices around talent pooling and succession management and making them available to all our subscribers.”

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About Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.
Cornerstone OnDemand helps organisations to empower their people and optimise workforce productivity with a comprehensive suite of integrated talent management solutions for learning, compliance, performance, compensation and succession management, as well as robust reporting and analytics. Cornerstone also provides over 30,000 pre-integrated training titles. The company’s multi-tenant, multi-user software-as-

a-service (SaaS) architecture provides customers with rapid deployments, minimal IT costs, greater flexibility, proven reliability and a lower total cost of ownership. Cornerstone’s triple-digit growth has been supported by a market-leading customer retention rate. Leading enterprises such as AIB, Barnes & Noble, Data Return, Equinox, Pearson, Randstad and Trend Micro count on Cornerstone to help them achieve organisational excellence and competitive advantage. Cornerstone OnDemand is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and has international offices in London, Paris, Munich and Tel Aviv.

Source: Bob Little Press & PR

SeminarInformation.com the largest database of seminars and conferences on the Internet has just updated it’s database with seminar dates and locations for seminars through November 2008 making it easier to find just the right seminar close to home.

While the website lists hundreds of seminars in the larger US cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco, it also lists seminars in most other cities across the nation. “With the cost of travel rising each day we are delighted to be able to provide an alternative when looking for training,” states Mona Piontkowski, Executive VP of SeminarInformation.com. “Our database lists training programs given all over the country making it easier to find out what seminars are coming to your area or even city.”

There are over 350 dates and locations for Excelling as A First-Time Manager or Supervisor (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbfmk/excelling-as-a- …) for example.

And over 570 dates for Fred Pryor’s Advanced Excel (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbsft/advanced-excel) to name just two of the thousands of seminars listed.

Users of the SeminarInformation.com website can find the seminar, read the complete outline of the course, select a date and location and enroll online or by phone toll free at 877-SEM-INFO. # # #

Founded in 1981, Seminar Information Service, Inc. publisher of 18 editions of the SIS WORKBOOK has been the recognized leader in the field.

SeminarInformation.com started in 1999 on the Internet continues to provide the same quality information on the web with over 600 seminar sponsoring organizations with providing over 360,000 seminars and training programs.

The free, user-friendly site provides dates, locations, descriptions and registration options for all the programs listed.

Source: PRLog

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ — Affinity Circles, the
leading provider of exclusive social networks for academic and professional
organizations, today formally launched inCircle Recruiting, a candidate
sourcing tool that allows employers to target and engage qualified, passive
candidates through the exclusive social networks they trust, and build a
pipeline of qualified, interested candidates for future openings. By
leveraging the Affinity Circles network of more than 140 alumni and
professional networks, which currently include more than 15 million degreed
professionals, inCircle Recruiting connects employers with candidates whose
identity and educational background are authenticated, and whose privacy is
protected throughout the recruitment process.

Available in beta since September, inCircle Recruiting has been adopted
by more than 20 companies in the financial services, technology, and
healthcare industries, including Juniper Networks, Lam Research, and
Merrill Lynch. The subscription-based service features targeted media
campaigns that help employers attract qualified, passive candidates within
these exclusive networks. Unlike job boards and open networks that attract
mostly active (i.e., unemployed) candidates, Affinity Circles helps
employers reach candidates who are already employed but open to being
approached by employers in a trusted environment.

“In today’s volatile job market, traditional recruitment methods simply
take too long, cost too much, and produce too few qualified candidates,”
said Steve Loughlin, chief executive officer at Affinity Circles.
“Employers whose success depends upon acquiring the best talent have found
inCircle Recruiting to be an effective tool. Rather than settling for ‘post
and pray’ recruiting through traditional online resources, inCircle
Recruiting can increase applicant yield, reduce the time-to-hire cycle and
build a talent pipeline that can be harvested as future opportunities
develop.”

InCircle Recruiting allows employers to tap into a network of exclusive
online communities, establish an interactive, branded presence, and run
targeted advertising campaigns to reach and engage candidates who meet
their qualification criteria. Customized tools allow recruiters to target
members by region, occupation, academic degree and industry, current and
previous employer, job functions and more. Even before a specific job
posting is created, recruiters can identify and begin communicating with
qualified, passive candidates who express interest in the company.

For community members, inCircle Recruiting allows them to tap into the
‘hidden job market’ of career opportunities that are not broadly
advertised. The product helps community members gain direct access to
fellow alumni who work at specific companies, in order to gain insight into
the company culture and hiring process, and even to request a referral.
InCircle Recruiting also makes it easy for members to express interest in
companies where they might want to work in the future without ever putting
their privacy at risk or revealing personal contact information.

“InCircle Recruiting is a great tool that has allowed me to leverage my
alumni network for career opportunities,” said Nina Seth, a graduate of UC
Davis. “It gave me access to a number of opportunities that were not
available on public job boards, and helped me secure an interview at a
leading technology company that I didn’t even realize was hiring.”

Affinity Circles is a leader in creating members-only social networks
for alumni and student groups, fraternities, and professional associations
across the country, including such notable institutions as Stanford
University, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Wharton, the Universities of Florida,
Michigan, and Texas. These online communities provide an efficient way for
members to maintain and strengthen personal and professional connections in
a dynamic, trusted online community.

Pricing and Availability

inCircle Recruiting is currently available to U.S.-based employers as a
subscription service, with six or twelve month terms. It includes dedicated
customer support and the ability to source an unlimited number of
candidates over the service term. To learn more or request a product demo,
contact (650) 810-1536 or sales@incirclerecruiting.com

Fresh Recruits employment agency in Dorset says it welcomes the biggest ever shake-up in wages for temporary workers, which could end decades of unfair pay.

Fresh Recruits says it wholly supports new legislation being proposed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his draft Queen’s Speech, to create parity in the workplace for temps.

If successful it would be the first time the pay of temps is safeguarded and in line with their permanent counterparts.

Nuala Fox, temporaries’ manager at Fresh Recruits’ HQ in Bournemouth, Dorset, said: “It tends to be larger employers who pay slightly less on temp salaries for lower skilled roles.

“Although on the flip side skilled temp and contract staff will often earn considerably more than a permanent member of the team.”

In announcing the new legislation Mr Brown, said: “Most people agree that it is not fair that even after months in the job, agency workers can currently be paid less than the staff they work alongside.

“We are committed to fairness in the workplace.”

This is also the first time the government has publicly given its views on domestic legislation to protect agency workers, after abstaining during voting on Andrew Miller’s Private Member’s Bill to offer temporary agency workers the same pay and conditions as permanent staff.

Fresh Recruits turnover last year exceeded £720,000 and the company operates from a 25 mile radius from Bournemouth including Southampton and Dorchester.

For more details visit www.freshrecruits.co.uk

Source: PRLog

You can’t be a leader without followers so you have to understand how to motivate people to buy into your agenda. Motivation is what makes employees act in certain ways so how can you achieve this. Understanding people’s motives – their reasons for doing something is the key to becoming a good leader.

One of the main theories relating to motivation is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. People have needs. A need is a lack of something- something we want. This produces the drive and desire which motivates us to satisfy that need. Satisfying this need, or getting the thing we want or lack is the goal.

Maslow’s theory of motivation is called the “hierarchy of needs”. Maslow believes that people have five main needs in the following order of importance:

Physiological Needs
i) the need to eat
ii) the need to drink
iii) the need to work
iv) the need to sleep
v) the need to reproduce

Safety Needs
i) the need for shelter
ii) the need to fell secure

Belonging Needs
i) the need to feel part of a group
ii) the need for acceptance

Self-Esteem Needs
i) the need to feel good about themselves
ii) the need to be recognised for their achievement

Self-Realisation Needs
i) the need for personal fulfilment
ii) the need to grow and develop

Maslow believes that people would not move on down this list to be motivated by the next set of needs until the previous set(s) had been satisfied. There are other theories in a similar vein to Maslow. Another theory by Alderfer categorised these needs into three categories:
• existence needs
• relatedness needs
• growth needs

Leaders and managers need to have this level of understanding if they are to be in a position to motivate their staff. However to be a good leader and manager you need to recognise that people are different. To display the traits of a good leader you need to recognise that some people come to work to earn money (existence needs) and have no desire either to get on with others (relatedness needs), or earn promotion (growth needs). Others work to meet people and have a personal challenge and sense of achievement ( relatedness needs). Others work to gain experience to get promotion (growth needs). For others it maybe a combination of these.

Motivating People with Existence Needs

• Pay people enough
• Workplace safe and good environment
• Incentives – employee of the month
• Set goals
• Treat people as individuals

Motivating People with Relatedness Needs

• Show respect
• Delegate – give responsibility
• Give recognition
• Communicate
• Involve people in decision-making
• Encourage ideas
• Praise people
• Get to know people
• Team building days and office away days
• Celebrate success

Motivating People with Growth Needs

• Offer support to complete new tasks
• Give staff and employees a challenge
• Work should be made interesting
• Encourage people to think for themselves
• Keep people informed
• Ask people what motivates them
• Stretch people with new work
• Offer training where possible

How Do you Know When Staff and Employees are Demotivated?

• Increased sickness
• Increased absenteeism
• Late
• Poor quality of work
• Lack of communication
• Attitude
• Frustration

Why Do People Become Demotivated?

• Lack of recognition
• Boredom
• Lack of involvement
• Not being listened to
• Lack of encouragement
• Lack of training
• No delegation
• Criticism
• Too much work

If you as the leader or manager can bear these issues in mind then your own performance and that of the team will be much improved.

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Call of the Wild offer Team Building and Management Training and Development and Leadership Training Programmes from our location in the Brecon Beacons and from raining venues throughout the UK. We also offer Corporate Events and Fun days - all using our unique approach through the natural environment.

Source: PRLog.org

Jun 04, 2008 – MILWAUKEE, WI: Every third Tuesday of the month, Davidson Marketing Group hosts a live Smartcast Webinar on the topics that you want to hear about. The live Smartcast Webinar allows attendees to listen and participate by asking questions and engaging in discussion. The audio of the Smartcast Webinar is supplemented with visual aid in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. This service is free with a FutureOffice subscription or a personal invitation. A major advantage of Smartcast Webinar is that attendees can tune in from the comfort of their own office; all that is needed is a computer with internet connection and a telephone. Individuals who are unable to attend a live Smartcast Webinar have the option of listening to a recorded version of the Smartcast Webinar after the live presentation has taken place. Individuals can listen at their convenience, because sessions are available 24/7 via the Davidson Marketing Group website, www.davidsonmarketing.com.On June 17th, 2008 Davidson Marketing Group will be presenting another live Smartcast Webinar. This month’s topic is Employer Liability for Employee Electronic Communications. Participants will learn about employer liability with e-mail, employee blogging, employee internet usage and more. This past May, Davidson Marketing Group hosted a successful Webinar on an ERISA Legal Update and Fiduciary Responsibility. Participant satisfaction surveys show that participants enjoy attending the Webinars and the majority of participants strongly agree that the information they learn is valuable. To attend a Smartcast Webinar presented by Davidson Marketing Group please respond to support@yourfutureoffice.com. Mention “Smartcast Webinar” in the subject line and note that registration for Webinars closes at noon the Friday before the Webinar.

About the Smartcast Webinar Speaker: Craig J. Davidson, CEBS
Craig J. Davidson is a veteran insurance industry executive and creator of value-added sales technology and marketing methods using the Internet, a nationally recognized public speaker on technology, human resources and employee benefits and he is the inventor of Zywave Inc. brands and products. He also lectures at the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business and the Masters’ in Human Resources and Labor Relations program at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

About Davidson Marketing Group, LLC
Davidson Marketing Group, LLC is a value-added sales and technology company that supports insurance sellers and other professional services intermediaries who want to differentiate their sales message and presence in a marketplace by providing value-added services. Davidson Marketing Group provides The FutureOffice SalesTools Network™, which is our flagship product with over 7,000 active users. FutureOffice contains the largest and most up-to-date library of employee communications, compliance information and marketing support. Unlike other technologies, FutureOffice is equally strong in all areas of employee benefits, human resources, employment law and compensation administration. Davidson Marketing Group’s proven mix of products and sales techniques allow intermediaries to significantly boost sales production and customer retention. Davidson Marketing Group and The FutureOffice SalesTools Network™ brings clients to the cutting-edge of marketing and service.

For more information about Davidson Marketing Group, LLC, the FutureOffice SalesTools Network™, or FutureOffice Smartcast Webinar visit the Davidson Marketing Group web site at www.davidsonmarketing.com or contact a Davidson Marketing Group representative at 262.432.0707.

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Davidson Marketing Group, LLC provides The FutureOffice SalesTools Network™, which is our flagship product with over 7,000 active users. FutureOffice contains the largest and most up-to-date library of employee communications, compliance information and marketing support. FutureOffice is equally strong in all areas of employee benefits, human resources, employment law and compensation administration.