St Louis Teaching Jobs Could Depend on Federal Legislation

July 22nd, 2010

Many St Louis teaching jobs hang in the balance.

A bill that would provide $10 billion in emergency public school funding throughout the nation is currently under debate in Congress. If passed, that bill could end up saving 3,200 education jobs in Missouri and more than 100,000 jobs across America.

Missouri Commissioner of Education Chris Nicastro recently joined national Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in support of the pending legislation. Both leaders agree that the funding should not at the cost of other school reform programs, such as Race to the Top, a competitive education grant.

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Austin Construction Jobs Supported by Spike in Home Building

July 13th, 2010

At least one sector is helping to create Austin construction jobs.

The construction industry throughout the nation continues to suffer the lasting effects of the economic downturn. The industry, which was among the hardest hit by the recession, is not likely to make a full recovery anytime soon.

The situation in Austin is no different. While the area’s other industries are beginning to recover and add workers each month. the construction industry continues to lag behind.

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Houston Teaching Jobs Tough to Fill

July 13th, 2010

One local school district is having a tough time filling Houston teaching jobs.

After cutting several teaching positions and grappling with typical turnover rates in the education industry, the Houston Independent School District is having a hard time in its efforts to hire the best teachers and education staff from across the country.

During June, the district laid off 162 teachers from nine campuses as part of Superintendent Terry Grier’s Apollo 20 reform plan, and another 80 teachers left schools on their own accord. The district now has the task of filling these vacancies, as well as about 1,000 openings the school system faces each year.

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ATS and Your Company

June 28th, 2010

Attempting to lure the respectable laborers to arrive in a career for you can be really competitive. Loads of greatly gifted and craved occupation lookers incur scores of potential job offers, making it all the more worthy that your department not misfire upon the chance towards your future remarkable employee.

After all, you would hate for all of the best individuals out there to move to operate with your competitors, wouldn’t you? ATS may assist in guaranteeing that you are alert about the suited ways to meet a department job. However, with numerous choices out here, how could you pick the proper programme?

1st, measure your business in order to define its necessities and how you fancy to make your recruitment process. That which will be of use with a huge corporation can represent much less for a smaller business. Investigate where you envision your staff going in the future in order to make surely that you should not speedily out grow the applicant tracking system program you settle upon. ATS vendors are around that cater to agencies in a mixture of career industries with all unique workforce sizes.

See into the technology backup options of the package in question. Might your company find people 24 hours a day of the week? Are there an assortment of ways to remain in contact with anyone that may offer assistance? There could come a day of the week when your company would need such persons and must name an option that would correspond right with however your corporation operates.

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San Diego Nurse Jobs for LVNs

June 9th, 2010

There will be plenty of San Diego nurse jobs for licensed vocational nurses in the coming years.

Licensed vocational nurses are responsible for providing basic nursing care for sick, injured, convalescing, elderly, and physically or mentally disables people. LVNs typically work as part of a team and under the direction of a physician or registered nurse.

The general day-to-day duties of an LVN includes observing patients, checking vital signs, performing basic assessments, and reporting and documenting and changes in a patient’s condition. They may be expected to work a variety of shifts, including nights and weekends.

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Recruitment Outsourcing Growing in Asia

May 27th, 2010

The concept of recruitment outsourcing is starting to grow throughout Asia.

While recruitment process outsourcing, or RPO, has been growing rapidly among multinational corporations across the United States and Europe, the idea of company’s being able to outsource their recruiting efforts is something that’s just catching on in Asia.

Traditionally, companies in Asia manage their own recruiting needs, and those that cannot hire executive search firms on a temporary basis. However, the economic downturn, which has reached global proportions, is forcing more companies to do more with less.

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The Recruitment Symposium

February 11th, 2010

Conferences have long played an important role in the HR and recruitment industry. They serve as a way for industry novices and experts to come together and learn about new and upcoming ideas and practices.

While national HR conferences have the capability of drawing popular business owners and renowned speakers, they often lack the sort of personal interaction that really helps you learn and grasp what’s going on throughout the industry.

For that reason, there has been a trend as of late toward smaller, more intimate conferences. These still allow industry newcomers to soak up all the information the industry has to offer, and experts to share everything they know, but within a setting that is more conducive to learning and sharing.

One of the newest local HR conferences is The Recruitment Symposium, which will help you learn about how the newest technology can benefit your organization’s hiring efforts from the brightest industry professionals.

This HR conference will give you the chance to partake in the same educational opportunities you would find at a national recruiting conference, but from the comfort of your own hometown. You’ll have access to everything from presentations to roundtables to breakout sessions.

Just like a national conference, The Recruitment Symposium brings together the most recognized recruitment leaders, industry experts and national speakers. Unlike a national conference, however, it brings these professionals together in a unique, intimate setting.

What will you learn at The Recruitment Symposium? Most importantly, you’ll learn how to adapt to the consistently changing technology that effects the recruiting industry. As the best candidates no longer use the newspaper or a single job board to look for their next job, you’ll learn how to find the right audience when you need them the most, and make your organization visible everywhere your candidates live, work and play.

The Recruitment Symposium, presented by Jobing, will be held bi-annually in order to bring you the latest recruitment trends and topics from the best and most recognized local leaders, industry experts and national speakers.

Local professionals who have been successful in implementing social networking to their recruitment practices are still being sought to serve as speakers for The Recruitment Symposium. Speakers will be provided a forum to reach local decision-makers and leaders in the recruitment community.

A number of speakers are scheduled for this year’s Recruitment Symposiums, including keynote speakers Kat Drum, global employment brand manager for Starbucks Coffee Company, and Sebabi Leballo, organizational development manager for HCSS, as well as Jobing.com industry professionals.

So far, there are nine Recruitment Symposiums scheduled for 2010, including: South Florida on March 4; Houston on March 8; Denver on March 9; Dallas-Fort Worth and Tucson on March 18; San Diego on March 25; Phoenix on March 30; Tampa Bay on March 31; and Los Angeles on April 1.

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Agent Day in the Life

October 27th, 2009

A property and insurance company recently began using Shaker Consulting Group’s Virtual Job Tryout – a type of pre employment test – to attract, educate and engage potential candidates.

The program, dubbed Agent Day in the Life, is an online experience that virtually presents a day in the life of an independent insurance agent. Candidates using the program are asked to complete a variety of typical job challenges and identify important career motivators.

Agent Day in the Life is useful to job seekers because it helps them decide if the role of an agent is right for them. The program is useful to recruiters because it provides them with a candidate profile that contains useful information about an individual’s qualifications above and beyond that provided on a resume.

“It is an honor that The Virtual Job Tryout has been sought out by market leaders and brand conscious firms seeking to create a unique candidate experience,” Joseph Murphy, vice president of Shaker Consulting Group, said.

Shaker Consulting Group’s Virtual Job Tryout can provide a valuable candidate experience on any company’s career page. Despite the fact that candidates realize the program is a type of pre employment test, 90 percent of job seekers who complete the program say they would refer the job to others based on the valuable and insightful nature of the experience.

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Mobile Ad Spend to Rapidly Increase

September 22nd, 2009

“Mobile Advertising and Marketing: Change Is in the Air,” a new report from eMarketer, found that mobile advertising is expected to rapidly increase during the next five years.

Even though the number of mobile users and mobile devices is growing, mobile advertising and marketing dollars are falling behind. However, the report predicts that mobile ad spending, including messaging-based formats, will reach $416 million this year, but that number will increase to $1.56 billion by 2013.

“As an emerging advertising channel, mobile will continue to see lofty growth rates through 2013,” Noah Elkin, senior analyst at eMarketer and author of the new report, said. “Mobile will grow considerably more quickly than online ad spending as a whole, more in line with emerging online formats such as digital video.”

Although eMarketer has revised downward its projections for mobile advertising to account for the economic downturn, the overall long-term outlook for mobile is still optimistic. Other companies have predicted varying estimates for mobile ad spending.

Yankee Group predicts $184 million will be spent this year, while the Mobile Marketing Association predicts $1.7 billion will be spent this year. Experts say the difference in predictions reflects the immaturity of mobile advertising and marketing.

When it comes to spending share for various mobile formats, eMarketer predicts search will see an increase from $57.6 million, or 18 percent, in 2008 to $577.2 million, or 37 percent, in 2013. Display is expected to grow from 22 percent of the total to 35 percent, while SMS is predicted to decline from 60 percent of the total to 28 percent.

“Disparate hardware and software platforms, competing app stores, rival search engines and a large, fragmented universe of agencies and service providers make the mobile ecosystem more daunting than the desktop environment,” Elkin said. “But overcoming this complexity pays dividends.”

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App Usage: Android vs. iPhone

August 31st, 2009

A recent report from AdMob found that consumers who download apps onto Android handsets and those who download apps onto an iPhone behave similarly.

The biggest difference, the survey found, is that only 19 percent of Android users download apps, compared to 40 percent of iPod touch users and 50 percent of iPhone users.

“However,” the report said, “users who purchase paid apps on either platform exhibit similar downloading and spending habits, indicating the potential for paid apps on Android Market as it develops.”

The report further found that each month, Android and iPhone users download about 10 new apps, compared to the 18 apps that iPod touch users download. More than half of both users spend more than 30 minutes per day using apps.

In addition, more than 90 percent of Android and iPhone users browse and search for apps directly on their mobile device. Users who regularly download paid apps spend an average of $9 on five paid downloads each month.

iPhone users still outrank others, representing 60 percent of America’s smartphone usage in AdMob’s network during July, followed by RIM at 13 percent and Android at 12 percent.

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