January 25, 2007
Vol 5 No 2

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Green Card Recruiting

With recruiters unable to promise permanent-resident status for top foreign-born job candidates, U.S. employers cannot compete in the global talent markets. The most talented employees worldwide are increasingly unwilling to tolerate the long waits and uncertainty entailed in immigrating to the United States. Instead, they are going to Europe, Canada, Australia and other countries where knowledge workers face fewer immigration difficulties.

Read more about the increasing difficulty of recruiting skilled workers from overseas.

	Recruiting Gen Y
	Vegas Police Dept. Uses Innovative Campaign to Lure Gen Y Recruits Facing steadily declining numbers of candidates and a rapidly growing city population, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department did something unusual: It hired a high-power advertising and marketing firm to revamp its recruitment, especially of Generation Y candidates. Read more about recruiting Gen Y candidates.

	Discussion
	Setting Up an In-House Certification Program for Recruiters A member writes: “Our company is interested in setting up an in-house certification program for its recruiting staff. I have been tasked with researching how that can be done. Can anyone point me in the right direction?” Join the discussion.

Workforce Metrics

RPO by Company Size

Percentage of companies outsourcing overall recruiting, by company size based on revenue, 2005

	Company Size
	More than $1 bil	$50 mil to $999 mil	Less than $50 mil
Managed in house	45%	63%	84%
Hosted externally on demand	6%	16%	0%
Outsourced	33%	16%	6%
Plan to outsource within 18 mos.	12%	0%	0%
No plans to outsource	3%	5%	10%
Note: Survey of 107 companies
Source: Aberdeen Group

Recruiting Demographics

Projected percentage change in working-age population (ages 15-64), 2005-2025

Japan	-12%
Canada	-8%
Australia	-6%
France	-6%
U.S.	-5%
U.K.	-4%
Brazil	2%
India	8%
Source: Towers Perrin


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