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September 27, 2007
Vol 5  No 18

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Candidate Care Counts

How does a relatively small, relatively unknown printing company go head-to-head against Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, Monster and Microsoft for top talent and score a 97 percent win rate for offer acceptance? How does it pull in enough new technology and marketing hires to support annual global revenue growth approaching 70 percent? And how does it continue to fill almost half of all its positions with a referral program that pays a modest flat fee of $1,500?

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Video Résumés: Hot or Not?

While video résumés may be a creative way to capture the employer's attention, they’re not getting a warm embrace from recruiters and hiring managers. Many say video résumés are fraught with discrimination issues.

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A member writes: "I'm trying to increase our diversity applicant pool. Aside from posting jobs on diversity-specific Web sites, what can I do?"

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Shortages

Top 10 jobs that U.S. employers report difficult to fill, 2007
 
1. Sales representatives
2. Teachers
3. Mechanics
4. Technicians
5. Management
6. Truck drivers, freight
7. Drivers, delivery
8. Accountants
9. Laborers
10. Machine operators
Note: Based on survey of 2,407 employers.
Source: Manpower


Salary Budgets

 Average salary budget increases, 2007 and projected 2008
 
  2007 2008
All employees 3.8% 3.8%
Executive 4.1 3.9
Management 3.8 3.8
Professional, including sales 3.8 3.7
Office/clerical/technician 3.7 3.7
Trades/production/service 3.6 3.6
Source: Mercer    
     

 

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