Ford to lay off Salaried Employees

clipped from workforce.com Ford Motor Co. will lay off an undisclosed number of salaried employees this summer and hopes to complete the reductions by August 1, a spokesman said Wednesday, May 28. Earlier in the day, Detroit media reported that Ford will cut 10 percent to 12 percent of its salaried workforce, or more than 2,000 employees. “We’re not going to comment on internal discussions we’re having with our employees,” Ford spokesman Mark Truby said. “As soon as we finalize some of these details, we’re going to tell our employees as quickly as we can.” Because Ford wants the cuts made by August, the

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eGrabber to showcase Social Network Grabber at Fordyce Forum 2008.

Source: eGrabber.com

eGrabber™ will showcase its custom solution to import resumes from social networking sites into Excel at Fordyce Forum 2008, to be held in Las Vegas from June 4-6, at Booth #201.

The new Social Network Grabber for Excel is specifically designed to help search and placement professionals who prospect for potential candidates on social and professional networking sites. With Social Network Grabber for Excel, recruiters can quickly import profiles from networking sites into an Excel database. Manually extracting resume details from these sites is a tedious and distracting task for busy recruiting professionals. Instead, recruiters can now do a search for matching profiles on the network and with a single click, import all of them into Excel. eGrabber's solution will automatically open each individual profile, copy all relevant details and transfer it, along with the resume, into columns in an Excel spreadsheet.

eGrabber will also exhibit the new and updated versions of its passive candidate sourcing tool and resume import tool - ResumeFinder and ResumeGrabber Pro, respectively.

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Select Group merge with Randstad

clipped from www.personneltoday.com The new company will employ 34,000 people worldwide and generate estimated annual revenues of £14bn. In the UK, Select Group, the staffing arm of Vedior, will combine with Randstad. The new company will operate under the Randstad brand, and continue to support its franchise business under the Select Appointments, Parkhouse Recruitment and Select Hospitality brands. The newly-created Randstad UK will employ almost 1,000 people and secure jobs for about 20,000 temporary candidates per week and about 9,000 permanent positions every year. Diane Martyn, former chief executive of Select Group, will be leading the new Randstad UK. She said: "I am very proud to lead our new company, and am looking forward to building for the future and shaping the business as we compete for growth and position in the UK marketplace."

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Search Resumes on Blogs

Source: eGrabber Newsletters


Blogs are better sources for passive candidates. Blogs contain detailed posts about specific project tasks, candidate's thoughts on industry trends, documented experiences, photos, links to Technorati and LinkedIn profiles, and personal preferences too.

The Google search syntax to display relevant profiles from Blogger.com is

site:blogger.com (inurl:profile | intitle:profile) keywords

The search string to display resumes from WordPress is

site:wordpress.com (intitle:"about me" | inurl:resume -intitle:sample -intitle:write -intitle:how -intitle:writing) keywords

Use these search strings, by filling keywords of your choice, and gain access to new candidate leads.

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Search Resumes on Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Source: eGrabber Newsletters

When someone signs up with an ISP, they often get some free disk space. Users tend to place personal information in this space, including resumes as well. The Google search syntax to display resumes from an ISP is

site:site-name (resume | homepage) keyword

To search for resumes of software project management professionals from AT&T (an ISP):

site:home.att.net (resume | homepage) software project manager

You can also use this simple technique to search local and regional ISPs that will have resumes in a specific geographic area.

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Experts say Excellerate HRO would now be a competitor for HR Outsourcing Providers

clipped from workforce.com Hewlett-Packard has announced that it is acquiring EDS, a move that may mean good news for ExcellerateHRO. On Tuesday, May 13, HP and EDS announced they had signed an agreement for HP to acquire the Plano,Texas-based technology company for $13.9 billion, or $25 per share. Industry observers say that if the merger goes through it would provide a swath of new resources and potential clients for ExcellerateHRO, the jointly owned HR outsourcing business shared by EDS and Towers Perrin. ExcellerateHRO was formed in 2005, but hasn’t amassed many deals in the past three years—causing many to wonder about the fate of the company. But now that HP is buying EDS, the company could revamp ExcellerateHRO into an HR outsourcing provider that would be competitive with the top players in the market, experts say.

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eGrabber announces new features to eGrabber ResumeFinder

Source: eGrabber Press Release

eGrabber Inc., a leading Silicon Valley-based provider of sales lead and resume data capture and processing solutions, today announced new features to its search automation tool - eGrabber ResumeFinder. Recruiting professionals can now leverage the enhanced capabilities of the new ResumeFinder to find resumes from the databases of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, AltaVista and AlltheWeb.

eGrabber ResumeFinder is specifically designed to assist HR professionals who use search engines to locate resumes on the Internet. ResumeFinder uses expert search commands and techniques, encompassed in the product, to program search engines to quickly locate resumes from:

• Networking sites such as MySpace and LinkedIn
• Personal homepages from Internet Communities such as GeoCities, Angelfire, etc.
• Free resume sites including Craigslist, Free-For, Recruiters and others
• Largest ISP’s such as ATT, Earthlink, AOL and others
• Popular blog hosts such as blogspot.com and others

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