June 2009 Blog Posts (7)

ESPL Launches Free HRMS Software

Extolution Software a Techno Park, Trivandrum, India, based software Services company has launched a Free HRMS Software called Empower HRMS, Empower HRMS is meant for the small and medium companies to use it free and align their work forces. Empower HRMS is also an open source which means that the Organizations using it can customize it to their requirements.

Empower HRMS has all the basic modules, it handles all the employee data, it manages his leaves, attendances, also it works as… Continue

Added by Joe Wisnton on June 23, 2009 at 6:39am — No Comments

Enterprise Service Buses: Demystifying ESBs for HR System Stakeholders

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The term "Enterprise Service Bus" continues to create confusion. This is in part because the term is used in a few different ways. "ESB" sometimes is used in describing an architectural approach towards enterprise integration relying on intermediary software to perform message brokering, routing,… Continue

Added by Chuck Allen on June 17, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

New Study Shows Leading Edge Companies Receive Failing Grade at HR SEO Strategies

ATLANTA – Sharkstrike, the leading provider of passive candidate strategy, completed and released a new white paper that focused on corporate career sites and their lack of keyword research and prominent placement in search engines to capture the right candidate audience.

“By examining the top 5 companies in the world’s careers pages we understood quite quickly that a common marketing tactic is being ignored by human resources and recruiting strategies to capture more candidates to… Continue

Added by Jason Gorham on June 16, 2009 at 3:37pm — No Comments

New free tool, market candidates, and jobs

We had a great response to my email last week announcing the free website www.gofishrecruiting.com. If you didn't sign-up yet, I recommend doing so, as this is going to be a great resource for us to all to make more placements and create a new revenue stream. Be sure to refer your Recruiter colleagues; the more recruiters we have on the site, the more opportunities we will all have to make deals.

Kind regards,

Thomas F.X. Licari

The Recruiter's… Continue

Added by Thomas F.X. Licari on June 3, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

How to syndicate training to your company's web site

http://xerceo.com/blog/2009/5/28/how-to-syndicate-training-to-your-companys-web-site.html

(follow above URL for pics)

Recently, our european partners L+M and Topscore in the Netherlands wanted to make the move from our locally deployed learning system Xerceo Infuse to our hosted, cloud based version. They were excited because Xerceo Infuse is now multi-tenant so they could provide training to their many client companies very easily and add multiple communities for their… Continue

Added by Nick Wayne on June 3, 2009 at 2:04am — No Comments

Are hard times improving employee health?

In the past few years we’ve been witness to layoffs, cutbacks, furloughs and a number of other tough decisions among the long, long list of recession repercussions. But even through all the difficulties, some people are actually using this time to make positive, healthier changes.

New research shows that the recession is causing many workers to adopt healthier lifestyles. A recent survey by the National Business Group on Health of 1,500 workers ages 22 to 69 found a majority said… Continue

Added by Marie Adams on June 3, 2009 at 2:04am — 2 Comments

Cloud Computing: Merging of open source software and hosted software?

http://xerceo.com/blog/2009/6/2/cloud-computing-merging-of-open-source-software-and-hosted-s.html

Now that enterprise cloud computing is so popular we are seeing a strange blurring between the ideas of open source learning systems and those hosted on the cloud. Both are focused on cost efficiency, requiring only small/ incremental payments for maintenance/usage as well as minimal up-front costs. Here is an excellent article by Dion Hinchcliffe on Cloud Computing

Open… Continue

Added by Nick Wayne on June 3, 2009 at 2:03am — No Comments