Companies scramble to hire engineers by Notme dfsfs

A new crisis is on its way: there is a world wide lack of petroleum and gas engineers. Now when an engineering student graduates, he won't have to ask himself "now what?" or wondering where he will find something to work. Companies are now prospecting universities and colleges to find proper future engineers as the world wide energy demand grows and experts are needed.Two students, that participated at the sponsored recruitment program of Royal Dutch Shell's U.S. arm, Emily Reasor from Cornell University and Julie Arsenault from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "We've talked to quite a few of my peers, and we know we're in a good spot. It's nice to know we're needed."The oil and gas companies forecasted a shortage of petroleum engineers through at least 2011 and according to the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. energy companies will need at least another 5,000 engineers by decade's end."I can assure you, it's tight from a supply standpoint, hot from a demand standpoint and lucrative from a job searcher's standpoint," said Cary Wilkins, leader of Shell's recruitment efforts in the U.S. and Canada.This shortage of engineers was caused by upsurge in exploration and a wave of retirements from baby boomers that have spent 25 to 30 years on the job, and also because of the industry's reputation as an unreliable employer.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_bi_ge/engineering_shortage;_ylt=AhybwN.I7vrIXQq2LKM7C6as0NUE

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Want to success?...focus on potential! by Zuzana Moravcova

On the example of a successful team of National Football League, The Patriots, the author demonstrated the best strategy to achieve success, no matter whether it applies to football championship or any other sphere of business.If the business leaders want to achieve such sustainable success as The New England Patriots, they should at first take their time to really align their talent to drive their business strategy. Instead, most of them just see talent management as an initiative driven by HR, with only little direct involvement of top leadership and separated from the explicit business requirements. Instead of creating a strategic context, they focus first on individual talent. For instance, instead of hiring football stars, who are expensive for what they have achieved, they focus on less-known players with high potential, which they are planning to develop.The New England Patriots know that talent should be a top priority for their whole leadership team. They separated three key functions -- player selection, coaching and business operations, to emphasise on team over individual. Coordination of separate leadership roles has enhanced the Patriots' operational effectiveness and, well, except for this year's surprising 2nd place at Superbowl, it has led to a long winning streak.Having mentioned all this admirable stuff about the team, I must not ommit a person, who is, to a large degree, responsible for all success!it is their head coach of The New England Patriots.Bill Belichich guided the Patriots to their first league title with a dramatic victory in Super Bowl XXXVI. In the seasons since then, he has directed New England to sustained success. Now, he is in his 33rd season and is the only head coach in NFL history to win three Super Bowl championships in a four-year span. He managed to lead his teams to own all of the major winning streaks in NFL history.

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Edited by: Katarina Bosanska

Want to success?...focus on potential! by Zuzana Moravcova

On the example of a successful team of National Football League, The Patriots, the author demonstrated the best strategy to achieve success, no matter whether it applies to football championship or any other sphere of business. If the business leaders want to achieve such sustainable success as The New England Patriots, they should at first take their time to really align their talent to drive their business strategy. Instead, most of them just see talent management as an initiative driven by HR, with only little direct involvement of top leadership and separated from the explicit business requirements. Instead of creating a strategic context, they focus first on individual talent. For instance, instead of hiring football stars, who are expensive for what they have achieved, they focus on less-known players with high potential, which they are planning to develop. The New England Patriots know that talent should be a top priority for their whole leadership team. They separated three key functions -- player selection, coaching and business operations, to emphasise on team over individual. Coordination of separate leadership roles has enhanced the Patriots' operational effectiveness and, well, except for this year's surprising 2nd place at Superbowl, it has led to a long winning streak. Having mentioned all this admirable stuff about the team, I must not ommit a person, who is, to a large degree, responsible for all success!it is their head coach of The New England Patriots. Bill Belichich guided the Patriots to their first league title with a dramatic victory in Super Bowl XXXVI. In the seasons since then, he has directed New England to sustained success. Now, he is in his 33rd season and is the only head coach in NFL history to win three Super Bowl championships in a four-year span. He managed to lead his teams to own all of the major winning streaks in NFL history.

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A latest feature in recruitment - paid job interviews by Lenka Filipova

Yes, it is exactly as it written. We can all forget tireless begging for a job interview. Instead, you will be paid for being interviewed and in addition to this, you will set the price. NotchUp.com has conceived a novel idea. It has proposed the way of luring the most appropriate, talented, experienced and satisfied applicants. Consequently, if the applicants become employed they are afterwards called "passive job seekers." According to Jim Ambras and Rob Ellis, the founders of NotchUp.com, this excellent method will fill in all the monetary gaps that are common results of a new hire's salary charged by recruiters and those who accumulate all probable resumes. Thus, the company saves time and money, the applicant gets paid, so everybody wins. What more can be expected than this happy-ending? Now, how to get your own price? It is quite simple and easy to do. You write down all information like the industry, job, pay, experience, etc. (setting up a profile is really easy), and you put it into calculator on the NotchUp web site. NotchUp gives advice to set a range between $200 and $ 500. Afterwards, you just submit your profile and you are ready to go! The companies which follow this method are Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Facebook. NotchUp started its DEMO startup on Monday in Palm Desert. Since that, the amount of responses of possible seekers is significantly high. In spite of being password-protected, it begun from 445 and ended in 10,500 members in 5 days till Friday. As Ambras said, "In every job I've had, I've had to, under time pressure, build a team of engineers. I learned years ago that the best people you want to hire are the people who aren't in the job market."

by Lenka Filipova for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

Unemployment rate low by 4.7 by Romana Schlesingerova

In spite of the lowering U.S. dollar, rising prices of fuel and recent collapse in housing business, the national civilian unemployment rate is still considered low, as by the new research of U.S. Department of Labor. The White House based the new report on the employment activity. Last weeks` statistics of the layoffs applications only approved its results. The number of people who have requested jobless benefits declined. The USA has still the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, which is characterized by having a high output along with low inflation and unemployment rates. However, the economies of all 50 states vary widely. California is the largest and most prosperous state and tops the league in terms of gross state product, but as a matter of fact one of its metropolitan areas, El Centro, shows the highest unemployment rate in the country. (20.8, adjusted Sept.2007, U.S. Department of Labor) The area with the lowest unemployment of 1.3 is now Idaho Falls, ID. It looks like nothing can really shake the fact that the Americans are a working nation, a land of opportunity waiting around every corner. Some statistics connected to the U.S. employment environment can be, thus, surprising. According to U.S. Department of Labor, more than half of the population 16 years and over works full time. Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than are whites and Asians to be employed in management and professional occupations or that the earnings of blacks and Hispanics are lower than those of Asians and whites. Finally, the prejudices against the woman in labor force seem to enhance. Women's labor force participation patterns are now more like those of men and their earnings have increased substantially as men's.

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Companies scramble to hire engineers by Delia Cruceru

A new crisis is on its way: there is a world wide lack of petroleum and gas engineers. Now when an engineering student graduates, he won't have to ask himself "now what?" or wondering where he will find something to work. Companies are now prospecting universities and colleges to find proper future engineers as the world wide energy demand grows and experts are needed. Two students, that participated at the sponsored recruitment program of Royal Dutch Shell's U.S. arm, Emily Reasor from Cornell University and Julie Arsenault from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "We've talked to quite a few of my peers, and we know we're in a good spot. It's nice to know we're needed." The oil and gas companies forecasted a shortage of petroleum engineers through at least 2011 and according to the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. energy companies will need at least another 5,000 engineers by decade's end. "I can assure you, it's tight from a supply standpoint, hot from a demand standpoint and lucrative from a job searcher's standpoint," said Cary Wilkins, leader of Shell's recruitment efforts in the U.S. and Canada. This shortage of engineers was caused by upsurge in exploration and a wave of retirements from baby boomers that have spent 25 to 30 years on the job, and also because of the industry's reputation as an unreliable employer.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_bi_ge/engineering_shortage;_ylt=AhybwN.I7vrIXQq2LKM7C6as0NUE

by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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SigEx Ventures : Who are we?!by Ana Maria Ciobanu

The Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first major bills signed by President Bill Clinton in his first term, conditioned by fulfilling a campaign promise. The law intended to encourage employees to tale leave to take care of their families, their or their relatives health problems. That's why it promised several protections such as twelve workweeks of leave per twelve months for various reasons like caring for adoption or foster care placement issues, caring for a sick child, spouse or parent, being physically unable to perform one's job. Critics of the act appeared immediately and they said that this law will only encourage female discrimination by employers because female workers will be more expensive to hire than men workers. Even now in 2007 companies are having a hard time administering the Family and Medical Leave Act. A recent survey showed how difficult HR managers are handling this law and how negative they see it. Sixty-three percent of the survey respondents said FMLA leaves had a negative effect on employee absences. Fifty-five percent of the executives said the FMLA had a negative effect on employee productivity and fifty-four percent said it had a negative effect on business productivity. Do these results really mean(as people enjoy to think) that the law needs to be changed? Isn't it strange people need to work this much and care so less about family. American workers care more about business productivity and employee productivity than about caring for a sick child or simply taking some time off to ease the stress. It's unbelievable where we've come to be. People see work as their supreme goal when actually it should be just a way to earn some money that help you have fun, live a good life and take care of yourself and your family. Aren't doctors, lawyers, judges, construction workers normal people? Even a rock star needs to stay with his wife or kids sometimes and he doesn't care about productivity or money loss. Why do HR managers need to act like robots? Have we really forgotten who we are and enjoy calling ourselves the name of a work title? I am not John Smith. I am a successful HR manager at the over successful XY company and I don't care or don't have time for my son who has the chicken pocks or my old mother who broke her hip.I care about business productivity and employee productivity...

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models