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City set for bumper job growth - survey

Reuters (UK)

January 24, 2006

LONDON - The City of London is set to see strong job growth this year, as activity within investment banking and financial services is expected to remain buoyant in 2006, a recruitment survey showed on Tuesday.

Robert Thesiger, chief executive of recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, said: "Over the first two weeks of 2006, we have already seen a significant increase in the number of City workers looking for new career opportunities, as well as new jobs coming onto the market."

Great Job Resumes Online Are The First Step to Landing Great Jobs

PR Leap (CA)

January 2, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- New Website helps people get any job they want by writing great resumes and destroy any competition.

A New Website has arrived on the Internet to help people of all ages and experience to get their dream jobs by writing great resumes. No matter what skill set you bring to the table, if your resume isn't effectively presented, you may find it difficult to locate work.

Prosecutorial Budget Affected By Policy

Channel Oklahoma

December 10, 2005

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has stopped using district attorneys across the country to collect on bad checks, a move that could sharply reduce income for some local prosecutors and disrupt programs that fight check fraud.

Many district attorneys demand payment from people who write bad checks. The face value of the check and other fees go to the merchant and prosecutors add on a collection charge that can be a significant source of revenue for district attorneys. In Oklahoma, this charge is about $140 per check.

US-based firm penalised for H1-B violations

Web India

November 26, 2005

The US Labor Department (DOL), in a landmark case, has succeeded in making a Michigan-based firm that supplies computer professionals to companies pay back wages to H1-B visa holders.

The Labor Department has announced it had got Computech Inc., a Southfield, Michigan, firm that places computer professionals at locations throughout the US, to agree to pay $2.25 million in back wages to 232 computer professionals and a $400,000 fine to settle immigration law violations. The DOL said an investigation by its Wage and Hour Division found that Computech brought non-immigrant H1-B workers into the US but failed to pay them the minimum required wage rates in the areas where they were employed.

Provider of business intelligence solutions to invest $5 million in offshore facility

India Daily

November 21, 2005

The US-based InfoSTEP, provider of business intelligence and corporate governance solutions, would invest US$5 million in new offshore facility in Hyderabad over the next three years.

The offshore facility in India will focus on enabling industry practice and innovative Business Peformance Measurement (BPM) solutions, InfoSTEP CEO Sagar Anisingaraju said on Friday after the inauguration of the new facility.

Internet holds only future for newspapers, experts warn

Netscape News

November 10, 2005

MADRID (AFP) - Newspapers have no future without online and digital services, media executives heard at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Madrid.

"Digital revenue is serious business ... Online business is a growth business, while newspapers are not," echoed Helmar Hipp, regional director of Austria's Voralberger Nachrichten, which draws 15 percent of its revenue from the Internet and related activities.

Bill Gates dumps dollar for euro

Sebi Meyer

October 19, 2005

The dollar’s downward trend has not been broken since I wrote a column about the subject in December.

In fact, the trend seems to be accelerating. Bill Gates openly stated yesterday he is pulling out of the dollar and is instead investing in euros.

Tying jobs to smoking too draconian

The Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)

January 26, 2005

Over the last quarter-century, smokers have become pariahs. As of Jan. 1, KVCC will no longer hire tobacco users for full-time jobs.

Once they could smoke at their desks, anywhere in restaurants, in stores. Nowadays, smokers may not light up in the workplace, in many public places and even many businesses that have declared themselves smoke-free.

India and China: a comparison

Rediff

January 18, 2005

The gap between the performance of the world's two largest nations, China and India, keeps growing. Two instances from entirely different fields should give us an idea.

There was not much difference in the economic performance roughly until 1980, when the per capita incomes were also similar. Over the last quarter century, both instituted economic reforms and growth accelerated.

Houston Employment Agency Outpaces Staffing Industry Growth by 140% in 2004

PR Web

January 18, 2005

In 2004, Kingwood Personnel used an innovative website and Internet marketing strategy to more than double the growth of other employment agencies. Now in 2005, they are building on that success.

Back in 2003 Carol McCord, owner of Kingwood Personnel, decided to break that trend by launching an innovative marketing campaign. In 2004 her foresight paid off as her employment agency outgrew the staffing industry average by more than 2 to 1.

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