Article: Workplace Obesity Survey Results
    Article: UBS Turns Bonus Culture on Its Head to Claw Back Millions from Executives
    White Paper: Redeployment: Connecting Talent to Organizational Workforce Needs
    HR Humor: Ever wonder what happens when you get to the Ikea job interview?
    Webcast: Assessing Sales Capability in a Competitive Economy
    Podcast: Using Social Networking Tools For Better Career Management
    HR 180: Awkward Family Photos

Article: Source or Solution? The workplace's role in an unhealthy lifestyle.
Source: Nationwide Better Health

A survey of American workers on workplace eating habits and physical activity reveals a disconnect between employees believing they are making healthy decisions and evidence of a national obesity epidemic.

Article: UBS Turns Bonus Culture on Its Head to Claw Back Millions from Failing Executives
Source: Times Online

Economic factors and financial challenges are causing a paradigm shift in how large organizations design their employee incentive schemes. Companies have started looking at adopting the idea of "Bonus Malus" or "Malus" to better align employee incentives with long-term performance and ensure effective use of incentive spend. - Remunerate.com

White Paper: Redeployment: Connecting Talent to Organizational Workforce Needs
Source: Right Management

More organizations are employing an innovative strategic approach to workforce management - seeing an opportunity to re-evaluate workforce needs in growing sectors of the organization by redeploying talented employees impacted by organizational change to new roles within the company. With better alignment of business needs and talent needs, organizations can meet the challenges presented by the growing shortage of highly skilled workers by holding on to talented and high-potential employees through organizational change. Offering a redeployment solution can play a valuable role in your strategy to effectively manage your workforce.

HR Humor: Ever wonder what happens when you get to the Ikea job interview?
Source: JobMob

Find out below...!

Webcast: Assessing Sales Capability in a Competitive Economy
Source: Select International, Paul Glatzhofer IV, project consultant for Select International; Ted Kinney Ph.D, senior project consultant for Select International

In the current economic climate, HR practitioners are posed a unique challenge in determining exactly what makes certain sales people successful while others are struggling.

Join Paul Glatzhofer IV, project consultant for Select International, and Ted Kinney Ph.D, senior project consultant for Select International, as they discuss "best-in-class" sales assessment and how these "whole person" sales assessments can help to identify which applicants have the greatest probability of being successful and also help assist organizations to better understand their current workforce and target areas where development may be needed.

Podcast: Using Social Networking Tools For Better Career Management
Source: Jason Alba - speaker, author, consultant & founder of JibberJobber.com

Join Jason Alba - speaker, author, consultant and founder of JibberJobber.com - as he discusses how people can use social networking tools to brand and pitch themselves for better career management.

HR180: Awkward Family Photos
Source: awkwardfamilyphotos.com

Ahhhh… the priceless family photo. Such sweet memories….

What's New? The Latest in HR Software and Services

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Recruitment & Staffing:

Sendouts, a provider of staffing and recruiting software, announced the release of Sendouts Surge. The product allows recruiting professionals to navigate through the application faster, perform complex tasks, and source and customize their databases. Sendouts Surge also includes all new sourcing solutions including:

• Sendouts Recon - Automatically source up to 11,000 free and paid job boards for candidates that match job orders in your system.
• SuperFind - A global search that searches on any record within your database from anywhere.
• SourcePro - Real-time integration that allows clients to access Yahoo! Hotjobs resume database.

For more information visit Sendouts.

Compensation & Benefits:

CDC introduces a new website to help employers combat obesity and reduce health-related costs. The free website was developed particularly for small and mid-size companies, which typically have more limited resources to devote to obesity prevention efforts. However, the tools and resources available on CDC LEANWorks! can benefit companies of any size. CDC LEANWorks! can help employers calculate the cost of obesity for their organizations and develop tailored approaches to help control these costs through interventions such as fitness classes, lunchtime health education sessions, weight management programs, and more. Visit CDC for more information.

Talent Management:

Halogen Software announced that its Talent Profile solution will be available in September. The product is designed to provide greater flexibility and insight for talent decision-making across an organization, drive collaboration among employees and departments, and increase adoption and system usage, making talent management a core organizational value. Halogen's Talent Profile solution includes fully customizable profile elements to collect information most relevant to a company's business requirements, multiple role-based profile views, and an HR-controlled process to help ensure profile completion and richer talent information. Learn more.

Training & Development:

Ceridian Corporation announced the release of Ceridian Performance Management Express, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) performance management application. Built upon SuccessFactors performance management platform, Performance Management Express enables companies to manage employee goal setting and performance reviews. Since Performance Management Express is a SaaS solution, customers do not need to acquire any new hardware or software in order to use the application. For more information, contact Ceridian at 800-729-7655 or see the press release.

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