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« Back to the July/August 2005 Explorer newsletter
What’s Hot & What’s Not
Recent reports and happenings that could affect your world. Rocket-Hire keeps an ear to the ground to learn what’s changing.
HOT NUMBERS
New 2005 Global Skills Report Spanning 179 Countries
July 12th – Brainbench released a unique, highly detailed snapshot of the globalization of job skills. The new report is the third in a series begun in 2001, and summarizes data from more than 300,000 individuals worldwide. The report's findings offer some surprising results, as well as creating a highly quantitative overview of the emerging global, information-based economy. Executive summary co-authored by Charles Handler and Mark Healy. Download the full report.
HOT TICKET
Public issues
Kenexa’s Jun 19th IPO appears to have been a good move. Trading on the NASDAQ under KNXA, the stock is up to 12.90/share (Jul 18) from a 12.00 opening price, giving the new public company a $215.35M market cap. On the heels of this announcement, they also report that Caterpillar will use Kenexa survey services worldwide. Read about the IPO []
EXPLOSIVE
Mixology: 1part ePredix, 1 part Qwiz, 1 part PDRI, 1 part VC$
What to you get? According to the press release, a “full-service pre-employment and employee development source for organizations of all sizes.” Sounds like another example of an evolving trend towards integration in the up-and-coming Employment Process Outsourcing market space. For another slant on the situation – check the AltAssets view.
EVAPORATED
Gov dumps Monster QuickHire
Not good: Lost job applications for some 230,000 people trying to find work with the Department of Homeland Security. After reports in April of problems using QuickHire from the Department of Health and Human Services, Monster finds it’s contract terminated by the Customs Division. Monster denies they lost the data. Find out what the Feds had to say.
MORE HOT COMBOS
CyberMedia Dice Careers Ltd. was acquired by General Atlantic and Quadrangle.