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Products
Streamlining Corporate Communications
QHR Software has announced a new Web platform for its Quadrant HR product, called QHRnet. The platform is intended to provide Web-based functionality in order to make corporate communications faster and more effective. New features offered on the platform allow employees to view their demographic information such as name, telephone number and mailing address. Employees can also view their pay statements, vacation banks, and real-time staff schedules. Employee competencies are also viewable by employees, and staff can submit leave requests to managers via the Web. QHR Software Inc., Kelowna, British Columbia www.qhrsoftware.com Executive Retirement Benefits Assessment
Mercer Human Resource Consulting has released a product designed to help companies carry out governance obligations pertaining to executive benefits. Mercer's Executive Benefits Research Tool (EBeRT) uses current data from the most recent Securities and Exchange Commission proxy filings on more than 700 companies to help organizations determine the relative value of executive retirement benefits. EBeRT is intended to help organizations compare their executive benefits with their peers in the marketplace. Mercer Human Resource Consulting, New York www.mercer.com Breaking the Language Barrier
A2Z Lingua International has launched MultiLingualPros.com, a new service designed to assist HR managers in attracting, engaging and retaining a foreign-language-proficient and cross-culturally-competent workforce. MultiLingualPros.com offers an online global diversity job board and career search engine for bilingual professionals. A2Z Lingua has four other divisions that offer foreign language services, both localization and translation; multilingual staffing and global recruiting solutions; foreign language, cultural and diversity training; and multilingual global business directory services. A2Z Lingua International, Washington Prices start at $220. www.multilingualpros.com Quality of Hire
Authoria > has launched Recruiting 2007, designed to help employers improve recruiting efficiency and the quality of candidates and new hires by allowing hiring managers to participate in the recruiting process and collaborate with recruiters. The new solution includes features such as actionable organization charts, candidate-feedback ratings, in-context analytics, in-context coaching and advanced search capabilities. Going Paperless
JobAppNetwork has unveiled JobApp, its new automated recruiting and electronic job application, designed to eliminate paper-based employment-application processes by using a phone-based job application. It combines candidate sourcing, screening, scoring and selection into one process and can be used as a stand-alone solution or integrated into a larger end-to-end HR plan. By using a phone or Internet connection, job seekers can send their information through JobApp, which automatically collects all necessary data and administers pre-screening and testing using computer-aided structured interview technology. JobApp Network, Clinton Township, Mich. Prices start at $99.95 per month. www.jobappnetwork.com Contract Workforce Management
HotGigs Inc. has released ContractCentral, designed to automate the sourcing process for contract workers. HotGigs ContractCentral automates the sourcing process and provides tiered vendor-contract management and automated timecard and invoice processing. It's designed to help companies build a comprehensive picture of staffing-firm performance and rates. Users can add vendors to their private staffing-firm networks and selectively broadcast new requirements to preferred vendors within their networks. The system's import features allow staffing firms to continue using their own timecard and invoice tools. Pricing starts at $4,100 per month. HotGigs Inc., Minnetonka, Minn. www.contract-central.com Scheduling Solution
Ceridian has launched an automated time, attendance and scheduling solution designed to enable employers to create detailed reports and analyses of employee productivity, absence management and other workforce management issues. Ceridian Time Solutions is a scalable solution that lets employers view their employees' time-accounting information, absences and leave balances on a single screen. Users may access an analytics reporting tool to run reports on hours worked, labor distribution and project management. Graphical dashboards can also be created to monitor information such as approaching overtime, project hours and job-costing data. Other key features include enterprise time and attendance, labor management, employee scheduling, employee and manager self-service functions. Prices start at $3 per employee per month. Ceridian Corp., Minneapolis www.myceridian.com Workforce Resource Blueprint
Cognos has launched Cognos Workforce Resource Management Blueprint, designed to provide staffing managers with the ability to forecast workforce requirements based on customer demand. The Blueprint -- which consists of targeted, pre-built data as well as process and policy models -- is designed to help staffing managers determine headcount requirements by activity and set staffing effectiveness ratings by activity for each employee. The tool can also vary employee pay rates and automatically generate detailed financial implications of the staffing schedule. Service is free to subscribers. Cognos, Ottawa, Ontario www.cognos.com
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