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VoiceScreener
http://mashable.com/2008/11/23/voicescreener/
VoiceScreener
You don’t have to be Donald Trump to get viable candidates bidding for your company’s open job positions. VoiceScreener is a full scale human resources screening “committee” at the ready—for your fingertips and vocal chords.
Human resource recruiters can now spend time exclusively creating extensive and targeted hiring campaigns.

10 strategies before firing a poor performer
http://www.connectitnews.com/usa/story.cfm?item=2400
10 strategies before firing a poor performer
If you've ever had to do it, you know I speak the truth. Terminating an employee is no one's idea of a party.
Not only is a pink slip a sock in the gut for the employee being shown the door, but it can rattle most managers for a long time as well. Beyond that, there's the recruiting, interviewing and training of a replacement, which can prove expensive and time draining.
Letting someone go shouldn't always be a fait accompli. There are some poor performing employees who are worth trying to rehabilitate. If you have an employee you think may be heading downhill fast, here are 10 strategies to consider before getting out the axe.

Charter for the Australian teaching profession
http://www.teachingaustralia.edu.au/ta/go/home/projects/standards/pid/481
Charter for the Australian teaching profession
Over 30 national teaching and principal professional associations collaborated to develop the Charter for the Australian teaching profession being launched with events in each state and territory, from 31 March to 4 April 2008.
The Charter is an important symbolic statement highlighting teachers' commitment to their profession and to the community. It sets out the values and commitments shared by members of the teaching profession and affirms the high ideals and principles that underpin teaching and leadership in Australian schools.
The Charter is a stand alone document and also an integral part of the national professional standards for advanced teaching and principals currently being developed by the profession.

10 strategies before firing a poor performer
http://www.connectitnews.com/usa/story.cfm?item=1069
10 strategies before firing a poor performer

Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights (USA)
http://www.nctq.org/cb/
Welcome to the National Council on Teacher Quality's groundbreaking online research portal.
You can explore the intricacies of collective bargaining agreements, board policies, and teacher handbooks from the nation's 50 largest school districts, educating 16 percent (over 8 million) of all school children, employing nearly 500,000 teachers and operating 11,000 schools. And that's just the beginning.
The database provides answers to over 300 questions, ranging from salary and benefits to how a teacher gets evaluated--with more getting added all the time.

The Human Resources Software Directory
http://www.humanresources-software.com
The Human Resources Software Directory
A comprehensive directory of HR software providers.

DRoster Employee Scheduling Software
http://www.kappix.com/
DRoster Employee Scheduling Software

Logos Management Software
http://www.logoslbe.com/
Logos Management Software, developers of quality resources for churches, schools, and non-profit organizations.
Logos II Church Management | Logos II Donor Management | Logos Accounting | Logos School Management | Logos Facility Scheduler | Logos Ministry Scheduler | Logos Online Manager | Automated Online Data Backup |

Autorota : staff rosters
http://www.splinterware.com/products/autorota.htm
Autorota is designed to automate the creation of staff rosters.
Using a variety of user specified 'rules' staff can be allocated a variety of shifts, roles and working hours. Autorota can be configured to rotate shifts evenly between a number of staff, or force a particular repeating rota pattern to happen over several weeks.
The FREE version of Autorota is fully functional but is limited to only 10 personnel per department - ideal for small business or offices. Autorota Professional can have unlimited personnel.
Rosters are defined a week at a time, but days like 'Vacation', 'Training' etc can be entered into the Year Planner for each staff member, then these will be entered automatically into the weekly roster.

Teachers Professional Standards
http://www.tda.gov.uk/teachers/currentconsultations/professionalstandards.aspx
Teachers Professional Standards

DRoster - Free Staff Scheduling Software
http://www.kappix.com/home.htm
DRoster - Free Staff Scheduling Software
Do you find shift schedules,planning rosters and workforce management a bit of a headache you could do without? Cleaners, housekeepers, trainee managers, bar staff, restaurant staff, porters and receptionists - scheduling employees is enough to keep you busy all week. Especially, if anyone calls in sick or doesn't show up for work.
Manual staff rostering and preparing shift schedules is a time consuming task. With DRoster employee scheduling software you will save time, simplify all your human resource management work and significantly reduce your workload.
A platform that supports multiple languages

Employee Scheduling Software
http://www.autoschedule.com
'Auto schedule' employee scheduling software will automatically make your weekly work and break schedules, handle requests off, payroll and store availability.

HR Policies and Procedures
http://www.hr-guide.com/data/014.htm
HR Policies and Procedures

On-Line Employee Handbooks
http://www.hr-guide.com/data/023.htm
On-Line Employee Handbooks

Human Resources Guide
http://www.hr-guide.com/
Human Resources Guide
HR-Guide (started in January 1999) is a rapidly growing website containing hundreds of pages of information related to Human Resources.
Provide links to other websites in the HR field | Provide free web-based computer programs for HR professionals and students | Provide guides to HR related topics |

Human Resource Management
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/humanresource/default.htm
The Conference Board of Canada provides organizations with strategic information on current human resource management challenges as well as a Canadian perspective on trends in human resource management.

Employee Benefits - United States
http://www.ebri.org/benfaq/
Employee Benefits - United States : Frequently Asked Questions About Benefits
A General Overview of benefits | Retirement issues | Health Spending and Insurance issues | Other Benefit issues (including Social Security, Medicare, flexible benefits, and domestic partner benefits) |

Human Capital Management
http://www.human-capital-management.net
A growing collection of thought provoking articles about the current state of Human Resource Management. Read about the latest theories on Human Capital Management.

School Workforce Remodelling (UK)
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/remodelling
School Workforce Remodelling
Remodelling is about giving teachers more time, extra support and renewed leadership. This is essential if they are to go on improving standards in schools. By restructuring the teaching profession and reforming the school workforce, we can reduce teacher workload, raise standards, increase job satisfaction and improve the status of the profession.

Who Makes Decisions About School Staff?
http://yahoo.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/browse_cat/who_does_what/ca/
Who Makes Decisions About School Staff?
Ever wondered who's in charge of whom in a school district? This guide explains who makes various staffing decisions.

What Does the School Secretary Do?
http://yahoo.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/CA/21/improve/
What Does the School Secretary Do?
t most schools, the secretary is a key player in communicating with parents and community members about what's happening at school.

Procurement
http://www.thaiair.info/procurement/supplier/home.jsp
An example of how one company (Thai Airlines) have used the web for their procurement process.

Asia Pacific HR Magazines
http://www.hcamag.com
HCA is Australia's first magazine targeted at senior human resource professionals and top corporate decision-makers.
Each month HCA examines the issues that are at the forefront of today's people strategies and analyses the thinking of those who are at the cutting edge of the industry. The issues are timely and relevant, tailored to the needs of its high level readership.
Each issue includes dedicated features highlighting and analysing the most challenging people issues and the strategies employed to achieve corporate goals.
For the first time Australia and Asia has a magazine that can deal with the most complex issues relevant to the people who are shaping the HR industry.

ECA International
http://www.eca-international.com/
International Human Resources Solutions
HR |

Management certifications : Brainbench
http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/testcenter/subcat.xml?cat1=5
Our Management certifications cover the skills necessary to manage all aspects of an organization from operations to human resources to marketing. Certifications in this area include project management, managing people, operations management, HR concepts, etc.
online | courses | inset | General Management | Human Resources | Sales and Marketing |

Butterworth-Heinemann Human Resources
http://www.bh.com/humanresources/
Butterworth-Heinemann offers many new and accessible texts for Human Resource Management courses. An integral part of the list includes innovative and thought-provoking books for the professional manager.
human resources | managing change |

Automated Teacher Screener
http://education.gallup.com/attract/autoTeaScreen.asp
The Automated Teacher Screener helps human resource staff screen candidates and identifies those that should be given top priority for interviewing. This process helps human resource professionals save a significant number of hours currently spent screening candidates and allows them to spend more time with those most likely to be able to help your students.
Jobs | recruitment | consulting |

The Gallup Organisation
http://education.gallup.com/
How do you hire the best ... fast?
Attract more teacher candidates like your best.
Create a larger pool of candidates.
Create a user-friendly application system.
Use a centralized approach to ensure the depth of teaching talent throughout the district.
Require less staff time to interview more candidates.
The TeacherInsight Interview requires approximately 35 minutes to complete. Gallup's report is based on the candidate's responses and includes a percentile ranking that provides the best prediction of the candidate's potential for teaching success based on the candidate's talent.
Gallup Consultants will assist you in developing strategies to enlarge your pool of talented candidates, creating plans for local career fairs, assessing current application processes in order to make them more customer-oriented, and designing advertisements and publications targeted to the applicants you seek.
Jobs | recruitment | consulting |

BillQuick
http://www.billquick.com/
BillQuick is the most flexible time billing software available. It is the end result of countless suggestions made by service industry professionals just like you. It is truly user defined - The perfect solution for your office.
At BQE Software Inc., we realize that not everyone conducts business in the same way. BillQuick is fully customizable and includes over 130 standard reports/Invoices. The report designer enables you to customize the reports and invoices to meet your specific business needs.
BillQuick 2000 | BillQuick Lite | Web i Billing | Web i T & E | Web i Client | Web i Project | Web i ASP Reports | Web i ASP Time Card | eTools | BillQuick Palm | TimeKeeper | Timer | Cardex 2001 | QuickUpdate | MySpy |

Teacher Workload Study: Interim Report
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/pns/pnattach/20010326/1.htm
In March 2001 the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to undertake a review to identify the main factors that determine teachers’ and head teachers’ workload, and to develop a programme of practical action to eliminate excessive workload and promote the most effective use of all resources in schools in order to raise standards of pupil achievement.

Project-Timer
http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~dschult/
Project-Timer

EASEN
http://www.easea.co.uk/
UK Electronic Access for School and Education Authorities.
This free service allows you to automatically receive DfEE/QCA documents as they are published .... invaluable as an easy user-friendly way of keeping up to date.

Meetingmaker .. scheduling solution
http://www.meetingmaker.com/
Meetingmaker® is the leading real-time, cross-platform enterprise scheduling solution, designed to meet the diverse and complex requirements of organizations from small workgroups to the largest enterprises.
meetingmaker is a highly scalable IP-based system that supports tens of thousands of concurrent users on a range of computing platforms.

Local Education Authority in school education
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/learole/policypaper/index.shtml
The role of the Local Education Authority in school education (LEA)
A UK Government Policy Paper, published on 11 October 2000, setting out the role of the modern Local Education Authority in school education, and proposals for better ways of providing key services to schools.
Modernising methods of working | A more open market for school services | Sharing school improvement responsibilities with groups of schools | New ways of discharging responsibilities in partnership | National professional standards and registration |
Teaching Reforms | Connexions | Maths Year 2000 | Parents Centre | Open Govt | Post 16 | NGfL | OFSTED | Standards | Statistics | Vacancies | Work Permits |

HR Web - Intranet-based Benefit
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/showcase/hr/hrweb.asp
HR Web - Intranet-based Benefit Management Solution
HR Web is a secure Intranet site that provides Microsoft employees with secured access to various benefit enrollment forms, support for investment programs, retirement savings planning, and healthcare. Since it is Web-based the easy-to-use application makes it convenient for employees to electronically submit timecards, report absences, view pay stubs, and access Human Resources (HR)-related news and information; campus maps, commuting options, and community volunteer opportunities.