Job Recruiters Lack Mobile Edge, Study Says

With smartphone adoption rates on the rise, it seems like it's possible to do almost anything from the comfort of your cellphone ? why should applying for a job be any different? For applicants, it wouldn't be such a hassle, really, if job recruiters would get on board with the idea.

Although a growing number of job seekers use their mobile devices to seek out career opportunities, employers are still behind on implementing mobile recruitment strategies to cater to applicant needs, according to a study published by online recruiting research lab Potentialpark.

For the study, Potentialpark surveyed more than 25,000 job seekers worldwide and analyzed the mobile career presence of nearly 700 top employers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Mashable spoke with Potentialpark about its findings.

The study found that 26% of job seekers use their mobile devices for career-related purposes (and another 59% could imagine doing so), yet only 13% of employers have a mobile version of their career website.

Survey respondents were most interested in mobile features that would enable them to look for job openings (69%), track the status of their applications (63%), and research companies and career opportunities (47%). Respondents seem to be bullish on apps, too, with 56% saying they?d use a career app, up from 47% last year.

Mobile Recruitment Done Right

Not all employees are lacking on the mobile recruitment front, though. Potentialpark conducted a thorough investigation of the mobile career presences of nearly 700 top employers, finding that some actually had some sweet goods to offer.

Potentialpark?s research identified Orange, PepsiCo and Credit Suisse as the top three organizations with thorough mobile recruitment communications in place. Each of the three organizations have both a mobile career site and a career app, which they have in common with only 10 other companies of the 698 analyzed.

Orange, a French telecommunications company, topped the list of standout mobile recruiters with its mobile career app, which features many of the functions that job seekers expect, including a job search, the ability to share and email jobs, company information and an events calendar.

International beverage company PepsiCo came in right behind Orange for its mobile recruiting efforts. The Pepsi Possibilities app and mobile career site enable users to search job listings, email listings, catch up on PepsiCo?s recruiting feeds on the social web, activate job alerts, and apply via mobile. That's an improvement from 2012 when applicants could not apply from their phones, as mentioned in a Dice interview with PepsiCo recruiter Chris Hoyt (see embedded video above).

Ranking third on the list was financial services group Credit Suisse, with its mobile site and recruiting apps for Apple and Android devices. It appears to be a big jump from Orange and PepsiCo?s highly functional apps, though. The Credit Suisse app focuses on providing users with information about internship training programs, Credit Suisse business areas, employee profiles, career advice, and other recruiting tips. The app ? called ?Campus Recruiting? ? is geared toward college students and also features a business trivia game called BizWhiz.

Other top-ten organizations on the mobile talent communications list included Sodexo, Accenture U.S., KPMG, Accenture Germany, Daimler, Shell and Fresenius.

While the study highlighted how far behind employers are with mobile recruiting, it wasn?t the bearer of all bad news. Of all mobile career sites, 71% of them offered a functioning job search, the top expectation among job seekers as
determined by Potentialpark?s survey. So, there seems to be reason for hope.

If you?re in the market for a new job, let us know how you're using mobile for your job search in the comments below.

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Source: http://mashable.com/2013/02/03/job-recruiters-mobile/

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ ? The Antiaging Institute of California believes that antioxidant Coenzyme Q10 , popularly known as CoQ10, may have previously unknown benefits against one of the most fearsome of all neurodegenerative illnesses. CoQ10 has already been shown to be a powerful promoter of cardiac health, as well as an effective weapon against high blood pressure and migraine headaches, but a recent study suggests that more attention ought to be paid to its possible use against a disease that has devastated the lives of countless individuals, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Sold in the form of a supplement by the Antiaging Institute of California, the relatively little known nutrient may be far more powerful than most medical authorities have previously believed.

ALS is more widely known as Lou Gehrig?s Disease, named for the stricken baseball legend famously portrayed by Gary Cooper in the 1942 film biography, Pride of the Yankees . The illness, usually deadly but always severely debilitating, has devastated the lives of countless others, including world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who has done unusually well. The Antiaging Institute is pointing to a study published in the May 2012 issue of The Open Nutraceuticals Journal and written about on the website, NaturalNews.com. The study looked at the possible impact of the supplement on an unnamed 75 year-old Japanese scientist who had been diagnosed with ALS five years previously and was having severe difficulty with ordinary motor function. Treatment with CoQ10 appeared to improve his condition and notably slow the progress of the illness.

While the medical establishment has accepted that a diet rich in antioxidant laden fruits and vegetables appears to be protective against ALS and related illnesses, the Antiaging Institute of California believes that further study of CoQ10 and neurodegenerative illness is more than warranted, and that patients concerned about the illness may consider consulting their physicians about adding the supplement to their health regimen. Along with such increasingly popular antioxidant products as green coffee bean extract , which appears to be a powerful aid in weight loss, the Antiaging Institute of California markets a large and growing line of outstanding nutritional supplements.

Studies show that nutritional supplements can have a powerful impact on the health of people of all ages. While it is strongly recommended that consumers consult their physicians about adding supplements to their diets, supplements are believed to be a natural, gentle way to improve human health that may, in some cases, be more beneficial than some commonly prescribed and over-the-counter medications.

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Why most companies won't say they were hacked

Ben Weitzenkorn , TechNewsDaily ? ? ? 5 hrs.

The New York Times,?which Thursday detailed a massive attack upon its computer systems, is certainly not the first U.S. company to be hit by hackers apparently working for Chinese interests.?(The?Wall?Street?Journal?also?said?Thursday?its computer systems were infiltrated by Chinese hackers who were trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China).

Hundreds of Western companies, organizations and government agencies have been attacked by hackers from China over the past five years. But the Times and the Journal are among the few companies ? Google is another ? willing both to disclose details of the attack and to accuse Beijing of being behind it.

For every cyberattack or data breach you do hear about, countless others will never be disclosed.

Why don't more companies come clean? There are many reasons.

Keeping it under wraps
"Some companies that get hit like this never realize they were hit," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure in Helsinki, Finland. "Many of the companies that get hit are defense contractors. They'd rather not tell anyone they were hacked."

"It's not good publicity, which can negatively impact the company or organization in many ways," said Roel Schouwenberg, senior anti-virus researcher in the Woburn, Mass., office of Kaspersky Lab. "It may also interfere with ongoing investigations by law enforcement."

Related story:?Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy

There might be other reasons to avoid blaming China, Hypponen said.

"Some of the targets are human-rights organizations and freedom-of-speech organizations," he said. "They might be simply afraid."

When most companies disclose data breaches or cyberattacks, it's because they have to.

Hospitals, insurance companies and health agencies must disclose breaches of patient information. Publicly traded companies have to mention effects on earnings or profits in reports to shareholders.

"If certain types of data have been stolen (such as PII and customer records) there may be legal and moral obligations to issue a press release and guidance for those who could be impacted," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

PII stand for "personally identifiable information."

Unlike most companies who are required to or choose to disclose a data breach, the Times was especially candid, providing readers with a timeline and breakdown of how the attack occurred.

The newspaper broke the news in a front-page story and even went as far as to link the hackers to the Chinese military, an accusation that's rarely made overtly.

Plausible deniability
One reason it's hard to openly blame China is because the attackers almost always use compromised servers in other countries or hide behind proxy services, veiling their true origins.

"How do you prove that it was Chinese hackers?" Cluley asked. "Even if an attack was traced back to a Chinese IP [Internet Protocol] address, how can you prove that that computer wasn't also compromised and under the control of a hacker in, say, Belgium?"

"Forensics is difficult and never perfect. I expect most companies don't admit they've been hacked because they often don't have a complete picture themselves," F-Secure's security advisor Sean Sullivan said.

Even if the attackers seem to be operating in the interest of the Chinese government, that doesn't mean they were sponsored by it.

"I wouldn't blame 'China,' because it could very well be Chinese nationals," Sullivan said. "There are all sorts of hackers in the world, and many of them are patriotic Chinese citizens that act on their own."

"Chinese hackers aren't as often to blame as fear mongers in the press want to report," said Robert Graham, founder and chief executive officer of Errata Security in Atlanta.

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Good for business
George Smith, a senior fellow at the Alexandria, Va., think tank GlobalSecurity.org, believes corporations might be concerned that blaming China will make it harder to do business in China.

"The Chinese actually have been blamed for a long time," Smith said. "However, many U.S. multi-nationals, unsurprisingly, have business in China and aims directed at exploiting markets there.

"You can see where such a business would think it's in a bind if it needs permissions and cooperation from [the] Chinese central government and, at the same time, finds out it has been penetrated by cyber-espionage efforts that may originate from the same."

Smith noted that the Times had a motivation for being forthcoming. It's simply a great news story, and one the newspaper was sure not to let anyone else get to first.

The Times "has many incentives to cover the story and provide details, as well as the capability to do it well and to shape it from a first-hand account, in advance of competing news outlets," Smith said.

Badge of honor
The Times' willingness to spill the beans may trigger more openness about cyberattacks and data breaches.

"Given the amount of stories about high-profile hits in recent and not-so-recent times, people have gotten more used to this type of news," Schouwenberg said. "Slowly people have come to realize that this happens to everyone. I definitely think the negative impact is not as severe as it once was."

"Disclosure from @nytimes is good," Schouwenberg later tweeted. "But the security industry needs tech details to make sure other targets are better protected."

"Somehow I suspect its [the New York Times'] rivals will soon be more eager to admit to being targets of the Chinese," Sullivan said. "I think that could become a badge of honor among news-media outlets."

Hypponen also saw Thursday's disclosure as a positive step.

"Google and the New York Times did a service to all of us by publicly coming out and announcing they've been had," he said.

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/why-most-companies-wont-admit-they-were-hacked-1B8202818

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Zebrafish may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eyesight to people

Public release date: 31-Jan-2013
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Zebrafish eyed as answer to restoring sight of people with damaged retinas

Zebrafish, the staple of genetic research, may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eye-sight to people.

University of Alberta researchers discovered that a zebrafish's stem cells can selectively regenerate damaged photoreceptor cells.

Lead U of A researcher Ted Allison says that for some time geneticists have known that unlike humans, stem cells in zebrafish can replace damaged cells involved in many components of eyesight. Rods and cones are the most important photoreceptors. In humans, rods provide us with night vision while cones give us a full colour look at the world during the day-time.

What was not known says Allison was whether stem cells could be instructed to only replace the cones in its retina. This could have important implications for human eyesight.

"This is the first time in an animal research model that stem cells have only repaired damaged cones," said Allison. "For people with damaged eyesight repairing the cones is most important because it would restore day-time colour vision.

The researchers say that to date almost all success in regenerating photoreceptor cells has been limited to rods not cones. Most of these previous experiments were conducted on nocturnal rodents, animals that require good night vision so they have far more rods than cones.

"This shows us that when cones die in a cone-rich retina, it is primarily cones that regenerate," said Allison. "This suggests the tissue environment provides cues to instruct stem cell how to react."

The researchers say this shows some hope for stem cell therapy that could regenerate damaged cones in people, especially in the cone-rich regions of the retina that provide daytime/colour vision.

Allison says the next step for his team is to identify the particular gene in zebrafish gene that activates repair of damaged cones.

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The research was led by U of A Biological Sciences researcher Ted Allison. The researcher's website can be found at www.biology.ualberta.ca/Allison_Lab. The research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC). The paper was published Jan. 30 in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Zebrafish eyed as answer to restoring sight of people with damaged retinas

Zebrafish, the staple of genetic research, may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eye-sight to people.

University of Alberta researchers discovered that a zebrafish's stem cells can selectively regenerate damaged photoreceptor cells.

Lead U of A researcher Ted Allison says that for some time geneticists have known that unlike humans, stem cells in zebrafish can replace damaged cells involved in many components of eyesight. Rods and cones are the most important photoreceptors. In humans, rods provide us with night vision while cones give us a full colour look at the world during the day-time.

What was not known says Allison was whether stem cells could be instructed to only replace the cones in its retina. This could have important implications for human eyesight.

"This is the first time in an animal research model that stem cells have only repaired damaged cones," said Allison. "For people with damaged eyesight repairing the cones is most important because it would restore day-time colour vision.

The researchers say that to date almost all success in regenerating photoreceptor cells has been limited to rods not cones. Most of these previous experiments were conducted on nocturnal rodents, animals that require good night vision so they have far more rods than cones.

"This shows us that when cones die in a cone-rich retina, it is primarily cones that regenerate," said Allison. "This suggests the tissue environment provides cues to instruct stem cell how to react."

The researchers say this shows some hope for stem cell therapy that could regenerate damaged cones in people, especially in the cone-rich regions of the retina that provide daytime/colour vision.

Allison says the next step for his team is to identify the particular gene in zebrafish gene that activates repair of damaged cones.

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The research was led by U of A Biological Sciences researcher Ted Allison. The researcher's website can be found at www.biology.ualberta.ca/Allison_Lab. The research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC). The paper was published Jan. 30 in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Japan economy ministry launches data site under Creative Commons license

By Jay Alabaster, IDG News Service?|??IT Management

January 31, 2013, 3:29 AM ? Japan's conservative economy ministry has launched a new site that offers its data for download under a Creative Commons license.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Open DATA METI" project has gone public under what the government is calling a trial beta version, currently available only in Japanese. The website currently offers data on Japan's energy use, industrial manufacturing, and intellectual property, as well as government white papers on topics such as small and medium businesses.

Japan's government bureaucracy currently makes its statistics and data available to the public in a wide range of formats and locations, and key figures are often buried deep within ministry Web pages. Many parts of the government still employ a rigid "kisha club" or "reporter club" system that limits access to a pre-approved groups of journalists.

METI's site makes use of a license from the nonprofit organization Creative Commons that can be modified for the different kinds of data it offers. Currently government statistics require only attribution, while white papers also mandate that the contents can't be modified. The data is available in Excel and HTML formats.

The site is built on CKAN, an open source platform for publishing large sets of data. The platform has been adopted by many governments looking to make their public data more accessible and is also used in countries such as the U.K., Austria, and Brazil.

For its initial launch, METI has released 79 data sets containing about 3,000 different resources. The ministry plans to release a much bigger set of information, including data on Japan's electricity production, broader manufacturing data, and services industries.

METI launched a working group to make its public data more uniform and accessible last year, noting that this is the norm in U.S. and Europe. The current project includes plans to actively share its progress with other sections of the government.

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Source: http://www.itworld.com/it-management/339447/japan-economy-ministry-launches-data-site-under-creative-commons-license

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Dropbox now guaranteed massive success after Ballmer dismisses it as a ?little startup?

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It?s too bad that Dropbox isn?t a publicly traded company, because it would be a great time to buy its shares now that Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer has given it his patented reverse-kiss-of-death. Ballmer, who previously predicted the iPhone would flop because it lacked a physical keyboard and that?Android would fail because Google wasn?t slapping OEMs with any licensing fees?to use it, told BusinessWeek?on Tuesday that the cloud storage company was just a ?little startup? that posed no threat to Microsoft?s own SkyDrive cloud service.?

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When?BusinessWeek?s?interviewer pointed out that Dropbox had 100 million users, Ballmer said that most of those users were consumers rather than business customers, which would limit the company?s revenue potential going forward.

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?If you want to get numbers like 100 million, it helps to start with consumers as opposed to businesses so you?re doing an apples-to-apples comparison,? Ballmer said. ?In general, I would say a much higher percentage of our unit engagement with our customers comes from the consumer. And a much higher percentage of our revenue participation comes from our business customers.?

This article was originally published on BGR.com

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