The crisis coming from greece and its impacts on Europe's economy and emploment rates

 The public debts crisis coming from greece has impacted Europe and the Euro for 6 months and accelerated from 3 days. If you pay attention to the economic news, 2 facts emerge:

On the first side, the crisis coming from greece spreads in Europe, starting with the southern countries. The stock markets are punishing the public huge debts of the states. Confidence seems to have desapeared in Europe's future.

One another hand, the private sector sends good signals to the stock markets: corporates are doing far better now. The unemployment rates started to decrease in the US, Germany and France. The head hunters are working far more than a year ago and the growth perspectives are improving.

So, what should we believe? The answer is extremely hard to give today.

- The "safe haven" on the stock markets were previously public bonds and public corporates, the situation is reversed with these events and the investors haven't made their choices yet

- The private sector might have been feed by governemental investments after the 2008 crisis.

- The emerging states have a growing economy and low public debts, they are pulling Europe's growth as the import/export balances are equilibrating as the Euro weakens.

- The reforms in Europe are convincing the markets that the states will pay their debts.

- The effects on the private sector are not visible

More than never, Europe has to invest in Asia, to link its growth to the emerging countries expansion.
With IBS, European corporates find solutions to recruit the best managers in China and in the whole Asia. Finding people you can trust is extremely important to develop your project in these high potential markets. 
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Intersting article:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/321188,european-economic-confidence-rises-despite-greek-crisis.html

LCL and Facebook

Biggest corporates turn to social networks for their recruitments:

http://www.focusrh.com/recrutement/sites-emploi/actualites-rh/2010/04/20/lcl-recrute-via-facebook.html

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Social networks: Winners and loosers...

Social networking is the last revolutions on the Internet. Linkedin, facebook, Xing, Viadeo or Twitter became a main source of information, even for the most strategic ones.

They are helpful in understading corporates structures, identifying names of prospects or sourcing targets.

In this fast moving environment , let's find out who wins and who sinks!

Professional networks

Linkedin, USA, 55 million, fast growth Viadeo, France, 25 million, fast growth Xing, Germany, 8 million, no growth Leisure networks Facebook, USA, 400 million, still growing Twitter, USA, 75million, exponencial growth

Interesting facts about professional networks is that 2 main actors ermerged: Linkedin and Viadeo.

Linkedin is the leader, it is developing worldwide and has an internal growth strategy.

Viadeo, the challenger, is mainly European and chose an external growth. Viadeo bought leading networks in China, India, Mexico, Canada and Spain.

Xing seems to be the weakest and could not reach the critic size... Xing won't survive...

Both of them found a profitable business model, by the proposal of "premium" accounts, more opened in terms of informations. They make profits, and it is rare enough on the Internet to notice it! 

They are now moving towards business announces and job researches, gathering the word's largest CV base. These new activites may be very profitable and feed the change in the sourcing and recruitment methods abd head hunting practice.

The future of professional networking is in their hands!

Facebook, linkedin or Myspace have many more members, but they haven't found out a realistic business model.

"Knowing what everyone's knows, is knowing nothing... The true science starts where the other's one stops."
De Gourmont

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