Thinking Global, Hiring Local

As oil-and-gas pipeline service company T.D. Williams began an expansion into new countries a few years ago, the strain on recruiting efforts became so great that it threatened the success of the entire strategy. HR was able to resolve this challenge by partnering with Kenexa, a Wayne, Pa.-based recruitment-process outsourcing provider, which took over most of TDW's recruitment efforts in the regions where TDW had only weak or non-existent resources. Not only did Kenexa apply more resources to the effort than TDW could have reasonably done, it also gave the pipeline-service company the advantage of intimate knowledge of the new sites' cultures, laws and technologies.

Women's Active Pursuit of Jobs Leads to Better Career Development

A report by the Kenexa High Performance Research Institute found that better career development in two emerging economies was a result of women actively looking for more critical job assignments there, explained Ines Wichert, a London-based senior psychologist at the research and development unit of U.S. human-resources company Kenexa Corp. (Subscription required to read the full article.)

‘No – $56m won’t change my life much’

IBM announced in August that it would buy Kenexa, the human resources software and research company founded 25 years ago by Mr Karsan, for $1.3bn in an all-cash deal expected to be finalised by the end of the year. Nooruddin “Rudy” Karsan, who will be 55 next month, does not expect his life to change much.