"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm." Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen

The other day, I read an interesting section in the GPHR preparation......

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Episode 28 of the born podcast is available at http://www.bornpodcast.com/episode.php?ep=28
A couple of excellent stories this week, including an interview with Nathan Mayatt of JobShout and news that JobFinder.ie is back after 7 years!
Put that together with our latest born Job Advertising Index figures and you've got a show that you just shouldn't miss...

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."- Henry Kissinger.

I must say to me this quote sums up my experiences in my sourcing journey through my recruiting career. As each recruiting search/project was completed, a new and more challenging recruitment effort is put in front of you. When I first started in recruitment, finding source for searches was a series of cold calls and networking with other recruiters for phone…

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

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Hi all, Just a quick post to let you know our latest podcast is out, the lead story 'Job Seeker Frustration' is a topic I think is particularly important for our industry to address. I'd be very interested in opinions on this one.

The full podcast, Episode 27: Talk To The Job Seeker, has some great content…

This is a topic you will read, hear or even write about over the next several years. Why? Because retention is the key to our future. And our future will not shine bright if we cannot keep our people -

bottom line. I recently had the opportunity to hear Ed Barlow

speak on the future ... exploring the rapid and dramatic economic,

technological, social, and political changes that lie ahead. His

audience (CEOs, CFOs, CAOs and…

Ever go to a kid's birthday party that had a pinata? You know, you are blind-folded, spun around, handed a broomstick or baseball bat and told to "Swing!" I hated that game. Sure, some may find it fun to blindly swing a hard wooden object into the darkness and hope you hit something (or someone, if one of the kids at the party was one that shared their lunch with that boy you liked, maybe) and a bunch of candy pours out while everyone cheers for you. But, I really hated that…

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Okay, this is more a call for help than a real blog post. If you’ve got input, please feel free to comment….

I am in the process of looking for an expert in C++ performance tuning. The person I need must understand high-volume, real-time transaction processing systems, and must have experience in tuning

those systems in the past. I’m not going to be using third parties for

this search, so I’m working to find the…