October 2008 Blog Posts (295)

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Headed To India: Looking for Leads

(Oct 03, 2008) I'm going to India for three weeks. I'll be back the day before the Silicon Valey Recruiting Roadshow. My goal is to immerse myself in Indian culture. I want to understand the foundations of the people who are becoming my partners with increasing frequency.

While we are busy putting tons of business in Indian…

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Added by John Sumser on October 5, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Resume as a Tag Cloud

If you don't know what a tag cloud is go to wikipedia first.

Check out Tag Crowd. Copy and paste any text to make your own tag cloud to visualize word frequency. Try it with a resume or a job description and see the resulting cloud image. Do you like it? Does it have any relevance? Could you ever see this as a useful tool? Why or why not? Let's hear what you think.

Mike

Added by Michael Johnson on October 5, 2008 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

Dave Mendoza suggested a really cool way to add multiple contacts to Linkedin in one procedure. Does anyone remember how to do it?

Added by Arlene Erbeck on October 3, 2008 at 4:37pm — 2 Comments

Any hot Requirements...

Hi all,, Iam Vijay iam working for a staffing company named BeyondTekit as a Business Development Manager. My company is into staffing for than 10 years and we located at California. We do have a team of sting recruiters i invite everyone to submit your requirements and at the same time i assure you that we will submit the right consultants for you.....You can mail me at vijayrm@beyondtekit.com...

Added by R M Vijay Amirtharaj on October 3, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Looking for a SAP SM with SD consultant : California : 1yr Project

Hi Folks,
I am looking for a SAP SM with SD experience consultant and the position is in California for an year.
This is a contract position and hence H1s are also Eligible!!!
Please get back to me @ Sirisha@ivytechsol.com

Added by sirisha on October 3, 2008 at 12:25pm — No Comments

Free Webinar - Career website transformation in healthcare and beyond!

Free one hour webinar

Career website transformation in healthcare and beyond!

Monday, October 6, 2008

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Presented by Doug Berg, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Jobs2Web, Inc. and Trudy Knoepke-Campbell, Director of National Recruitment, MinuteClinic, Inc.

In a land of "take a number" and wait healthcare scenarios, it's easy to see why hiring compassionate and highly-competent medical professionals would be a difficult job… Continue

Added by Ken Horst on October 3, 2008 at 12:21pm — No Comments

JD Edwards Business Analyst that can knock it out of the park!

This is killing me to have to bench this girl, so I thought to reach out to RecruitingBlogs members...

You guys know how most of our clients look at BA resumes and think they are too high level because most of what is written on the resume speaks to what they have accomplished? I try to tell my clients that the reason a JDE BA writes about reporting capabilities is because in the end, once all modules are set up and interfacing correctly, that is "exactly" what you want from your… Continue

Added by Greg Kost on October 3, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Network Guru available in Atlanta!!

I n my own words here,

Derek has designed complex network plants and performed business process reengineering for manufacturing clients back when application flow studies were not used. His knowledge and experience with interviewing the entire operation and its Data Flow has proved to be the backbone of his abilities today. He can understand and quickly implement logical Input/Output, Connectivity, Bandwidth and Security protocols that will not only satisfy but allow for future… Continue

Added by Greg Kost on October 3, 2008 at 10:41am — No Comments

Avionics technology Niche...

So I wanted to reach out to those who might shed some light on this area...

Ive got a local client who is among other things a pretty specialized providor, they make avionics displays, ya know the flight controls and instruments for commercial and military aircraft, and they are purposefully making a transition to develop and sell to the private sector, I guess they are trying to spread there value stream to include industries that could use the products but only have traditional… Continue

Added by Greg Kost on October 3, 2008 at 10:31am — No Comments

SubPrime Crisis: Congressman Barney Frank Gets Shamed

Added by Dave Mendoza on October 3, 2008 at 10:08am — No Comments

October 3, 2008

Readying for a trip to India John teeters between the occidental, accidental, incidental and transcendental, and brings it home to us on RecruitingBlogs.com. Yeah, I’ve got language issues too…it’s an Ashram not a Wigwam, Dummy! What do you say, bloggie-wallah: Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v1.21

Happy, Friday! Ami… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on October 3, 2008 at 7:39am — No Comments

KK-Net and kknetwork

OPEN SOCIAL INNOVATION

Hello, so how's your 2008 been going so far? Is a coming recession going to affect your profitable business? Managing a business is different to times "when living is easy."

If you are looking for a social media platform for open innovation, KK-Net is a place where we learn, share, meet others, and connect with social media practitioners, experts, thought and business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators,… Continue

Added by Helge V. Keitel on October 3, 2008 at 4:22am — No Comments

Human Resources Executive magazine announces 2008 Top 10 HR Products selections

Of course I wouldn't be writing this if Avature's Recruiting CRM wasn't selected...thankfully it was and a big "hug it out" to David Shadovitz and his editors for selecting us. You can see the article in the Oct. 2, 2008 current issue here:

http://tinyurl.com/avaturewins

There were a few winners in the talent acquisition space so I congratulate them as well - LinkedIN and Kenexa - good company to be in.

What's… Continue

Added by Michael Johnson on October 3, 2008 at 12:47am — No Comments

HR and Recruiting Membership

Human Resource Administration

Employee Relations Support

Employee/Management Coaching

Performance Counseling and Documentation

Conflict Resolutions

Health and Benefits Administration

Absence/Leave Administration

Performance Management/Focal Reviews

Salary Management/Administration

On boarding/Out boarding

Job Description Development

Payroll Administration

HRIS Administration

Termination Management

Employee Records/File… Continue

Added by Angela Young on October 2, 2008 at 5:49pm — No Comments

<b>Sr. PM needed for Bank in Wash, DC</b>

Sr. PM needed for International Banking client in Wash, DC

I need to have by Friday – Intech Job # 21393

Long term project at least through end of 2009

Client: Washington, DC

Required skills:

*Bonus to secrure the Job: Experience with Hardware upgrade of the Numerix Environment, Accurate Software Upgrade

-4+ years as a project manager, 10 years overall experience. Must be able to write project plans and execute the plan,… Continue

Added by David B. Assadi on October 2, 2008 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Oracle Financials & Ariba Experienced Project Managers in Atlanta Needed.......

Oracle Financials implementation experience is a must.

Experience integrating Ariba Supply Chain Management software with Oracle Financials is preferred.

Banking experience is preferred but not required.

PMP certification is preferred.

· This position is responsible for managing large or complex projects in accordance to the project approach, structure, and charter in order to support the successful implementation of new applications and systems based on business and… Continue

Added by David B. Assadi on October 2, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Here Piggy Piggy, sooooooooooooeeeeeeeee

In order to win passage, the following pork was inserted into the final bailout bill – these are from both parties:

$6 million for manufacturers of kids' wooden arrows

$192 million for Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands rum producers

$128 million for auto-racing tracks

$33 million for corporations operating in American Samoa

$10 million for small to medium budget film and television productions

$223 million package of tax benefits… Continue

Added by Steve Levy on October 2, 2008 at 3:28pm — 4 Comments

The community for HR professionals

Ok, I know this is a recruiters' community - but thought I'd share that a HR professionals community on Ning that I started has 375 members now. So if you think you're in HR (it's all in the mind, I guess ;-)) join us!

Added by Gautam Ghosh on October 2, 2008 at 12:02pm — No Comments

The Top 10 Recruitment Assumptions you SHOULD NOT make!

As a someone who has been in recruitment for many years there…

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Added by Andy Headworth on October 2, 2008 at 11:47am — 3 Comments

Finding high-end talend for low-end employers?

To the recruiter from India's point, how do you expect to get good talent if you don't keep up with industry standards? Well, there actually is a way to do this. In fact, it's as easy as understanding your own employee's engagement to your company, understanding EXACTLY what kind of employee is best for your company, and communicating in the right spaces with the right message to reach the right people and motivate them to apply. If you don't pay as well as other companies, but you have a very… Continue

Added by Jason C. Blais on October 2, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments