Maureen Sharib's Blog (166)

Itzbig FREE to use!

I received this in my email last night - good luck to your future successes, Itzbig team!

It is with great regret that I am writing to inform you that itzbig will be discontinuing operations.

On behalf of all of the itzbig employees who have worked so long and so hard, I'd like to thank you for your support.

We set out to build a next-generation service that instantly matched, scored and ranked jobs against candidates and candidates against jobs, without all… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on September 6, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

"Big Picture" comment

Reading John Sumser's "big picture" post today reminded me of a show I saw last night on Nova - there was a segment about a young MIT roboticist Karl Iagnemma, who moonlights as an acclaimed fiction writer. Interesting, because it explored how one person could have two successful careers and how one career impacted the other. I would have posted this on John's wordpress site… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on August 21, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Sourcing Internationally and Recruiter Stress Levels - next week on MagicMethod!

MagicMethod Classroom Discussion Topics August 5 & 7

Discussion August 5

I would like to discuss the amount of stress that recruiters/sourcers experience in their jobs and how to deal with frustrations and angry people. Today (July 29) an article was published that according to research 85 % of recruiters experience a high amount of stress. Apparently they score the highest compared to other professions. Could we… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 30, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

At long last!

To rise off the ground wearing a jetpack is to feel the force of dreams. Very, very noisy dreams. On Tuesday, an inventor from New Zealand plans to unveil what he calls “the world’s first practical jetpack” at the EAA AirVenture, the gigantic annual air show here. The inventor, Glenn Martin, 48, who has spent 27 years developing the devices, said he hoped to begin selling them… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 29, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Have a Problem? Ask Everyone (And Pay Someone)

John Davis, a chemist in Bloomington, Ill., knows about concrete. For example, he knows that if you keep concrete vibrating it won’t set up before you can use it. It will still pour like a liquid.

Now he has applied that knowledge to a seemingly unrelated problem thousands of miles away. He figured out that devices that keep concrete vibrating can be adapted to keep oil… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 24, 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments

"Secret Salaries"

Do you know the salary of every employee at your company? I think you should.

I mean, who is being protected by secret salaries? Certainly not the employee—the more transparent salaries are, the more accurately an employee can assess his or her value to a company.

Fortunately a bunch of companies have arrived with tricked-out tools for figuring out what you… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 24, 2008 at 6:44am — 1 Comment

Zimbra Desktop puts all your e-mail in order

Yahoo is expanding its popular e-mail service to the desktop in a bid to help consumers manage their e-mail accounts when they aren't online. At a conference for developers in Portland, Ore., Zimbra, a Yahoo (YHOO) company, is set to release a beta version of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop, an e-mail program that organizes Yahoo Mail, AOL, Google's Gmail and work and business e-mail accounts… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 24, 2008 at 6:43am — No Comments

Value in Training?

How important is training for your job and how seriously does your organization take it? What do you perceive its value to be to your organization and your career?

Chosen statements will be included in an upcoming white paper that will be widely distributed and your name, title and a hyperlink to your profile will be included in it.

Post your responses here or you may send them directly to maureen at techtrak.com or to shally at… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 21, 2008 at 10:55am — 1 Comment

Don't miss Shally TODAY (Tues, July 22) on SourcersGuild!

Shally will be giving a FREE Internet Sourcing Classroom Chat on the SourcersGuild network on Tuesday, July 22 at noon EASTERN STANDARD TIME.

Shally is one of the foremost trainers in this space and you don't want to miss the pearls of wisdom he'll be imparting tomorrow!

You'll be able to ask him your burning questions in the Classroom Chat and he'll answer you. For those of you who haven't met Shally before, he has a sense of… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 21, 2008 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

"It's me. Can you hear me?" The VoIP argument.

Re: For those using VoIP for your home and/or office lines: are you having issues lately?

This is a really interesting subject to me. I hear the argument all the time from would-be telephone sourcers who want to use VoIP.

"Go ahead," I say.

"But it works just fine!" they insist.

"No it doesn't," I reply.

"Yes it… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 18, 2008 at 7:27am — No Comments

Surprise! NYC Tops Nation in High-Tech Jobs

The Big Apple’s concentration of jobs surpasses major tech hubs such as San Jose/Silicon Valley, Boston and Washington, D.C.

The region had a total of 316,500 high-tech jobs in 2006, the latest year for which figures were available, states “Cybercities 2008: An Overview of the High-Technology Industry in the Nation’s Top 60 Cities.” The report was conducted by AeA, a… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 1, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Tuesday Phone Sourcing Class Chat: Phone Fear

Good Morning Maureen,

I know that you are in many places at once on the web and it is hard to keep track of you LOL.

I am in need of your help once again.

Why all the debates on which is better direct phone sourcing or online sourcing?? Why all the panic and fear? I don't get this. I started your course on May 15, 2008 and I am still having a bender every… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on June 30, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

“…technology had aided us in telling lies.”

Interesting discussion over on Indian Trainers Yahoo group about the effectiveness of “meetings” that touches on the ethics of lying.

Dear friends, Do u also face this :

I woke up this morning and went over my TO DO list which I prepared last night. After reworking on priorities, I sent some mails before 0900 hours and then had my breakfast to be free to make… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on June 30, 2008 at 9:54am — 2 Comments

Web site offers insiders' look at major employers

Ever wonder whether you'd be better off working some place else?

A new Web site called Glassdoor.com is trying to make it easier to find out by compiling free snapshots of the current salaries paid by hundreds of major employers, along with reviews anonymously written by current and past workers.

Read the whole article… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on June 11, 2008 at 3:15pm — No Comments

Top Job Titles In Highest Demand

The Yoh quarterly report identifies the top job titles in highest demand. Based on conversations with more than 9,000 hiring managers in over 15 major metropolitan areas, Yoh says the following roles have appeared most frequently nationwide:

Biostatistician

Civil Engineer

Clinical Research Associate

Firmware/Embedded Engineer

Java… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 28, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

What Do I Say NOW?

Many people don’t know what to say to the sourced names we provide. Because these names are many times the truly “passive” candidate some recruiters who’ve been reared on resume farming are “reluctant” to call someone who isn’t actually “looking”.

Just about everyone is “looking”.

Out of 10 names you telephone source:

1-2 will be looking at… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 25, 2008 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

Running Straight and True

Bob and I went to see the third film in the Caribbean trilogy “Pirates of the Caribbean” shortly after it opened last year in May, 2007. Just recently I watched it again on a lazy Sunday afternoon and was reminded of this piece I wrote, though not sure where (or if) I ever posted it. I offer it now for your amusement.

The usurper of the pirate ship "The Black Pearl"… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 23, 2008 at 4:28pm — No Comments

"Montaigne's practical, ethical response to injustice in an uncertain world is to ruse with the law."

The interiority of the self is one of the great framing fictions of the Essais, a fiction that provides the space and the opportunity for Montaigne to carry out both the encounter and the dialogue with himself that are his project, to fashion himself, and to negotiate the boundaries between the self and the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 23, 2008 at 4:00am — No Comments

Hard-nosed Receptionists

Interesting early '07 ERE string about Gatekeepers here.

I sense (and don’t get me wrong on this) irritation on YOUR part when you say things like “I know this is the operator, can you tell me your name please?” At this point you’ve already lost the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 22, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

MagicMethod Cincinnati seminar June 24

MagicMethod Cincinnati seminar June 24

Don't miss my Cincinnati MagicMethod seminar on Tuesday, June 24 – it’s a full day of my telephone names sourcing training sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Human Resource Association (GCHRA).

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Price: $225 GCHRA members Non-members $275.00

Location: Baldwin Center/655 Eden Park Drive/Cincinnati, OH

Deadline to Register: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The riveting 25 minute real-time… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on May 16, 2008 at 9:54am — No Comments