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Write Effective Job Descriptions

whitepaper Creating successful job descriptions can be an important part of one's role as a compensation and benefits specialist. The organization's job descriptions should be concise, clear, and correct. The format and style for writing job descriptions...

Tags: business management

[12 May 2008]

Recruiting Specialists: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions

whitepaper What steps will one take to ensure that the job descriptions stand out amid all the other similar open positions on the market? The job posting needs to sell to potential employees one's group, one's mission, and the key function that the job plays...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Flexible and Tailored Services for OAJ Members With a Uniform Platform and a Revamped Web Portal

whitepaper The Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ), wanted to tailor member services to specific job descriptions and varying needs of the different user groups and make web services available from one source via a common user interface that allows...

Tags: portals

[24 Mar 2008]

Using an On-Line Virtual Server to Simulate Network Administration

whitepaper A survey of current job descriptions indicates that Microsoft systems continue to experience strong interest among employers. Participants in the rapidly changing computer networking arena face the significant challenge of keeping up with...

Tags: network administration

[03 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook

Comment Youngsters may be "tech savvy" but sending text messages doesn't come into most job descriptions and having a MySpace page or Facebook entry won't qualify you as a web designer either. The rest were macho numb-skulls with good teeth, a head for...

Tags: facebook, cyber crime, kids, ageism

[23 Aug 2007]

Intranet Strategy

whitepaper These documents - linked and cross-referenced to job descriptions, work instructions, supplementary drawings, flowcharts, forms, and other supporting information - make up your organisation's knowledgebase.

Tags: documents, enabling, job, form

[08 Aug 2007]

Business Process Excellence - Building a Culture of Excellence

whitepaper Management also wanted to redesign the roles, responsibilities and job descriptions of personnel and be able to describe process information in explicit terms using a common organizational vocabulary.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, language, initiative, modeling

[01 Aug 2007]

Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know: A Practical Approach to Recognizing and Improving Competencies

whitepaper In response to research showing that many organizations have not set concrete requirements and job descriptions for their business analysts, this paper provides eight essential competencies necessary for success in this job function.

Tags: infrastructure management, failure, analysts, analyst

[29 May 2007]

The RASTA Framework

whitepaper The designer of a RASTA setup creates a description of the tasks and questions, and the RASTA system uses these descriptions to guide the user through the tasks. The RASTA framework takes the job of displaying wizards and dialogs out of the hands...

Tags: tasks, framework, questions, learn

[01 Feb 2007]

Develop Job Descriptions

whitepaper Writing job descriptions that are clear and concise can be a challenge. What information do a person need to include in job descriptions? Creating clear and accurate job descriptions is easy when a person uses Microsoft Office Word 2003 templates.

Tags: job, person, descriptions, microsoft office

[08 Nov 2006]

Market Your Open Positions

whitepaper Writing persuasive job descriptions that attract qualified candidates is essential in today's business environment. This webcast shows how Microsoft Office Word 2003 can help the user to create compelling job descriptions and provide more enticing...

Tags: job, descriptions, microsoft office, employees

[08 Nov 2006]

How the revised Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) impacts overtime for IT workers

whitepaper This HDI white paper will help support managers and IT organizations assess their current standing under the revised FLSA, examine their job descriptions and make an initial assessment of their staff's position regarding FLSA.

Tags: security standards, published, standards, act

[16 May 2006]

See how your salary stacks up with this IT compensation survey

whitepaper This excerpt from the survey summarizes such trends, looks at positions with the greatest compensation changes, offers nine pages of capsule IT job descriptions, lists average compensation for a variety of job roles, and provides other glimpses of...

Tags: career development, survey, united states, job

[16 May 2006]

U.S. Office of Personnel Management Case Study: State of New Jersey

whitepaper The State of New Jersey's Department of Personnel was using a task defined job classification system that had resulted in the creation of over 15,000 separate position descriptions. Using HR Manager, a competency based system, the State of New...

Tags: human capital management, department, personnel, descriptions

[20 May 2005]

Waterstone's sacks employee over blog

Waterstone's sacks employee over blog

News Gordon, however, maintains that such descriptions were intended light-heartedly and were meant to reminiscent of a Dilbert cartoon. If his manager had asked him to stop talking about his job at Waterstone's in his blog, Gordon said he would have...

Tags: waterstones, blog

[10 Jan 2005]

Extraordinary Results on National Goals: Networks and Partnerships in the Bureau of Primary Health Care's 100%/0 Campaign

whitepaper The civil servants profiled in this report all went "beyond" their job descriptions to provide leadership on a national goal in which BPHC had been legislated a relatively small, defined role. The report demonstrates how committed and dedicated...

Tags: human capital management, role, civil, servants

[27 Dec 2004]

IT Service Management - Making It Happen

whitepaper The majority of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) modules within Service Support and Service Delivery contain job descriptions and attributes for the person responsible for a particular discipline. The success or failure of IT Service Management...

Tags: sla, service management, infrastructure library, failure

[22 Nov 2004]

Electric Cooperative Finds Peace with Abra Solutions

whitepaper PRECO is able to monitor employee progress and match appropriate skills and capabilities with job descriptions. Peace River Electric Cooperative, Inc. PRECO) is a not-for-profit distribution cooperative headquartered in Wauchula, Fl.

Tags: hr

[24 Feb 2004]

Common Performance Bottlenecks and How to Find Them

whitepaper This white paper discusses the types of bottlenecks and how to detect them, with descriptions of select tools that can make the System Administrator's job easier. Performance has become a mission-critical aspect of the System Administrator's job...

Tags: bandwidth issues, job, administrator, bottlenecks

[24 Feb 2004]

IT skills framework gets users' support

News Gary Cannon from Norwich Union said the framework has improved consistency of IT job descriptions across the business, aided future planning and reduce inefficiencies. An industry-wide IT skills framework that will create single standard job and...

[04 Nov 2003]

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