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Selling Your Job: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions

whitepaper As a hiring manager, one may have 10 of these openings on one's own team. There may be thousands of open job positions available annually in the United States in the company's area of expertise. How much time has one personally dedicated to writing...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Recruiting Specialists: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions

whitepaper As a hiring manager, one may have recently been given the okay to hire new people for the team. What steps will one take to ensure that the job descriptions stand out amid all the other similar open positions on the market?

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Hire Talent From Inside or Go Outside?

whitepaper The prevalence of outside hiring can be seen in the exploding use of search firms and job boards, and in the growing rates of voluntary turnover in organizations - most people who quit do so for jobs elsewhere.

Tags: planning and services

[12 May 2008]

The Meanings and Motivations of Open-Source Communities

whitepaper Not long ago, software was developed by hiring smart people, locking them in a room, and sliding pizza under the door until the job was done. At the heart of Phipps's analysis is a process of decentralization that is affecting the lives of people...

Tags: java

[28 Mar 2008]

IT chiefs cutting back on contractors

News Ric Francis, executive director of operations, said: "We are reducing IT contractor spending but by reconverting to permanent," adding: "We are hiring as we speak. This saves money and also gets around our current freeze on full-time hiring.

Tags: credit crunch, skills, contractors

[28 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Recruitment nightmares

Comment Not that I am averse to hiring someone with great levels of confidence - but I do find a sense of humility endearing. Technical training is valid but it does not identify if someone can perform key job-related functions.

Tags: recruitment, candidates, interviews, skills

[11 Feb 2008]

2008: Crunch time for IT jobs?

News Everyone we're talking to at the moment is talking about strong hiring plans for this year. But talk of a wider economic slowdown is not putting companies off hiring tech staff going into the new year, said Wassall, who added there is "still a...

Tags: jobs, techies, skills, consultancy

[10 Jan 2008]

Fresh tech talent in demand next year

News Recent turbulence in the banking sector has not affected graduate hiring plans in the financial services industry, according to a poll conducted by tech grad recruitment site the IT Job Board. The survey of 50 UK organisations found the vast...

Tags: skills, recruitment, graduates, survey

[23 Nov 2007]

Skills Survey 2007: Banks hardest hit by staff crisis

News Such shortages can be adequately filled by hiring contractors, according to the majority of respondents from the FS, public and retail sectors. Half of the respondents to the survey who work in the FS sector said they have tech job vacancies they...

Tags: outsourcing, skills shortage, financial services, skills

[28 Aug 2007]

"Rife" ageism causing IT skills crisis?

News An unemployed reader from Virginia, US, said: "When are companies going to wake up and see the correlation between a shortage of skilled talent and their own discrimination against hiring anyone over 45?

Tags: skills survey, skills shortage, skills crisis, skills

[21 Aug 2007]

How to succeed in China, India and beyond

News Creating a wholly owned subsidiary, as opposed to hiring a third-party business or engaging in a joint operation, is the best strategy for meeting goals in emerging markets. Successful companies avoid applicants with a history of 'job hopping' and...

Tags: offshoring, emerging markets

[25 Jan 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 05.01.07

Round-Up Unemployment among IT graduates is at 10.3 per cent whereas art and design sees 10.2 per cent of students end up on the jobless list, compared to 8.6 per cent among media studies students and an incredible 6.6 per cent among performing arts...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[05 Jan 2007]

Oracle Case Study: Russell

whitepaper Russell lacked the resources and skills to do the job quickly, however, and hiring and training were out of the question. In 1999, Russell Investment Group selected a PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS solution from Oracle but was forced to wait more than...

Tags: accounting applications, peoplesoft, peoplesoft enterprise, hrms

[07 Dec 2006]

Richardson Independent School District Creates a Centralized Pool of Job Candidates

whitepaper The school district wanted to allow principals and supervisors to easily access and search a centralized candidate pool of prequalified candidates for efficient recruitment and hiring. Richardson Independent School District is a K-12 school system...

Tags: hr, school, district, recruitment

[07 Dec 2006]

Pay rates for techies skyrocket

News Recently it was revealed that some superstar IT workers are so in demand they are hiring their own Hollywood-style agents. As a result nearly half (49 per cent) of all IT workers are now either seriously looking for a new job, or open to...

Tags: pay

[07 Nov 2006]

Little hope for anti-ageism laws

News The legislation, which comes into effect on 1 October, makes it illegal for companies to discriminate against individuals based on their age during the hiring process or when considering promotion or providing on-the-job training.

Tags: ageism in it

[29 Sep 2006]

Asia goes global

AS Analysis Huawei continues to expand outside of its domestic market, setting up research and development and marketing operations in the UK and hiring all over the world, including Africa and Latin America - much to the annoyance of the established Western...

[25 Sep 2006]

The Executive CIO: David Weymouth, ex-CIO Barclays

The Executive CIO: David Weymouth, ex-CIO Barclays

Comment You fill in the gaps by hiring consultants or bringing in technologists. David Weymouth, now 51 years old, stepped down as Barclays CIO last year and his career fits the typical profile of an executive CIO, having spent almost 30 years with the...

Tags: executive cio, david weymouth

[21 Sep 2006]

Leader: Ageism in IT - what do you think?

Leader But the laws certainly send a strong message to employers about how they must treat workers when hiring, firing and advertising jobs. Starting on 1 October, new laws will make it illegal for companies to deny a job or promotion to anyone because of...

Tags: ageism in it

[11 Sep 2006]

IT salaries on the up in the Far East

News The hiring trend for all job functions remains positive across the sector this quarter, according to Hudson. Brisk hiring activities can also be expected and IT professionals are likely to be encouraged - by this environment - to change jobs, she...

Tags: it salaries, asia, china

[20 Jul 2006]

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