cvs in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Recruitment nightmares
Comment Lying on CVs, exaggerated skills and inflated egos are the petty recruitment problems facing our embattled CIO, newly arrived at a largish company. Other unattractive traits are falsification - or sometimes blatant lying... [11 Feb 2008]
How to write a killer CV
Comment If you are considering very diverse roles, for example, CIO versus partner in a consulting firm, you may need two CVs. Another issue is how many CVs do you need? I could write a whole book entitled The... [17 Jan 2008]
Ageism in IT: Over 40? Forget about getting a job
Comment But could it be that companies would be more open to CVs from older applicants than headhunters think? A reader pointed out that "employers and their surrogates - the agencies - [fail] to see older staff as a pool of... [28 May 2004]
Leader: The small world of situations vacant
Leader Recently there has been a spate of CEO positions filled; at CA, Dell and Siebel to name three major posts, so there are doubtless more than a few up-to-date CVs. Last week we were mulling over just who might replace... [14 Feb 2005]
How to earn more money by 2004
Comment But before every helpdesk support worker, database administrator, programmer and IT manager start re-working those CVs and rooting the interview suit out of the back of the wardrobe for a trip to the dry cleaners the... [21 May 2003]
Start-up of the Month: Reply Wireless - the WAIP of Savile Row
Comment Reply Wireless has been set up by David Ravech and Robert Silver, both are Australian with the kind of 'round the world' CVs tech executives and Australians seem to specialise in. This month, Tony Hallett pays a visit to... [26 Sep 2002]
CollabNet: Bringing open source to the rest of us
Comment When it saw the need for an open-source version control tool to succeed the industry standard CVS (Concurrent Versions System), it spearheaded the creation of the Subversion project by hiring four employees to get the... [15 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.11.05
Round-Up Adobe can probably now expect an influx of CVs from the vast majority of software salesmen on the back of that testimony. Scandalabra! What a catalogue of sleaze and sauciness the Round-Up has to bring you this week from... [25 Nov 2005]
Inside offshoring: Managing the risks
Comment Working with an American multinational doing high-end software development we found consistently month after month 35 per cent falsification of CVs," he said. Articles and commentary on IT offshoring and BPO in India and... [02 Jun 2004]
John Lamb's Week (4/12/00): Who wants to help an e-millionaire?
Comment The address for CVs is stephen.harpin@youreable.com. The talking shop for telecoms, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is holding its regional bash - ITU Telecom Asia 2000 - in Hong Kong between December 4... [04 Dec 2000]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment The Mars name also features heavily on the CVs of many of the CIOs on this year's silicon.com CIO50 list, including winner Robin Dargue, group CIO and technology director at the Royal Mail - though he joined not as a... [11 Jun 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment These are not so much individuals who want something to put down on their CVs," said Holway. There are several charities that bring together the tech sector with good causes and, as Tony Hallett learns, tapping your... [09 Jul 2008]
Through the fog... Software configuration management
Comment For example, CVS for version management and Bugzilla for change request control. Software does exist to make projects run harmoniously, with little excuse for disarray in teams of developers. Quocirca analyst Bob Tarzey... [11 Sep 2003]
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