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The Fastest Growing Companies 2009 - Who’s Hiring Now Vol I
January 14th, 2010
Author Byline: CareerAlley
Author Website: CareerAlley
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” - Julie Andrews
If job search requires anything, it is certainly perseverance. Endless resume submissions, numerous interview, and where are the jobs? But you need to keep with it and look in the right places. Beyond qualifying for a position (there are thousands of people who qualify for every position out there), you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time. In any cases, you actually want to be there first.
So what does this really mean (this “perseverance” thing)? Well for one, you’ve got to be totally committed to “The Search”. If you are out of work, your full time job is to find a job (it’s so easy to get distracted). If you are one of the lucky ones and still have a job, you must still devote time to the search if you expect to get results. Okay, so you are probably asking for a description of being “totally committed”. Start by looking at the following posts:
MAKE A PLAN! Use whatever organizational tool works for you (paper and pen is fine) and make a list of what you will do EVERY DAY. So, what might this list look like?
- Check your favorite job boards every morning
- At least one new recruiter every day
- At least one new company career site every day
- At least one new job board per day
- Tweak your resumes (on the top job boards) once per week
- Join social networks (and be active) like LinkedIn
The good news is that there are jobs out there, and there is a brand new list of the Fastest Growing Companies (you can use these links as your company career site for the day). Today’s post will cover the new list (as of August 31st) with a fresh look at the companies, a broad range of companies and a list of links to real jobs over 578 job opportunities were identified across these companies.
- Research In Motion - Ranked #1 on this years list, I think we all know what RIM does (does Blackberry ring a bell?). Their career site is visually appealing, with a changing picture and text. There are links across the top of the page for Why RIM?, Search Opportunities, Students & New Grads and Career Help. Towards the bottom center of the page, there are featured careers (Careers in Finance and Engineering). Clicking on Search Opportunities leads to a page where you can select yoru region or create your profile. Searching all jobs returned 572 job opportunities.
- Sigma Designs - According to their website, “Sigma Designs develops and markets high-performance, highly-integrated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) semiconductors for the following key markets” and is ranked #2 on the list. Their careers page is somewhat sparse. They have some links on the left hand side of the page for locations (California, France, Singapore, Canada) and one for Sales. The center of their careers page has a high level overview, along with an address to send your resume as well as a fax number and email address. Clicking on any of the locations reviews job categories. Click on these categories to see a list of existing job opportunities. When I checked the site, there were approximately 8 job opportunities globally.
- Sohu.com - Ranked #3, this company is based in China so, unless you live in China or plan on working there, this company will have limited appeal.
- Ebix - According to their website, “Ebix is a leading international supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry“. Their career site starts with an overview, followed by a list of job types and then job opportunities. Click on “details” to see details of the listed jobs or “apply” if this job fits your criteria. There were 8 job opportunities when I checked the site.
- DG FastChannel - Ranked # 5, DG FastChannel “is the nation’s leading provider of digital media services to the advertising industry and operates the largest network designed specifically for spot distribution” according the their website. The main careers page leads with an overview followed by a listing of jobs (none when I checked the site). There is also an email address where you can send your cover letter and resume.
Good luck in your search.
Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.
How to set up a recruiter for failure…
January 10th, 2010
It is interesting to observe certain management teams come up with numerical benchmarks that are not tethered to reality. A contract recruiting team is a tight group where the success of each individual heavily depends on the success of every other individual. The way most contract staffing agencies work is that the sales people are responsible for bringing job orders and recruiters are responsible for bringing candidates.
Imagine a scenario where a recruiter was told to fill a certain quota by finding candidates but without having a corresponding job order for those candidates. It gets better.
Imagine there is no sales strategy.
Further, imagine that the management is trying to sell offshore and web development deals that have no bearing on the recruiter quota at all.
What? Are you confused yet?
Question: Did the management effectively set up recruiting for total failure? Yes.
Question 2: Would recruiting be correct in describing the management as delusional and completely out of touch with reality? Yes.
Question 3: If the sales people do not sell contract staffing services which are the basis of the quota in the first place, how is the quota not pulled out of thin air?
Question 4: Would it be the right thing to cut recruiting and leave the management responsible for the setup? No, cut the whole team if you’re going to cut anyone.
Sounds like a delusional dream coming from someone straight out of a psychiatric ward.
Want to build your own website?
January 7th, 2010
Article Title: Want to build your own website?
Author Byline: Amit Puri is the Managing Consultant at Sandbox Advisors. He has over 10 years of business, career services and HR related experience, with companies such as Bain & Co, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Sandbox Advisors is based in Singapore and provides career management/advice, job search, interview, resume and HR consulting services in Asia.
Author Website: Thinking about starting a website for yourself or your company?
With the tools available today, this can be very very easy. Unless you have very specific requirements, need some custom programming or have a large project in mind, I would recommend the DIY approach as opposed to hiring an expensive web designer. All you need to know is one magical word – “Wordpress”. Here is what you need to do to get started. These are broad steps which will provide a roadmap to work with and details of exact procedures will be available through installation wizards and support documentation given by various providers. - To get started register the domain name and you have in mind with one of the good/cheap providers (GoDaddy, BlueHost, JustHost and so on) and also sign-up for a hosting package - Setup Wordpress from your hosting account. There will usually be a prominent option/tab for this - Pick a Wordpress theme. These are ready-made templates which you can customise fairly easily, to get the layout, colours, etc. that you want. There are some excellent themes available depending on your needs. Have a look at this website for a listing of some of the good providers - http://www.premiumwp.com/ - Install the theme on Wordpress and customise as per requirements -Get your plug-ins. These are applications that can add lots of features to your website such as spam check, search engine optimisation, opt-in forms, contact us forms, advertisement management, forums, live chats, media galleries and much more. Some of the essentials ones I recommend and which are useful for most websites are – Akismet, All in One Adsense and YPN, All in One SEO Pack, Easy Contact, Dean’s Permalink Migration, Google XML Sitemaps, ShareThis, Subscribe to Comments and Yet Another Related Posts Plug-in. There are some very specific plug-ins available to meet demands of various users, so make sure you search Wordpress and Google to see what’s out there - Start creating your pages and posts That’s it! It really is quite simple and you need more time than specialised expertise. In case you want help on any of the aspects listed above, post a job on elance/guru and hire a reasonably priced freelancer to set it up for you. It won’t cost much and they can also be used to add new features/applications to your theme.
Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.
Some Scary Comments… about the NAVY SEALS
December 28th, 2009
Back to the NAVY SEALS story. I really did not think that any American would froth at the mouth quite so much at the opportunity to denigrate the US Armed Forces, but I was wrong.
Just like the idiots who threw garbage and screamed obscenities at soldiers returning from Vietnam, so the leftist loonies are getting out the tar and feathers for the American soldiers of today.
It will be with open arms that these psychotic liberals welcome Islam to America and sadly for them they will be the first to be executed by the murderous Islamists.
And the NAVY SEALS that they helped charge will not be around to save them.
Only the sickest scum bag can dishonor the military for what politicians put them through. Most of these scum bags don’t have the balls to join themselves.
ISLAM is not a religion of Peace. Never was, never will be. Get it?
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fox-host-outraged-navy-seals-charged/
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December 27th, 2009
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