IT and Jobs

April 12, 2009

ING cutting staff

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 6:23 pm

Dutch bank ING is cutting staff and new IT contracts in a desperate attempt to cut costs.

ING wants to slash 7,000 full-time jobs increased by 1.1 billion €, for a year by 2010. Just over a third of which comes from the payment of wages below, and the rest of the reduction in the cost of the seat, reducing the cost of the promotion of the Renault Formula 1 team and renegotiate contracts IT.

ING also said goodbye to its chief executive Michel Tilmant yesterday. In an official statement said he “Given the extraordinary events of recent months and their personal wealth.” In the ING representative told the newspaper that in recent months has taken its effect on Tilmant, and he was exhausted.

ING shares of 70 percent over the past six months - it takes € 10 billion crisis of the Dutch Government in October. Tilmant was the current Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Jan Hommen.

In other news, Murdoch of Fox Interactive Media - for example, MySpace, Photobucket and other News Corp. Web-sites - did five per cent of the staff. This means that 100 people go, The Wall Street Journal reported. A MySpace representative of any reduction in jobs in the social network site.

The reduction of jobs in the News Corp. site, including the UK Times Online, is expected in the coming weeks

January 10, 2009

A new free international IT Jobs site launched

Filed under: IT Jobs — Tags: , , , — admin @ 9:34 am

Last month a new IT jobs website was launched. They are dedicated to the IT sector, but onlike others they don’t just limit themselves to having IT jobs, but come with real features and new ideas into the job recruitment industry. ITJobHunt.com have a predefined (and quite large and well though) list of IT domains and skills that candidate can simply select for their CVs, and that employers can put as a requirement for their job offers. Why is this such a big deal you ask me? Well it allows the website to make matches between CVs and job offers and suggest people what job ads they should read first and for which ones they are qualified. This saves time for the potential employees, but is also a much more efficient recruitment campaign for the employer. His job offers are basically advertised to a highly targeted audience: not only people that want jobs in the industry, but people that have the skills he needs. A lot of those people are going to apply to his job offer.

Another thing that makes this website more interesting is that it is international. You can find jobs in other countries. More developed countries like the US, England, Germany, France etc are always out the “hunting” for highly qualified immigrants that require smaller wages and are eager to accept any work conditions.

Also, the website is 100% free to use, both for companies and candidates. Basicly you have nothing to loose. Personally I’m waiting for some job offers in my own country right now :)

www.itjobhunt.com

January 9, 2009

Website Design: The Secret of Online Marketing

Filed under: web design — admin @ 7:45 am

Promoting the brand image of a business organization through the online media would not have been possible if the concept of website design has not been evolved in the due course of time. The concept of “Website Design” has gained a new dimension because of the spectacular growth of Internet in the past few years. Therefore, it is an inevitable fact that companies will start vying with each other to lure customers by presenting their products and services in an attractive way through the online medium. Now, designing an attractive website is the only way to execute this task. Besides representing the brand image of your organization, it will also make your presence live in this virtual world. As technology is becoming more and more complicated, a common person may find it extremely difficult to come to term with the latest development in the field of website design. Incorporation of flash, 3D, Mac in a website have increased the visual appeal of a website.

As it is possible for you to garner adequate knowledge about these software packages, you need to hire some professional website designers. Though there are numerous website designing companies are available online, most of them are not trustable. You need to gather information about a web design company before anything else. WebGuru India, a leading India based website design company, has eighteen years of global presence. You can trust on this company as it has a large satisfied client base worldwide.

January 8, 2009

How to loose a job applicant 10 steps

Filed under: IT Jobs — admin @ 12:40 pm

This article is inspired by the movie “How to loose a guy in 10 days” and by an article I saw in a news paper with excelent tips on how to get a job in the IT. This is a clever twist on the old job hunting tips genre.

I also think that on the other side of the coin, as for thousands of IT professionals every day in search of work, thousands of organizations are not desperate to fill positions. In fact, attract (and retain) high-flying technical talent is more important than ever, but many organizations can not close the deal because of the mistakes of the recruitment process. So here are my 10 tips on how not to recruit IT job seeker (some of which are based on personal experience):

1. Make sure that the responsibilities are not clear. There are many ways to do it. Some good words to use:

“We like people who can do a little bit of everything.”
“I can give you an idea, but things change quickly here.”
“Once you’re on board we can figure.”

2. Bait and switch. The candidate comes to speak about the work he or she applies, but you are talking about this other work that is available. Not one, of course, that pays more than a job applicant was interviewed for. This happened to me.

3. Trash person who previously had the available positions. This clearly indicates that the applicant, if hired, he or she may also be slimed sometime in the future.

4. Make the applicant to wait for at least the last half and hour after the interview appointed time. This ensures that the applicant knows you are disorganized, rude or consider positions to be filled with low priority.

5. Eat at your desk during the interview. This happened to me, some 10 years ago in Computerworld. (This is true, I’m going to name.) Best sandwich is messy, smells (tuna is effective here), and chew with your mouths open.

6. Make it clear in the interview that you read the applicant’s resume the first time. Nothing crushes the interviewee pride more than a feeling that he or she is so stupid some anonymous, not somebody who really are happy about the interview. Well, except for the number 5.

7. Take personal calls during the interview. The longer and more trivial the better. Make sure to turn their backs on the plaintiff. In addition, personal experience.

8. Being totally inflexible about the benefits. Of course, some organizations to negotiate with applicants for such things as vacation time, telecommuting, etc. You can avoid this Pandora’s box, just say no. Here’s an excellent decision-murderer: No vacation time during the first six months, or even in the first year. The newspaper industry base that can be easily adapted to the IT sector.

9. Being evasive about his company’s financial health and market strategy. Curious job seekers do not need to know everything. In addition, it is not, how can you predict the future.

I hope this guide will help your organization in its efforts to not hire the best IT professionals.

December 28, 2008

Webdesign and HTML5

Filed under: web design — admin @ 8:49 am

In my years of experience dealing with end users, I have become a pessimist without remedy, without any faith in the ability of customers to understand, which is so important that we get the documentation, such as how we give the …

Leo wrote a very good article at csslab:

“The Semantic Web helps to solve these two major problems allowing users to delegate tasks in software. Thanks to the semantics on the Web, the software is able to process their content, reason for this, combine and make logical inferences to solve everyday problems automatically. ”

It is from this reading, I doubts came to me … how to get our clients to provide us information about their websites, so that developers and typesetters, at every moment to know what kind of format belongs each line, paragraph or Text … only our customers knows the reality of his business so that only they can tell if a title of a technical paper deserves a <h1> or if a <h3>, if a snippet is a <p> or a <article> or <aside>.

Another question would be whether the designers and programmers are ready to assist our clients in this classification of information, or whether on the contrary companies must incorporate web series, linguists, journalists, analysts, “copys” or other similar profiles .

We are at the dawn of this new “revolution” of the webs, and as all the previous ones, their turning into reality only depends on those browsers manufacturers, who want to become once “standard” by following the precepts of the W3.org

There is softwares indexing websites that analyze their content based on a few key words, google is already a semantic search engine, and with HTML5 it is to make it easier for the spiders to “understand” the content, the better classify the data. Here we have the real battle of will be with the person or persons responsible for these optimizations. This might create a whole new industry of content creation and new jobs.

December 15, 2008

Obama wants three million new jobs

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The nominee for U.S. President Barack Obama has given the economic crisis increased its target market: In the next two years, now three million new jobs created and the unemployment rate to nine percent limit, shared his advisers on Saturday with.

The Obama campaign had announced a policy with which one million new jobs will be created. Last month, when the U.S. slipping into a recession, he increased the number to 2.5 million. On the weekend - after the decision by the outgoing President Bush on the temporary rescue of the U.S. auto industry - the goal was once again increased by 500,000. Obama will react in order to forecast the economy professor Christina Romer, that without decisive government action in the U.S. in the coming year three to four million jobs lost. Romer is chairman of Obama’s economic advisor circle.

Obama wants the economy with massive government spending help: His advisers are currently looking at ways to more than 650 billion U.S. dollars to raise. Under discussion are federal investments in health, education, infrastructure and energy sectors, the basis for a sustainable economy to lay.

October 26, 2008

Dow we have a crisis or not?

Filed under: Economic crisis — admin @ 9:10 am

All talk of crisis: financial crisis, economic crisis, education crisis …, maybe one or else no personal crisis, a Christmas crisis, final year crisis? So much talk about crisis, it clearly shows little they actually know. Retailers, for example, hardly dare admit that the transaction actually going well. And recent studies among workers in this country, it is difficult, the sense of crisis right down to it.

Apparently, the AG job did not properly believe what their study they collect once per quarter by TNS Emnid in the workforce, that has come out with: “The feeling of wellness in the workplace among workers, despite financial crisis is established at a good level ” says the press release. On a scale of 1.0 (very bad) to 10.0 (very good), 1,200 respondents answered at a mean value of 7.7. This figure is according to TNS Emnid for six months stable in the first quarter of this year, it was even lower, at 7.5.
While Stefan Polak, chairman of the study commissioned job AG, the outcome but then joyfully commented - he praised the workers, who apparently are more pleased than many employers believe - are the comments of those responsible for further study crises. The survey by the career portal Placement24 clearly states we have a “moderate crisis”. “The crisis has not arrived yet in all minds of the specialists and managers” Tonio said, founder and CEO of Placement24.

2,217 persons had participated in the survey: 28 percent consider their jobs for endangered by the crisis, 9 percent more than in May, 60 percent expect a deterioration in their financial situation in the coming year. The majority still has no consequences: 51 percent reported that their consumption patterns have not changed. After all, 47 percent feel safe in their employer.

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