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- Recruitment Firm Gains Secure Remote Access to E-Mail and Simplifies Security Administration
- ROC Recruitment relies heavily on Web-based processes, and handles confidential information about job seekers and employers. It also has a large mobile workforce, using e-mail to send and receive CVs, and to send out contracts, and keeping this information secure is vitally important. In late 2003, the company began to...
- Tags: Remote Access, Microsoft Corp., System Security, Workforce, ROC Recruitment, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Security Administration, Security, Online Communications, Human Resources
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- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...
- Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-02
- MI6 searching for the next generation
- Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...
- Tags: Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Reducing Recruitment Spend: Smart Steps To Find Great Candidates
- Apply the tips from internet recruiting pioneer and recruitment marketing expert, Rob Humphrey, to strengthen your staffing program and lower costs now. Included in this report: effectively using free candidate source social networks to find quality candidates getting data to reduce and focus...
- Tags: Recruitment, Candidate, Jobvite, Marketing Research, Internet, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-10-10
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- CNET colleague Stephen Shankland discovered a neat way that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is using technology: political recruiting, direct to your iPhone. Styled much like his iPolitics-looking website, the tool has several features: one feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Tool, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, GPS, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- 14 ways IT screws up projects
- 14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...
- Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- UK secret service recruiting on Facebook
- MI6, a branch of the UK's secret service, is using Facebook as part of a recent recruitment drive to find the "next generation of spies". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Recruiting, U.K., MI6, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger
- While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner's VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....
- Tags: Analyst, Blog, Gartner Inc., Blogger, Thomas, Tele-management, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- SAP teams up with InnoCentive; Software IP questions abound
- Updated: SAP is partnering with InnoCentive, an "open innovation market place," to link so called "seekers," or companies looking to solve a business problem, with "solvers," developers that can save the day. For instance, SAP is looking for someone to create novel uses of social networking in enterprise applications. ...
- Tags: Team, IP, SAP AG, InnoCentive, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Higher Education Commission Automates Student Administration at Pakistan Universities
- The Higher Education Commission HEC was established by the Government of Pakistan in 2002. Student recruitment and administration and the distribution of information took far too long. Everything was done on paper or using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. There was no common platform between the universities and it was quite chaotic...
- Tags: Education, Oracle Corp., Commission, Administration, University, Pakistan, Workforce Management, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Human Resources, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- CIO Sessions: CareerBuilder CTO: Eric Presley
- Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News' Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations. He also discusses technologies to aid the job hunting experience for its users from creating new social networking tools to developing...
- Tags: Job, CareerBuilder, CTO, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- CareerBuilder CTO: Eric Presley
- Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News' Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations. He also discusses technologies to aid the job hunting experience for its users from creating new social networking tools to developing...
- Tags: Job, CareerBuilder, CTO, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Lijit secures $7.1 million series C round
- Lijit Networks, which provides search and analytics engines that benefit both bloggers and their readers, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 million series C funding round. Foundry Group, which was a late investor after Lijit closed its $3.3 million series B round last year, led this round. Existing...
- Tags: Network, Analytics, Blog, C, Lijit, Blogging, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- More dissent on SAP maintenance price hike
- Things are not getting any easier for SAP following the across the board maintenance price hike announced July 16th. Earlier today I spoke with Alan Bowling, chairman of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group on the topic. In an official announcement last Friday, Bowling said: "The mandatory nature of...
- Tags: SAP AG, ECC6, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Web Services, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- IT work is 'boring,' students
- IT work is 'boring,' studentsThey're right. It can be boring.It's nothing like where I came from doing CAD drawings and design work.There's a [i]lot[/i] more boring paperwork in this position then I imagined.Why do you think I stop here from time to time?RE: IT work is 'boring,' studentsIts all in...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Work, job
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- How do you talk to people who just don't want to hear it? Every time I get into a conversation comparing Windows to any Unix option I discover the same thing: the people who will listen to rational argument already know the right answers,...
- Tags: Belief, Believer, Festinger, Dissonance, Security, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Online Company Expands Services with New Web Environment
- To expand its online business and increase revenue, reed.co.uk wanted to add new recruitment services. In 2007, the company collaborated with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Attenda to plan a Web environment based on the Windows Server 2008 Standard operating system and Microsoft .NET connection software. Now, the development team can...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- White papers 2008-06-04
- Siebel 2.0 – A Year Later
- A year ago I predicted that, right about this time, Salesforce.com would start to look a little shabby, a whole lot shabbier than it indeed looks at this time. It was part of a polemic I started when I called Salesforce.com the next Siebel, and I didn't necessarily mean in...
- Tags: Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
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