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Career Planning Secrets Revealed 1.0 (Windows)

This free step-by-step guide covers everything there is to know about career planning, making the right career choices, and landing your dream job. It doesn't matter if you are just starting to look for the perfect job - or if you've been in the work force for some time and...

Tags: Career Planning, Microsoft Windows, Professional Development, Career

Software downloads 2009-05-29

The Black Book of Power 1.9 (Windows)

A self-improvement ebook. Covers career planning, self-confidence, office politics, relationships and mysticism. Complete texts of works by Machiavelli, Sun-Tzu and Balthasar Gracian are included also.

Tags: Career Planning, Professional Development, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Training And Certification, Career, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-09-23

Additional Resources

Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases (We'd All Like to Use)

Complete waste of skin. nt..The 7 P's"Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Performance. He has the last three down to a science." or "I'm not sure what we would do without his wit, however, I'm not sure what he does without it." This employee......will only be productive when we discover...

Tags: Performance management, Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases, performance

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show

Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...

Tags: Human Resources Inc., Katherine, Herewith, HR Tech, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Six types of IT project failure

HRM FailureThe biggest missing category/type is human resource management failure, to include poorly defined work, roles, KSAOCs the human characteristics needed to accomplish work effectively; poorly selected participants as to their KSAOCs; poorly designed/executed incentives could be routine total compensation plans or those specific to the project; poorly designed/executed work...

Tags: Human resource management (HRM), Organizational structure, HRM, IT Project Failure, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Not your father's tech school

Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, BS Degree, CTE, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Life Plan Writer 6.1 (Windows)

Life Plan Writer makes it easy to look at your life and create strategies and task lists for all your goals. The easy-to-use interface and help files guide you through the process to a finished five-year plan. If you know where you're going, you're much more likely to get there....

Tags: Financial, Goal, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Typing Chimp Software, Professional Development, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Career, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-28

Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud

The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...

Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Can an algorithm stop Google's brain drain?

Google has turned to an algorithm to crunch data on its employees to prevent brain drain.  The Wall Street Journal reports: The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which...

Tags: Algorithm, Google Inc., Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-19

A Case for Virtualization

Anyone who has worked in the Information Technology IT field knows that there will inevitably be a time in their career where they are faced with a technology refresh. Regardless of the scale, acquiring new technology and pushing it into production is a very serious undertaking and requires careful planning...

Tags: Virtualization, Training, Technology, Matt Moberg, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Professional Development, Human Resources, Career

White papers 2009-04-14

29K legal jobs to migrate to India by 2008

29K legal jobs to migrate to India by 2008paralegal jobs ukWhether you are young or not-so-young, planning your first venture into a career or changing careers in mid-life, you might like to consider becoming a paralegal. This field will open up a world of opportunities, enjoyment, and personal satisfaction for...

Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, paralegal, career, job

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

National Bank Boosts Staff Training With Online Collaboration Solution

Based in Melbourne, the National Australia Bank NAB has more than 25,000 employees working in 800 branches, 180 business banking centers, 110 regional agribusiness locations, and three major contact centers. NAB needed a collaboration infrastructure to support a new self-directed, employee development initiative called The Academy that would provide social...

Tags: Bank, Online Collaboration, National Australia Bank, Training, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make

Guest post: Certain common IT management mistakes can make you less effective, hamper your career advancement, and even jeopardize your job. Executive coach Joey Smith has spent years working with IT management and he put together this list of the mistakes he’s seen most often. For more posts like this...

Tags: Job, IT Administration, Information Technology, IT Manager, Personal Development, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Sanity check: State of the IT profession 2009

In light of the release of our 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report, I have assembled a set of observations about the current state of the IT profession. Here are the areas of strength and the most significant challenges. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" We the people...

Tags: Information Technology, Survey, IT Department, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-02-24

IBM â€" Move overseas if you want to keep your job

Certainly, it’s an interesting proposal that IBM has put forward to its former employees. According to a ComputerWorld article, “Some of the workers being let go by IBM have a chance to remain with the company â€" if they're willing to move to Brazil, India, China...

Tags: U.S., Job, Salary, IBM Corp., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-11

The Fundamentals of a Coaching Session: Preparation Is the Game Plan for Developing Talent

Employee coaching is a methodology used to develop talents and skills within the employees that leads to promotion, increased productivity, and career longevity. Successful coaching techniques help people to retain top talent, and that talent helps drive and expand the business. But good coaching takes knowledge, forethought, and-most of all-planning.

Tags: Game, Talent, PeopleAnswers, Workforce Management, Human Resources

White papers 2009-01-12

Emirates NBD Leads Human Resources Technology Revolution Across the United Arab Emirates

Emirates NBD wanted to upgrade Human Resources HR system and add genuine business value through decentralization and create a "Virtual HR manager" by instilling greater dependency on systems and self-service while eliminating bottlenecks. The challenge was to reduce overhead costs associated with core HR processes, including workflow, payroll, and performance...

Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Training

Case studies 2009-01-01

Forced to think about a career change? Here are some greentech job links

Forced to think about a career change? Here are some greentech job linksThe Big PictureWe have to look at "the big picture." Our days of tunnel vision need to cease. Our nation better wake up and smell the coffee. With all our bail outs along with the 168 billion economic...

Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, career change, job, career

Discussion threads 2008-12-24

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeatingOS/2 was the best OS...ever written at the time. It would still compete with anything MS has ever written. It was fast and you couldn't crash it. Even if you tried.You mention XP has its limitations. What are they?If anybody is planning on encroaching...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, distro

Discussion threads 2008-12-09