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Employment after college: Start off low, work your way up

Employment during term-time at college: besides the money you earn, what are the long term benefits to reap? Industry connections are worth more than a first class degree, and this is why. Article by Zack Whittaker

Tags: College, Employment, Industry Connection, Benefits, Human Resources, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-09-15

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

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New York Nights: Success In the City for iPhone 1.1.5 (Mobile)

New York Nights: success in the city for iPhone is a social simulation game for your iPhone and iPod Touch. You arrive in Manhattan fresh off the plane with little more than the shirt on your back and a place to crash. Make friends, find profitable employment, and party hard...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, New York, Gameloft, Smart Phones, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Can you teach programmers to be journalists?

Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-27

KFC UNThinking at the UN

Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...

Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Corporate health reform comes to our house

It doesn't matterAll the health care reform bills currently in congress eliminate HSAs.RE: Corporate health reform comes to our houseYou were wrong about one thing. Health Savings Account do not roll over.It is true you can use some of what is left in the first quarter of the next...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, HSA, HRA, network

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

LeaderTask Personal Organizer 6.6.3 (Windows)

Set your goals. Work more effectively and have more free time than ever with LeaderTask. Forget the traditional task organizers. They are good if you live to work. They are great if you just want to plan things and get a few reminder. Instead, try the new generation organizer that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Small Business, Plan, Time Management, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-10-22

BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...

Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Personnel Plus Training 2.58 Build 2 (Windows)

Personnel Plus Training tracks employees and applicants' previous employment history, training history, training scheduled and training requirements, appraisals, drug testing, and miscellaneous user-defined information. This package has terminology that changes depending on the country it is used in, such as Social Insurance/Social Security and zip code/postal code. Includes Security Accounts,...

Tags: Personnel Plus Inc., Microsoft Windows, Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-16

Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials - a potent Silicon Valley workforce

work-force plentiful, but will execs recruit, relo, pay?The USA is swimming in a vast STEM work-force that is going under-employed.Every month, well-known STEM firms receive tens of thousands of resumes from capable STEM workers, and employment agencies and body shops are receiving nearly 100K per month.The question is whether and...

Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Millennials, Boomers, Generation X, workforce

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

MyInfosafe 2.1 (Windows)

In one secure application you can store your personal information (things like your education details, your employment history, key documents, user IDs, Health information). Why do you need this software? Do you think your information is safe on your PC? Think again! Experts can access your PC via the internet...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Personal Information Managment, myInfosafe, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-06

Employersafe 6.3 (Windows)

Our unique HR Software provides a step-by-step guide to a multitude of personnel issues, including: register for employees' details; system to alert employers when contracts are due for renewal; simple guide to carrying out discipline and grievance procedures. Comprehensive, easy-to-use system of monitoring staff absenteeism 24-hour legal helpline manned by...

Tags: Guide, Employment Law Advisory Services, Workforce Management, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

News to know: Adobe; Sergey Brin; Apps.gov; Oracle; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer' Larry Dignan: Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Sergey Brin, OIN, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tablets, Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate

Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Taleo, Talent Management and What’s Wrong With ERP Spending

Is your career worth at least one security patch? This week, Taleo is conducting its user conference in Las Vegas. They are announcing their Taleo 10 product this week to coincide with the show. Rarely do I get to see a software vendor...

Tags: Talent, Taleo Corp., ERP, Talent Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Workforce Management, Professional Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Employment after college: Start off low, work your way up

internshipsafter a couple of years at university, unpaid or low-paid internships can give you interesting experience to put on your resume when you graduate, not to mention references who can attest to your work ethic and good common sense ( to go make coffee for the office when it needs...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, internship, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

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

Europe can stick a fork where its mouth is

Problem with your thinking...Sun owns the copyright. That means that they can rebrand the license. If you fork it, it is GPL forever. Thus you are definitely loosing out.Your argument would have made sense if Sun would have said, "hey we are going to release this under the Apache license."...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, mouth, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Now I Know Why I Can't Stand the Washington Redskins

U.S. businesses seem to abuse their customers moreThis may seem unrelated, but reading this post made several parallels pop up in my mind. The RedSkins are suing fans who were obviously previously supporting them financially but ran into hardships. The RIAA sues grandmothers who spent a LIFETIME buying recordings for...

Tags: Team management, Packer, Washington Redskin, Redskins, team

Discussion threads 2009-09-04