Ahmed's Universe
JUNE 6, 2010
'PARIS And better late than never. Waiting for Fusion HCM reminds me of Beckett''s play "Waiting for Godot" where you wait and wait and wait just to find out there is no Godot at all. Now, I''m sure Gretchen Alarcon (VP, Product Strategy, Oracle HCM) will have something to demo, but if past Oracle behavior is anything to go by the demo will be a big anti-climax.
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JUNE 17, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Cool Job Seekers Heat Up Their Search in the Summer This month’s Career Collective topic is How to Heat Up Your Job Search. As we approach the hot days of summer, my clients sometimes tell me they plan to put their job search on hold during the summer months because they think that everyone is out of town and no one is hiring during this season.
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Ahmed's Universe
JUNE 3, 2010
'MADRID Last Monday morning saw me, under a flawlessly blue sky, walking down Madrid''s answer to Broadway, the Gran Via, built exactly 100 years ago. It took much less time for another momentous event to take place this very week: Apple passed Microsoft as the world''s largest technology company, based on market capitalization. As luck would have it the company''s latest venture, the iPad, had just premiered in Spain so when I reached the mid-point of the avenue, Plaza del Callao, I looked at t
Talent Culture
JUNE 21, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, June 21st, 2010 Who Quits Their Job in This Economy? According to the most recent report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more employees left their jobs voluntarily in March (1.9M) than were laid off (1.8M). You may be wondering why so many are quitting their jobs in what is still a volatile economy, but the reality is that people quit their jobs despite economic indicators for a variety of reasons.
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JUNE 28, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, June 28th, 2010 How to Learn Everything You Need to Know About Interviewing in One Day My daughter landed a plum internship this summer as an assistant to a musical director and casting director for the national tour of a very well known Broadway musical. On her first day she observed a typical theater audition, cattle-call style and in less than eight hours learned what it takes most people decades to learn about inter
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JUNE 24, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, June 24th, 2010 If Endorsements Work on LinkedIn Why Wouldn’t They Work on Resumes? Sometimes when I write a resume for a client, I include an excerpt from the performance review as a strategy to better market the client. Occasionally when I use this technique, I get some push back from clients.
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JUNE 16, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Does Your Resume Make You Look Like a Job Hopper? When hiring managers read resumes, one of the first things they look at is dates of employment. If they see multiple short employment stints, they will often assume that you are a job hopper, question your ability to stay at one company for long, and move on to the next candidate.
Talent Culture
JUNE 17, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Friday, June 18th, 2010 Why Networking Gets a Bad Rap and What to Do About It Many people think that networking during a job search means calling everyone you know and asking them for a job. They associate networking with being pushy, overbearing, and an overall pest. People often shy away from networking because they don’t want to be labeled as this type of person.
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JUNE 1, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 The End of the Al and Tipper Gore Career Brand As a kid growing up in the 70s, a lot of the pop culture I embraced revolved around famous people who were married and worked together. I watched Sonny & Cher, sang the number one hit song by Captain & Tennille incessantly, watched every I Love Lucy re-run I could sandwich in between homework, and wowed at the husband and wife team of Bela and Mart
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JUNE 2, 2010
Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 Is the Pressure to Perform Killing Us? I’m sitting in my office crying. I’m crying because I just read an article in the recent issue of New York Magazine about a student who plunged to his death by jumping out of an 11th floor window at his school 16 months ago.
Ahmed's Universe
JUNE 29, 2010
'PARIS Three hundred years ago France reached the height of authoritarian political power with Louis XIV famously saying, " L''Etat c''est moi: " what a US president would, much later, adapt as "the buck stops here." Actually the Sun King refined his political theory under one tagline, " un seul roi, une seule loi, une seule foi ": One king (guess who), one law (his), one faith (who else''s?).
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