Mr. Pinto is the first chief technology officer of a major American tech company to move to China. The company, Applied Materials, is one of Silicon Valley's most prominent firms. It supplied equipment used to perfect the first computer chips. Today, it is the world's biggest supplier of the equipment used to make semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays.

In addition to moving Mr. Pinto and his family to Beijing in January, Applied Materials, whose headquarters are in Santa Clara, Calif., has just built its newest and largest research labs here. Last week, it even held its annual shareholders' meeting in Xi'an.

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As the market picks up and people are getting back to work the question has come up 'why did they get the job' or 'what can I do to remain competitive'.  Don't be left behind!  Your input can benefit others and by everyone contributing we can make the difference.
 
There are many certifications and training programs available in our industry and in order to gauge the perception of these certifications/education requirements/preferences I have put together a survey.  It is quick and easy. Your input is invaluable to providing good information that every can learn from.
 
This survey is open to ANYONE in HR/Staffing.  Once the survey is complete the results will be sent out to the group and posted to the SFRecruiters forum, ERE and others.
 
The survey link is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QGGHYH6
 
It should take less than 5 minutes to complete.  I sincerely appreciate your time and assistance which will help provide a consensus on the certifications/education preferences in our industry listed below.   

Would you be willing to participate?

Thank you,
 
Athena M. Bindel
 
INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

PHR (HRCI)

SPHR (HRCI)

GPHR (HRCI)

PHR/SPHR - CA (HRCI)

CPC (NAPS)

CTS (NAPS)

CERS(NAPS)

CSP (ASA)

TSC (ASA)

CSSR(AIRS)

CDR (AIRS)

CIR (AIRS)

ACIR(AIRS)

Bachelor Degree

Associates Degree

Business/HR Certification

Skills Classes (i.e. AIRS Recruiting University, CEUs,etc)

I saw this string starting up over on the N. California Recruiters & HR Network Yahoo group - interesting!  You might want to comment.

This is from a very dear friend and fellow workforce journalist, joyce lain kennedy.I'm curious to know if this is accurate.
thanks, fran quittel
 
TECH RECRUITING SITE:  Just got a pr call  from Robin somebody for DICE. The site is launching a new revenue-generating program to anyone posting a resume on its site. A resume will be "reviewed" and its writer will be contacted with a list of so-called missing marketable "skills" and "certifications" followed by strong recommendation that the writer pay to have this "training" or "testing."
Upon sharp questioning, Robin admitted that DICE gets a cut of the income from some of the vendors. It will be interesting to see the degree, if any, of transparency associated with DICE's new practice.
I won't be mentioning DICE in my future work product.
(Yes, shades of "free resume review"  (Oh, we'll repair your lousy resume for $--)
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Phone 760-431-1660 |E-mail jlk@sunfeatures.com

Fran Quittel
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13b. Re: any want to comment on this dice experience?

You know, it is amazing with Dice. I used to use them for some of my
technical/engineering hires. They are a good resource for that. I have
noticed, however, when I signed up for this and other job boards, I have gotten an unusual amount of unsolicited job offers from scam companies, insurance companies and with Dice, a big push for extra services. I, like many of us here in this group, have been writing, reviewing and reading resumes for a living for many, many years. Of all the things I don't need, having a "professional Dice rep" critique my resume is not one of those things. Joyce, below, is right with regards to that. Shame. I think they arem really hurting for business. Not a good way to keep potential hiring clients
happy. Especially when the market comes back and we will be looking for job board resources. Just my 2 cents.
TM

I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this from now on. Companies are now reporting filling smaller and smaller percentages of their open positions via the major job boards (<25% as I recall), so with companies becoming less reliant on them the boards are now having to look for alternative revenue streams to make up for it. With sites like Linked-In, Ryze, and the web 2.0 resources offering much more cost-effective solutions, the major job boards are facing some very stiff competition.
TA

Hi,
My 2 cents as well - ihire.com has been pursuing me for the "extra" revenue stream as well. Emailing me that "they are concerned" recruiters will not get past the first 5 seconds of my resume. Really ~ perhaps you should read my resume knowing I'm in the biz....
Desperado for a rev stream
Totally agree they are not thinking long term.....
ER

Jobfox is doing the same thing also. They have been doing it about a year.
Also another trend .....Now when you log into monster as a candidate you have to go thru an ad?  KL

What I find particularly objectionable about ihire.com's business model is
the fact that they charge candidates a fee to see the details of a job
posting. They have several different "subscriptions" one can purchase, and
that's the only way to fully review and apply for any of the positions they
have posted. Notwithstanding my basic philosophical objection to charging
people to apply for a job - a practice I find utterly appalling - why on
earth should someone pay for information that they can easily get for free
somewhere else? With posting consolidation sites like Indeed and
Simply-Hired, for example, to say nothing of the major job boards, I doubt
that ihire has any positions listed that can't be found elsewhere. My resume
is posted there, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay to apply for a job.
TA

 Yes, it looks like companies are feeling the economic pinch & are trying
to come up with creative ways to generate revenue. That alone is not a
bad idea, but I hate to see it happen at the expense (literally) of the
unemployed who can ill afford it.
A career transition client of mine contacted me earlier this week in a
panic. His resume had been posted, & he received an email from Job Fox,
telling him that his resume we in serious need of improvement. They gave
a few suggestions, and told him that for a fee (it was $300 or $400)
they would rewrite it for him. His resume was in pretty good shape
already, & by & large I agree with their overall comments, but the vast
majority of the issues they raised were already incorporated into his
resume.
I find it shameful for people to prey on the unemployed. They are
already feeling vulnerable & lost, and for many, the $400 could be
better spent on necessities. There are so many free and/or low-cost
resources out there, & $300 - 400 is pretty steep for someone without an
income.
This is far from the worst example of this type of predatory behavior.
Several years ago, a friend's husband was in a job search. As a favor to
her, I worked quite a while on his resume, and with all due modesty,
must say that I created a document that took his mediocre background &
made him look good, in spite of himself. (Yes, you're right - he's not a
superstar) His resume was posted & he was contacted by a "career
management" firm (don't remember the name) who said that although his
background was impressive, his resume needed a lot of help & promised
him that their resume re-writing service would work wonders, along with
all sorts of other great things, all for a few thousand $$. Well, the
fool borrowed money from his family, & took the bait. They completely
destroyed the resume & turned it into a bland, generic document. On top
of that, they never came through on their promises of introductions to
top executives, unique job leads, etc. They only times he heard from
them were when they were pitching additional services. I find this
practice shameful. HK

Agreed, the Boards are just not the answer anymore. The best people are
still found through professional referral and just picking up the phone!
Old School is the New School!!! MM

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Greetings, I wanted to post this resume to this group for "free" to see if anyone might have any openings for this candidate. Good high integrity top quality person seeking a new opportunity and even open to consulting. Check him out and you may contact him direct. Best Wishes!

Christian R. Brown

9 Hillside Lane                           http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianbrown                Google: (215)-703-7149

New Hope, PA 18938                              ChrisB@Drextec.com                                Mobile: (215) 378-0497

Strategic Business Visionary • Information technology • Software Development

Technology and Business visionary with executive management and hands-on experience in growing a multi-million dollar worldwide start up enterprise. Strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Demonstrated leadership in development and marketing of software applications. Provide strategic direction for executive management on technology, while effectively managing and expanding distributed technology teams.

Dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem solving, planning, team building and project management skills. Full responsibility for P&L and million dollar + budgets.

Core Leadership Qualifications

• Strategic Operations Planning               • Cross-Functional Team Leadership         • Technology/Architecture

• Product Planning / Execution               • Organization & Staff Development         • Process Reengineering

• Product / Project Management             • Product Lifecycle Management               • Application Development

• P&L / Budgeting / Cost Control          • Executive Presentations                         • Key Account Management

Professional Experience

ARGUS SOFTWARE, Houston, TX (Acquired treeSoft 2/2007)                                      2/2007 to 10/2009

The leading provider of financial analysis software for the commercial real estate industry, most widely know for flagship products that perform valuation and projections.

Consolidated software development efforts worldwide to produce a next generation single technology and business process platform for core competency product suite.  Maintained legacy product maintenance streams and customer satisfaction.

Budget Responsibility: $3 million +

Revenue Impact: $25 million +

Responsible for software development of all valuation and asset management products.

§  Developed Integration Strategy for internal and external participants

§  Represented company to global standards organizations OSCRE/PISCES

§  Implemented standard Project Management and Software Development Life Cycle methodologies and systems globally across three merged development organizations

§  Rational Unified Process on MS Project Server and Team System

§  Provided vision and architectural guidelines for next generation product platform

§  Bridged efforts of Product Management and Development for eight products

§  Represented company in public events internationally (US, UK, EU, ME)

§  Provided key customer relationship management

§  Managed relationships with strategic technology partners:

◦ Microsoft Gold ISV Partnership

◦ Multiple third party support and development organizations, onshore and offshore

treeSoft.com, Cherry Hill, NJ (Acquired by ARGUS Software 2/2007)                                    2002 to 2/2007

Boutique Commercial Real Estate Financial Services Provider.  Created a new enterprise software platform for Financial Analysis and Asset Management.

Chief Technology Officer

Created and managed a software development and quality assurance organization for a leading commercial real estate consulting group.  Produced a commercial product offering leading to acquisition by the market leader.

treeSoft.com (continued)

Budget Responsibility: $2 million +

Revenue Impact: $5 million +

Responsible for product management, architecture, development and delivery of new enterprise software suite.  Executive team member for all product strategy, pricing and sales activities.

§  Hired, Integrated and Trained multiple technology teams

§  Specified and implemented project management and software development life cycle systems

§  Designed, detail architected and developed an enterprise software suite

§  Provided product management for new software solutions for commercial real estate

§  Participated in Sales Activity and Key Account Management

§  Responsible for Technology Due Diligence in acquisition process

Drextec, Inc. Marlton, NJ                                                                                                   1987 to 2002

Private custom enterprise software development concern that transitioned to a product company with global offerings.

Founded and managed a custom software development company. Created a product division, built, sold and supported a software suite for the global marketplace.

Budget Responsibility: $5 million +

Revenue Impact: $5 million +

Created business to business enterprise software development and business process improvement organization.  Built market driven software suite.  Performed employee buyout exit strategy.

§  Managed organizational financial, product, technical and marketing strategies

§  Established partnerships with Fortune 100 sales and marketing organizations to promote product adoption

§  Built sales and support organization for North American and EU markets

§  Serviced Fortune 1000 companies in a diverse variety of sectors

§ Manufacturing/Retail

§ Healthcare/Government

§ Advertising/Non-Profit

Educational Background

Commerce and Engineering – Drexel University

Concentrations in Computer Science and Marketing

Executive Development:

Pragmatic Marketing, 2007

Certified PMC for Practical Product Management, Requirements That Work, and Roadmapping

Microsoft Technology Center, 2007-2009

.NET, Windows Geneva Server, Windows Azure

The Blaythorne Group Executive Training, 2007

“Communication That Works”

Technical Proficiencies

Microsoft .NET, VB.NET, C#, ASP               Microsoft Windows Azure Platform

Microsoft SQL, Reporting and Analysis Server  Microsoft SharePoint, WSS, MOSS

Microsoft Project Server, Team System                       Microsoft Enterprise Project Management

Windows Forms, Smart Clients, WCF              Web Applications, AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, JavaScript, HTML

Database Design and Modeling                      XML, XSL, SOA, SaaS, PaaS

Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain - an effort that tests the limits of technology.

Even the world's most powerful supercomputers can't replicate basic aspects of the human mind. The machines can't imagine a wall painted a different color, for instance, or picture a person's face and connect that to an emotion.

If researchers can make computers operate more like a brain thinks - by reasoning and dealing with abstractions, among other things - they could unleash tremendous insights in such diverse fields as medicine and economics.  More here.

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That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January... Microsoft also said in January it would continue to hire in key areas such as Web search.  More here.

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Our HQ in Burr Ridge, IL just outside of Chicago is looking for a candidate sourcer/recruiter

MUST NOT follow the POST and HOPE methodology
Post a job spec to a job board and HOPE the right person comes along.

YOU MUST KNOW how to source candidates on your own from google, yahoo, internet, social media etc

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NO H1B Visas.
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NO TELECOMMUTE (sorry no exceptions)
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Pls contact Howard Berger at hkb23@earthlink.net for more information.

Google is gearing up for even better days, a shift that will involve hiring a couple thousand new employees after paring its payroll in each of the past two quarters. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company also intends to increase spending on computers and acquisitions of mostly small technology startups. Money won't be a problem, given that Google ended September with $22 billion in cash.

"There is a real wind of optimism and a real wind of confidence around here right now," Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial officer, said in a Thursday interview.

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While the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen 53 percent - crossing back over the 10,000 mark Wednesday - and the S&P 500 has improved 61 percent since March 9, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has jumped an even sharper 71 percent. Financial stocks have rebounded more, but they had farther to go after being beaten down in the market meltdown.

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I'm an experience tech recruiter but I've been out of the business for some time and my client contacts are stale.  I've developed a couple strong Oracle DBA/Developer contractors in Southern California and I need to pitch them to hiring managers.  Positions posted on the web seem to be dominated by other recruiters so it is difficult to see companies that may be hiring and even more difficult to know who the hiring managers are.

Any suggestions on how to get to the decision makers in today's market?

is there a better way to find .net developers? i have already looked in Dice.com, monster.com

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  Just listed these domain on sedo - quick sale

Google results: Results 1 - 10 of about70,200,000 for wireless careers.

Thanks

There is a lot of hype about candidates creating video resumes so they can “show their personality and stand out”.  I'm sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud but I don't think video resumes are very useful for most people.  Here's why: http://bit.ly/UJCdx

Silicon Valley investors are pointing to something called cleantech - alternative energy, more efficient power distribution and new ways to store electricity, all with minimal impact to the environment - as a candidate for the next boom.

And while no two booms are exactly alike, some hallmarks are already showing up.

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Hey all,

I find myself considering some contract recruiting opportunities and have been asked what my rate is. I haven't contracted before and I haven't a clue what the going rate is. Can anyone give me a starting point? Much appreciated!

Steph

Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages - and sell the marketing data gathered.

Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids.  More here.

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SPSS software predicts customer reactions to a wide range of fields, including sales pitches and marketing campaigns. Clients include financial firms, telecommunications companies, government agencies and educational institutions.

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Despite Recession, High Demand for Skilled Labor

McGrary, a manager at the Cianbro Corporation, set out to hire 80 "experienced" welders. Only now, 18 months later, is he completing the roster... unnoticed in the government's standard employment data, employers are begging for qualified applicants for certain occupations, even in hard times. Most of the jobs involve skills that take years to attain. More here.

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KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - Where a textile mill once drove the economy of this blue-collar town northeast of Charlotte, an imposing neoclassical complex is rising, filled with fine art, Italian marble and multimillion-dollar laboratory equipment. Three buildings, one topped by a giant dome, form the beginnings of what has been nicknamed the Biopolis, a research campus dedicated to biotechnology. 

At $500 million and counting, the Biopolis, officially called the North Carolina Research Campus, is a product of a national race to attract the biotechnology industry, a current grail of economic development.

Cities like Shreveport, La., and Huntsville, Ala., are also gambling millions in taxpayer dollars on if-we-build-it-they-will-come research parks and wet laboratories, which hold the promise of low-pollution workplaces and high salaries.

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While other big technology vendors have said they've seen demand bottom out and show signs of recovery, Hewlett-Packard Co. has stayed cautious, warning it's too soon to tell when its business will improve.

HP's CEO, Mark Hurd, reinforced that outlook Thursday. He told investors and financial analysts at a meeting in New York that he's confident HP can hit its profit forecast, but he wouldn't speculate on the timing of a turnaround in tech spending.

The recession has created a lot of pent-up demand, because it has disrupted the normal cycle of tech upgrades, Hurd said, and when that will get back on track is unclear.

"The buildup now of 4-year-old desktops, 4-year-old notebooks, 4-year-old servers, this is creating quite a bubble," Hurd said at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.'s "Strategic Decisions" conference. "There's going to be a time when there's going to be some real opportunity here."  More here.

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LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) - The $1.6 million red Bugatti crouches in the showroom, flanked by Lamborghinis, Bentleys and a Rolls-Royce all polished to a shimmer. The nearby potted plants, however, are dusty and wilting. With super-luxury car sales here just half of what they used to be, they had to cut something. "We wash our own windows now, take care of the plants ourselves," says Ryan Dohogne, general manager of Silicon Valley Auto Group. Although they haven't laid anyone off, yet, Dohogne said they're saving everywhere they can.

"Google. When Google is laying off you know something is going very wrong."

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Motorola Meltdown

Liska didn't get much of a reaction from the directors after his presentation, according to his filing. But the next day at 11 a.m., he bumped into Motorola's top lawyer, Peter Lawson, and asked if he should join the board meeting in progress. Lawson popped into the meeting and came back to tell Liska not to join. Liska says this was the first time he had been excluded from a board meeting in his 11 months with the company.

Five hours later, Greg Brown, who shares the chief executive title with Jha, told Liska he was being replaced as CFO. "Paul, you fired a shot heard around the world," he said, according to Liska.

The reason behind Liska's inflammatory presentation is a matter of contention. Liska says he was trying to fulfill his duty to the company by raising a red flag about the cell phone unit's projections. Motorola says he knew he was on his way out, and he tried to extort the company by setting himself up as a whistle-blower who was being fired for speaking out.

If the truth lies somewhere in between, Liska may have figured out that he was on the outs because he and Jha did not get along, and tried to save the situation with an attack on Jha.

More here.  This one will be worth watching!

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Google glitch disrupts search engine, e-mail

Millions of people were cut off from Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG)'s search engine, e-mail and other online services Thursday, sparking a flurry of frustrated venting that served as a reminder of society's growing dependence on Google's technology.

The Mountain View-based company blamed the trouble on a glitch that routed too much of its traffic through computers in Asia, overwhelming its system so badly that about 14 percent of its users encountered problems with the Internet's most popular search engine. The mistake also affected Google's e-mail and several other services.  More here.

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The European Union fined Intel Corp. (INTC) (INTC) a record euro1.06 billion ($1.45 billion) on Wednesday and ordered the world's biggest maker of computer chips to stop illegal sales tactics that shut out Silicon Valley rival AMD.

The fine, which exceeded a euro899 million monopoly abuse penalty imposed on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) (MSFT) last year, was denounced by Intel as "wrong." The company said it would appeal to an EU court within 60 days.   More here.