There is a very wide range of free, highqualityvideoconferencing options available to employers to utilize when interviewing out-of-market job candidates.
Both economical and environmentally friendly, videoconferencing allows the hiring managers and candidates to visually meet and interact with each other during an interview, with the candidates participating from the comfort of their home laptops/pcs.
Hiring managers and job seekers I know who have utilized this options prefer this over traditional phone interviews, and also over taking two or three days off their current jobs to interview for at most 4 or 6 hours at a distant location, only to have one or both sides determine this would not be a good match.
If the company and candidate then agree there is still mutual interest, the final one (or even two) candidates can travel and meet the team/tour the local area in person before deciding whether or not to accept the job offer.
One of my friends is currently interviewing with an out of state company which heavily promotes multiple products which it delivers via web-based streaming media; yet they insist my friend fly to the company’s headquarters twice, to interview in person; the hiring manager and team are not comfortable with video conference/online interviewing.
No surprise here, local body shops continue to post long term “Executive Assistant” contract jobs for the “large, well-known software company on the East Side” (a.k.a., Imagine the Possibilities….)
Since the candidate profile remains 5 – 7 years experience , and tops out at $17.70/hour (and no mention of employee benefits, paid time off, or…. ) … I suspect they’ll be mining the local market for these jobs for a long time…
Large, well-known software company on the eastside is looking for qualified and experienced Project Coordinators. Please email resumes to the email above and our recruiters will contact you to set up an interview should your qualifications meet what we are looking for.
• Managing and maintaining busy calendar
• Coordinating planning, execution and review meetings with hosting local events
• Gathering and managing reports
• Coordinating the monthly reporting and processes (including producing show & tell coverage presentations)
• Updating content in the Infrastructure components
• Help with support as required
• Being the key “go-to” person for team members looking for existing materials and responses.
• Supporting the development of new team efficiency systems and processes such as new briefing book and coverage report template
• 5-7 years business administrative experience, preferably in a high tech industry and in a team-oriented environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in managing projects with team members
• Microsoft Office proficiency (especially Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and SharePoint proficiency.
• Must have ability to work independently while maintaining accountability with multiple stakeholders.
• Organized, action-oriented team player and flexible learner able to multi-task.
Huh?? Is american prison labor @ $0.40/hr is too expensive???
Originally posted on MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37114046/ns/business-world_business/
By Omer Farooq, Associated Press & also from Shared Services & Outsourcing Network:
Information technology company plans to employ about 250 convicts
HYDERABAD, India – Being behind bars won’t keep a group of Indian prisoners from joining the global work force.
Convicts in a southern Indian prison will soon join the nation’s outsourcing boom at a data processing center being set up by an information technology company that works with dozens of businesses around the world.
Working conditions for the inmates of Charalapally Central Jail, in India’s technology hub of Hyderabad, will be somewhat different from usual offices.
There will be no phones and very limited Internet access for the convicts, who are in prison for crimes ranging from petty theft to murder and rape.
“There will be no security hazard involved,” said C. Narayanacharyulu, a director of the company, Radiant Info Systems, that will set up the jail office in about four months. The prison data processing center will be the first of its kind in the country.
The center will employ about 250 of the jail’s more educated prisoners.
The prisoners will earn 5,000 rupees ($110) a month, up from the roughly 450 rupees ($10) they now earn making textiles or doing carpentry, said C.N. Gopinath Reddy, director general of prisons in Andhra Pradesh state where the prison is located.
Regular starting salaries at data centers are generally about three times what the prisoners will make.
“Once they become experienced in this work and go out after completing their sentence, a whole new world of opportunity will wait for them,” Reddy said.
Originally posted on MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37114046/ns/business-world_business/
By Omer Farooq, Associated Press
I named this blog after a song by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, and so highly recommend you check out this free, live webcast of Grace & the Band’s performance this Friday, @ approximately 12:20 pm Pacific US Time (GMT-7):
Grace Potter LIVE in the Mountain Music Lounge
To tune in this Friday (2010/04/30), at approximately 12:20 pm Pacific US Time (GMT – 7), and join Grace Potter live in the KMTT/Carter Subaru Mountain Music Lounge, click HERE.
Once in a while a quote or song lyrics will resonate within me because it maps so well to certain periods in my life. About 12 years ago someone reintroduced me to John Lennon’s quote “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” which inspired me to …
The Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology just released a new study on the top six attributes of high-ranking women in technology, titled “Senior Technical Women: A Profile of Success,” examines the characteristics of high-level women in technology, their self-perceptions, their top attributes for success, and their most valued organizational practices.
Not surprisingly, working long hours is on that list:
Attributes of Success
The top attributes for success for senior technical women identified by the study:
Analytical: The majority of senior technical women perceive themselves as analytical. Indeed, all technical employees tend to see themselves as high on this attribute, as technical careers tend to first and foremost look for analytical and problem-solving skills.
Unafraid to Question/Desire to Learn: A majority consider themselves as questioning – having the ability to ask the right questions, which is critical to problem solving.
Risk Takers: A majority of senior technical women view themselves as risk-takers, which was identified by technical employees as one of the top four attributes of success. Moderate amounts of risk-taking are an important part of leadership, and senior women and men are equally as likely to perceive themselves as risk takers. This research shatters the stereotype that men are more likely to be risk takers than women are.
Collaborative: Senior technical women are collaborators. A collaborative work style is perceived as a critical success factor in high-technology by both technical men and women, and is consistent with a culture that values innovation, which cannot be achieved without extensive collaboration. Collaboration is both a critical source of success but also a great source of career satisfaction.
Hard Working/Work Long Hours: Advancement for senior women comes with long working hours. This finding is consistent with the culture of technology where advancement is tied to increased responsibility and significant availability. This can be a barrier for women who seek advancement while juggling family responsibilities in dual-career couples. 72 percent of the senior technical women surveyed reported cutting back on sleep to advance their careers and nearly a third have delayed having children.
Assertive: A majority of senior technical women describe themselves as assertive – significantly more so than women at the entry and mid-levels. In a professional culture that rewards speaking up, self-promotion, and ambition, senior women interviewed uniformly said they had to learn to be assertive and promote themselves in order to advance. However, research also shows that women have less freedom than men in assertive behavior. Because women’s assertiveness defies long-standing gender stereotypes, women often experience a “likeability penalty” when they are assertive.
Then again, women represented only four percent out of 1,795 surveyed for the report; would the study results be different if even 25% of the study participants were female?
Since Monday was a federal holiday, I expected to Netflix to receive the returned DVD on Tuesday, then ship the next dvd in my queue to arrive on Wednesday.
But – no.
Netflix emailed me Monday morning they received the dvd I mailed them on Saturday.
Later that day my updated dvd queue noted the next dvd would ship on Tuesday and arrive on Wednesday.
Instead, it arrived TUESDAY.
Netflix gets a lot of things right – which is in line with its entertainment product offerings – but even better, sometimes its efficiency is magic, too. <G
… would be a killer app – and in more ways than one; streaming more than one movie would easily eat up most people‘s iPhone minutes package on AT&T without making *any* calls… Today, from TechCrunch, via Hacking Netflix: Rumor: Netflix Streaming Coming To The iPhone by MG Siegler on August 3, 2009 One big story …
Via CNN.com today: Comcast rolled out a Web-based on-demand television and movie service on Tuesday that gives customers access to more than 2,000 hours of television and movies. – more – The service, named Fancast XFINITY TV (formerly TV Everywhere), is getting mixed reviews on Twitter, and is in beta, with limited …
I’ve been broadcast/cable tv free for about a month now, with only mild withdrawal symptoms (having really re-run episodes of NCIS makes great white noise for me when I work from home; so now I have to improvise….). Even so – the combination of watching/running Netflix offerings in the background is …
When I still had cable tv, I loved my Tivo, even though I never upgraded my Tivo 2 box the Tivo HD. Why not? Pricing. I had a lifetime (of the Tivo 2 box) subscription, so upgrading would have been very expensive for me – first because of Tivo’s high pricing …
Last week a “minority” of T-Mobile Sidekick users learned the “Rule of Data Redundancy” the long, slow, hard way – and through no fault of their own. Sidekick users who stored their data locally (on the device) or backed up their data on a PC through a sync still have their …
Not surprisingly <G>, Wired has an interesting follow up story on how the Netflix prize was won – and notes real progress was made in the contest’s goal to improve the Netflix movie recommendation algorithm by 10 percent only after the leaders joined forces with members of some of the also-ran teams. The …
According to Silicon Alley Insider, with data partly from Comscore, 38 million people watched Hulu at least once in July - a viewership which easily topped Time Warner Cable‘s July viewership of 34 million. That same month, only DirecTV (47 million viewers) and Comcast (62 million) pulled larger audiences: While impressive, Hulu.com has a long way to go before reaching the cable companies’ …
As we are in the worst recession in 70 years, only three things are guaranteed: death, taxes, and a yearly 5% or more increase in cable subscription fees.
So – as a consumer, witnessing the on-g0ing scrimmishes between Broadcast TV providers and premium content (cable) providers is also entertainment.
Although this year’s skirmish between Fox and Time Warner was resolved at the 11th hour, Time Warner’s detailed instructions which show its customers how to watch Fox online, for free, with the suggestion viewers head to the likes of Hulu, Fancast, or any search engine–to find their favorite shows.
Time Warner Cable‘s instructions on “How to Connect Your PC to Your TV” can be accessed by clicking on the image at the bottom of this post.
Still, no matter how this resolves, the danger for both sides is that consumers really do take up Time Warner Cable on its offer and start watching Fox stuff on the Web, since Fox definitely wants people keep paying for cable TV since Fox really covets subscription fees from cable TV providers.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams: Corporations, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
… would be a killer app – and in more ways than one; streaming more than one movie would easily eat up most people‘s iPhone minutes package on AT&T without making *any* calls… Today, from TechCrunch, via Hacking Netflix: Rumor: Netflix Streaming Coming To The iPhone by MG Siegler on August 3, 2009 One big story …
Via CNN.com today: Comcast rolled out a Web-based on-demand television and movie service on Tuesday that gives customers access to more than 2,000 hours of television and movies. – more – The service, named Fancast XFINITY TV (formerly TV Everywhere), is getting mixed reviews on Twitter, and is in beta, with limited …
I’ve been broadcast/cable tv free for about a month now, with only mild withdrawal symptoms (having really re-run episodes of NCIS makes great white noise for me when I work from home; so now I have to improvise….). Even so – the combination of watching/running Netflix offerings in the background is …
When I still had cable tv, I loved my Tivo, even though I never upgraded my Tivo 2 box the Tivo HD. Why not? Pricing. I had a lifetime (of the Tivo 2 box) subscription, so upgrading would have been very expensive for me – first because of Tivo’s high pricing …
I seem to be thinking mostly in images these days, when not thinking in terms of databases… Related content: Help Wanted: Zookeeper with a Good Attitude. Most job postings are dry. Really dry. And – they usually include “must haves” which require skills and/or experience with everything but being able to both plumb AND …
According to Silicon Alley Insider, with data partly from Comscore, 38 million people watched Hulu at least once in July - a viewership which easily topped Time Warner Cable‘s July viewership of 34 million. That same month, only DirecTV (47 million viewers) and Comcast (62 million) pulled larger audiences: While impressive, Hulu.com has a long way to go before reaching the cable companies’ …
From Techcrunch, last week: At first this announcement appeared to be a good candidate for “News of the Weird:” Microsoft Officially Retires Soapbox, The Poor Man’s YouTube by Leena Rao on July 21, 2009 Microsoft’s YouTube clone Soapbox is officially shutting its doors, according to reports today. Soapbox, which was launched in 2006 as a hub for downloading …
So – the featured speaker at the July 2009 Seattle Chamber of Commerce‘s speaker at this month’s “Author Speaker Breakfast” is Chris Anderson, author of FREE: The Future of a Radical Price: FREE: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson the bestselling author of the The Long Tail In his revolutionary …
Free is Sometimes Free: The Future of a Radical Price
For those not able to make the Seattle Chamber of Commerce breakfast tomorrow, featuring Chris Anderson talking about his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, his presentation at Wired’s “Disruptive Business Conference” is available online, for free: Related content: Free is Not Always Free. So – the featured speaker at …
Free: The Future of a Radical New Price is now…Free!
Late last month, Chris Anderson released a free downloadable unabridged podcast/audiobook version of his book, Free: The Future of a Radical New Price as zipped mp3 files, and via iTunes. It chapter is an individual podcast; all of which are narrated by Chris. [caption id=”attachment_1506″ align=”aligncenter” width=”162″ caption=”Free: The Future of a Radical …
