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The Awesome Power of Linked-In

Posted December 20th, 2008 Category: Social networking, Thinking the right way 26 Comments

(Or how I messed things up and turned it all around in 24 hours) Of course I knew that Linked-in was a really powerful tool. You would have to have had your head in a bucket to have missed its rapid ascent over the past 12 months. (As someone said once, it’s like Facebook for [...]

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Breakdown of the Australian CIO

Posted December 12th, 2008 Category: News 2 Comments

Very interesting presentation here http://www.cio.com.au/article/268106/state_australian_cio on the breakdown of the Australian CIO. Top salaries appear to be in construction, architecturing and engineeering, followed closely by the mining industry and next financial services. Seems those who make the most dollars are business strategy focused leaders (average $236K), followed by functional heads (average $201K) and finally transformational [...]

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Recruitment Industry gets 100% fail rate on security

Posted December 12th, 2008 Category: News, Prepare Yourself 0 Comment

Here’s the document to read the whole story in PDF format. Used with permission from Thomas Shaw at http://www.shortlist.net.au According to Thomas Shaw, Freelance IT consultant and the voice behind the new Recruitment Directory, the recruitment industry is in denial over being at risk of losing clients and candidates, breaching privacy laws and damaging the [...]

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24 Transitional Careers for IT Workers

Posted December 11th, 2008 Category: Funnies 0 Comment

….that aren’t in IT. See the article here: http://tinyurl.com/67omkx 24 transitional careers for IT workers who have been given the boot and are keen to leave IT. Highlights include wedding planners and symphony conductors for former Project Managers, phone sex workers for displaced HelpDesk personnel, dentists for business analysts (because they’re good at pulling teeth) [...]

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Laid off: the web 2.0 way.

Posted December 10th, 2008 Category: Social networking 0 Comment

I saw this cartoon on a blog here, so I’ll have to give the link back so I can use the cartoon.

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The Ethics of Resume Critiques

Posted December 10th, 2008 Category: Prepare Yourself 2 Comments

It’s natural for people to shop their resumes around. People will ask for opinions from friends, next door neighbours, colleagues, other resume writers, recruiters, headhunters and family. Most of the people try to be helpful with the limited amount of knowledge they have. Some of the advice is okay, most of it is contradictory (like [...]

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