Jobpilot wins Euro600,000 e-recruiting contract with Vodafone

jobpilot, Europe’s leading career market on the internet, announces today that it has won a major contract worth €600,000 with Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile telecommunications network operator, to provide the company with a complete end-to-end recruitment solution. The latest win with Vodafone marks the first truly multi-national organisation to use jobpilot’s e-recruiting software - workflow pro - and coincides with a customer milestone of 1000 companies now using jobpilot’s ra...
Published about 06-11-2008 | Rated 0

Preferred IT reaps a crop of recruitment industry award shortlists

IT specialist recruitment agency Preferred IT has been shortlisted for a trio of forthcoming recruitment industry award honours in recognition of its continued drive for excellence and exceptional performance at all levels within the business. Preferred IT has just been announced as one of eight national finalists competing to win the highly coveted “Recruitment Consultancy of the Year” honour at this year`s Computing Awards for Excellence, taking place in November. Regionally, Preferr...
Published about 06-11-2008 | Rated 0

Training And Development

Human Resource Management (HRM), a relatively new term, that emerged during the 1930s. Many people used to refer it before by its traditional titles, such as Personnel Administration or Personnel Management. But now, the trend is changing. It is now termed as Human Resource Management (HRM). Human Resource Management is a management function that helps an organization select, recruit, train and develops. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Human Resource Management is defined as the people w...
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Call for Papers for the 10th SAMF at Bhutan

Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA)’s flagship biennial conference, the South Asian Management Forum (SAMF), is attended by professionals from Member Institutions and invited colleagues from Academia, Industry and Government. Each SAMF has a distinctive theme of topical interest to the management community in the region. Apart from the Founding Conference in Hyderabad in 1988, nine such SAMFs have been organized at Hyderabad (India), Kathmandu (Nepal), Dha...
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Recruitment Agencies sector set for accelerated acquisition activity

A new report suggests that as the effects of the wider economy reaches the UK recruitment agencies market, a series of takeovers and sell offs will sweep the market. The report, by leading industry analysts Plimsoll Publishing, has found that a combination of needs is forcing smaller companies to consider selling to their larger rivals and larger players are looking to buy their smaller rivals to diversify and develop their businesses. David Pattison, senior analyst at Plimsoll, has a clear v...
Published about 12-11-2008 | Rated 0

HR Quotes

"The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word `persistence, ` but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel." ~~~ Napoleon Hill "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." ...
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END OF WALL STREET BOOM

The End by Michael Lewis Nov 11 2008 The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong. Fallen bull statue in Wall Street Photoillustration by: Ji Lee To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, ...
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These ARE unprecedented times.

Monday, November 10, 2008 These ARE unprecedented times. by Eric deCarbonnel Here is a great blog entry by Chuck from Rebel Traders: (emphasis mine) It is getting very difficult to find new words to describe what has been unfolding in our nations economy over the past year. Each day brings more news about declining corporate earnings, economic conditions deteriorating, and a falling consumer confidence of record levels. And with each bit of news that further points to a bleak eco...
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Britain`s BT sheds 10,000 jobs

Britain`s BT sheds 10,000 jobs November 13, 2008 - 8:23PM Advertisement British Telecom (BT) announced on Thursday that it would cut a total of 10,000 jobs in the current financial year, as part of an ongoing efficiency programme. The company said it had already cut 4,000 jobs, with plans to cut a further 6,000 between now and March 2009. BT said it was reducing its dependence on consultants and contractors. BT has a global workforce of 160,000....
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Jim Rogers says get rid of dollars, buy silver

Jim Rogers says get rid of dollars, buy silver Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff Posted: 11-11-2008 Back Email Print RSS Feeds INTERNATIONAL. Legendary global investor Jim Rogers believes the recent dollar gains are temporary and are not based on fundamentals. "The fact that the dollar is gaining rapidly is only temporary," Rogers recently told a group of private bank clients. "Within a year you`ll have to get rid of the dollar," he said. Rogers has spent a career being one ste...
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