IT Employment

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  • White Papers // Mar 2008

    Seven Tips For Successful Phone Interviews

    An initial phone interview saves time for both hiring managers and candidates. It can also be used to screen out candidates not appropriate for an in-person interview. To get the most out of your phone interviews this paper gives you the seven tips which will help you for successful phone...

    Provided By Boston.com

  • Case Studies // Dec 2008

    Pkware Case Study: IT Services Provider #6

    The client is a full-service, facilities-based provider of communications solutions for commercial customers, with more than 6 million customers and over 22,000 employees. The challenge was moving very large files exceeding 4GB for month-end invoicing and finding a solution that could be quickly and easily deployed to avoid loss of...

    Provided By Pkware

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    Laid Off? So What?: How To Explain A Layoff At Every Stage Of The Job Search

    It's true that your layoff and the gap on your resume will probably come up, not just during the initial job search right after the layoff, but also during future job hunts. But it doesn't have to derail your search. Be honest about the layoff but to focus your communication...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    How To Get Answers To 5 Key Questions Before Taking A Job

    When you're considering taking a new job, it's important to find out how a potential employer treats employees. But getting the answer to that question, along with others that will help you determine if you'll be happy at the company, may take some sleuthing. This paper mentions five questions that...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    Acing The Panel Interview

    Meeting with one hiring manager is enough to make most job seekers nervous. But what about when you have to face a panel of interviewers? The panel interview has become increasingly popular as employers search for ways to better evaluate prospective hires and ensure those they bring aboard will be...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    What To Wear To Work This Fall

    You can tell a lot about people by the way they dress. % of recruiters believe that how you dress for work affects your job, salary, and possible promotions. Wearing the right outfit is very important to your career development. It's important to incorporate your own personal style in your...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    The New World Of Job Interviews

    The employment interview isn't what it used to be. While the vast majority of interviews are the standard face-to-face variety, technological advancements have made it possible for employers and applicants to connect quickly in other ways. Some hiring managers conduct phone interviews during the early phases of candidate searches; others...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Apr 2009

    The Interview That'll Bag A Job

    In today's ultracompetitive job market, even getting an interview is a feat. Yet recruiters and hiring managers say many unemployed candidates blow the opportunity by appearing desperate or bitter about their situations - often without realizing it. At an interview, you want to stand out for the right reasons. To...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Top Certifications To Enhance Your Career: Targeted Training And Good Salaries In Less Than Two Years

    Looking for a career change, but not sure you're ready to spend years in school? No matter what you're looking for in your job future, certifications can bring big changes. These certifications are concentrated career-advancers that can give you the targeted training you need to prove your knowledge to hiring...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • Webcasts // Aug 2011

    How Palo Alto Networks Achieved Next-Gen Customer Support by Integrating their IVR and CRM Solution

    Presented by Matthew Stauble, Sr. Director, Global Customer Support at Palo Alto Networks, this Webinar outlines the steps involved in transforming its customer support from a random, manual call answering process to a completely automated system for their inbound calls. Hear how this fast-growing network security company moved to a...

    Provided By ANGEL

  • Webcasts // Aug 2011

    Reduce Costs, Win Customer Satisfaction with a Call Center in the Cloud

    Download this on-demand Webinar with Customer Management IQ that will address the benefits of moving from an on-premise IVR to a SaaS model and illustrate how a more agile, flexible and cost-effective model can positively impact customer experience, customer satisfaction and call center productivity. Featuring Angel customer Sindhu Rajan, Senior...

    Provided By ANGEL

  • White Papers // Sep 2010

    Driving Performance With Embedded Business Intelligence Analytics in Your Voice Application: Turning Customer Data Into Customer Service Excellence for Competitive Advantage

    Maintaining profitability through difficult times is the product of company investment decisions that are weighted with greater-than normal significance. Going above and beyond to keep clients satisfied following an economic downturn is the key to gaining high returns. Thus, embedded business intelligence in once voice application remains one of the...

    Provided By ANGEL

  • White Papers // Apr 2009

    5 Essential Steps To Recruiting The People You Want

    Sometimes, it feels like hiring the right person is more a matter of luck than the end result of a structured process. Throw some darts up there, and maybe one of them will stick, right? Perhaps the right person will walk in, or one of one's current employees will have...

    Provided By IPG

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    How To Find A New Job Fast

    When you're looking for a job, no matter what form of communication you use, you have only 30 to 60 seconds to really grab someone. You need to get to the point: Why should a hiring manager hire you? Hiring managers are looking for people who make things happen. Focus...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    Four Don'ts When Dealing With Recruiters

    What's the first step to getting a job interview? Getting past the recruiter. Recruiters are usually your first contact with a potential employer. And they often decide whether your resume lands on the hiring manager's desk or in a far-off filing cabinet. While it's important to know the basics of...

    Provided By Yahoo!

  • White Papers // Jan 2009

    5 Interviewing Mistakes That Can Lead To Hiring The Wrong Person

    Candidates are often sophisticated job seekers, who are well prepared for the interview. To avoid costly hiring mistakes, hiring interviewers must be equally prepared for the process. Inexperienced interviewers sometimes fall into the trap of letting the interview become "Free form", spending different amounts of time on different questions, basing...

    Provided By Beyond.com

  • White Papers // Apr 2009

    VLDB et BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

    Que l'on parle de VLDB Intelligence ou de traditionnel SID, il s'agit toujours de g?rer des volumes de donn?es importants. Et cela ne s'improvise pas. L'entrep?t de donn?es peut ?tre d'une efficacit? redoutable, pour peu qu'il soit bien construit, au renfort d'une m?thodologie ad?quate et d'un vrai souci de qualit?...

    Provided By Microsoft Corporation

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    How To Decide On Resume Length

    The new guideline is: A resume should be long enough to entice hiring managers to call you for job interviews. That may sound vague, but there is no hard-and-fast length rule that works for everyone. Factors to consider include career objective, occupation, industry, years of experience, number of employers, scope...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    Race, Sex And Religion On Your Resume How Personal Is Too Personal?

    You're probably aware that hiring managers cannot ask discriminatory questions during interviews. But this legal protection isn't too useful in preventing discrimination before the interview. If your resume contains personal information unrelated to your job target - your race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc. - you might fall victim...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Oct 2010

    Resume Dilemma: Recent Graduate

    You've spent four years or more building your knowledge and perhaps even earned a high GPA. So why aren't employers clamoring for your services? The problem you and other new graduates face is that hiring managers are more interested in what you can do for them than what you did...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Chronological Vs. Functional Healthcare Resumes

    Hiring managers and HR professionals prefer the chronological-style resume, and your current functional resume could be holding you back from getting interviews. Functional resumes are often used by job seekers who are looking to downplay issues such as gaps in employment or a history of job-hopping. Without meaning to, your...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Resume Tips For Technology Professionals

    With increasing numbers of job seekers competing for the most desirable technical jobs, your resume needs to be better than the rest to get noticed. Effective technical resumes clearly show the candidate's technical skills - a hiring manager shouldn't have to go fishing for this information. An excellent way to...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Create A Winning Retail Resume

    In the world of retail, one thing matters: Performance. Whether you are a manager, salesperson, merchandiser, cashier, clerk, HR professional or an employee who performs one of the numerous other retail jobs, your resume needs to demonstrate how you have contributed to your company's bottom-line success. High performers are most...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Resume Tips For Full-Time Parents Returning To Work

    According to Linda Matias, president of the National Resume Writers' Association and CareerStrides, the right format is critical to getting noticed. Matias suggests that parents avoid chronological resumes and consider using a combination format. A chronological resume can eliminate a parent's candidacy in seconds, she says. Parents who have been...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    More Than One Career Goal

    Are you torn between two or more career directions? Thinking about returning to a former career? Are you multitalented with the potential to perform more than one role? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you need to examine your resume strategy. Many job seekers who are pursuing...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // Jan 2010

    Customer Service Resume Tips

    Whether you're a seasoned pro or entry-level, the US Department of Labor reports excellent job growth potential for customer service representatives. To ensure you're considered for the best opportunities, pay your resume the same attention you do your customers. "Resumes that are highly targeted to the career goal are much...

    Provided By Monster Worldwide

  • White Papers // May 2012

    Call Centers: A Gateway for Social Engineers to Access Your Company's Most Sensitive Information

    In its most basic form, social engineering is the act of manipulating someone into doing something they normally would not do. For the authors' purposes, they will consider social engineering the art form of using deception and manipulation to persuade an unsuspecting person to perform actions like divulging confidential information...

    Provided By TraceSecurity

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    Make It A Sales Call To Interview Your Best

    Selling is an integral part of everyday life. Whether we are selling multimillion-dollar deals, selling our ideas to a colleague or boss, or selling a family member or partner on seeing a movie of our choice. It is an important skill and it comes in very handy when we are...

    Provided By Beyond.com

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    A Student's Guide To Interviewing With Third-Party Recruiters

    As you conduct your job search you will find that some employers hire third-party organizations to assist them in identifying and hiring college students. An employer can hire a third-party organization to do on-campus recruiting, represent the company at a job fair, screen job candidates who apply through an Internet...

    Provided By National Association of Colleges and Employers

  • Case Studies // Jun 2008

    Datacraft Readies Philippines Top Call Center for Capacity Expansion

    The contact center industry is a highly competitive business. Set up in 1996, the Philippines-based Advanced Contact Solutions (ACS) is amongst the country's top providers of quality contact center and business process outsourcing services. Keen to uphold its leadership position, ACS entrusts Datacraft with an expansion project to increase its...

    Provided By Dimension Data

  • White Papers // Dec 2007

    Follow Ups Are Important - Even When There's No Reply

    Conventional wisdom says you should always follow up with prospective employers after you've sent them a resume or met them for an interview. But many candidates find such tactics fruitless: Either they receive no response from their actual contact, or find no way to reach a live human being. Job...

    Provided By Dice

  • White Papers // Apr 2008

    Breaking Through The Wall

    The ability to reach a prospective employer directly can be vital to your job-hunting efforts. Your prospects increase dramatically if you can talk to a person, instead of "Human Resources." While there are effective techniques for reaching hiring managers directly, let's begin with some basics. First, don't lie. If you're...

    Provided By Dice

  • White Papers // Apr 2010

    Voice Disorders Identification Using Multilayer Neural Network

    In this paper the authors present a new method for voice disorders classification based on multilayer neural network. The processing algorithm is based on a hybrid technique which uses the wavelets energy coefficients as input of the multilayer neural network. The training step uses a speech database of several pathological...

    Provided By University of Tunis

  • Downloads // Mar 2008

    10 ways to manage yourself through a challenge

    What do you do when you're faced with a task and find that you're not progressing as you should -- or that you're even failing to accomplish it? Fight the temptation to beat yourself up over it and manage your way through the situation. Ramon Padilla offers 10 practical steps...

    Provided By Ramon Padilla

  • Downloads // Jul 2008

    10 ways to improve your client relationships

    One thing is true for all consultants: If we have any work, we have clients. And one of our most important roles is to maintain and enhance our relationship with them. Here are some suggestions to help you foster those important business relationships.

    This download is also available as an...

    Provided By Kevin Eikenberry Group

  • Downloads // Oct 2010

    10 ways for road warriors to avoid snags and snafus

    From small aggravations to huge headaches, a lot can go wrong when you hit the road. Veteran globetrotter Brien Posey offers some advice that will help you stay productive when you travel.

    This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.

    Provided By Brien Posey

  • White Papers // Feb 2009

    Can Public Employment Subsidies Render The German Construction Sector Weather Proof?

    Both the US and Germany have a pronounced pattern of seasonal winter unemployment. In order to confine inefficient high levels of temporary layoffs, US firms are taxed - albeit incompletely - according to the unemployment insurance benefits claimed by their laid off workers. In contrast, German construction firms are not...

    Provided By University of Nottingham

  • White Papers // Feb 2010

    Practitioner Guide: How To Create A Talent Management Strategy That Reflects Diversity

    This paper is for HR professionals rather than at line or senior managers. It will give the ideas on how to communicate with and influence senior managers, line managers and staff. Appendix A gives some background on the origin of this paper. Every talent management approach is affected by the...

    Provided By Crown

  • White Papers // Jan 2008

    Interview Process

    Whether you are participating in a phone interview with your recruiter or an in-person interview with the hiring manager, one thing will be consistent, the selection process that is used at Progressive. This process helps verify that this is the right job for you and to help the hiring manager...

    Provided By Progressive Casualty Insurance Company

  • White Papers // May 2009

    Talent management As Viable As Ever

    This paper looks at the evolution of talent management and its importance for HR. Modern talent management executives must be able to speak in financial terms about the workforce. They must understand the organisation's current complement of skills and competencies as well as external local, national and international workforce demographics.

    Provided By Reed Business Information