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- Offshoring IT - What can be done?
- The company I work for has moved all it's manufacturing to cheap China. The quality sucks but nobody seems to care because the parts are made for pennies and the executives look like heros to the stock owners.Now our CIO is looking to offshore IT to India. I guess there's...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Benefits, silvioandpauly@..., job, Sabin, health care, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Stretching truth = lying
- Stretching truth = lyingLying is a false statement deliberately presented as being true. Stretching the truth is the same as telling a lie.If you state that you have a degree and you don't, you've told a lie. If you state that you have certified training on new hardware/software...
- Tags: lie
- Discussion threads 2006-02-01
- I admire people who get the jobs in IT!
- Me again.I've been looking for a new job - and the more I look, the more I admire you guru's out there.Most jobs I've seen want MCSE2003, Linux/Web experience, SQL, routers, switches, and everything else even phones.I honestly don't know how you do it. I work about 50 hours/week -...
- Tags: career, career job certification, information technology, job, silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-13
- Post Interview - now they won't return call
- Post Interview - now they won't return callThis is driving me nuts. I had an interview, which I thought went well. I e-mailed the HR and IT guy about 2 weeks later, to ask where they were in the search - no response.I called the HR guy last week and...
- Tags: career, contact, follow-up, hiring, interview, job, silvioandpauly@..., telephone
- Discussion threads 2005-12-13
- Quit a full time job for consulting?
- I may have a chance to leave a full time job with bene's, for a 12 month consultant w/hire option. The money is about 30% more, about 1/2 more commute.Has anyone made the change? Was it worth it or did you leave a cushy secure job for a rat-race?where to...
- Tags: career, consultant career full-time, consulting, job, silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-18
- Phone/language skills instead of tech skills to land job
- I've had about 4 phone screenings for jobs over the past 18 months. 1 resulted in a personal interview - the others never called back.I think I lack good speech skills, and my lack of 'big words' may be hurting me.Should I forget the tech skills and take a course...
- Tags: big word
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- Job search - need to vent.
- Job search - need to vent.arrrggg - getting fed up with this job search. Too old, over paid, clueless headhunters, not enough experience, too much experience, need and expert, need a generalist, AHHHHHHH!!!Maybe I should've been a friggin' plumber! Do they outsource that? - LOLI feel a little better now.........Change...
- Tags: headhunter, career, job, emplotment, silvioandpauly@..., job search
- Discussion threads 2005-08-04
- IT Generalist
- IT GeneralistIs it me or does Generalist seem to be the buzzword nowadays. Isn't that a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none?In the ads and few interviews I've had, I hear more and more about these 'generalists'. Is being really good at your game a past value? Now you have to run the data...
- Tags: information technology
- Discussion threads 2005-07-28
- The "Describe your Ideal Job" interview question
- The "Describe your Ideal Job" interview questionMade it to the "phone Interview" - think I aced the technical questions. Then they asked "Describe your Ideal Job" Don't know if I blew it! My first thought was a resort owner on a tropical island, but hmmm...just kind of stumbled through it....
- Tags: job, silvioandpauly@..., career
- Discussion threads 2005-05-25
- Monster and other job sites
- Monster and other job sitesI have a resume on Monster. I've gotten a few 'nibbles' on the resume, and they always ask me to send my resume.Question - If they already have it from Monster, why do they ask me to send it? Is it because they'd like it in...
- Tags: career, job, Monster, silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
- Carly and her golden 21mil parachute
- Carly and her golden 21mil parachuteOK - so how do I explain business to my college kid. Carly Fiorina is 'let go', cause she didn't do the job she promised.She got a nice salary, and as a parting 'gift', 21 million dollars. Most of the rest
- Tags: silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2005-02-12
- How do you relax off hours (without booze)
- How do you relax off hours without boozeReduced staff, long hours, stupid users, Sarbanes, patches, upgrades, and more stupid users.How do you IT folks cope or destress? I'm afraid I'm becoming an alcoholic.....Relax and turn your mind offI crochet to relax. I found that the repetitive motion allows my...
- Tags: Games, Patches, DVD, Consumer electronics, game
- Discussion threads 2005-01-11
- Savage sporting events
- So what do you think of those savages at the Pistons game and that football game. Those boys need to get a grip.Sprewell started itIf the NBA had thrown Latrell Sprewell out of the league after he choked his coach not once but twice, then the ID-
- Tags: Games, silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-21
- No raise and afraid to ask
- No raise and afraid to askSo I've been doin the IT thing for many years. It looks like the IT jobs pay ALOT less than they used to.My company hasn't given a raise in 4 years. So I'm still making above the job postings I see. Do I ask for...
- Tags: career, information technology, job, silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-17
- Getting a foot in the door
- Why do so many companies today NEVER get back to you after applying for a job? I mean, most you don't even get the crummy postcard. Has corporate America forgotten what communication is?I recently applied for one via E-mail, then Monster, and a couple weeks later, I tried to call....
- Tags: applicant, career, job, silvioandpauly@...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-17
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- TR's hot topics: Linux inferiority, monitor outages, & MS Exchange
- TR's hot topics: Linux inferiority, monitor outages, & MS ExchangeTECHREPUBLIC COMMUNITY NETNOTE NEWSLETTER for August 9, 2005TR'S HOT TOPICS: LINUX INFERIORITY, MONITOR OUTAGES, MS EXCHANGE, A SASSY BLOG, LIBERTARIANISM This week's hot topics include: Bizarre monitor malfunctions, the latest "anything you can do I can do better" debate between...
- Tags: community netnote, exchange, feedback, http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11184-0.html?forumID=48&threadI, linux, LINUX INFERIORITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, monitor, protector, rss, site improvements, surge protector, TechRepublic Inc., The Trivia Geek, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-08-08
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