December, 2010

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The pros and cons of being an IT early adopter

Ahmed's Universe

'PARIS One of the trickiest issues faced by a company about to select a new business software (HR or otherwise) is the early-adopter dilemma. Imagine that you have a favorable view of your IT vendor, probably because of a long association or due to a great rapport with your account manager whom you have come to trust over the years. When a new need emerges (say, you are expanding into a new country and need to manage and pay the local workforce) you naturally turn to your vendor who had already

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How to Get Your Resume Read (sort of) | CareerSolvers

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 How to Get Your Resume Read (Sort of) This month’s Career Collective topic is common job search misperceptions. My post is about resume writing misperceptions. You can read the topics by my esteemed colleagues by following the links at the end of this post.

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How old does your resume make you look? | CareerSolvers

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, December 30th, 2010 How Old Does Your Resume Make You Look? As an older job seeker , writing a resume can bring an additional set of challenges. It can be hard to know what to include and what to leave out of the document when you have had a long work history, and it may have been years since the last time you even needed a resume.

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Top Ten Pieces of Job Search Advice for 2010

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Friday, December 31st, 2010 Top Job Search Advice in 2010 I’m doing a bit of reflecting as 2010 winds down and we get ready to usher in 2011. Here’s a round-up of my ten favorite career advice posts from Career Solvers in 2010. See anything here you want to do differently in 2011?

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Better late than never! Vargas Llosa receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

Ahmed's Universe

'The blogger''s personal collection of Vargas Llosa books PARIS Exactly twenty years ago, while doing my master''s at the University of Georgia I visited a childhood friend of mine who was teaching French Literature at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and, while book browsing in a bookstore, one of my favorite hobbies, he recommended buying La tia Julia y el escribidor by Peru''s greatest writer, Mario Vargas Llosa (MVL.

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