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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

'RIO DE JANEIRO In Brazil where I am assisting a customer in their post-PeopleSoft strategy (among the choices confronting us: keep the global system or go with a local one?), I am constantly reminded of what it means to have an HR system localized for different markets, especially when the product is initially American. And time and again I can''t help but witness how far HR systems have to go before becoming truly international - contrary to vendors'' claims that they are "global.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, March 18th, 2010 How to Spot a Job Scam Some people have managed to leverage the challenges of the most recent recession into a lucrative business for themselves to earn a legitimate living. Unfortunately, others are preying on uninformed and sometimes desperate job seekers to illegitimately turn a buck and ruin people’s credit or drain their bank accounts.

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MARCH 10, 2010

As the economy rebounds, you may be looking closely at ex-employees who departed on good terms. Here are six common rehiring mistakes. The post Rehiring ex-employees? Beware these 6 common slip-ups appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Ahmed's Universe

DECEMBER 13, 2010

'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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APRIL 9, 2010

'RIO DE JANEIRO Fidelity Investments'' HR Services has just taken a big hit with the announcement that their flagship client, Bank of America (BofA), has decided to dump them after a lengthy review in which they compared the option of staying with them to switching to a new provider. The decision which moves payroll, timekeeping, recruiting and benefits to Hewitt (and only keeps retirement with Fidelity for the time being ) prompts any observer of the HR technology and services business to wonde

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Ahmed's Universe

OCTOBER 19, 2010

'PRAGUE Spending a few days in the fairytale Czech capital where I presented the DOs and DON''Ts of HR technology projects at the HR Directors'' International Summit , I was surprised by how many of the 150 attending HR leaders asked me which vendor I saw most likely to inherit the mantle of HR technology leader now that PeopleSoft is slowly but steadily fading into the sunset.

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Ahmed's Universe

JULY 28, 2010

'BARCELONA, Read the mainstream economic press (by which I mean The Economis t, the Financial Times , the Wall Street Journal et al.), listen to pundits from the establishment''s think tanks and international organizations (OECD, IMF etc.) and you always hear the same litany again and again: to grow your economy and create more jobs you must reform your labor market.

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Ahmed's Universe

JULY 8, 2010

'PARIS It is one of the worst-kept secrets in the HR tech/services industry that ADP, the Grand Old Lady of our business, has been on the prowl for a Talent Management (TM) product to add to its already impressive portfolio. After plugging the recruiting hole in its offering with the acquisition of Virtual Edge (and Employease) in 2006, it was soon obvious that the Grand Old Lady of Roseland, NJ, was leaving more than small change on the table as many of its customers were buying from other TM v

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Ahmed's Universe

JUNE 6, 2010

'PARIS And better late than never. Waiting for Fusion HCM reminds me of Beckett''s play "Waiting for Godot" where you wait and wait and wait just to find out there is no Godot at all. Now, I''m sure Gretchen Alarcon (VP, Product Strategy, Oracle HCM) will have something to demo, but if past Oracle behavior is anything to go by the demo will be a big anti-climax.

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JUNE 3, 2010

'MADRID Last Monday morning saw me, under a flawlessly blue sky, walking down Madrid''s answer to Broadway, the Gran Via, built exactly 100 years ago. It took much less time for another momentous event to take place this very week: Apple passed Microsoft as the world''s largest technology company, based on market capitalization. As luck would have it the company''s latest venture, the iPad, had just premiered in Spain so when I reached the mid-point of the avenue, Plaza del Callao, I looked at t

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Ahmed's Universe

MAY 26, 2010

'FRANFURT Returning from my first Sapphire in years (working for several vendors such as PeopleSoft, Oracle and Fidelity in a row wasn''t the best way to get me an invitation to the world''s largest business-software event) I feel like sharing some thoughts about what could be a game-changer for HR technology. My deepest apologies if I use a cliché (I positively hate those pompous and vacuous "paradign shifts" and "game-changing" when not "disruptive technologies") but for the first time since W

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Ahmed's Universe

MAY 14, 2010

'PARIS We, independent consultants/advisors, like to exaggerate our importance and claim a prescience mere mortals rarely display. I try not to fall in this trap (at least not too often) but I cannot avoid remembering a discussion I had with an SAP executive a couple of weeks ago. To counter Oracle''s rise in the enterprise-software business, I asked her, what was SAP waiting to give the Redwood Shores-based competitor what we French call " la réponse du berger à la bergère " and move into the d

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Ahmed's Universe

MARCH 24, 2010

'PARIS Last Sunday, March 21, saw two world leaders facing a key vote that would define the two-year remainder of their presidencies. I am, of course, referring to Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy. The Leader of the Free World (interesting how we stopped hearing that phrase when BO became president) was facing the break-or-make-a-presidency vote in the House of Representatives on his healthcare reform plans; while Sarko, whose party controlled only two of France''s 22 regions, tried to show his

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Ahmed's Universe

MARCH 10, 2010

'PARIS So now it''s all about wicked speculators trying to destroy a small and virtuous country. At least that''s the message that Greek Prime Minister Papandreou has been hammering these last days in his mini-world tour aiming at finding a solution to his country''s financial travails. Excuse me, but there''s nothing illegal about speculating, otherwise said speculators would already be in jail.

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Ahmed's Universe

MARCH 8, 2010

'PARIS Isn''t amazing how symbolic some dates can be? On the very day that we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of International Women''s Day, Hollywood''s Film Academy bestowed, for the first time in its 82-year history, the directing award on a woman (and I''m not playing with dates since with the time difference between the West Coast and France, the two events took place almost simultaneously.

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Talent Culture

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Making Job Search Fun (Yeah, That’s Right!) This month the #careercollective is offering advice on how to overcome the negative aspects of job search and stay upbeat if your search efforts haven’t landed you a job yet. Job search is tough and it’s certainly a lot of work; but it doesn’t have to be drudgery.

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Talent Culture

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 How to Prove You Are an “A&# Performer to an Employer Careerbuilder recently surveyed close to 3,000 hiring managers to see what the hiring trends for 2010 will be. The most interesting finding from my perspective is this one: Replacing Lower-Performing Employees Employers are taking advantage of the large number of top talent in the current labor pool to strengthen their work force.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Cool Job Seekers Heat Up Their Search in the Summer This month’s Career Collective topic is How to Heat Up Your Job Search. As we approach the hot days of summer, my clients sometimes tell me they plan to put their job search on hold during the summer months because they think that everyone is out of town and no one is hiring during this season.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, October 28th, 2010 The Top Ten Scary Things Job Seekers Do In honor of Halloween, this month’s Career Collective topic is scary resume and career mistakes. Here are the top ten mistakes I see job seekers make. Inflate their qualifications or lie on their resume. While a resume is not a legal document, it should be an accurate representation of your experience and achievements.

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Talent Culture

AUGUST 23, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Creepy Networking Despite all the information available about “netiquette&# and the importance of networking strategically online, I continue to get dozens of mystery online networking requests. Sometimes the connection is as weak as being a member of the same group (with 50,000 other members) or as bizarre as asking for a face-to-face meeting based on the fact that we reside in the same city.

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Talent Culture

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 Jobvite Survey Reveals Social Networking is a Top Recruiting Strategy According to the second annual Social Recruitment Survey conducted by Jobvite, ( via Career Management Alliance ), employers are recruiting several ways: employee referrals, professional online networks, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter; and the traditional sources, including search firms and job boards.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

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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JUNE 21, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, June 21st, 2010 Who Quits Their Job in This Economy? According to the most recent report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more employees left their jobs voluntarily in March (1.9M) than were laid off (1.8M). You may be wondering why so many are quitting their jobs in what is still a volatile economy, but the reality is that people quit their jobs despite economic indicators for a variety of reasons.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Job Hunt: Reality TV for Job Seekers Move over Project Runway and Top Chef…A new reality TV series called Job Hunt has hit the air waves. Hosted by Women for Hire CEO Tory Johnson, the show profiles job seekers in New York City and offers advice on everything from how to improve your resume to how to spiffy up your interview wardrobe.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Five Signs That You Are Not Ready to Work With a Resume Writer Occasionally I have to turn a prospect for a resume project away because I have determined that they really aren’t ready to work with me. There are five signs that a person is just not in the right place to begin a resume project and doing so would lead to frustration rather than a positive experience.

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