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Cisco’s resolve unflagging despite massive layoffs coming
LAS VEGAS — Despite the specter of perhaps the largest layoff in Cisco’s history overhanging its annual customer conference, the company last week conducted business pretty much as usual at Cisco Live!
The conference, attended physically by 15,000 and virtually by 40,000, was heavy on topics such as data center, cloud – and Cisco’s moves to correct the mistakes of recent quarters and recent years. Indeed, CEO John Chambers’ keynote was almost contrite in tone as he sought to reassure customers that Cisco will come through its current challenges stronger and more resolute – in every aspect of the company.
“We’re structuring Cisco to be leaner, drive innovation faster,” Chambers told the customer audience.
How to Supercharge Your Executive Resume
Its not always easy to know what to do with your executive resume when you realize that its not getting you jobs, but you dont exactly know why. Sometimes your resume requires a few minor tweaks and sometimes it needs a complete overhaul. Then there are times that it just needs a boost to make it interesting to more recruiters.
If you think your resume falls into the last category, supercharging it is probably all you need to give it that boost. Here are some ways to get this done…
Make Your Key Details Stand Out
One great way to supercharge your resume is by learning how to make your key details stand out. You could get this done by positioning your details as high as possible on your first page.
A Pre-Turnaround Hiring Strategy Allows You to Hire When There Is No Competition
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that when business revenues are down, it simply doesn’t make sense to carry a large-scale recruiting effort, but if you’re smart, you know that once an economic turnaround begins, the competition for talent will again be fierce. Starting a major recruiting effort too early or too late both have negative consequences. An alternative strategy with many upsides involves targeted recruiting just prior to competition for talent heating up. This strategy is known as a “pre-turnaround hiring strategy,” and allows you to cherry pick top talent before everyone else starts aggressively courting the same people.
Time Your Recruiting to Occur When Competition Is Low
Recruiting is a lot like fishing. If you go
Beware when tweeting for the boss
Social media is a great thing and employers know it. That’s why so many companies are using services such as Twitter and Facebook to get the message out about their products and services; and also getting their own employees to tweet and post comments in an effort to promote their wares.
A reader recently wrote me that he uploaded something personal on his company Facebook page by mistake. He ended up deleting it immediately, but wondered what would have happened if he hadn’t caught his error.
What would have happened? That’s the big question. Employees are sort of in the dark on this because so many employers don’t even have policies regarding social media use. A new s
Impact of weak growth on unemployment remains severe
This is according to the CIPD’s latest forecast for UK economic and employment growth, which predicted that the economy would grow by 1.4% in 2011, revised downwards from the December 2010 forecast of 1.6% growth for this year. For 2012, the CIPD predicts 2% growth, down from the previous forecast of 2.1%.
However, the CIPD predicts that unemployment will peak at 8.7% in mid-2012, rather than at 9.5% as previously forecast.
Despite this, the CIPD predicts unemployment figures to be around 2.4 million in 2015, roughly the same level as at present and 800,000 higher than before the recession.
John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the CIPD, commented: “Just as pay freezes and pay cuts protected jobs in the recession, the ongoing pay squeeze is helping our anaemic economy support employment.
Choking On the Firehose
When I first started names sourcing I used to think to myself, “I wish there was a database of names with titles.”
In fact, I used to do wistful dogpile and altavista searches that looked something like this:
“Hewlett Packard” “employee list”
or this:
“Hewlett Packard” employees
You get the idea.
That was back in 1996.
Once in a great while I’d get lucky and something would come up but not usually.
I’d search for something — anything — that could get me inside of a company and then I’d call and bounce around until I got the information I was tasked to find.
It’s pretty much what I do (still) today.
Someone called me a “dying breed” on the Recruiting Animal show the other day because I use the telephone.
I’m okay with that.
In fact, I’m glad to be recognized as such because in this dying I am experiencing a rebirth.
More of that in a bit — let’s get back to the late 90s in this industry.
I’d lie awake nights (and keep my long-suffering husband Bob awake) thinking and kvetching at him why we didn’t build our own database.
“Do you know how much work that is?” seemed to be the main outcry from him, but what it really addressed was that neither one of us had the know-how to put the thing together.
Then social networking evolved and sites like MySpace appeared. Memberships in that graduated into Facebook and
Jobless Americans Have To Bear Burden Of Budget Cuts Because Corporations Need A Tax Cut
This is a crosspost from ThinkProgress.
Travis Waldron filed this report from a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
A member of the local Rotary Club stood yesterday to ask former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) a question weighing on the minds of millions of jobless Americans: At a time when corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash, why are the Americans who can least afford it being asked to shoulder the burden of trillions of dollars in potential budget cuts?
But Romney dodged the question, ignoring the plight of the poor and unemployed, and instead launched into a speech about how American jobs were being outsourced to developing countries with cheap labor and miniscule tax rates because the U.S. ha