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| Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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Candidates set to miss recruiting deadline
In recent months I’ve been the first to pour cold water on suggestions that significant hiring might be back on the agenda.
I like to tell things how they are - rather than be seen as guilty of talking up the market. Which is why I’ve written that we can expect to see a slow and gradual upturn in hiring activity next year rather than anything more dramatic.
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Amid the downturn, firms look to IT to restore strength
A majority (72 percent) of business and information technology (IT) executives say their organizations place greater value on the IT function today than they did before the economic crisis. What's more, they view IT as an important part of their economic recovery efforts, according to the findings of a global study by Accenture and produced in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
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What do junior consultants really need to know?
There is nothing quite as disconcerting for a client as the realisation that the people working on a project don’t know why it was commissioned. Malcolm Sleath from coaching consultancy 12boxes suggests this happens more often than we like to think.
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Job prospects continue to slowly improve in Americas and Europe
Manpower Employment Outlook Survey reveals weakest first-quarter hiring plans for the US since 1982, while new-year hiring expected to return to pre-recession pace in Asia Pacific.
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Hay Group: US base salary increases at lowest levels in past decade
The 2.5% planned amount is the lowest planned increase in the last decade and it is also one half of a percent lower than when Hay Group conducted a similar study in July 2009, which forecasted a 2010 median pay budget increase of 3.0%.
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Capgemini named one of Renault’s preferred partner in applications outsourcing
Capgemini has signed a three-year outsourcing contract - through its Capgemini Outsourcing Services subsidiary - with the Renault Group, becoming one of the car manufacturer’s new preferred partners in outsourcing.
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Wall Street and the City reject reform but accept blame for crisis
Early findings of a global risk management survey which asks finance professionals what they think caused the banking crisis and what should be done about it, reveals that the City and Wall Street will not accept any measures to reform despite admitting blame for the financial crisis.
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Cognizant in R&D deal with Invensys Rail
Cognizant signs a five-year, multi-million dollar contract to provide product R&D.
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| Thought Leadership |
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New ways to engage
(John Niland - Success 121)
How do I engage with key decision-makers? As a new decade dawns, this question will be top of mind for many professionals. Whether the offer is technical or soft-skill, whether the priorities are strategic or immediate, it is imperative we engage with key-decision makers. Otherwise our talents remain Europe’s best-kept secret.
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Online advertising now the strongest route to market
(UKFast.net Ltd)
New figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau show that online ad spend has overtaken TV in the UK. Britain is the first mature market in which this significant change has happened and it shows that companies here appreciate that web advertising is now the best route to market.
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