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Unhappy employees may ‘retire’ on the job

By on May 21, 2012 in HR Management

Unhappy employees may ‘retire’ on the job Livemint That attitude shows up a lot in surveys of folks who want to change jobs . Keeping employees engaged is a huge problem facing companies as the US claws out of the economic doldrums, according to participants in several workshops at HR Houston’s 21st …

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Job Gains by Demographic

By on May 21, 2012 in HR Management

Despite the weakening jobs data of late, signs of an economic recovery abound. But is the rising tide lifting all demographic boats equally?

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Job Hopping Isn’t Hazardous to Employers

By on May 11, 2012 in HR Management

Recruiters who focus on an applicant’s history of frequent job changes instead of analyzing the overall fit for the position may be shortchanging their organizations, experts say. Such a focus also is an indicator of risk avoidance, rather than a positive strategic outlook.

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Job Search Terms – What is that? Don’t I Just Apply for the Job I Want?

By on April 24, 2012 in Career Advice, HR Management

NO – that is the long and short of it. Recruiters – agency or in-house all use key words and search terms when sourcing for resumes. Where are they looking these days? Beyond Careerbuilder, Monster and the industry specific job boards you are posting, we are also looking at Indeed (yes you can post your [...]

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How To Source International Candidates

By on April 17, 2012 in HR Management

If you had to recruit candidates from overseas (and you did not want to spend money on a job board), how would you go about it? If you have no clue, then continue reading… I discovered some resources online that had me thinking in that direction. Are you aware of, The Global Information Technology Report? What is it? Sponsored by Cisco Systems, the Global Information Technology Report series is a joint project between the World Economic Forum and INSEAD (a prestigious graduate Business School), drawing upon several key indicators of the economy and technological readiness in a country. The Networked Readiness Index, a comparative and benchmarking framework that is the highlight of the GITR project, was developed at INSEAD in order to capture the state of the technology readiness in the 127 countries worldwide. According to the latest report, these are the top 10 countries for technology: 1. Sweden 2. Singapore 3. Finland 4. Denmark 5. Switzerland 6. Netherlands 7. Norway 8. United States 9. Canada 10. United Kingdom Source: World Economic Forum Hmm… For some reason, this had me considering what where the top programming languages used around the world? So, I dug around and found the TIOBE Programming Community Index. In case you had not heard of it, here is a quote from their website. The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. As of April 2012, these are the top 10 programming languages: 1. C 2. Java 3. C++ 4. Objective-C 5. C# 6. PHP 7. Visual Basic 8. Python 9. Javascript 10. Perl Source: Tiobe After reviewing both of these bits of data, I thought to myself, “Self, this is good material for sourcing international candidates.” So after scratching my head (and a few other places) I began to wonder, “How popular are the top programming languages in the the most technologically advanced countries?” To answer this question, I decided to do a sample search for Java developers based on the top level domain of all the top countries minus USA

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