HOW BEST TO FIND A JOB IN A DOWN TURN – BY VAUGHAN STOREY AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING.
As is all too common nowadays, I took a call from a good friend on Friday with the sad news that he had received a redundancy letter.
Asking for my help, I spent that evening on the web, researching the job boards and career sites to find Engineering sector recruitment companies as my specialization is IT whilst he is in manufacturing, so I have no contacts in that sector to draw upon.
Why is President Zuma concerned about an IT skills shortage? The answer is right under his nose!
Posted Monday 20th February 2012. On IT Web on a Sunday afternoon catching up with the gossip, I was surprised by Mr Zuma’s statement about there being an IT skills shortage in SA … My guess is that he is not engaging with the right people in the industry, what is your take on the subject?
I am sure you recall that a few years back Thabo Mbeki ignored the advise of experts in the energy industry with regards to investing in the national grid as the Government rolled out their electrification program.
BOOLEAN IS THE “SILVER BULLET” INTERNET SEARCH METHOD BY LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Posted Tuesday 24th January 2012. With a billion members on Facebook by year end, Google+ set to increase their membership from 60 to 400 Million by Christmas along with good old LinkedIn having over 135 Million members at the moment … Boolean is the “silver bullet” for E-Social research along with BTOB / BTOC … So what’s it all about?
LATEST TRENDS IN ICT RECRUITMENT. FINDING HIGH TECH JOBS BY LEADING EDGE CONSULTING.
Location – South Africa – Industry – Information Technology
Posted Tuesday 25th October 2011. Counting the weeks off to year end, there have been dynamic changes in both the search / recruitment and IT worlds over the past 36 months, with the most exciting being cheap storage, tablets, Skype, affordable BI, cloud and smart phones on the tech front, whilst we predict that social media such as LinkedIn will be the primary hubs for BTOB BTOC before the end of 2012 along with being the primary places to power career possibilities into the future.
BUDGETING / CONSOLIDATIONS SYSTEMS EXPERTS GET TO KNOW LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Location – Nationwide in South Africa – Industry – Consulting and Corporate – Both Perm & Contract
Posted Tuesday 19th July 2011. Working together with our primary BI sector clients in terms of where the market is going, everybody that we have spoken to concur that revenue planning / cost modelling solution investments are set to accelerate as organisations will be managing their working capital very carefully as rising tax and cost obligations eat into their top and bottom lines.
Into the second half of this year rolling into 2012, many of our clients will be building further critical mass in both the Advisory & Systems Consulting wings of their businesses.
Do your skills revolve around Expenditure and Revenue Business Analysis, else spent time in the ABC, ABM software sector, into the short-term you will experience an increase in demand for your skills.
There are a multitude of technologies which you may have chosen to concentrate on, including Bizsuite, Comshare, FRX, Hyperion, SAP BPC and TM1
Should you be interested in pursuing a new opportunity either now or into the future, make contact with Leading Edge Consulting. To learn more about me pop onto my LinkedIn profile, else research our site. Joanne Brown
For expert search services in Budgeting Consolidations sector, save our details under favourites.
In closing, for the next few weeks we are working mostly remotely via iPAD and HTC, kindly call in on 082 413 6786
PROFESSIONALS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN DATA WAREHOUSING SECTOR. GET TO KNOW LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Location – South Africa – Industry – Corporate & Consulting Sector – Perm or Contracting – Salary – Highly Neg.
Posted 8th July 2011. The Business Intelligence sector is one of the most upbeat technology spaces and one of our largest market places.
Levering OLAP and Campaign Analytics to spot talent and uncover opportunities, our capabilities cut across commercial geographic and specific technology installed bases / service providers to open doors and attract expertise.
IN SEARCH OF ERP CAREER MOVES ELSE THE PRIMARY EXPERTISE IN SOUTH AFRICA CALL ON THE RECRUITMENT EXPERTISE AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Location – Nationwide – Perm or Contracting – Salary – Highly Neg
Posted Monday 11th April 2011. Into 2011 many South African companies are struggling to source talent with calls to their accredited recruiters yielding poor results. … This is because a local magic potion…”Passive recruitment” seldom achieves great results …Conversely we put the work in to find smashing skills for great companies and introduce talented people to the market to secure them fantastic opportunities
Looking for a Search Service which is effective at finding brilliant ERP expertise else cracker career moves for competent professionals … Call Leading Edge Consulting.
Working in your market place since the mid 90’s we have got a fantastic local skills pool complimented by our strong market reach to introduce great skills to fantastic companies.
Nowadays the ERP market is massive yet in brief we are designed to identify all manner of ERP related skills sets inclusive of:
SAP ECC6 Bus One All in One… Microsoft Business Solutions including Axapta Navision Great Plains …Oracle E-Business JDE Peoplesoft into ADP BPCS Epicor Globe Enterprise Hansa MFGPro Protean Sage Scala and Syspro as examples.
To learn more about our company and people pop onto www.lec.co.za.
Hook into our network …Link In with Leading Edge Consulting where your resume will be safeguarded in strictest confidence.
Our 011 644 5110 can let us down…If this line is flat use 082 413 6786 or +44 1202 720 197 .. Looking for that next ERP career opportunity ? Scoot into www.lec.co.za In search of ERP specialists? …. Pop both hire requests and resumes to info@lec.co.za
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EIS MIS CAREER POSITIONING AND RECRUITMENT SERVICES FROM LEADING EDGE CONSULTING.
Location – Cape Town Pretoria Tshwane Durban Gauteng – Industry – Consulting – Perm and Contracting – Salary – Open Ended
Called in Wednesday 16th March 2011. Nearing the close of Q1we are working in an environment where there is a lot more commercial confidence in the market than last year, with several organizations in the Business Intelligence sector expanding capabilities by on-boarding additional solutions, adding to head count else new providers adding MIS Data Warehousing to add to their existing capabilities
A COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO ICT RECRUITMENT BY PETER WOLF AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Location – Gauteng Tshwane Cape Town Natal – Industry – Consulting or Corporate – Perm or Contract – Salary – Open Ended
Posted Monday 14th March 2011. The working world and peoples career drivers are changing driven largely in Gauteng by toll charges and traffic congestion.
“HOT TIPS” IN FINDING A NEW JOB VIA THE SEARCH ENGINES AND SOCIAL MEDIA BY VAUGHAN STOREY AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Reading recruiter forums on the Web and chatting to several HR Officers and Search Consultants this year their biggest dilemma is finding suitable people whilst those looking for work are no long receiving the quality nor quantity of response that they have been used to.
The key reason behind these problems is that the job boards are now being used by loads more people from many walks of life, which is making it increasingly difficult for individuals to stand out from the crowd.
To explain, Google the name Phillip Jones today and you will find 487 000 references … Could you find a specific Mr Jones? … On the search engines recruiters rely on key words to spot people …Today there are 65 742 CV’s on PNET that carry the word SAP, 58 037 with the word Payroll in ‘em somewhere and a staggering 120 342 people who have used the word Banking in their resume … I just gulped because these are intimidating numbers.
To get around this massive challenge, Search Companies including ourselves use speed-reading technologies to quickly and economically pluck single individuals out of hundreds and thousands of resumes for specific opportunities. Hence the trick nowadays is to design your on-line resume to be spotted by the speed-reading programs.
Below I have compiled some hot tips to improve your on-line led career prospects.
Tip one : Actively apply for vacancies that are relevant to you … I know, mundane but you will be surprised at how many people don’t.
Tip two: Trim back your online resume to a “Taster” format only detailing your last 2-3 years of work experience and omitting any facts that are not directly related to your core attributes.
Build this by including as many everyday key words that you can which describe both your occupation and industry and be sure to include your full name and DOB.
Tip three: Should your professional profile enable you to be employable in more than one occupation, build multiple taster resumes to reflect each of these talent / experience profiles and pop them all on the search engines…This is a international trick which works very well.
Tip four : Detail the exact suburbs and towns that you live and work in.
Tip five: Use standard English in your CV and steer clear of ( ) # ++ “ “ abbreviations and unnecessary words breaks (-) even remove coma’s because speed reading programmes work best with clean documents.
Tip six : Should you be urgently looking for work, resubmit your resume onto the job boards everyday to stay on top of the pile.
Tip seven: Set yourself up on LinkedIn .. It’s simple to do and adds to your professional visibility.
In closing, Internationally Search work has been undertaken by “Speed Reading” technologies for many years, locally the demand is relatively new because the computer literate population was relatively small until quite recently… Hence we are simply catching up as more people get on-line.
With speed reading done and dusted….I’m under the bonnet working on SMS resumes to cater for the Blue Collar workforce .. Are the Job Boards tinkering around with this one yet?
Use my LinkedIn to research me….Vaughan Storey
Hook into our network …Link In with Leading Edge Consulting, confidently post your latest resume to us in the strictest confidence.
To discus the wonders of E -Recruitment I’m on 011 644 5110 or 082 413 6786 or +44 1202 720 197 else Skype me. For Systems jobs …Go to www.lec.co.za In need of IT skills for your business…We specialise in your market….Post your resume else IT vacancies to info@lec.co.za ICT search specialist’s since 1996
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