Finding work and identifying talent in the Internet and Social Media world by Vaughan Storey at Leading Edge Consulting
With over 1.6 Million jobs disappearing in South African’s recession and millions of people hitting the pavements across the UK and Europe over the past 2 years, the fact is that the value chain between employers, recruiters and job seekers is broken and that jobs board companies and recruiters have to up their games to rectify a very serious social problem
Looking at the job boards, until recently there were primary the home of ICT and Financial Services related recruitment activities.
Into 2010 the broader general public started to use these same search engines in the same way that people are now confidant using Internet banking.
Hence, the number of new members has increased sharply with a Funeral Director and a Nun being recent appearances on PNET
As the reporting capabilities of the search engines are crude and that most people are computer literate, when looking for Systems Specialists for example, the quality / effectiveness of key word searching is rapidly disappearing.
Indeed we expect that common key works such as SAP and SQL will go back no more than 48 hours before hitting the 100 page lock out on PNET before the end of 2011.
Using LinkedIn as a complimentary talent pool we are seeing the same trend with SA memberships presently climbing at over 1600 a month.
“Vaughan, it’s Monday, all very interesting … But where are you going with this” .. I hear you mumble.
Firstly, Recruitment Companies must transform themselves into talent collection organizations else they will be locked out of their prospective skills pool by the sheer volume of people making themselves available for work via the job portals and to take advantage of Social Media’s such as LinkedIn.
Secondly, HR Departments must invest in talent acquisition technologies and processes to empower their HR Departments and Talent Scots to be effective in this new market place which has taken even Google and Microsoft by surprise.
Thirdly, recruiters need to start running proper ads again with people looking for work responding to vacancies because recruiters can seldom find you when they need to because of the candidate number crunch problem
Fourthly, should you be looking for work via the internet simplify your resume.
To explain…As market leaders in E-Recruitment, we use a software programme to speed read 1000’s of resumes a day … Flaws lay in ( ) C++ # “ “ and abbreviations…If our system cannot find you because of the aforementioned glips ….. How are other recruiters / talent scouts going to identify you?
Another good tip in getting yourself spotted in the Internet labour market is to use your Job Board CV as a taster … Only go back 2-3 years of professional experience and use several strong key words that are specific to your industry and occupation to make your resume “bubble to the surface” when people are searching for your expertise on the web.
Fifthly, many people have been taking pops at the job board companies recently …. Now having explained the scenario, I am sure you will agree that they have simply been caught short by positive market confidence.
If I were running a Job Portal I’d simply build separate job boards for specific markets … Problem solved
Today the bar to entry into any talent related industry including …. Recruitment, Body Shopping, Professional Services is dependant upon constantly transforming peoples attributes into tradable assets whilst staying in step with all of the talent available by managing the inter relationships between the Job Boards, Social Networking sites and in-house databases.
In closing, the search for talent has transformed rapidly from an entrepreneurial passive occupation into an exacting science that warrants dedication, specialist expertise and diligent processes to identity individual professional profiles out of 100 000’s of potentials.
Looking for Systems Professionals for your organizations, else advise with regard to the E-Recruit market place? Contact Vaughan Storey at Leading Edge Consulting
LOOKING FOR ETL RECRUITMENT EXPERTISE … CALL LEADING EDGE CONSULTING
Location – Nationwide – Industry – Consulting or Corporate – Perm or Contract – Salary – Highly Neg
Posted Monday 7th February 2011. Running the business intelligence desk at Leading Edge Consulting is a rewarding though research intensive activity, especially when it comes to completing ETL related search assignments.
Matching skills levels to specific projects is always a exercise in careful work as professionals in your sector are usually looking for very specific opportunities whilst employers are always after very particular skills.
Into 2011 should your professional focus lay in the DTS / SSIS Informatica, Datastage, T-SQL, PL/SQL, SAP Integration, XI Data Integrator … Kettle arena’s as examples … In search of a new opportunity else the primary skills for your organisation … Give me a call as I’m always here to assist.
Pop into my LinkedIn profile to find out more about me. Joanne Brown
011 644 5110 or 082 413 6786 or +44 1202 720 197. For other BI opportunities fly into www.lec.co.za Do you require BI ETL skills for your team?…We know who they are … Submit your resume else skills requirements to info@lec.co.za ETL search specialist’s since 1996
SEARCHING FOR SOA EAI INTEGRATION EXPERTISE ELSE MAKING A CAREER MOVE IN 2011? CALL PETER WOLF AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING.
Posted Monday 31st January 2011. The SOA technology sector has and will continue to be one of the most dynamic and innovative solutions markets to be involved in as vendors constantly evolve their applications to add increasing value to Corporate Information Delivery initiatives and organisations deploy the best technologies for their environments.
I enjoy recruiting specialists in your market place as the key to being an effective Search Consultant in your arena relies upon staying on top of innovations … Latest methodologies and identifying the most talented / experienced professionals available to very specific demands.
Going through the intellectual property at my fingertips, I can assist in the Oracle BPEL, IBM Integration Suite, Netweaver, BEA, Biztalk, Java Caps sectors amongst several other niche EAI markets nationwide.
Keep my details on hand…Looking forward to adding professional value to you when you need my services.
To research me pop into my LinkedIn…Peter Wolf
011 644 5110 or +44 1202 720 197. For SOA career options…a good starting point is www.lec.co.za Looking for the most capable IT people for your organisation…We are experts at finding them…Forward your resume or hire requests to info@lec.co.za Information Technology recruiters since 1996
VAUGHAN STOREY AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING IS YOUR SAP RECRUITMENT SPECIALIST
Posted Monday 17th January 2011.
Looking at the vast numbers of SAP related professional profiles on the job boards and social networking sites, our guess is that we won’t be seeing any new recruitment companies opening doors in the SAP sector because the workload required to be effective in a market as complex as SAP is massive.
Should you hold management responsibilities at consultancy, manage a recruitment desk in a SAP environment else involved in the corporate recruitment process, you have spent many wasted hours often aimlessly trying to find skills else putting in place processes to make your search for talent more effective.
SAP recruitment experts since 1996, the golden rules to professional talent acquisition are a combination of time, refined search techniques and people profile management, whilst concurrently managing career websites and leveraging social networking.
At Leading Edge Consulting we run an in-house data warehouse with Boolean search to find the best professionals to an assignment / career opportunity else spot opportunities for people looking for that next career move.
Working in the SAP sector since the mid 90’s today we carefully manage a talent pool of close to 6000 SAP professionals holding thousands of different skills sets and competencies which individually are the correct answers to your hire pressures.
With the market reach to spot opportunities for available talented individuals… into 2011 our offering to you is a world class service based on several years of experience.
Today the SAP market is a complex industry that requires expertise, dedication and experience to manage the valuable expertise and commercial worth of premier often rare talent.
Keep our details on hand … call us when you need our services because we are here working on SAP talent acquisition and opportunity spotting everyday.
Call in else pop over your enquiries and we’ll follow up with you . To learn more about us pop onto my LinkedIn profile….Vaughan Storey
011 644 5110 or +44 1202 720 197. www.lec.co.za info@lec.co.za SAP recruiters since 1996.
PETER WOLFE AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING IS YOUR ORACLE RECRUITMENT SPECIALIST
Location – Nationwide – All Industries – Perm or Contracting – Salary – Highly Neg
Posted Friday 14th January 2011. Specialising in Oracle Systems Programme Management for several years, I have the experience and knowledge to professionally engage with both you the customer and the local talent pool because I have a solid grasp of the Oracle solutions portfolio and understand what makes our market tick.
At my fingertips I have a wealth of Oracle related intellectual property and market research accumulated over many years.
Want to be introduced to Project / Systems Management Executives… E-Business suite professionals, Siebel CRM … Business Intelligence… Integration experts .. else technical resources? Give me a call…It will be a professional pleasure to advise and assist you with introductions and obviously career guidance.
To learn more, call in else pop me an email and I’ll call you . To learn more about me… Pop into my LinkedIn profile….Peter Wolfe
I’m on 011 644 5110 or +44 1202 720 197. For Oracle jobs in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban in South Africa pop your CV else Oracle related vacancies to info@lec.co.za Oracle recruiters since the KSI day’s.
JOANNE BROWN AT LEADING EDGE CONSULTING IS YOUR DATA WAREHOUSE RECRUITMENT SPECIALIST.
Posted 13th January 2011, entering into our 15th year in business, this year our Business Intelligence skills pool and market reach are the strongest in the industry.
I take your market place seriously, patiently identifying the key people .. The premier employment opportunities whilst remaining informed of new technologies and innovations on a daily basis.
In 2011 should you be looking for expertise to deliver projects else support systems, let me know … I can confidently assist..
My candidate database is a mix of current and historical skills including SAP BIW, Business Objects, Warehouse Builder and Cognos into harder to find Webfocus, Sybase, IQ and Essbase professionals.
Looking forward to hearing from you when you are looking for the best people at the right time.
To learn more about me… Pop into my LinkedIn profile….Joanne Brown
Call me on 011 644 5111 +44 1202 720 197 Post your CV BI related vacancies to info@lec.co.za Business Intelligence recruiters since 1996.
TREASURY & TRADING SYSTEMS RECRUITMENT SOUTH AFRICA 2010 into 2011
Location – South Africa – Industry – Consulting & Corporate – Perm & Contract – Salary – Highly Neg
Posted Tuesday 19th October 2010. Treasury along with Trading search and selection services have not really been catered for before by the local recruitment fraternity.
With a specialist desk dedicated to this market we have spent the past while researching your market place, understanding the “in’s and out’s” of Forward Exchange Mechanisms, Trade Finance, Securities Trading, Wholesale Banking from a human resources / recruitment perspective, going on to identify specialist software applications available to and levered by the local financial services institutions.
Should you be looking for Money Market Group Risk Exposure Swops and Options Analysts else specialist system skills in the Treasury Market call Allan Marks else Vaughan Storey at Leading Edge Consulting.
011 644 5110 or +44 1202 720 197. Quote 2009. To ensure confidentiality, kindly pop your private email in your CV. For Treasury Systems Jobs in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban in South Africa pop into www.lec.co.za Pop your CV else Treasury and Trading vacancies to info@lec.co.za …Systems Recruiter’s since 1996.
DATA WAREHOUSING RECRUITER SOUTH AFRICA
Business Intelligence Talent Acquisition Data Warehousing Targeted Selection MIS Recruiter DHW Recruitment including Cognos Business Objects SAS SSAS SAP BIW Sybase and Oracle.
Posted Monday 6th September 2010. Searching for the ideal candidates to enhance your Consulting Practice else MIS Department? Looking for a new opportunity?
Leading Edge Consulting specialises in building South African ICT talent pools with our Data Warehousing Application Database being one of our strongest.
Employing proactive search methods, we are experts at targeted selection in your market place, working to ensure that the most capable people with the strongest skills are introduced to you to every hire request.
As you know, today there are literally hundreds of technologies and skills profiles which make up the broader BI sector.
A quick skills snap shot of our recruitment capacity in your arena includes:
Analysis Services Business Objects Cognos Essbase Microstrategy Oracle Warehouse Builder Qlikview, Sage Insight SAP BIW SAS Sybase IQ Teradata Webfocus Datastage Informatica SSIS Comshare Hyperion IDU TM1 Outlooksoft and Xcelius.
Working nationwide in both the permanent and contracting sectors…Call in with a skills request…Pop over your resume and let ‘s add value.
Call Vaughan on 011 644 5110 Quote 1958.For Business Intelligence Recruitment in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban, South Africa, pop into www.lec.co.za For Data Warehousing Search and Selection scoot your vacancies to info@lec.co.za Systems Talent Management Specialists since 1996.
SAP RECRUITER SAP SEARCH AND SELECTION SOUTH AFRICA
Location – Nationwide – Perm or Contract – Salary – Open Ended
Posted Monday 13th September 2010. Looking for the best SAP Professionals for your organisation else projects? Presently evaluating the market for your next assignment else career step?
Call on Leading Edge Consulting to make things happen…. Over the past couple of years the SAP market has become extremely complex with new primary and sub applications being implemented in varying quantities… Hence certain skills sets are plentiful…Whilst others can be rare and harder to find.
The skill to SAP recruitment is to therefore identify and correctly introduce highly “niche skills” to “specific opportunities” quickly and accurately.
We are seeing a trend in that as people command higher rates, clients are demanding increasingly accurate skills matches to justify their expenditure.
Another trend that we are working with is that both companies and consultants are forging international virtual relationships.
Obviously it is impossible to know every consultant in the world…We manage this dilemma by building international talent pools for those really hard to find skills set as a fall-back should our local efforts fail.
Today holding over 5500 South African Citizens living nationwide working in the SAP Systems market, we will be surprised if we are unable to find the expertise that you are looking for.
SAP skilled … looking for that next opportunity, else simply want an ear to the ground to report on local market events…pop your CV over it would be great to have an update.
Today skills profiles in the SAP sector are infinite, yet to summarise, we hold and are interested in hearing from:
SAP Programme and Project Managers, Functional Projects and Support Consultants, Technical Developers and Basis / Database Administrators.
To learn more about Leading Edge Consulting pop into www.lec.co.za else scoot onto the Vaughan Storey LinkedIn profile. Looking forward to hearing from you when you need our services.
Call Leading Edge Consulting on 011 644 5110 or +44 1202 720 197. Quote 1966. To ensure confidentiality, kindly pop your private email in your CV. For SAP Jobs in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban in South Africa pop into www.lec.co.za For SAP vacancies pop them over to info@lec.co.za SAP Recruiters since 1996.
SOA RECRUITMENT INTEGRATION RECRUITMENT FROM LEADING EDGE CONSULTING SOUTH AFRICA
Posted Friday 17th September 2010. In the 80’s and into the early 90”s middleware was typically built in C else SQL with Corporates investing massive amounts of resources into these projects in terms of both time and man-hours.
In the 2000’s integration became a distinct systems industry with Designer Architects and Developers becoming highly sought and valuable resources.
Across here at Leading Edge Consulting we enjoy completing search assignments in this market because the work is interesting as there is always new technologies else design principles to learn about.
Our talent pool is very strong in this market space especially when it comes to BEA Microsoft BizTalk Oracle BPEL, SAP NetWeaver Tibco, Tuxedo Java Caps Weblogic and IBM WebSphere expertise.
Looking for skills else jobs / consulting opportunities in this part of the market, call in to Leading Edge Consulting
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