So true! Yet dialogue needs to be conducted at a higher level than writer-to-writer if it is to be anything other than merely tactical. I recently had a...
MessageThis reminds me of a story that a very senior person at Informix told me. (We were both participating in X/Open at the time, the standards body for...
I'll tell you what I ended up doing when I had discrepancies in understanding across functions and a less than desirable marketing team. I had product ...
All, I attended this "banquet" and lecture. Here are my notes, which I compiled right after I got home. This was supposed to be about Silicon Valley and the...
One shop where I worked (a very large West-Coast database and applications firm) had a good process, driven by the necessity of 1) not enough staff in a...
Harris, I'm a firm believe in the KISS principle. How about taking your suggestion one step further by taking out the "P" and making it just SM Jobs? (or...
Good suggestion. Turns out that the logistics of changing the name and thus moving the egroup are too painful to justify any name change. So I've decided to...
Steve, maybe its me but as soon as I saw SM in your post it started morphing into S&M... Incidentally, I think yours was the first response to my eminently ...
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It's I hope. Yes, it's. ... From: Harris Freeman [mailto:harris@...] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:22 PM To:...
Cynthia, I like your decision. You've followed one of my other guiding principles - "if it's not broke, don't fix it". I think SPM Jobs and SPM Discussion...
Is this a professional response from a recruiter???? Looks more like boasting to me with absolutely no bearing to the rejected candidate. ... From: "Jobs at...
Career/ Response from an internal recruiterWell, supposedly the game Cranium is really fun. Maybe they are having so much fun there that they are losing their...
Career/ Response from an internal recruiterDoes anyone else remember the Fast Company interview in 2000 with this same recruiter? It reads like something from...
Very interesting article and it shows some things (or people) haven't changed. For example, in this article from 2000 this recruiter is quoted as saying: "I...
I received a similar response a few days back from another recruiter. Is this a new trend among recruiters or a marketing technique to show how they can land...
I received a similar response a few days back from another recruiter. Is this a new trend among recruiters or a marketing technique to show how they can land...
One tweak to the tag line: Marketing and Biz Dev Professionals in Software and Networking The tag line you had suggested was a bit confusing when it got to...
Piyush, Funny - the part about the race...;-) It's not really a trend among recruiters, just a new form of SPAM. They have all our email addresses, so ...
Lately, there is a lot of bad behavior by internal and retained recruiters. Some of the things I have seen retained recruiters do are so bad, it makes me...
I have noticed lately that KITList has almost no job opportunities that we would be interested in. I don't know if this is because the job posters are going...
Maybe because the list owners closed the list to new members. Peter ... From: Cynthia Typaldos [mailto:cynthia@...] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002...
Peter A. Mantas
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I noticed the same thing last week and dropped myself off the list. I am still hanging in with SPM because I see more of what I am qualified and interested in...
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All, I have been "beating the bushes" contacting all my networking friends for the past 6 months. I know only 6 months, wah wah. ;) Anyway, I have been told...
Cynthia T. may have already sent this to the group, but I just had to forward you my comments. Otherwise, I hope your collective weekends were nice. -Cynthia...
I know that this will be an unpopular opinion, and it is one that I just have to express. I think that this ad is being taken WAY too seriously, and that in...
Adam, Hmmm... sticky wicket I suppose, but my opinion is sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. These guys are gonna lose out on a lot of killer talent in about...
I'm also a member of the KIT list. I was invited to join because folks kept forwarding my jobs to their list from SPM. I checked it out but I wouldn't post...
Jeremy, I skimmed the link you provided and think she's giving good advice. Pretty much the same advice I would give you. Janet and I discussed this and it's...