Justino Mora, Corporate Recruiter & Headhunter

After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields. Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import foreign workers, or sending jobs to where the engineers are, in Vietnam and India.… Continue

Recent headlines—Citigroup's layoffs, Iceland's sudden downturn, worldwide food shortages, etc.—suggest serious global turmoil is ahead. All companies, and multinationals in particular, should be prepared to withstand it. Unfortunately, many are not. Traditional forecasting and budgeting systems produce linear projections insufficient for risky, uncertain times. What's needed is scenario planning, where companies stress-test their strategies and processes against a wide range of future scenario… Continue

Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country have been receiving e-mail messages this week that appear to be official subpoenas from the United States District Court in San Diego. Each message includes the executive’s name, company and phone number, and commands the recipient to appear before a grand jury in a civil case. A link embedded in the message purports to offer a copy of the entire subpoena. But a recipient who tries to view the document unwittingly downloads and installs so… Continue

Amazon is far from alone in the market. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have long offered cloud-like services. And on Apr. 7, Google (GOOG) took the first step toward opening its infrastructure to others. The company's App­Engine will let software developers create new programs and run them on Google's computers. The price will be tough for any rival to match: free. "Lots of developers say they spend 20% of their time [taking care of their computers]," says product manager Tom… Continue

Is a business this traditional ready for Recruiting 2.0? Some in the industry are skeptical, arguing that top-level candidates, as well as employers, want personal attention, not home pages and instant messaging. "Most of the candidates at this level are not [actively] looking for a job," says Clarke Murphy, who co-leads the CEO search practice at Heidrick rival Russell Reynolds Associates. "So going through an online community to talk to them about why they should consider a job wouldn't work."… Continue

Spoke Three Dimensional Chess. A Challenge for anyone willing to tweak his Mind.

I am running an analagy with Elegibles.net, Global Channel and Linkedin. It is a Chess Game in 3 dimensions.

En promedio, la intención de incremento salarial que pretenden otorgar las empresas venezolanas en 2008 es 17,4%, un aumento que se queda por debajo del estimado de la inflación para el cierre de ese año, que se ubica en 21,6%.

La información se lee en un informe de la consultora internacional en recursos humanos, Hewitt Associates, que recoge las conclusiones de su estudio regional sobre incremento salarial para…

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Bristol-Myers Squibb said yesterday that it would cut approximately 10 percent of its work force of 43,000 employees, continuing a year of pharmaceutical industry layoffs as drug makers adapt to a more competitive environment.

Besides layoffs, the company said it would sell or close half its 27 manufactur…

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Las cifras que maneja la organización revelan que en el PIB construcción el mayor peso lo tiene la actividad del Gobierno general que representa 41% del total, seguido del petróleo cuya participación es 37% y las empresas no petroleras con 22%. Y justamente la actividad del Gobierno general en e…

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The personal computer is climbing off its desktop perch and hopping into the pockets of millions of people. The resulting merger of computing and communications is likely to revolutionize the telecommunications industry as thoroughly as the PC changed the computing world in the early 1980s.
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With the move, Google is trying to alter the dynamics of yet another industry. It is already using its deep pockets and innovative technology to shake up television, book publishing, computer… Continue

Suppose, however, that you could leave the island compound of a social networking site and take your network of friends, and friends of friends, anywhere on the Web? This is what makes Google’s announcement last week of a new alliance of companies so enticing — the possibility that social networking will become ubiquitous.

Google’s vision —…

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DETROIT, Nov. 1 — Over the last two years, the three American auto companies have vowed that their plans to slash nearly 80,000 jobs and close more than two dozen plants would be enough to transform them into leaner and nimbler competitors.

But the housing downturn and soaring oil prices have forced Chrysler and…

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Alcatel-Lucent, the troubled telecommunications equipment maker, said yesterday that it would cut 4,000 more jobs to reduce costs and announced the departure of its chief financial officer in the wake of its third consecutive quarterly loss.

The company also said it would reorganize its core business of selling equipment to net…

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On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write programs for Google’s social network, Orkut, as well as others, including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning.

The strategy is aimed at one-upping Facebook, which last spring opened its service to outside developers. Since then, more than 5,000 small programs have been built to run on the Facebook site, and some have been adopted by millio…

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Crystallex International Corporation (TSX: KRY)(AMEX: KRY) announced today that Mine Development Associates, ("MDA") of Reno, Nevada has updated the reserve and resource estimates and mine plan for the Las Cristinas gold deposit located in Bolivar State, Venezuela. The updated resource and reserve estimate incorporates results from the gold mineralized zones intersected in the 13,566m drill program conducted from November 2006 through to February 2007, reported in press releases dated May 1, 200… Continue

One of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving their tasks — and jobs — to India. But rising wages and a stronger currency here, demands for workers who speak languages other than English, and competition from countries looking to emulate India’s success as a back office — including China, Morocco and… Continue

La Unión Europea está envejeciendo aceleradamente y ya empieza a notar la falta de los trabajadores cualificados imprescindibles para seguir compitiendo en un mundo globalizado y para mantener los altos niveles de vida a los que se ha acostumbrado. Para hacer frente al acuciante desafío, en un entorno de países con poblaciones jóvenes y pobres que miran a la Unión con deseo, Bruselas se propone lanzar una estrategia para atraer a los necesarios trabajadores cualificados, que se suma a otras inic… Continue

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Think about it, with Google’s ever-changing algorithms, how can you feel secure about the ranking of your website? It may be looking good in its SERPs(search engine results pages) today, but how about after the next algorithm update. Can you really expect that your site to have that same position or better? Many website owners and their webmasters are finding Google and its page ranking procedures to be quite confusing. They are finding unexplained and unexpected changes in the positioning of th… Continue

Hundreds of companies in Silicon Valley are offering every imaginable service, from writing tools to elaborate dating and social networking systems, all of which require only a Web browser and each potentially undermining Microsoft’s desktop monopoly.
The New York Times