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October 10, 2006 in Job, Life by jc | No comments

After a long break of more than a month, it is time to contribute an entry to this blog. This break coincide also with a change of employer. After 11 years with Sun, working on projects like Solstice Bandwidth Allocator, Solaris Bandwidth Manager, and the IPQOS feature of Solaris 10 (well, 9 8/03 more exactly), and more recently on N1, the change is really welcomed.

I’m joining BMC Software to look after the architecture and technical strategy of the Datacenter Management Solutions. This sounds really exiting as BMC has already all the components required to manage the full lifecycle of datacenter infrastructure, applications and services. Bringing together the Remedy Service Management , BMC Atrium CMDB , and Marimba product lines into consistent solutions has the potential to solve many of the challenges I have described in this previous post.

As before, I’ll try to be as much as possible impartial, and will speak only for me, and not BMC, remember :

The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer,
not necessarily mine, and probably not necessary altogether.

Sources of yahoo! job candidates

August 19, 2006 in Job by jc | No comments

According to Libby Sartain, Chief People Yahoo!, in an interview with Guy Kawasaky, the sources of successful candidates are as follow:

Candidate found listing on Yahoo Jobs page—30%

Yahoo employee referred the candidate—30%

Yahoo internal recruiter contacted a prospect (that is, the person wasn’t looking)—20%

Yahoo retained headhunter contacted a prospect (that is, the person wasn’t looking)—2%

Conversion from contractor or temporary—10%

Hot Jobs and other jobs sites—7%

The most interesting piece of information here is the 30% coming from Yahoo Jobs page. It seems to contradict some of the information floating in books, but also seems to point out that the key is to have the resume associated with an existing requisition.

Offshoring and the impact on IT sourcing

May 29, 2006 in Job by jc | No comments

It seems that the trend of IT offshoring policies is starting to impact the availability of US trained IT professionals. It’s no surprise. Not only students are not willing to face the fate of having their job moved to a low cost location, but now, engineers are starting to move out of the job, mainly into Marketing, it seems (I would be interested to know how many seasoned developers are attending MBA schools these days …).
Robert Mitchell seems to disagree that students contemplating an IT job should be put off by offshoring. In an article, he says :

globalization is an opportunity … placing key human resources closer to customers in each market.

I don’t really think that this is the reason why jobs are offshored in the first place …

How to be a better blogger …

May 29, 2006 in Job by jc | No comments

Computer world has a nice article on how to be a better blogger … and still keep your day job … David Strom says :

  • Tell the truth
  • find your voice, and stick to it
  • be professional at all times
  • craft your own blogging policy now
  • understand the mechanic, and know your tools

For me, blogging is not about promoting my employer’s technology. Even though I think that our technology is really cool. It’s one of the reasons why my blog is not on the corporate site. I would like to make sure that I’m perceived as objective, and provide a forum that is transcending a specific employer, and will evolve with me, not attached to a specific job.

Goals

May 26, 2006 in Job by jc | No comments

Often, during performance evaluation periods, career development assessment, one has to define long term goals, how to get there, and more importantly, how to track progress.

While I don’t like too much self help type of books or articles, and not that Tom Peters is in that business, but I found in one of his articles a very interesting paragraph:

No matter what you’re doing today, there are four things you’ve got to measure yourself against. First, you’ve got to be a great teammate and a supportive colleague. Second, you’ve got to be an exceptional expert at something that has real value. Third, you’ve got to be a broad-gauged visionary — a leader, a teacher, a farsighted “imagineer.” Fourth, you’ve got to be a businessperson — you’ve got to be obsessed with pragmatic outcomes.

I think that this is a very good start.