Jean-Christophe Martin's blog - job tag

New job

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:48:12 GMT

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.

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Sources of yahoo! job candidates

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:47:21 GMT

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.

Technorati Tags: career, job

Offshoring and the impact on IT sourcing

Tue, 30 May 2006 03:51:07 GMT

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 ...