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Just installed MS Office 2007 Beta 2 to see how it flies, and see that they’ve included a lot of what people are currently doing on the web with other applications: Blog support in Word and RSS feeds in Outlook, optionally sync’d with your IE7 feeds. Nifty.
Take it for a spin: Register & download.
Go check out her article: She's right on the money.For several years we've been reading news stories about the impending shortage of skilled IT workers. The predictions have been fairly dire: As baby boomers retire and fewer young people join the IT workforce, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs will go unfilled.
IT projects will languish because companies can't find the workers with the right skills to staff them. We'll need more imported workers coming in to this country under H1-B visas, and we'll have to send more work overseas to outsource agencies.
Baloney!
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Five tips to getting the best networking teamThe hiring floodgates are open, experts say, and networking positions are among the hardest to fill. Here's the inside scoop on how to snag the best people.
[...] Recruiting and hiring experts warn not to focus on skills alone. "Hiring is no longer task-oriented, it's looking for the best overall athlete," says Bill Gilbert, country leader for the U.S. at Futurestep, a recruiting subsidiary of Korn/Ferry International. "You want people that can come in and do a certain job, but that can also move around in the organization." He says this differs from previous years where hiring focused on specific technical skills such as Java development.
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According to the NY Post, world traveler and cult chef icon Anthony Bourdain is stranded in war-ravaged Beirut yesterday after Israeli forces bombed the city's international airport and blockaded all of Lebanon's ports. Mr. Bourdain states:
"Our network, our friends and our families just want us out of here as soon as possible," Bourdain told Page Six yesterday afternoon, as Israeli shells exploded in the distance. "We're not getting a show out of this . . . I just wanna hang out and drink at the bar. The mojitos here are great.
I'm not sure, but I think somehow, somewhere, Papa is smiling.
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[via Accidental Hedonist]
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Study: IT job cuts in Q2 down 26%; lowest level since 2000The good news that IT sector job cuts are falling is tempered by higher fuel prices that could reverse that trend soon, according to new study from outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
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-Charlie
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