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FEATURED PLACEMENT
Steve Fasano, Application Engineer - 3D Conceptual Software
Working with the Technical Services Manager of this well-recognized 3D Conceptual Modeling Software firm, Redfish was tasked with recruiting top application engineers who are both highly technical and comfortable working with clients. The company's market includes the engineering and manufacturing sectors, providing tools to achieve greater efficiency and facilitate quicker decision making. The application engineers are expected to perform pre and post sales and marketing activities, and work directly with prospects and customers in high-pressure situations. The role requires strong analytic, organizational, and communication skills, and a culture of doing whatever it takes to achieve the highest customer satisfaction. This privately-held and VC-backed company offers a dynamic environment and tremendous growth.
Identifying and attracting the right multi-dimensional candidate was a challenge that Redfish relished. Steve Fasano was directly recruited for his unique skill set. He has a long CAD track record with a depth of experience in products such as SolidWorks/ProEngineer. In addition to his Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University, he minored in Business Administration, and he received several honors. During this academic career he was an advisor as well as a teaching assistant. In his professional career he has had successful tenures as application engineer where he utilized his well-developed communication skills to establish and manage customer relationships, connect with prospects in sales presentations, and provide quality training and consulting services to clients.
"Working with Redfish Technology was seamless. Joanna helped me find a position based on my past experience and future goals that I couldn't have found on my own. Setting up the initial interviews was no stress at all, and the rest is history. The team at Redfish is definitely one that I want in my corner." - Steve Fasano
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
VPPC 2011 -Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference
Sept 6-9, 2011 Chicago, IL
AWEA Wind Power Supply Chain Workshop Sept 12-13, 2011 Des Moines, IA
Advanced Energy Solutions Sept 12-15, 2011 San Diego, CA
Cleanovation
Sept 14, 2011 Houston, TX
AWEA Small and Community WINDPOWER 2011 Sept 15-17, 2011 Des Moines, IA
Social Media Strategies Summit Sept 20-22, 2011 Boston, MA
3D Gaming Summit
Sept 22, 2011 Hollywood, CA
Interop New York October 3-7, 2011 New York, NY
Android Open 2011 October 9-11, 2011 San Francisco, CA
Web 2.0 Expo October 10-13, 2011 New York, NY | |
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REDFISH MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
September 2011 |
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STAFFING & EMPLOYMENT NEWS
Friday's BLS economic report clearly shows that momentum in the labor market has stalled: nonfarm private payrolls increased by a meager 17,000, but as government payrolls declined by 17,000 the net job creation for August was nil. This is the lowest increase in private payrolls since February 2010, and the 4th consecutive month of weak growth. In the last consecutive 18 months, the economy did add 2.4 million private sector jobs.
What is the problem?
The pundits cite: The Verizon Communications strike that caused decline of approximately 45,000 in nonfarm payrolls last month. The recent federal debt ceiling debate fiasco, the S&P downgrade, and the stock market debacle of August. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index published for the month also showed a sharp decline. The lack of demand is by far the largest problem, leading to this slow pace of hiring, especially in small firms in "core" services. And yet, thankfully, for the moment layoffs have not picked up.
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IT TRENDS Ubiquitous Connection. What are the Limitations?
The accessibility to data plans and connected devices has had a resounding effect on the work and leisure habits of most of Americans. It is also changing the way in which we consume business tools and services.
From the shift to social sharing and spread of the virtual office, the proliferation of wireless devices and subscriptions continues to grow. Over the last four years, the number of mobile phone subscribers has grown three-fold and the number of telecom jobs has grown five-fold. Will this growth rate continue?
Another shift has taken place in how businesses consume IT products and services. More and more companies who previously invested in expensive hardware and proprietary software licenses are now turning to subscription based pay-as-you-go models for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and cloud computing.
So with all this connectivity, what are the limits? The FCC has projected the need for 637 MHz of spectrum by 2013, and 822 MHz of spectrum by 2014. There is a National Broadband Plan to address the spectrum limitations with a plan to make 300 MHz of spectrum available for wireless broadband use within the next five years, and another 200 MHz in the five years after that.
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GREEN TECH TRENDS
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The Risks to Solar Energy's FutureBy Gary L Hunt Life in the solar energy business is a constant battle between soaring aspirations for long term growth juxtaposed against the terrifying reality of falling prices and global competition. Selling more might actually mean your solar energy business will just lose more money faster.
There is, of course, more than one solar energy business. There is the photovoltaic panel (PV) business dominated by low price Chinese exports. Then there is the utility-scale solar energy business segment where U.S. and European players have a good foothold but not a sure lead. The PV business is rapidly being commoditized and plays well to China's strengths in low cost manufacturing for export. The Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and other utility-scale variations play toward the central station generation business model upon which utilities are built but offers more technology risk.
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OVERCOMING RELOCATION HURDLES
IN TALENT AQUISITION AND RETENTION
Despite high unemployment, finding the right talent remains a challenge according to executives. When finding the right talent locally doesn't pan out, relocation is often the only alternative. Hurdles to relocation include: the costs of moving, the housing market, spouse/partner employment, acclimation, and the company's location. Thought of moving?
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Employee Coaching: Does It Work?
By Robert Teal, CCP, CBP
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Employee coaching takes on many faces and many roles: training and development, performance improvement, and advancement and additional responsibility. All of us are recipients and purveyors of coaching, often without realizing that it is even occurring. Although many organizations have formal coaching and development programs directed at a select group of high performers, coaching takes place every day with virtually every employee. Coaching should not be confused with a structured training program or a "command and control" management style, the latter being best described as check your brains at the door.
Consider something as simple as an exchange between an employee and their manager about the style of an upcoming presentation and its audience. Within that exchange are both explicit and implicit coaching cues and signals. While signals dealing with the topic, time, date, place, audience members, length, format, and roles may be very unambiguous; cues such as the tone of the manager's speech and body language can and do send very subtle clues which the employee will implicitly recognize as directions. Both parties may be completely unaware of these faint cues; nevertheless, they are communicating desired and undesired behaviors. The analogy is similar to a baseball bat vs. a flyswatter, both may get the job done, but the bat is going to leave a lot more collateral damage than the flyswatter.
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HOT OPPORTUNITIES
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This week's top green career opportunities are in solar, CIGs, renewables, smart grid, clean economy, energy efficiency, energy services (ESCO), electric vehicles, energy storage, Utilities, and more. We are looking for Director of Development, Senior Sales Executives, Channel Sales Manager, Director Business Development, Associate Director Project Engineering, Director of Validation, Design Manager, Lead Engineer, PV Device Integration Engineer, Lead CAD Engineer, Electrical Engineer, and much more.
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Priority High Tech Job Opportunities from Redfish Technology
This week's top high tech career opportunities are in Cloud & SaaS Marketing Managers; Digital Media Project Manager; Enterprise Software Marketing Manager; Cloud Services Inside Sales; Sales Rep SaaS and eLearning; SaaS Director of Sales; eCommerce New Business Development; Software Engineer Online Marketing Solutions; .NET Engineer in Mobile Security; Rails/Agile Software Engineers; Platform Software Engineers; and more.
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Redfish Technology
High Tech & Green Tech Nationwide Recruiters 416 S. Main Street, PO Box 700, Hailey, ID 83333 - Tel. 208-788-8260 360 Thames Street, Newport, RI 02840 - Tel. 401-398-2929 142 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035 - Tel. 408-719-0200 www.redfishtech.com |
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