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Good technical people are the foundation on which successful high technology organizations are built. Establishing a good process for hiring such workers is essential. Unfortunately, the generic methods so often used for hiring skill-based staff, who can apply standardized methods to almost any situation, are of little use to those charged with the task of hiring technical people.
Unlike skill-based workers, technical people typically do not have access to cookie-cutter solutions to their problems. They need to adapt to any situation that arises, using their knowledge in new and creative ways to solve the problem at hand. As a result, one developer, tester, or technical manager is not interchangeable with another. This makes hiring technical people one of the most critical and difficult processes a technical manager can undertake.
Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People takes the guesswork out of hiring and diminishes the risk of costly hiring mistakes. With the aid of step-by-step descriptions and detailed examples, you'll learn how to
* write a concise, targeted job description
* source candidates
* develop ads for mixed media
* review résumés quickly to determine Yes, No, or Maybe candidates
* develop intelligent, nondiscriminatory, interview techniques
* create fool-proof phone-screens
* check references with a view to reading between the lines
* extend an offer that will attract a win-win acceptance or tender a gentle-but-decisive rejection
* and more
You, your team, and your organization will live with the long-term consequences of your hiring decision. Investing time in developing a hiring strategy will shorten your decision time and the ramp-up time needed for each new hire.
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A must for technical recruiters.......2006-11-14
Being a very experienced recruiter of IT and telco professionals myself, and also having written books on recruiting, I appreciate this book. There is not many books on this subject, and this along with Hodges: Technical Recruting must rank among the very best. Having said that I think the part on Internet sourcing, as well as online screening/testing, could have been much more comprehensive for a book published as late as 2004.
This is the book I wish I'd had when I was a hiring manager........2006-08-12
If you want to increase your ability to attract and hire people who will help build the company while avoiding costly hiring mistakes, Johanna Rothman's book, Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds, can help.
The book is full of detailed guidance on each step of the hiring process, from creating a hiring strategy to making the new hire's first day a great one. The book provides templates and examples to help determine the required and desirable skills for a job, identify elimination factors, and articulate interpersonal and cultural fit qualities necessary for success.
Assessing skills in an interview isn't sufficient; it's how people apply those skills and adapt to situations that determine success. So Johanna details how to use behavioral questions and auditions to gain a clear picture of how a person is likely to perform in your context.
Hiring the Best will help you fine-tune your hiring process, make the best use of your time, and increase your hiring success.
Best Interview Questions ever.......2006-08-08
Even if you have a lot of experience with recruiting, selecting and hiring technical people or managers, this book can help. I recently needed to hire a new manager. I already knew that behavioral questions give the most insight into a candidate's experience and potential fit with the hiring organization. However, Johanna's extensive list of behavioral questions gave me a head start on writing an interview protocol that our panel of interviewers could use. I selected several questions from her lists that only needed slight modification to work for the position we wanted to fill. Not only did we get a great manager to hire, all of our candidates told us how much they enjoyed the interviews! Several said it was the best interview experience they'd ever had. Thanks, Johanna!
Great Book.......2006-03-03
Finally, a book that is focused on hiring technical people. Great read, very informative.
Top book on hiring technical staff from soup to nuts.......2005-11-21
As other reviewers have pointed out, this book goes all the way from first defining the open position through to the new hire's first day on the job. It contains extremely detailed information on how to handle each step of complicated processes like sourcing, handing the interview day, and making a final hire/no hire decision. Admittedly, her approach is very similar to what I'm used to from Microsoft, so I may be a bit biased, but this resonated well with me and what I've seen succeed in my hiring experiences.
I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who's new to the hiring process or who is finding they're not able to fill open positions as quickly as they'd like.
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This study gives an introduction into cross-border interaction and third cultures in the London reinsurance market. Due to its high share of international business, the London reinsurance market represents a field which invites a study of the legal behaviour of the global players within one specific field of business. Reinsurance so far has not conducted legal battles in public - if there were legal battles at all. First of all, disputing parties would negotiate. Dispute remained in the privacy of arbitration. Increasingly the Commercial Court in London has taken an important role in resolving those disputes put to it by UK and non UK resident parties. The book attempts to offer an explanation of the phenomenon by giving an insight into the development of dispute behaviour in the London reinsurance market during the last 10 to 15 years.
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Useful in some sense.......2005-09-20
This book is not thick enough to discourage meteorite-wannabes to finally finish it front to cover. Through its few pages, of course one cannot expect a detailed description for every topic in meteoritics, but in some sense contains very useful information not usually found in other books. A list of useful meteorite dealers presented, a guide-list price for every popular meteorites per gram, this alone aided me in my decision making whether a meteorite posted in the web is overpriced or not. Useful to start with, but could have been written more lengthly as I feel the author has this "feel" of what a new collector would be.
Excellent Book!.......2002-09-06
In addition to reading this great book, I have had the good fortune of meeting Dr. Reynolds in person. He is as engaging a speaker as he is an author, and has a way of bringing you into a subject like no one else. Falling Stars is an excellent introduction to meteor observing and meteorite collecting. This really is a branch of astronomy that anyone can get involved with. I highly recommend this book!
Good Short Introduction to Meteors, Meteorites, and Tektites.......2002-08-28
Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors and Meteorites is just that, a short introduction to the wonderful world of meteors and meteorite collecting. There are a number of good books out there on this subject, but this one is a handy quick reference guide for novice collectors and those interested in learning a little about the origins of these fascinating pieces of rock and metal from space. It gives a brief overview of meteors and comets, descriptions of the major meteor showers, major impact craters, and famous meterorite falls, as well as a breakdown of the various types of meteorites and tektites. It doesn't go into great detail on, say, the difference between an octahedrite, hexahedrite, and ataxite nickel-iron meteorite for example, but it does provide some sound info for the beginner.
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Organic Conformational Analysis and Stereochemistry from Circular Dichroism
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A unique guide to variable temperature CD spectroscopy and its application in organic chemistry
This timely, original, thought-provoking work looks at organic stereochemistry from the perspective of circular dichroism (CD), using variable temperature CD spectroscopy to determine the conformation or absolute configuration of chiral molecules. With an emphasis on the analysis of optically active ketones and the carbonyl chromophore, the authors demonstrate the advantages of this highly sensitive spectroscopic tool for obtaining stereochemical information in diverse areas of organic chemistry, biochemistry, and medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry. They combine detailed examples of stereochemical analysis with clear, thorough presentations, correlating chiroptical data with molecular mechanics calculations as well as data from NMR spectroscopy and other spectroscopic techniques. In addition, they provide a systematic survey of the professional literature, featuring an extraordinary collection of original CD spectra run at varying temperatures. Coverage includes:
* Chiroptical measurements: CD and ORD (Optical Rotatory Dispersion)
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The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
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Is modern man the logical conclusion of a long evolutionary journey? Or are humans merely an evolutionary accident? The Chosen Species answers these and many other questions about our origins.Authors Juan Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Mart ínez are world-renowned paleoanthropologists and co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World Heritage Site and Europe 's oldest known burial site---where their team discovered a new human species, homo antecessor. Their work has changed the way we see human evolution. Here, the authors draw on their rich experience to provide a fascinating account of our origins. They reconstruct the sequence of events, give an account of how, when, and why man evolved, and draw conclusions based on verifiable facts and well-founded argument. The Chosen Species combines scientific rigor with a spellbinding style that will grip readers as they follow the tale to its end.
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Based on new-Darwinism Theories.......2005-11-01
It is all but impossible for us to believe that we live in anything but a Homo-centric world. Even the most ardent supporter of evolution tends to think of us as being the last of a long, long line of development. But even with that, there's a general feeling that we are the best and the brightest, hence the title.
This book traces human evolution beginning with the primates and covers the differences between the 300 or so other members and the humans. The book is based on the so called neo-Darwinism theory that began to be developed in the 1940's. This theory combines traditional Darwinian theory with more recent advances in genetics and other areas of biology.
This is a beautiful book on just how we came to be. A being here on earth, evolved from our ancestors, but helped along a little by the active role of living organisms in our own evolution. The book is written by two world-renowned paleoanthropologists from the University of Madrid.
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Acoustical Imaging: Volume 14 (Acoustical Imaging)
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The Broccoli Eaters
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Sara has troubles.
Middle-age looms. Her nubile daughter is oversexed. Her atheist son has become a televangelist. Her husband hasn't left the guest room in two months. Spume ants have invaded her lawn and spittle bees have taken over her eaves.
Her mother has become a mercy killer, doing-in entire floors of nursing homes in one clean sweep.
Sara's only joy is her wicked passive-aggressive behavior at work, where she touts broccoli's magnificent impotence-curing, fart-inducing qualities... much to the chagrin of the Crucifer Council.
Then Sara is diagnosed with a post-modern malady and her mother attempts to put her out of her misery.
A hilarious tale of Jungian individuation, of that Biblical imperative to kill your parents before they kill you (figuratively and literally), Fedchak's The Broccoli Eaters is where P.G. Wodehouse meets Don DeLillo and the cruciferae hits the fan.
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The burden of fighting wars, large or small, often rests on the soldiers and junior leaders of small infantry units. Command Legacy presents a combat officer’s conclusions about how to approach tactical problems and missions and about the links among tactical theory, doctrine, and practice. It is meant to prime junior leaders for tactical operations, team building, and professional development. From developing company doctrine, preparing for a mission, and conducting assaults to addressing such concerns of the individual soldier as supply, terrain, and weather, any leader (officer or enlisted) tasked to conduct tactical operations needs this valuable book.
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Outstanding.......2007-04-26
This is THE book on small unit tactics. Millen knows his stuff and took the time to write it well. He has the lessons that are only alluded to in the manuals. He covers the entire gambit of Operations from offense to defense. Terrain considerations and how to fight your unit and win. For the reviews that point to brevity in the air assault and urban ops, those manuals are exhaustive and duplication is not necessary. Millen has covered the areas that are only learned through practice, and has saved me a lot of painful mistakes. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Good resource--worth your time.......2002-12-05
The author, an infantry officer, has taken many of the Army's field manuals and references and distilled them into a single document. This book is directed for infantry officers and leaders at company level and below.
This is one of the single best books on tactics out there. The author has a good, commonsense grasp of what most units and leaders need to know and do. The section on mission planning is especially well done, and the book is full of little tidbits and tips that most people usually learn by trial and error.
If you're interested in how military units really plan and execute missions, this is a great source. If you're actually in the Army then it beats trying to carry a dozen other references around.
Now, the downside. Some of the sections are a little sparse (air assaults and urban operations stand out). Because the author is writing for military guys, he can't really veer too far away from official doctrine, so there's a "Cliff Notes does the Infantry" aspect to some of the book. While most of his techniques are great, a few aren't, and the reader needs a little experience and common sense to tell the difference. I wouldn't blindly follow everything written here--some of his ideas may not work for you or be a little complex for your people to execute. Also, the weapons data is old. Dragons and PVS-4s are on the way out, and their replacements aren't covered. Could have used an update there.
I would recommend this book to NCO's or officers who had a little bit of time under their belt, especially someone looking to write or revise a unit SOP. It's also a good reference for someone working as an instructor or about to take command of a company. Lots of good stuff here.
Best Practices in the U.S. Army, How to do the Job right.......2002-07-30
In 'Command Legacy', LTC Ray Millen has described in simple, yet clear terms what junior leaders need to do get done in the nasty business of killing others and destroying things. Today's U.S. Army is a complex institution driven by conflicting demands and expectations. LTC Millen cuts through all of the static and political correctness psycho-babble and gets to the heart of the matter. He lays out a set of concise and clear best practicess that make-up a roadmap to creating organizational success that is applicable to junior military leaders, as well as the young corporate executive. This is the kind of book I wish I had when I was a young and starting my career.
Excellent summery of current doctrine........2002-05-10
This book gives brief easy reading advice on the various managament issues of company leadership, distilled from various manuals with advice on how to build you companies "own doctrine" from existing feild manuals and commerically avalible sources.
While this is a very good book, I noticed one odd thing. The "danger close" ratings for the mortars, artillery, and air strikes were too close for use in any NATO live fire, and likely too close for any real combat application.
Danger close for each of these weapons is listed as being indentical to the causualty radius. The fact is, you have to account for issues other than the causualty radius for measuring danger close. Example he says danger close for a 81 mm mortar round is 35 meters. I am a mortar man, and nope it is not 35 meters! Here is why.
First off, these weapons are not flawlessly accurate, and the rounds could be comming in short.
Secondly we fire in sections with lay down 100 meter by 35 meter "sheaf" of shrapnel. You do not know if that 100 by 35 meter sheaf of shrapnel is orientated north/south/east/west -- it is not adjusted to the target, it is adjusted only on the position of the four guns firing.
Thirdly, you have to have flawless troop accountablity to bring the fire in that close. What if you have a section more forward than what you thought? Have you counted heads?
In reality, danger close is about 200 meters for 81's, and 350 meters for 105mm artillery. In the US, "range control" will not approve the call for fire even at those distances, try more like a 1000 meters for all indirect fire weapons for domestic US manuevers.
But other than that detail, this book shows the army way of doing things very clearly in one manual.
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The development of modern science, beginning in the late Middle Ages, required the development of accurate tools for measuring such things as distance, weight, luminosity, temperature, and time.
The earliest such instruments, writes University of London historian Gerard L'E Turner, were multifaceted: "An astrolabe which incorporates a means for measuring the elevation angles of stars or the Sun, as well as a stereographic representation of the Earth, can be used equally well for telling the time, for finding the latitude, and for collecting data to cast a horoscope." With the passage of time, they became more specialized, yielding such fine devices as binocular telescopes and stereoscopic viewers. (The latter, Turner writes, became internationally popular in the mid-19th century after Queen Victoria expressed amusement at one displayed at a London fair.)
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The impulse to collect is an almost universal one, satisfying the hunting and acquisitive instincts, the love of beauty, and intellectual curiosity. The wealthy have collected rare and beautiful things from the earliest days of civilization, but the collection, or "cabinet," containing natural curiosities dates from the sixteenth century, and it was this type of collection in which scientific instruments found a home. In the twentieth century, we have come to accept a vast range of technical, often complex, equipment for everyday use. Science has become the very substance of our life style. But the appeal of historic scientific instruments remains, and from them much can be learned of the practice and development of science over four centuries.
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Mexico faces serious challenges in water supply and contamination, deforestation, and desertification. This book dispassionately examines the continuing natural resource problems that threaten to undermine Mexico's future economic development and offers recommendations for reversing those resource trends.
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Drawing on a wide range of sources, this volume addresses fundamental issues surrounding industrialization in Southeast Asia, which are particularly pressing now that the region's miracle has been transformed into a debacle, and the world seeks to draw lessons from the experience. The contributors address crucial questions such as: How did Southeast Asia industrialize? What have been the consequences of domination by foreign investment? Did the region's resource wealth weaken its imperative to industrialize? Why else has Southeast Asia's industrialization been inferior to the rest of the East Asian region? Did the countries' financial systems help industrialization? Was this industrialization sustainable? The volume includes detailed studies of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
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The Wallace thesis - what is it and how can it be applied?.......2003-07-26
Where will the first fully fledged green economy be? Germany? Holland? Sweden? Some other advanced developed country? Not according to David Wallace, author of "Sustainable Industrialisation". The lesson of history seems to be that paradigm breaking new modes of production, while growing out of elements of the previous system, take root and flourish first, as integrated systems, in newly developing or redeveloping economies.
For example it was the US and not the leading industrial power of the day, the UK, that pioneered manufacturing based on interchangeable parts and, eventually, mass production. Lean production emerged, not in the US, but in Japan, an economy rebuilding after the devastation of war.
But why should leaders lose the lead? This is most likely to occur when a new approach to production cannot evolve easily or quickly from hundreds of independent innovations but requires a major synchronised shift in the psychological or physical structure of industry. In the established industrial powers, vested interests in the old paradigm work hard to slow the pace of change, individual investments in the new paradigm are too risky because they are not synchronised with other complementary investments. Mind sets that are vital to the new paradigm are considered to be radical, untested and threatening, so they find it hard to make it into the mainstream.
So it may well be that countries that are just starting the process of industrialisation, or regions whose industries have become obsolete or have been destroyed, may be the ones to take on the new approaches. There is no doubt that a green economy built from the ground up using closed-cycle, industrial ecology and dematerialisation principles and based on the use of recycled and renewable resources would be far more cost competitive than the marginally greened economies that we see now in the leading-edge countries.
But is the cost-competitiveness of an ultra-green economy going to be great enough to encourage newly emerging and newly rebuilding economies to take the risk of striking out into unchartered industrial waters? Wallace seems to believe it will be. I am not so sure. For example, while the revolutionary Lovins hypercar can deliver the same service level for between 75-90% less energy than conventional cars, its sale price will be similar. So while society will benefit massively from this car and the consumer will not lose, the producers are unlikely to gain major competitive leverage simply from reductions in the cost of production.
But all is not lost by any means. I think that the Wallace thesis is basically sound. It is just that, for this particular industrial paradigm shift, the critical economic driver for the establishment of greenfields green economies will be quality rather than cost-based competitiveness.
A credible scenario might be as follows. A number of (multi-national?) consumer products manufacturers come to the conclusion that they can gain a decisive competitive edge in their respective markets if they produce ultra-green products at a reasonable price. However they recognise that all the existing industrial bases (even in the greener European economies) cannot deliver products with the desired life-cycle profile - existing industrial bases are fossil fuel dependent, materials intensive, throughput based and high in indirect biodiversity impacts.
So these manufacturers form a strategic alliance with a diverse network of other firms to develop an ultra-green industrial base. They approach the governments of newly industrialising and newly rebuilding countries with the proposition that the firms will make very substantial long term investments provided the partner governments are able to assist the process with strict environmental laws, appropriate eco-tax regimes and the creation of appropriate physical infrastructure and educational programs. Environmentally-orientated aid bodies complement this process with assistance to governments and communities to work through the issues and to undertake relevant policy making and planning.
As this concept takes on the initiative could be reversed with countries actively brokering the formation of green production alliances to manufacture within their borders.
Once one or more ultra-green industrial bases have been established and are seen to be working, the ideas are likely to flow back fairly rapidly into the established industrial economies, accelerating their transition to a green structure. This speed-up will be driven by the power of the concrete example and by competitive pressures, both of which speak louder than a thousand words.
The process of creating new ultra-green industrial bases is likely to require a higher degree of forethought and coordination than occurred in the earlier manufacturing paradigm shifts. The idea is unlikely to emerge spontaneously from the normal strategic thinking processes of governments or companies because of its novelty and initial complexity. However, think tanks will be able to play a critical role in articulating the concept and working through some of the practical issues.
So who would like to give it a go?
How business and Third World activists can save the planet.......2003-07-11
This is a book of great significance. Wallace makes a convincing case that developments in the Third World are key to the resolution of global environmental problems. He argues that sustainable patterns of production and consumption are unlikely to be adopted on a sufficiently large scale in the already-industrialized world of North America, North West Europe and Japan. The economic, social and political changes required present too large a challenge for established ways of life. A large, newly-industrializing country, however, could pioneer a new, sustainable, pattern of industrial production, which could then be adopted more widely.
Wallace makes an argument, which many will find counterintuitive, that multinational corporations could play a major role in this process. Sustainable forms of industrialization will need innovative technologies and substantial investment capital, both of which are commanded by large corporations. Wallace suggests that a Third World government, pressured by an effective environmental movement, could establish guidelines which steer commercial forces toward sustainable production. Large corporations could be persuaded to comply with these guidelines by their desire to gain access to the country's market.
Sustainable Industrialization is a short, clearly-written book with a sophisticated and plausible analysis of how an environmental movement in a newly-industrializing country could begin to influence corporations and help to resolve global environmental problems. My students like the book a lot.
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Title: Group meets on sustainable development.(SoundWaters Community Center for Environmental Education)(Brief Article)
Author: Dominic Mariani
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Fairfield County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 24, 2001
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Volume: 40
Issue: 52
Page: 5(1)
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How NOT to develop an emerging nation. (mass industrialization): An article from: The Futurist
Rashmi Mayur , and
Bennett Daviss
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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2726 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Microenterprise presents a solution to sustainable development in contrast with the short-term effect of mass industrialization. This solution would trigger the shift to services and away from manufacturing. It would also emphasize the decentralization of all social and economic aspects of the community.
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Title: How NOT to develop an emerging nation. (mass industrialization)
Author: Rashmi Mayur
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Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: World Future Society
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