Web 2.0 Networking: Smart Business Partners Welcome Here!

We have lots of people we want to help… And networking our business helps us help them!

Do you believe in creating amazing business potential?  When someone needs a service, do you have ideas on how and who can help them?  If yes, then we have a shared interest in networking for business success.  We care about community because people matter, and you wouldn’t have good business without great people!
HFCN is updating our A-Z Career Guide and Jobs Blog with Career and Professional Business Service Providers that GET results in resume writing, coaching, relocation, outsourcing, placement, telecommuting, etc.   We are updating our Applicant Tracking System and happy to add in Recruiting Partners interested in working with us for Direct Placement, Splits, or partner business potential.

We are looking for U.S. Nationals with fantastic reputations for nationwide service or for those who can deliver excellent personal “extra care” services, particularly in our high volume location of job seekers in California, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Virginia, Texas, Arizona.   We have a unique base of upwardly mobile jobseekers who can telecommute or work in a traditional office.  Some are willing to relocate themselves for the right challenge, but they want to connect with talented service providers who “get their needs”.

Who have you worked with that you would honor with a recommendation?   HFCN welcomes recruiting partners, business links, referrals and positive business networking, and where-ever possible, we reciprocate.. Like our community, we realize the web 2.0 pay it forward, value of collaboration!

Some popular business community links, networks and publications:

Business: A-Z Career Guide |  Blog | LI2BusinessFriends | MerchantCircle |  Ryze | Yahoo
Jobs: Applicant Tracking System | Blog | ExtraCare 4 Careers | LI2ExtraCare4Careers | Yahoo
Recruiting: eCandidates Blog | LI2RecruitingFriends | Ning | Yahoo |
Women in Leadership: LI2ExecFriends | Yahoo

Job Order Automation

Primary features of the code automation.

1. User administered list of URLs or RSS feeds to “grab” from. (add, delete function).
2. If RSS feed, then format. If URL then navigate to the Jobs Page.
a. Login to the URL.
b. Navigate to the page to be scraped.
3. Scrape all Job order content bucket content. If all on top page, grab all. If list of Job and description is a link, click and grab link content.
a. “Company” source = URL source
b. Job Title, Salary, Location, Description.
4. Produce an RSS feed and ATS Upload File (XLS)
a. RSS contains exact source from above. All jobs to source URLs.
b. XLS file will use a bucket code name ‘eJob’ for each company so that all URL Sources/Company names in spreadsheet appear as eJob as the company.

5. Test and schedule. Allow manual check of data integrity. If all is correct, create a scripted batch production schedule. (Once a week, month, etc).

6. Archives RSS feed. Manually HFCN Recruiting team will load the resulting file into the HFCN Applicant Tracking System (Sendouts.com)

Jobs board we are integrating to is an ISV Software Applicant Tracking System built on the Microsoft.NET platform and includes 64-bit technology, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2003.  It will allow a bulk update of a spreadsheet for job orders.

Excellent Candidates Highlighted

Here are several excellent Candidates we would love to offer for exciting opportunities nationwide.  We are open to partnership with direct, contingent, retained and headhunting professional placements, splits, and business relationships.

Business Development Manager Experienced Telecommuter with execution and operational business development skills. Flexible for challenging opportunity nationwide.  http://tinyurl.com/59e3sr

Chemical Engineer. Flexible within the domestic U.S.  Bilingual U.S. Citizen. http://tinyurl.com/6mvvn5

IT, Sales, Marketing, Professionals Services, Finance, Legal and Administrative Professionals available nationwide for traditional office or telecommuting opportunities that demand a “hit the ground running, ready, professional.

Link Yourself In to a growing community of Recruiting Professionals: Open Recruiting Professionals Communities On:
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/40757/1C84D65718D7
Ning: http://recruitingpros.ning.com/
More details by contacting us.  OR to begin a partnership to list direct, contingency, or partner opportunities, reference: http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com/RecruitAndHire.htm
Helping Friends Career Network  features eCandidate Profiles highlighting available, flexible, competitive talent.  RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HFExcellentCandidates

Helping Friends LLC 3867 West Market Street #102  Akron OH  44333
Contact Dawn Mular http://linkedin.com/in/dmular 866-256-1227
330.703.1007  dawn.mular@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com

New Executive Women in Business 2.0 Social Network

Advancing Women in Business with well connected 2.0 Business Networks.

A good idea is one that is here and now.  Lets collaborate for greater opportunity.

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/158310/3F0B90729E1C

Job: Head of IT Architecture Governance Board (AGB)

Head of IT Architecture Governance Board (AGB)
TX- Houston

To help overcome tomorrow’s exploration and production challenges, our company’s tools offer greater precision and tighter integration across all workflows. This position as head of the AGB has been established is to provide governance around the development of software architectures and projects alignment in our company. This role will lead and steer the steering committee of the AGB as it conducts its business. Ideally, the Head of IT Architecture Governance Board is already experienced in architectural governance. Preferably a recent subject matter expert in the area of software architectures either from an application, information management or system perspective in their current or previous roles.  Note that this is not so much a “consulting” role as an operative practitioner in IT Architectural governance and collaboration for sound process design and continuous process improvement.

The full charter of the AGB is evolving to include aspects of architectural model formulation, governance during implementation and internal articulation and advocacy. Working directly for the Director of Strategy, this role is pivotal in ensuring wise choices in what to build and to manage the integrity and timely delivery to the projects to which we commit funding.
For over 2 decades this company has offered compelling opportunity and experience.  They are looking for established talent and offer competitive salary, collaborative environment, and incredible benefits and perks including several gyms and community restaurants, even “community” bikes to get around the campus for meetings.

Helping Friends LLC

3867 West Market Street #102  Akron OH  44321
Phone: 866.256.1227

Helping Friends Career Network offers nationwide, great professional
opportunities, at http://hfcareernetwork.com, click on Jobs, and
register as a New Candidate.
Extra Care Jobs Group on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/117106/7E9718011EA2

Job: Director of External Reporting (CPA w/GAAP and SEC)

Helping Friends

3867 West Market Street #102  Akron, OH 44321
Toll Free 866-256- 1227.
Contact Us to discuss partnership
Direct Placements any Employment Partnerships.

Excellent Candidates Available Now:

Job Order Specification:

Position Title:	Director of External Reporting	Category:	Accounting and Finance
Min Compensation:	Competitive Salaried	Position Type:	Permanent
Work Week:	Full Time	Metro Area:	USA-Florida-West Palm Beach-Boca Raton
Fee Rate:		Guarantee:
Company:	CONFIDENTIAL	JO Country:	USA
JO Street:	Confidential	JO City:
JO State / Province:	FL	JO Zip Code:	Confidential
Selling Points:	Incredible company with growth, market share, and global presence by hiring the best innovators in their fields of customer focus.
Job Summary:	Director of External Reporting Benefits – Full Bonus Eligible, Relocation Assistance Available , Interview Travel ReimbursedInclude “Qualifications Summary” section:How many years of External Reporting Experience? CPA (yes or no)? Performs technical accounting research and documents the company”s accounting positions? Current in technical accounting matters? Masters Degree in Finance/Accounting? Worked at employer $1B or greater in annual revenue. Greatest responsibility: $________ in annual revenueQualifications Require: * Master”s Degree in Accounting/Finance * 10+ years of experience accounting and/or external reporting at a public company. * Proficient with Microsoft Office software and general ledger software. * Deep familiarity with US GAAP and SEC Rules and Regulations.Current US accounting rules and familiarity of international accounting rules. Providing guidance on proper application of GAAP throughout the global organization. Recent history of developing or supporting external reporting in compliance with SEC rules and regulations is important, though this role will support, not lead, the Company”s SEC reporting activities. Experience working with Big 4 national office personnel would be a helpful aspect of the candidate”s own past Big 4 employment.

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Senior IT or Professional Services Director.

CD950 Senior IT or Professional Services Director.
Contact Helping Friends Career Network
http://hfcareernetwork.com

Not looking for just another job.. This is a Senior IT Professional that wants to make a difference. Over 10 Years of Results Oriented IT and Professional Services Experience: People, Process, Systems, Technical Management and Service Delivery. Impressive successful record in service delivery and team management and large scale systems implementation.

• Experience in gaining results from best practices of Six Sigma and IT Information Library (ITIL).
• Implemented IT storage solution savings $2.3 million dollars +
• Recognized service operations savings of over $800K annual operational costs.
• Directed technical team evaluation of newest hardware technology, improving deployment time, with more efficient use of IT Server Footprint.
• Transformed operational organizations into a true ITIL format with a primary focus on service management deployment of multiple heterogeneous server, application, environments into enterprise class infrastructures.

Company 1. USA, LLC
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Director of Open Systems, IT Operations, January 2005 – Present

Company 2. Fortune 500 Technology Company
Acting Director, World Wide Technical Services.
Senior Global Manager, World Wide Technical Services, Global eServices
Senior Client Services Support Manager, Enterprise Services IT
Desktop Support Manager, Americas Resolution Center
Systems Administrator, Americas Resolution Center

Taos Mountain Software, (Sun Microsystems, July 1996 – March 1997)
Systems Administrator, Systems Migration Group,

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Technical Lead, Senior Cartographic Technician

Areas of expertise:
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Global operations
- Budget and inventory experience
- Strong negotiating skills
- Strong leadership skills and team building skills
- Outstanding project management skills (Sigma)
- Technology integration and implementation
- Web Services (SunOne BEA WebLogic, JBoss)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- 3G Data services
- Service delivery
- Veritas, Symantec tools
- IT Information Library ( ITIL )
- Multiple Hardware Platforms (Sun, Intel and Apple)
- Majority of Office software (Microsoft, Staroffice)
- Operating Systems (Sun Solaris, Linux, Microsoft)
- Infrastructure Support and services
- Internet tools

Education:
California State University, Chico Bachelors of Art in Geography Geographical Information Systems and Cartography emphasis
Sun University, Courses with training emphasis on Management and technical leadership.
United States Army Officer Candidates School, Commissioned Second Lieutenant

Military Experience:
United States Army National Guard
Detachment Commander and Platoon Leader Military Police Company, United States Army National Guard
Executive Officer, Alpha Company, 1-149th Armor Battalion, United States Army National Guard
Platoon Leader, Alpha Company, 1-149th Armor Battalion, United States Army National Guard
Combat Engineer, Charlie Company, 132nd Engineer Company.

Rosie the Riveter or 5 Counterproductive Career Ideas

Many of us do not think about why the image’s we connect to, happen… it just kind of clicks. In life, in our careers, and in our experience, we have choices…

Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of career optimism, produced by J. Howard Miller, during World War II, a representation of about 6 million women women who assumed the role of the real life, Rosie’s. Sometimes in life, we are so busy trying to survive, we miss the beauty found in optimism and action. We need to celebrate more stories of possibility, like that of Rose Will Monroe.

Our original “Rosie”, Rose Will Monroe was born in Coppell, Texas in 1920. During World War II she moved to Michigan and worked in manufacturing, as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory. She did not choose to be an riveter because it was glamourous.. Her work was uncommon, but her choice to do this work was not so uncommon.

A job needs to be done. Let us not get bogged down in the story, let us just do that job to the best of our ability, we can do it!

The widower, Mrs. Monroe, joined the workforce to manage a difficult time. She was left with 2 young children after her husband was killed in a car accident. What made her special? She did. She chose to do what needed to be done. The sadness of the circumstances would not be near so compelling as the decision that regardless of what happens in life, we will find the abundant resources to make the right decisions. We can learn to employ tools that are familiar or unfamiliar to produce results that are uncommon.

Rose Monroe had lifelong dreams of becoming a pilot, and a working optimism to allow dreams to happen. She worked hard on many careers, providing for her family, while training towards her big vision… At some 50 years of age, Rose became a pilot, and the only female member of a local aeronautics club.

Do what you love. Do a little bit of it everyday, while you are doing what matters for your family, your community, your country, and your world.. This has expansive possibility in helping us to recognize our best selves.

Let us not get too bogged down in the doom and gloom news about how bad it is.. It would indeed be a sad story, if “Rosie the “Widower” was where the story ended. We have a celebration at hand, it’s called living… let us do so with zeal.

5 Counter Productive Career Ideas We Shouldn’t Try if Really We Intend to Fly.

1. Maximize the fearful threat, minimize the potential good.
2. Flaming anger at a seemingly repetitive situation feels great for a minute, then flames the fire of a gentler path that might be waiting you.
3. Those who try hailing a cab, dressed like the Grim Reaper, might have difficulty getting where they want to go.
4. Mis-spelling quality when emphasizing your ‘attention to detail’, in a resume, doesn’t work.
5. Assuming the job won’t pay as much, if the range isn’t posted, or it might be looking only for top performers.

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Telecommuting Trends and Greener Business

Helping Friends Career Network has traditional office and telecommuting or flexible working opportunities nationwide. Some of our hot telecommuting opportunities are in IT, Sales, Marketing, and Sarbanes Oxley/Financial Auditing.

If your company would like to explore listing jobs with flexibility, let us know and we can recruit for the experience professional with proven skills in any industry, working from home. Telecommuting need not be an all or nothing sort of strategy.

There ARE companies leading industry in their telecommuting practice– because they can hire and solve problems from anywhere, expand their reach, and imagine saving thousands annually by being able to hire either for an office or the best talent from where they live!

Nice article “Some Companies Rethink the Telecommuting Trend” written by Sue Shellenbarger for the Wall Street Journal underscores an important notion as to companies who have embraced, but modified it’s telecommuting strategies.

Work at home professionals are wise to plan and deliver requirements for keeping a productive telecommuting opportunity, the power of this article is in the practical tips for an individual to accomplish their telecommuting career.

This article’s corporate perspective suggests a myriad of reasons for changing the telecommuting policy- some included worker abuse, bracing for a recession, aggressive new business requirements, lack of proven productivity, and relative greater ease with releasing a telecommuting employee than an office employee.

Tips for Corporate Telecommuting:

1. One size strategy does not fit all. While telecommuting is not for everyone, it can be significant where the policy, expectation, and agreements are clear. rmLibrary has identified some excellent tools for calculating costs, creating agreements, managing risk, and implementing strategy.
2. Telecommuting requirements should be clear in terms of schedule and performance expectations. It must establish the terms for allowing telecommuting. Some companies might explore telecommuting as an option with other work options – flex time, condensed work week (4, 10 hour days instead of 5, 8 hour days). WomenforHire.com has some advice for exploring options.
3. ERE explored Inside Recruiting Telecommuting issues, some of the biggest issues are recognition, career pathing
4. How and why develop skills to manage a distributed workforce? A LITTLE strategy can go a long way. Ask your recruiting team to help you create a strategy for attracting and retaining qualified work from home staff. The trick is in balancing the needs of a work from home employee and a traditional office employee. At the end of the day, it is about being effective in getting work done, whether in an office or in a Virtual Private Network from Home.
5. What real savings exist? Recruiting suddenly opens a nationwide possibility, that can create local presence. Check out the WHAT YOU CAN DO to Take Action on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth page. It’s environmentally sound, Sun saves $63M in telecommuting benefits and has reduced the environmental CO2 emisions by 29K tons.
6. Create a plan for bringing together the IT needs of a good telecommuting strategy– connecting, visibility, security, information protection, etc. CIO.com featured tips a CIO must know about telecommuting.

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