One of the easiest and most successful ways to increase professional opportunities is through networking. Networking is making connections with people who can help you or whom you can help in the future. Think of it as a means of building relationships. While you are looking...
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Platitudes can be common in our line of business and I oftentimes get asked, “What are the most overused phrases that you have heard over the past three-plus years as CEO of an IT consulting and staffing firm?”...
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Despite the increasing rise in outsourcing of many noncore business processes, there is one area in which the reverse is true: e-discovery....
Read MoreMarilyn Weinstein and Mike Parish are quoted in the latest blog entry from Christine Louise Hohlbaum. In this entry Christine (who regularly writes on the Power of Slow) explains how even the most time-crunched folks agree that slow is bettter. Read 'Even in IT, the Tortoise Wins the Race' and...
Read MoreThis is too good not to share. One of our recruiters, innocently sent the following e-mail: “Hi [name removed to protect the candidate], I had sent this job description to you later last week and never heard back. I was wondering what you think and if you...
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San Francisco Business Times Recognizes Vivo Founder and CEO Marilyn Weinstein
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Ever think that, and assume that recruiters just don’t know what they’re doing? Well, while that may be true, there may be more to the story. It may be your resume....
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Having provided client-side resources for several similar projects, I read this analysis of Marin County’s decision to walk away from the $30 million it has dumped into its SAP implementation, with interest. It is certainly not the first “failed” ERP implementation we have seen. Just this...
Read More“I am out here for you. You don’t know what it’s like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?” -Jerry Maguire to Rod Tidwell, (Jerry Maguire, 1996) So, it’s a bit...
Read MoreEveryone wants feedback. At Vivo, we will give candidates as much constructive feedback as we are given. However, not all clients give us feedback to pass on. So, we’ve compiled some of the more typical comments we hear for those times when the candidate swears...
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