Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Companies scramble to hire engineers
by Notme dfsfs


A new crisis is on its way: there is a world wide lack of petroleum and gas engineers. Now when an engineering student graduates, he won't have to ask himself "now what?" or wondering where he will find something to work. Companies are now prospecting universities and colleges to find proper future engineers as the world wide energy demand grows and experts are needed.Two students, that participated at the sponsored recruitment program of Royal Dutch Shell's U.S. arm, Emily Reasor from Cornell University and Julie Arsenault from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "We've talked to quite a few of my peers, and we know we're in a good spot. It's nice to know we're needed."The oil and gas companies forecasted a shortage of petroleum engineers through at least 2011 and according to the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. energy companies will need at least another 5,000 engineers by decade's end."I can assure you, it's tight from a supply standpoint, hot from a demand standpoint and lucrative from a job searcher's standpoint," said Cary Wilkins, leader of Shell's recruitment efforts in the U.S. and Canada.This shortage of engineers was caused by upsurge in exploration and a wave of retirements from baby boomers that have spent 25 to 30 years on the job, and also because of the industry's reputation as an unreliable employer.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_bi_ge/engineering_shortage;_ylt=AhybwN.I7vrIXQq2LKM7C6as0NUE

by Notme dfsfs
for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.
Edited by: Katarina Zerzanova

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Want to success?...focus on potential!
by Zuzana Moravcova


On the example of a successful team of National Football League, The Patriots, the author demonstrated the best strategy to achieve success, no matter whether it applies to football championship or any other sphere of business.If the business leaders want to achieve such sustainable success as The New England Patriots, they should at first take their time to really align their talent to drive their business strategy. Instead, most of them just see talent management as an initiative driven by HR, with only little direct involvement of top leadership and separated from the explicit business requirements. Instead of creating a strategic context, they focus first on individual talent. For instance, instead of hiring football stars, who are expensive for what they have achieved, they focus on less-known players with high potential, which they are planning to develop.The New England Patriots know that talent should be a top priority for their whole leadership team. They separated three key functions -- player selection, coaching and business operations, to emphasise on team over individual. Coordination of separate leadership roles has enhanced the Patriots' operational effectiveness and, well, except for this year's surprising 2nd place at Superbowl, it has led to a long winning streak.Having mentioned all this admirable stuff about the team, I must not ommit a person, who is, to a large degree, responsible for all success!it is their head coach of The New England Patriots.Bill Belichich guided the Patriots to their first league title with a dramatic victory in Super Bowl XXXVI. In the seasons since then, he has directed New England to sustained success. Now, he is in his 33rd season and is the only head coach in NFL history to win three Super Bowl championships in a four-year span. He managed to lead his teams to own all of the major winning streaks in NFL history.

by Zuzana Moravcova
for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)


PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Edited by: Katarina Bosanska

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