Oracle
Your Employees Presence on Social Media Can Benefit You
What do the CIA and Microsoft have in common? They both take advantage of their employee’s presence on social 
media sites as a way to leverage their recruitment process. With the help of social media and your employee’s networks, you as an employer can do the same. Here are some ways to build your own personal recruitment army through the use of social media and your employees.
- Have employees contribute to company specific Blogs that gives potential hires a look at what it is like to work at your company, or how the hiring process works
An example of this is Microsoft’s Jobs Blog. Recruiters from Microsoft created this Blog for potential employees to get a behind-the-scenes look at Microsoft’s hiring process and careers. It is also a place to check out the best tips and tricks for job hunting, resume writing, interviewing and working at Microsoft.
- Create a company Facebook page or group and have employees point potential candidates to those sites
Oracle has a company Facebook page for their company recruiting needs. On this page they list company information, videos, hiring needs, events and talks about the Oracle campus.
- Create a company Twitter account with your employee feeds feeding into it, or encourage your employees with Twitter accounts to post updates about company information and news updates
Zappos.com is a perfect example of a company that uses Twitter in its recruitment process. They have a dedicated page on Twitter where 198 of the Twittering Zappos employees’ most recent messages are fed. Employees tweet about what they are doing at work and about interesting resources dealing with Zappos.com.
- Encourage employees to use employer rating sites like Glassdoor.com, Vault.com or Jobvent.com
Here is a post from AskBINC.com listing 10 of the commonly used employer ranking sites. These sites provide an inside look into various companies by allowing those companies current and ex-employees to anonymously post ratings and reviews about life inside the doors of their workplaces.
- Create alumni groups on social networking sites
Yahoo has set up the Yahoo Alumni group on Facebook with over 2,946 members who currently work for or have worked for Yahoo. It’s a place for alumni to reconnect, network and share stories. It is also a great place to let the members of the group know when your company is hiring.
- Get employees to advertise the job on their LinkedIn profile by creating a status update when a new position open up or setup a Custom Company Profile on LinkedIn
This new feature on LinkedIn allows brands to set up their own profile page, which provides an overview of the business, as well as insight from current employees and recruitment agencies. It also allows companies to add a tab for careers.
- Create a Youtube channel and allow employees to post videos about their experiences working there. Add videos about your interview and on boarding process
Google does a great job at this with their Google Youtube Channel, where they post videos like this one An Inside Look At Google – Working at Google.
- Make a recruitment video or upload photos to a company career site and ask employees to share it with their networks
Intel does this in their recruitment efforts. On their career site they have a new interactive portion where visitors can see a short virtual representation of what the Intuit offices are like along with pop-up videos and photos
On Adobe’s career site, they feature a professionally produced video showing a day in the life of several Adobe employees. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, one of the videos shows a designer in San Francisco beginning his day surfing in the ocean at 6 a.m. and then follows him through his work day.
- Ask employees to include an RSS feed of your open jobs on their personal blogs and networking sites or add the Facebook Come Work With Me Application to their profile
The Facebook Come Work With Me application is for employee referrals and job searching. This application is for organizations that use the PageUp People as a recruitment management solution. This application allows users to display jobs on their profile page for all their friends to view and apply to.
- Offer a bonus to employees who refer potential candidates
- Use your Blog as a job board and when a new job gets posted ask employees to push the link out to their Twitter network
WhiteBox QA Engineer – Core Integration Systems
JobID: BE169643
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: WhiteBox QA Engineer – Core Integration Systems
Salary: $60,000 – 105,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE169643) This position is for a WhiteBox QA engineer to develop and execute automated functional and integration tests for a Java-based 3-tier enterprise application. This will require writing tests using Java and XML based technologies. The individual will have a working knowledge of SQL, and be able to create, execute and evaluate intermediate SQL queries as required. The candidate will be expected to participate in the development of tools to automate lab and testing tasks.
Responsibilities:
- will be responsible for developing test plans, scripts and test code to test the features
- will work in conjunction with the Development Team to ensure that all product functionality has associated tests and that the tests are executed on appropriate configurations at appropriate times
- will be expected to help create the test automation suites (as necessary) and work with other QA Team members to implement a successful automation solution
- will report all repeatable and/or traceable software errors utilizing the available online tools by providing all the information necessary for a quick resolution
- will provide assistance to the Development organization to reproduce the problem to aid in a timely resolution
- will track the status of all bugs in his/her assigned area to ensure a fast turn-around to Development on verification of fixes
Qualifications:
- must have 3 or more years experience in Software QA (formal or informal)
- must have several years experience as a software developer to supplement his/her QA knowledge
- must be able to successfully execute, evaluate the results of, and enhance if necessary the test cases created by other team members
- must have a working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows, LINUX, and UNIX operating systems
- must have experience with an IBM AIX system
- must have ability to program in Java and/or .NET and several years of experience with scripting languages
- must have the ability to adapt to new programming and scripting languages
- must have previous experience in a J2EE environment
- must have experience with databases
- must have experience with MS-SQL, DB2, or Oracle
- must have experience with testing tools (JUnit, XUnit)
- must be a self-starter, and be able to perform with minimal supervision while working in a diverse team environment
Company Culture:
- company is in Pre-IPO hi-growth mode
- company develops mission-critical enterprise applications for leading insurance institutions
- company employs 350+ professionals (will be looking to double in size by same time next year)
- company established in 2001 – backed by leading venture capital firms
- company has a well seasoned and highly reputable management team
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Principal Search Engineer
JobID: BE645587
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: Principal Search Engineer
Salary: $120,000 – 150,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE645587) The search group with our client is actively working on a number of interesting IR problems and is looking for people who can take a lead role in one or more of the following areas: information retrieval, text classification, machine learning, collaborative filtering and data mining. The ideal candidate will have a strong theoretical background in IR combined with successful hands-on experience developing and deploying large-scale, real-world systems.
Our client is looking for a dynamic Principal Search Architect to join their our top-notch development team and continually innovate and improve their e-commerce platform.
As a technology leader in e-commerce, they are constantly engaged in the most challenging and interesting development projects. They have an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals’ innovative ideas are rapidly adopted and rewarded. You’ll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks, not years.
Responsibilities:
- will work as part of a fast-paced web team and should be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
- will be behind the development and deployment of complex Web applications
Qualifications:
- must have recent experience with in-house, open source or commercial IR systems
- must have significant experience with high traffic, database-driven Web applications
- must have significant experience with large scale, high performance systems
- must have a strong background with Object-oriented design and implementation
- must have a strong background in relational database design
- must have experience with SQL, Oracle, JDBC, J2EE application servers, JSP and servlets
- must have a minimum 8 years experience in software development with at least 3 year in Java programming
- must have good communication skills
- must have a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science from a reputed US University
- must be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
- must have a strong background in statistics
- should have significant research experience in information retrieval, machine learning, or a related field
- should have demonstrated contribution to a large-scale web search or e-commerce application
- should have well-rounded experience with an emphasis on backend/server development
- must have a passion for building great software
Company Culture
- 10 years in business
- consecutive months and quarters of profitability
- more than 18 million users per month
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
McCain and Obama Unite on H1B Issue
November 5th is rapidly approaching us. With so much talk in the news lately about the difference in opinions between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, I thought it would be good to address an issue that they both have similar views on – they both support argument that H1B Visa’s issued in the United States per year to be expanded.
Like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, both Senator McCain and Senator Obama believe that the current immigration system is broken and needs to be reworked.
“The time to fix our broken immigration system is now… We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace… But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America… Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should”
— Barack Obama, Statement on U.S. Senate Floor, May 23, 2007
According to and article on Network World, over 150,000 petitions for H1B Visas were submitted in 2008, but the government only honored and issued 65,000.
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch interviewed Barack Obama. They talked about his views on Technology and what his views on expanding the H1B cap were. Some of his views are posted below:
- He supports a temporary increase in the H-1B visa program as a stopgap measure until we can reform our immigration system comprehensively.
- He supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes improvement in our visa programs, including our legal permanent resident visa programs and temporary programs including the H-1B program, to attract some of the world’s most talented people to America.
- He believes we should allow immigrants who earn their degrees in the U.S. to stay, work, and become Americans over time.
- He believes that as part of our comprehensive reform, we should examine our ability to replace a stopgap increase in the number of H1B visas with an increase in the number of permanent visas we issue to foreign skilled workers.
- He believes that we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.
On John McCain’s website he lists similar ideas:
- Ensure high skilled workers trained and educated in the United States have the opportunity to stay and work in the United States upon graduation.
- Reform caps for H-1B visa program to rise and fall in response to market conditions. Reduce bureaucracy and waiting times for workers to arrive in the United States.
- Increase available green card numbers to reflect employer and employee demand.
- Extend the ability for H-1B visa holders to renew their H-1B status while waiting for their green card number to become available.
- Ensure available and qualified American workers are given adequate and fair opportunities to apply for available positions.
Along with expanding the total amount of Visa’s issued, the government also needs to create a stricter policy on checking applications and issuing the visa’s only to those 100% qualified. BusinessWeek recently posted an article stating a study which found 13% of the visa petitions for U.S. employers to bring in skilled foreign workers were fraudulent. Cases included applicants which the visa worker was not working or had never worked at the specified location on the application, and the job duties were significantly different from the position listed on the visa petition. This means that out of the 65,000 granted applications, 8,450 of them could have gone to actual qualified candidates.
With these changes and stricter policies in place it will help bring skilled workers to the United States and make us more competitive with other countries.
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August 25-31, 2008 Bay Area Event Roundup
August 25-27, 2008
- NVision 2008 – Featuring over 55 hours of jaw-dropping visual wonderment – from today’s hottest games and movies, video, science, mobile and computer technologies – you will get to experience, touch and feel the latest visual technologies that will change your life. And let you see into the future. You’ll also get to meet the inventors and the celebrities who are leading the revolution!
August 25, 2008
- OTN Developer Day: Hands-on Database App Development – Interested in learning how to develop database applications? Come for a free, hands-on workshop that will give you a deep-dive into developing high-performance apps with Oracle Database 11g using In-Memory Database Cache and Oracle SQL Developer, with break-out sessions offered in .NET development, developing with Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle Application Express, JDBC/Java development, and PHP and Ruby on Rails.
- Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good – Sarah Lacy has written the book on Web 2.0—literally. The award-winning journalist published Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and Rise of Web 2.0 last May, after 10 years of reporting on startup business and culture in the Valley. On August 25, watch her interview one of the book’s biggest stars: Max Levchin, founder of PayPal and Slide and angel investor in a host of other Web 2.0 names. Then Max turns the tables and interviews Sarah. It’s an evening not to be missed!
- SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group – Get together and talk about Groovy and Grails. For now, meet at the Pacific Coast Brewing Co which is pretty close to 12th street BART in downtown Oakland.
August 26, 2008
- Virtualization Solutions eXchange 2008 – VSX 2008’s mission is to provide a forum for exchange of information on virtualization, create strong virtualization strategies for companies and improve their existing platforms. Whether you are a CIO, Director of IT, or an Engineer, you will find sessions of interest to you among the multiple technology and business tracks offered. VSX 2008 will offer you access to key vendors with one goal in mind: provide you with choices and have your questions answered.
- Tech Karaoke – Join other techies for a night of signing. Thanks to the success of their first inaugural night, it’s time for the monthly event for techkaraoke sf!
- Diggnation LIVE – Come to see Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht do a live Diggnation on Tuesday evening, the 26th of August at 6:30pm! This will be a part of NVIDIA’s NVISION 2008 and the show will take place at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. This is the biggest venue they have EVER had for a live Diggnation — 4,000 seat capacity stadium seating. If you are anywhere near the bay area – they would LOVE to have you join them and help fill the auditorium — its completely free and open to all ages.
- SDForum: Facebook Connect – Facebook Connect is open to developers worldwide in a developer beta and sites will start going live to users in the coming weeks. Facebook Platform evangelist Dave Morin will discuss how to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into any third-party website and enable users to seamlessly “connect” their Facebook account and information with your site, find their friends who also use your site, and share information and actions on your site with their friends on Facebook. The session will also look at two of the building blocks for Facebook Connect – openness and control – and the importance of both in enabling users to take their identity and friends to other sites across the web, while maintaining control over their privacy.
August 27, 2008
- Women 2.0 Mixer with YouNoodle – Join us at the YouNoodle office in South Park (San Francisco) for some food, wine, good people, and demos from YouNoodle about the platform and their new Startup Predictor! Come find out about the supportive ecosystem that exists in San Francisco for startups at the Women 2.0 and YouNoodle event “Startups Helping Startups”.
August 28, 2008
- Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture – Gather with others in Celebration of web 2.0 trends and culture. Enjoy a night of discussion and networking.
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