Comments for Tom Sweeney

Comment on Procom – One of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies by Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:42:20 +0000

Congrats to you and the rest of the Procom team. That’s great recognition of your work.

Comment on Who is the client??? by Alesha Rotherham

Alesha Rotherham — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:12:41 +0000

P.S. I’ll sure put the word out about your site and I would appreciate any business you may send my way…

Comment on Looking at recruiting trends for 2009 by Michal Alexiou

Michal Alexiou — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:13:21 +0000

Good stuff, I’ve added it to my bookmarks

Comment on Celebrating One Year of Blogging by Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:35:25 +0000

Congrats on the anniversary, Tom. Here’s to another year!

Comment on Understanding the Government of Canada contracting game… by Alec Campbell

Alec Campbell — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:21:19 +0000

The security clearance forms at the URL provided seem to require that the request be sponsored by a Government of Canada organization. Does anyone know if it is possible to request a secret clearance ‘on spec’, as it were? The process is too long to wait for a contract to be awarded, but this seems to be what is expected.

Comment on SAP vs PeopleSoft: Highest paying jobs? by Travis Bosket

Travis Bosket — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:32:24 +0000

Somethimes I prefer solely to go my personal way

Comment on Nortel to auction carrier networks division without initial bid by Loomethyptort

Loomethyptort — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:29:07 +0000

Interesting issue, didn’t thought reading this was going to be so amazing when I read the title with link.

Comment on Hyperion and Essbase in Ottawa by shogan

shogan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:22:47 +0000

The Ottawa talent pool for Hyperion consultants is very limited. I can help you out. I live in Stittsville and have been working with Hyperion for over 10 years. Send me an email if you’re interested in speaking.

seanhogan27@hotmail.com

Comment on It’s tough being a recruiter… by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:08:11 +0000

Hi Tom,

Definitely. Especially, when I put in a lot of time with a particular candidate, I feel like I have a real connection to him, and a stake in his success and happiness at the new position.

If there is a problem, I always hope that the candidate will talk to me first. But even if I follow up and check on the candidate regularly, they won’t always tell me right away when something is wrong.

I think it’s particularly difficult for recruiters rather than account execs, because (at least at my company), we were almost exclusively with the candidates. We don’t have much contact with the clients. So it’s easy to see why one’s allegiance can be with the candidate.

In the end, if it’s not a good fit, it’s not a good fit. There’s not much that one can do about it. It’s better to try to smooth over the transition than encourage someone to stay in a position that isn’t right for them.

Comment on $13 an Hour? 500 Sign Up, 1 Wins a Job by Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:35:38 +0000

I love questions like that, and I can’t believe how people sometimes respond. If you’re asked what should be a question that is pretty transparently formulated to gauge your assertiveness and pro-activeness, it should be pretty easy to determine what the “right” answer is.

Though I guess we should respect the losing candidate for being honest.

Comment on ResuWe by Dan Boersma

Dan Boersma — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:46:56 +0000

Tom,

Thanks for adding us to your Blog Roll. ResuWe allows the user the ability to make a clean Word copy of their resume with minimal data entry. Some of the unique features on ResuWe include the ability to Tweet a resume out to Twitter contacts which is also picked up when someone performs an open web search on Google. Another feature is the user can make an enhanced resume utilizing Facebook and their Facebook friends can make recommendations on a resume as well as give a thumbs up. Of course there are also privacy features on ResuWe which allow the user the ability to control what information is viewable. I would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have regarding ResuWe.

Regards,

Dan Boersma
Co-Founder
Laguna Source & ResuWe.com
Email: Dan@LagunaSource.com
Phone: 949.715.0517 (Direct Line)

Rev up your Resume at ResuWe.com

Comment on Put yourself out there and be found! by sweens

sweens — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:14 +0000

Abi,

It depends on your goal through networking. Some people will connect to anyone (LION – LinkedIn Open Networker) and connecting with those people give you access to large networks. Other people are looking for a focused networking in which case I suggest you join as many niche groups of interest to you and connect with those members.

Tom

Comment on What’s Your LinkedIn Strategy? by sweens

sweens — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:13:47 +0000

No I guess your leafs are not off to the best start just yet. Could be worse though I’m sure! My involved is on the officiating side. I am a referee in the Ontario Hockey League!

Comment on Put yourself out there and be found! by Abishek Sampath

Abishek Sampath — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:24:43 +0000

Hi Tom,

I have to thank you: after having read your post here, I’m inspired to get into the whole networking thing. I’m creating a Workopolis account as I write this!

My LinkedIn strategy is undefined, but hey, at least I’m on there and trying to hit 100% completion. Are there any other tips you’d like to give us about specific strategies to connect with people? I’d appreciate your advice!

Thanks, and keep up the blog work!
Abi.

SQA, Neosaej Corp.
Burlington MA 01803.

Comment on What’s Your LinkedIn Strategy? by Richard Furlong

Richard Furlong — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Dear Sweens, thanks for the article. Sometimes out there on the waters of the unknown, you really have to do what makes sense to you. I’m glad I embraced social media and Lindedin in ‘09

I’m in Toronto, played, coached and love hockey. My Leaf’s aren’t having a good early season time. What’s your hockey involvement?

Thanks,

Richard

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