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The FOT Interview: RIM/Blackberry’s Kat Drum

FOT founder Kris Dunn recently sat down with Kat Drum , Head of Global Employment Brand and Social Media Strategies at Research In Motion , which most of you know as “RIM”, the maker of the Blackberry. We wanted to do this interview because in connecting with Kat, we were intrigued by the passion Kat has for RIM, especially in the face of all the media focus on the RIM product line, the attack on RIM market share by the iPhone and Android product line and all the naysayers who claim no corporate drones will be holstering a Blackberry in two years due to the aforementioned competitive forces.  Additionally, it's always interesting to see kids with blackberry's and wonder what's up with that. We didn't have to ask Kat to defend the brand.  She did that from the jump, which made us believe in RIM.  Passionate employees and leaders within a company have a way of doing that.  Let's roll the tape : 1. Kat Drum, aka “KD”.  Why is it that all the great ones have the initials “KD” (Kevin Durant, Kelly Dingee, and of course… um… Kris Dunn)?  Even better Kris, why do two cool people change the traditional spelling of their name and use a K vs C?  2. How has all the press about RIM impacted you on the recruiting trail?  What are candidates saying?  What are candidates asking in regarding to the ongoing business prospects of the company? The press immensely impacts candidate's confidence in Research In Motion as employer of choice.  Candidates want to know what we’re doing next to be innovative and stay competitive. Quite frankly, there is a lot that Research in Motion is doing great. We shipped 10.6 million BlackBerry devices in Q2 FY12. Service revenue surpassed $1 billion for the first time in Research In Motion’s history reflecting the over 40% growth in our subscriber base over the past year.  The company is going through a transition but is still providing our 70 million customers globally and recently launched 7 new products in 36 days. BB7 marks our largest and most successful global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history. We are continuing to innovate with BBX as our future OS and for app non-believers over 1 billion apps downloaded to date and over 4 million daily downloads. There is a huge story to share.  We tell our candidates, if you want to help build and shape the future of the global smartphone industry, Research In Motion is where you need to be. Research In Motion is here to stay this is a young and changing market and there is tremendous opportunity in it. 3. You’re so well regarded in the recruiting industry that everyone assumes if you wanted to flee RIM based on the recent press, you could do that at the drop of a hat.  But when we finally had the chance to talk, I was awestruck regarding how personally you take your role at RIM and how much “fight” instead of “flight” instinct you have.  What’s up with that?  Why are you so ready to lay it on the line for RIM?  Kris, for those that know me, I’m a loyal and dedicated being, I seize opportunities and I don’t go home without a fight, Go Big or Go Home is a favorite mantra of mine. I love working at Research In Motion.  I work with some of the nicest, collaborative and smartest people in the world. Research In Motion knows what true collaboration means. No ego. No hidden agendas. Have an idea? Implement it. Not many companies can stand behind that.  Maybe it’s the fact that I grew up close to the Canadian border that my values match those of Research In Motion. Whatever the reason, it works for me and I think Research In Motion’s company culture is one of North America’s best kept secrets.  I get the privilege of building a world-class employment branding program and sharing that secret with the world.  4. You keep mentioning a new term that I like a lot – “Candidate Confidence”.  What does that mean and what considerations do companies have to make to grow “candidate confidence” over time?  What special considerations and action do struggling companies have to take to combat neutral or negative candidate confidence? I’ve been in the employment branding space for over 12 years.  So much time is spent on maximizing the hot new channels. First it was the print movement to job boards in the 90s, the continued social media movement and now recruiting in the mobile space. Everyone wants to make the most of the upcoming new channels.  What people don’t spend enough time is nailing the right message for candidates to believe in a company. I’ve been through 5 layoffs in 4 years during my time in Seattle.  I started thinking differently about the power of employment branding when Starbucks reputation took a hit and Starbucks gossip blog was killing it even more, the stock was down to $8.00 a share. Every company has ups and downs.  The fun part of a true employment branding professional is to turn around a company’s’ image to candidates through global PR initiatives.  Rebuild candidate confidence first. Then play with the new shiny objects in our space. 5. What’s interesting to you in the recruiting and employment branding world these days?   What’s played out?  What’s the recruiting brand equivalent of a pair of stone-washed jeans from the 80’s?   Segmented messaging is important to me.  Targeted value propositions to candidates. People have different motivations to work for a company. There is no one size fits all message anymore. I personally think Facebook recruitment is played out. Richard Cho of Facebook recently shared with an audience at Mrec2011 that more people are accessing Facebook via their smartphone versus a desktop, which to me, means candidates aren’t seeing your ads and they aren’t wasting their time on a company’s Facebook page. They are in and out to check out photos and correspond with their friends, not to find a job.  I also think mobile apps are where it’s at.  Apps are stickier than a mobile web experience and can provide job updates at a candidate's fingertips. Fast, targeted and convenient.  Of course, what better comparison to the 80’s than a huge Sunday print ad.  Editor's note – The chart below is the global downloads split of the new RIM app JobsInMotion , which underscores the global diversity of RIM, and some of the mobile themes Kat refers to in #5. Thanks to Kat for her time and to RIM for allowing a internal leader to speak openly and honestly.  We'll be watching the smartphone/device wars and as a result of hearing from Kat, rooting for RIM more than we were before.

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Can HR Close the Skills Gap? Not really but…

Despite the continuing and stubbornly high unemployment rates across most of the USA, we still find numerous reports of employers with difficultly locating and landing talent for many so-called ‘hard-to-fill’ jobs. This phenomenon has been well analyzed, including from time to time here on Fistful of Talent.  Sometimes the ‘hard-to-fill’ scenario boils down to practical and real disconnects between the experience and skills of the locally available candidate pool and the specific requirements of the job, the so-called ‘skills gap’ . While it can often be argued that too strict an adherence to educational credentials and past professional experiences unnecessarily place too high a barrier that eliminates many candidacies, there is little doubt that most skilled technical and professional jobs normally do indeed require of candidates at least a baseline level of knowledge and skills to even progress in the interview process, much less secure the position and be successful in the role.  But what if instead of the skills gap being the driver of an organization’s inability to find suitable candidates to fill their open roles in a timely manner there were other, more subtle factors at play? What if the company has a bad reputation in the local market or is known in the industry as not such an interesting or innovative company? What happens if the likely talent pools for these open positions look at the company as a kind of career dead-end, due to either an entrenched and in-place management hierarchy or a firm and seemingly unmovable grip on a fading business model? What if, quite simply, the compensation and other benefits on offer are just not up to par in the local market and force the recruiters into a sales situation with a few less arrows in the quiver than they’d like? If some or all of these factors were at play, then you could rightly suggest that most if not all of them are not only mostly correctable, but that the ownership and responsibility for correcting them would fall to Human Resources.  The Employer Brand stinks or is non-existent? HR can get on that – jazz up the careers page, film a few videos of happy employees for the YouTube channel, be more open and communicative throughout the interview process – you get the idea. The organization is not innovative or edgy enough? Simple – set up one of those newfangled ‘Facebook for the Enterprise’ kind of systems behind the firewall, (so as not to annoy those geeks in IT). Make sure it has some badges and leaderboards built in to it, (it’s all about the gamification these days), and boom – ideas for new products and more high functioning teams will spring up as fast as social media strategists have popped up on Twitter in the last three years. Hard to find the experience you need in the market? Create a better pipeline of development and growth internally, so you only have to hire externally at the entry levels. Can’t compete on comp with the Silicon Valley big boys? No problem – you can at least afford some free pop in the break room, and a more liberal remote work policy is essentially free. Done and done. This really doesn’t sound all that hard. Ok, I know what the HR professionals reading this are thinking now, it's just another FOT piece of snark, with little understanding of what happens inside real-world HR, where there are corporate fiefdoms, history, policies, unions, regulations, and a million other reasons why change, especially the kind of change that actually can make an impact in the organization, is so ridiculously hard. And if you are thinking that, you’d be right. Making these kinds of changes, having an opinion and articulating your case for change, and confronting the organization and challenging it to look in the mirror so to speak and admit to its shortcomings – all of those things take courage, confidence, and skills that are not always easy to muster up. Let’s think about this for a minute. This sounds too much like hard work. It’s much, much easier to blame it on the ‘skills gap’ , then it becomes someone else’s problem to solve. Editor's Note  -   Steve Boese is fondly known to many as the  HR Technology  blogger. By day, he is a Director of Talent Managment Strategy at Oracle .  That's right, he's educating some of HR's future, folks. How's that for literally shaping the future of HR? Steve can also be found hosting the  HR Happy Hour on Thursdays at 8PM ET  … you know, where a bunch of HR pros get together and call in to talk about HR stuff. Sounds like a real happy time… yep. Okay then…  

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Peoplebank Salary Survey

I’ve just had a client inform me that the salary they want to offer is about 30k less than what I’d consider market rate.

I asked the client how they derived at this figure and they informed me that they used Peoplebanks salary survey.

Has anyone had a good look at it? What is everyone’s opinion? Is it realistic or rubbish?

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Do you anticipate a growth in the contract workforce to be contained to a specific discipline and what split of permanent verse contract work to you consider optimal for a business such as yours?

James Hon Managing Director and Founder, Bluefin Resources Growth in the contract market is expected to continue across all disciplines. Sign off for permanent roles is taking longer to come through and, as a direct result, we are seeing a lot more fixed-term contracts, particularly in the marketing sector, and on some occasions even for sales roles. There any many large-scale projects being released across a variety of industries all of which require contract resources in change management, project management, business analysis and process improvement. Technical demand has seen an increase in Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture and application development (particularly in mobile apps and trading systems). We are anticipating an increase in demand for contract risk and compliance professionals in response to Basel III. Projects associated with Carbon Tax should also activate new contract projects across a number of disciplines. The ideal mix of permanent versus contract work should fall somewhere in the range of 40-50% contract and the balance in permanent. A contract book enables the business to create a continuously growing revenue and profit stream that is easy to measure and enables a business to better forecast its performance and profit over a period of time. Risks associated with having a contract book are usually associated with cash flow as there is a gap between paying the contract workers and receiving payment, this can be controlled by having a cast-iron understanding of the timing of payments to contract workers, terms of business with clients and a robust process for following up client invoices. James Hone started his recruitment career in London in the late 1990s. He served for fi ve years as Manager for Hays IT in London before moving to Sydney in 2003. In 2003, James left Hays IT to establish Bluefin Resources. Bluefin has ranked 23rd on BRW’s prestigious Best Places to Work list 2011, a catalogue of the 50 best employers nationally. James encourages a fun working environment, with a work/life balance and no tie policy, ensuring that his business focuses on quality rather than quantity. Bluefin now has over 50 employees based out of Sydney and Melbourne recruiting across Australia and Singapore, with further growth planned. Visit www.bluefi nresources.com.au for further information about the company. ___________________________________ Lynne Fox Senior Consultant, Finite During my experience recruiting for the IT contracting market, I haven’t ever noticed growth being confined to a specific discipline. What I have noticed though, over the last three years, is a significant contraction of a wider range of disciplines being sought by our clients. There is still a very healthy demand for Program Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Architects and Testers. Project-based teams with generic skills are also in demand. I have observed a reduction in client requests for candidates with very niche technical skills (SAP, Oracle Apps, niche development skills, etc). We saw a drop off in the request for these types of skills about three years ago. As less and less people are getting into IT as a profession and more IT contract work moves off-shore, clients have begun to see a shortage of candidates in the market place. Agencies are finding it more challenging to unearth suitable candidates because the majority of them are currently employed in a permanent capacity. This was an immediate result of the GFC when contractors became concerned by the fact that non-permanent resources are usually the first to be let go during an economic downturn. We are actually now seeing these people “tip-toeing” back into the contract market. I can’t speak on behalf of the company but I understand that 25% permanent and 75% contract is considered to be a good business model. Lynne Fox is one of Finite’s Senior Consultants. Having been employed with the company for more than 10 years, she has had a successful track record within both corporate and government accounts. Lynne provides IT resources for contract assignments as well as for permanent appointments. The scope of IT positions she has placed, on behalf of her clients, has been from CIO to level 1 Help Desk. Lynne is an ITCRA-certified IT Professional Recruitment Consultant. ___________________________________

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Twitter – whatx5cx27s the point

Is it just me, or is twitter a joke? What is it exactly? I short message service that is inundated with spam. Based on many of the blogs by recruitment leads, I set up a twitter account. But honestly, it’s a total waste. Spam, spam spam. Does twitter actually server any purpose? I don’t get it.

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The global job market – what’s happening right now?

Today’s Savage Truth post is a little different, in two ways. Firstly, it is in fact a Vlog , rather than a blog, and I encourage you to watch the video, focusing more on the content than the plain visage of your faithful blogger! Secondly instead of a recruitment tip, I am focusing today on the global job market. Is it improving? I travel a lot. Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK just in the last 5 weeks, for example. And that gives me the privilege of speaking to CEOs and top HR people all over the world. Watch the “Firebrand Sparks!” vlog for up to the minute assessment of the global job market in marketing, digital, creative, media and design.

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Jason Real Estate

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Iris Interactive

Iris Interactive Iris Interactive | Iris Pharma Solutions | Iris Consumer Solutions | Sydney blog nbsp;| contact us nbsp;| about us |&nbsp sitemap Home About Us About Iris Vision and Values Partners Careers Iris Leadership Team From the desk of the CEO Products Solutions Iris Pharma Market Development Brand Development Growth Management Iris Consumer Strategic Planning Hub Communication Development Hub Channel Management Hub Consumer Insights Hub Brand Equity Hub Innovation Hub BrandNET Platform Iris Solution Delivery Customers Our Customer Brands Success Stories What They Say News Events News Our Blog Contact Us Contact Details Our Location Make an Enquiry Request a Demo Iris Interactive’s Product Commercialisation Software helps you achieve Faster Time to Market Higher Sales and Stronger Brands Iris web-based collaboration platform for innovation and product commercialisation captures all the critical processes timelines teams and documentation key to launching products faster achieving higher sales and building stronger brands locally regionally and globally Delivering several million dollars of additional revenue to companies Click for more information Click for more information About Us About Iris Vision and Values Partners Careers Iris Leadership Team From the desk of the CEO Products Solutions Iris Pharma Iris Consumer BrandNET&reg Platform Iris Solution Delivery Customers Our Customers Success Stories What They Say Contact Us Contact Details Our Location Make an Enquiry copy 2011 Iris Interactive Pty Ltd All rights reserved nbsp;   &nbsp

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Ambition Recruitment & Contracting

Ambition Recruitment & Contracting Ambition | Specialist Recruitment in Accounting Technology and Banking Finance Jobs in Australia Ambition Change Country Australia Hong Kong Singapore United Kingdom Global Ambition Send to a Friend Close X Your Name Your Friend’s Name Your Friend’s Email Denotes a required field nbsp Email Address Register Now Password Forgotten your Password Home Search Jobs Resources About Investors Contact Working For Ambition My Jobs Blogs Job Search Keyword Advanced Search search Finance Accounting Banking Financial Services Information Technology Weekly Survey How many hours per day do you feel you are productive Click here to submit your reply Ambition Technology Blog Ambition Technology Blog has the latest about IT recruitment and careers written by our specialist team Featuring Podcasts from experts in the industry raquo Ambition Technology Blog Community Involvement Ambition has a proud heritage of helping build better communities.We have recently partnered with the Starlight Foundation Community involvement raquo Community Involvment Market Trends Stay up to date with what is happening within the finance and technology recruitment markets Market Trends raquo Market Trends Latest Jobs Prev Senior Quality Assurance Analyst-Online Services Agile Environment Opportunity for a technical tester to work raquo Siebel Technical Specialist 12 month contract 04/07/2011 | Join this experienced team as a Siebel Tec raquo Business Analyst Work for a global Investment Management fi raquo Next Search Jobs Finance Accounting Jobs Banking Financial Services Jobs Information Technology Jobs About Sitemap Contact Working For Ambition Privacy Policy copy Copyright 2011 Ambition

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Chandler Macleod looks to acquire in Asia; Kelly CFO leaves for Five Ten Group; plus more

Chandler Macleod looking to acquire in Asia…. Kelly CFO leaves for Five Ten Group…. Sourcing comes of age…. Co-operation crucial to strengthen labour market: ManpowerGroup.

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Design & Build Recruitment

Design & Build Recruitment
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melbourne
vic
australia
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Jobs Data Worse Than Expected | Pink Sheet riot

Retail Trade was down 9k and Government jobs fell 29k, all of those losses were mostly in the Local sector, -28k; Manufacturing employment fell 5k on the month, the first decline for this sector since October. … investing public with daily innovative business news, real-time market commentary, investment tools, market education, as well as stories, articles, video stock charts, and market briefs from a full staff of experienced and dedicated journalists. …

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Federal IT contracting heading for record year

The value of Federal Government IT contracting continues to recover strongly, with the sector on track to post its highest total in the past five years, according to the latest IT labour hire report from specialist government market research company Intermedium.

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SEEK Launches Jobseeker Profiles and it’s Better Than Expected

This week saw the promised launch of SEEK’s foray into the online CV database market with Jobseeker Profiles.  The premise behind this is an attempt to flip the traditional job board model on its head and turn it into a proactive job search tool for job seekers, rather than reactive one.  Instead of applying to

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Why Recruitment Must Do More for the Young Unemployed

Listening to the radio on my way in to work this morning I heard that, whilst positive news was emerging about New Zealand’s strengthening labour market, there was a worrying increase in youth unemployment.  I was quite enjoying listening to the piece until I reached the harbour bridge where, as happens every morning, a wave

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Spin It Recruitment

Spin It Recruitment Spin IT Recruitment Welcome to Spin IT Recruitment Spin IT Recruitment was founded in 2009 by Natalie Piro on the basic principle of providing impeccable service and value hellip;.to everyone We are a South Australian owned and based company with a proven background and experience in delivering a positive spin to the recruitment process for both clients and candidates Our unique recruitment process Full Circle Service combines state of the art technology strategic campaigns and the utilisation of strong industry networks to ensure the best available candidates are proposed for consideration by our clients Featured Jobs SharePoint Developer 02 Mar 2011 Adelaide Do you have a passion for latest technologies and the motivation to be at the top of your game Our client needs experienced SharePoint developers IT Account Manager/Consultant 02 Mar 2011 Adelaide As an emerging key player in IT recruitment in the South Australian market the team at Spin is looking to expand Cisco Network Engineer 23 Mar 2011 Adelaide Are you experienced with LAN/WAN troubleshooting Cisco Networking and the implementation of communications infrastructure Junior/Mid-Level Java Developer 05 Apr 2011 Adelaide Seeking commercially experienced Java developer to join motivated team You will have experience with JavaScript J2EE HTML and the SDLC Tel 08 8410 5000 &nbsp | nbsp; Fax 08 8410 5544 Privacy Policy nbsp;&nbsp | nbsp; Disclaimer &nbsp | nbsp; Contact Us Copyright copy 2009 SPIN IT Recruitment All Rights Reserved Web Design By Golive Technology

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A Night at the Improv with HR

Wouldn’t it be nice to know that for once, things will be staying the same for a while?   I think about business in prior decades – the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Most business folks could get up every day and know that things will be pretty much like they were yesterday (not counting the War years of course.) Most business change occurred slowly. And it seems (not having been alive and kicking during that time frame) that most change had adequate warning so you had time to react and plan. No so any more. The speed of change in business is now “real time.” New products, services, heck entire companies – can spring up over night and take sizable market share before you get your Starbucks. Given that much change, the old rules of getting things done at a company need to change to match the speed of the market.   When the speed of change outside the company exceeds the speed of change inside a company though – you're doomed. So how do you speed up your company? Why Improv of course! Improv is all about reacting to changes and moving those changes forward to tell a story. That's business today. Below are 8 rules of Improv – see if you can see how to apply them in your HR function – or any Management role for that matter. 1) Say Yes, and…! You never say no. It’s always “Yes, and”… saying “no” stops the flow. Same in business. HR needs to say more ,“Yes… and we’ll need to monitor that for any unforeseen circumstances.” Or, “Yes, and we’ll need to adjust our compensation structure to make that work with the rest of the employee base.” 2) After the ‘and’ add new information. An improvised scene can't move forward or advance unless there is new information added. Your role in HR is to add value – not just approve other’s ideas (or in a lot of cases, step on them.) If someone gives you a scenario, you say “yes” and help that person move the idea forward with new information – something they might not have thought of. 3) Don't Block. The opposite of saying yes-and is blocking or denial. Sound familiar? If business is Improv, HR has traditionally been the department that did the blocking – am I right? Don’t do it. 4) Avoid Questions. A form of blocking (in its more subtle form) is asking questions. Questions force our partners to fill in the information or do the work. It is a way of avoiding committing to a choice or a detail. It is playing it safe. If you think about it… most ideas aren’t 100% baked. There are a lot of questions. Devil’s advocates do this all time. Rarely is it to help move something forward – most often it is designed slow something down or keep it from happening. Don’t block. Say, “Yes, and…” 5) Focus on the Here and Now. Another useful rule is to keep the focus on the here and now. A scene is about the people in the scene. The change, the struggle, the win or loss will happen to the characters on the stage. Focus on what is going on right this at this moment. As an HR professional your goal should be to help this person move this idea/issue forward. Don’t worry about 10 months down the line. I know this one is a toughie – but try it. You might see that there is less risk than you think if you’re working WITH the person to make the change happen rather than working to make sure you don’t have a problem 10 months down the line. 6) For humor, commit and take choices to the nth degree. This means to add some ridiculous in the process to break up the a slow slog of conversation.  I’m not suggesting HR go off the deep end on this – to me it’s more of a recommendation to “think outside the box” – don’t always go with the “average” answer or response.  Go ridiculous to get the ideas flowing. 7) There are no mistakes.  In a good Improv scene everything is incorporated, nothing falls to the wayside. A character's anger, someone's limp, the joke that falls flat, the imaginary cup that gets dropped all get acted and reacted to. You work around, and with, what others offer, and trust that you'll all somehow pull it out. Work with the people you have. Don't assume something can't be done because you don't have “the” person – there's always a work-around. Find it. Change, Change, Change! Improv is about character change. The characters in a scene must experience some type of change for the scene to be interesting. Characters need to go on journeys, be altered by revelations, experience the ramifications of their choices and be moved by emotional moments. Employees are like the characters in an Improv scene. They need change too, and HR is there to help them change and move forward.   Take these rules and see how you can apply them.  I dare you to take a day, use these rules in your business dealings, and see if you don’t get a better response from the people and a better outcome for the business. All business is Improv these days. There is no planning (not really – but that’s another post.) The most successful companies are those that can observe, orient, decide and act quickest (yeah… that’s a military thing – the OODA loop).  Improv is your ticket to faster and better responses to unforeseen challenges… now let’s see if I can apply it in the comments. Editor's Note -  Paul Hebert is the Managing Director for  i2i  (an influence consultancy), the brain behind  Incentive Intelligence  and a recognized authority on incentives and performance motivation. Want to know what's going to motivate your people to perform at their best and impact the bottom line? Want to know whether your service award program really means anything at all? And are there psychological principles that drive your employees behavior? Paul's your guy… unless you fervently bow down to Maslow.  

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Nspire It Recruitment Solutions

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