July 3rd, 2008
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friendsfamily at WorldLink, Inc. Big thanks to a few other recruiting crazies who encouraged me to move forward with my dream and challenged me with a good dose of reality: Jason - Shally - Dave - John - Jim, and Ann. Each of you represent all that is good within the recruiting community. More updates and changes to come. Stay tuned. Happy Independence Day! Dennis WirelessJobs.com- Excellent post today by Claudia Faust at RecruitingBlogs.com (find original post HERE). I know Claudia through our interaction in the recruiting community (by the way, she's awesome), and wanted to repost her thoughts because they are appropriate whether you are a recruiter, an engineer, or a CIA Operative. Claudia's weekly column is a "Dear Claudia" format where somebody writes her a question and Claudia does her best (which is pretty darn good) to give them an answer. So, here's the question and answer for today: Dear Claudia, I’m a corporate recruiter at my company, and I work closely with an HR Generalist for business hiring. I thought we had a great working relationship until a few weeks ago when another recruiter took me aside and said that the Generalist has been telling our business customers that I’m struggling in my job (of course, she denies that she said this). To make matters worse, she “forgot” to invite me to a meeting last week with an SVP to intake a new requisition, and now I’m racing to fill in the blanks with an executive who travels constantly and thinks I can’t keep my calendar straight. How would you handle this situation? Steaming Mad Dear Steaming, Can I say out of the gate that this situation really sucks? Any way you look at it, the undercurrents are tricky. If you’re lucky, you might wrap this up as friends; if not, you’ll have to learn to live with a very toxic co-worker. So let’s take a rational look at your options: Option A: She’s innocent (we’ll start with the positive). It’s entirely possible that the Generalist really is the great person you thought she was a month ago: she didn’t malign you to others, she was either misunderstood or misquoted. And she made an honest oversight by not inviting you to the meeting with the SVP. It may sound thin – but hey, it could happen. Option B: She’s guilty. By extension, she’s also mean, devious, and the HR-Partner-from-Hell. Maybe she really does have it in for you, wants your job, or (more likely) finds you intimidating and wants you gone. Ewww. Bad co-worker. The truth is that until you know the truth, you’re assuming. And when you assume… well, let’s just say that assumptions can lead to things you later regret. Of course, it’s impossible to talk about assumptions without noting a basic truth about human perception: People tend to perceive what they expect to perceive.
The CIA (always good for something fascinating) published a report a few years back that delved into this subject with gusto, where they also noted two other interesting gems about human perception: The mind is quick to form an impression, but resistant to change it. And... New information is assimilated into existing images. It turns out that for humans, perception is an active process; it constructs reality rather than recording it. This is why we say that perception is reality for the beholder (listen up if you’re at all concerned with candidate experience and employer branding – this one is for you, too). So where does this leave you, dear Steaming? My advice is that you set aside your assumptions to get to the truth of the situation. Ask questions to confirm you have all the information needed to either confront the situation (there’s a great formula for difficult conversations to be found here in my previous post about hairy candidates), or put it to rest and move on. If you need help in the confrontation, go up the HR chain, or (if internal politics are too funky) to a trusted and more senior manager, to mediate the conversation. I wish you good luck!
July 2nd, 2008 · No comments
Mycom is searching for a Data Process Engineer to be based in Dallas, TX. The qualified candidate will have at least 2 years exp as an RF Engineer with driving testing experience to include post processing of drive test data. Please visit our Website at www.mycom-int.com This is an immediate need so email me directly at marie.velazquez@mycom-usa.com
July 1st, 2008 · No comments
- 1. Speak softly. 2. Show up early. 3. Think several steps ahead. 4. Refrain from frequent praise. 5. Don't tell others everything about yourself. 6. Don't complain. 7. Defend an underdog or a maverick. 8. Use few words. 9. Speak last. 10. Speak slowly. 11. Be reliable. 12. Avoid fads. 13. Be creative. 14. Emphasize ethics. 15. Avoid vulgarity. 16. Go out of your way to be thoughtful. 17. Remember names. 18. Listen carefully to others. 19. Read good books and listen to good music. 20. Neither impose nor hide your religion. 21. Be courageous. source: Execupundit.comJune 30th, 2008 · No comments
- I had the pleasure of spending a few minutes last week with John Carney, former Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations at T-Mobile, and currently the Chief Executive Officer of Affinity Mobile, a global provider of mobile financial services. John Carney is nothing if not passionate about the mobile industry. In this interview, he shares his vision for Affinity Mobile, and how their mission sets them apart from other companies in the mobile space. Thanks to John and Cinco for inviting me to visit their new HQ offices in Plano, TX. It's going to be interesting to watch how Affinity Mobile impacts the mobile financial services piece of this industry. Disclaimer: In the interview, I introduce John Carney as the co-founder of Affinity Mobile, when actually, he's the co-founder of Affinity Global Services.June 30th, 2008 · No comments
- Vista Side Bar Gadget- http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=7e1de76f-b55d-47ab-8d4c-f55370265a26 Vista Live Widget - http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=ee8eae73-c87c-4c26-8856-0c9f6db1ad5f Google Toolbar Widget - http://techno.mango2go.com/gadgets/MangoMobileSMS/MangoMobileSMS.ggJune 27th, 2008 · No comments
Urgent requirement for five (5) UMTS Engineers for Detroit, New York, Seattle, and Spokane. Min 2 years of UMTS Design and Optimization experience. This is a "Direct" hire by Mycom with full benefits. Base location is Dallas with 100% travel. Email Marie Velazquez today for a quick response: marie.velazquez@mycom-usa.comJune 27th, 2008 · No comments
Mycom is searching for two (2) Lucent Switch Engineers to be based in Dallas, TX (50% travel). Prefer minimum of five years switching experience, and CERTIFIED for Lucent UMTS Switch Support (3G, UMTS, WCDMA, RNC). This is a Senior Position at Mycom. Please visit our Website at www.mycom-int.com This is an immediate need so email me directly at marie.velazquez@mycom-usa.comJune 26th, 2008 · No comments
- Please forward resume and letter of interest to: JoeCastilla@att.net Our start-up has received very generous 1st round funding from 2 leading VC firms and started with a handful of employees with a track record of success from Juniper, Cisco, Motorola, and Sprint. We are actively recruiting for this position: Wireless System Test Engineer We are looking for a senior Wireless Systems Test Engineer to be part of the product system test team. Responsibilities will include: Architect/implement wireless system test framework and infrastructure. Develop System test plans that cover IP and wireless test aspects to help integrate complete wireless systems. Run unit tests and basic sanity tests on new releases. Assist in building an automated test environment for regression tests. Analyze sanity and regression test and serve as key interface to engineering team. Possible opportunity Scale to potentially manage system test group as company grows. Requirements for this position include BS degree in Electrical Engineer (MS preferred), minimum 10 years test experience. Solid understanding of cellular architecture from the core network through the radio network. Experience with testing licensed-spectrum cellular wireless systems such as CDMA2000, WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA, WiMAX. Complete familiarity with typical wireless test equipment such as oscilloscopes, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generators, associated software components, RF channel emulators, computer-controlled attenuators, reference test mobiles, protocol testers, etc. Familiarity with helping to build and working with automated test environments. Solid theoretical and practical understanding of key RF characteristics such as sensitivity, dynamic range, I/Q imbalance, phase noise, intermod effects, adjacent-channel power measurements/leakage, RF Emissions masks, frequency/time accuracy and drift. Solid theoretical and practical understanding of wireless systems aspects such as RSSI, inter-cell and inter-sector interference, SNR/SINR/CINR, fading channels (ITU channel models), Doppler, handoff, edge-of-cell performance. Understanding of attributes of advanced packet-switched wireless systems is a bonus -- examples include downlink and uplink scheduler performance, delay and packet-loss measurements, voice quality measurements, MOS scores, etc. Demonstrable experience with setting up wireless test facilities from scratch in a fast-paced startup environment is strongly desired. Actual experience with deploying and field-testing live equipment in a commercial network. Bonus Development experience. WiFi system test experience. Actual scripting experience and familiarity with Perl. Understanding of attributes of advanced packet-switched wireless systems is a bonus -- examples include downlink and uplink scheduler performance, delay and packet-loss measurements, voice quality measurements, MOS scores, etc. No Relocation at this time No Agencies at this time No Sponsorship at this timeJune 26th, 2008 · No comments
- Please forward resume and letter of interest to: JoeCastilla@att.net Our start-up has received very generous 1st round funding from 2 leading VC firms and started with a handful of employees with a track record of success from Juniper, Cisco, Motorola, and Sprint. We are actively recruiting for this position: Senior Protocol Software Engineer Job Description Our Silicon Valley Start-Up is looking a senior telecom protocol developer who will architect, develop, implement and test wireless protocol software based on 3GPP UMTS, 3GPP LTE, and/or 802.16 WiMAX. Responsibilities will include: Define software architecture and implement/integrate wireless protocol stacks. Perform unit testing and verification for the wireless subsystem implemented or integrated. Author design documents and specifications. Requirements for this position include Master degree in EE or CE (or Ph.D) plus 5 years experience. Experience with software subsystem development and integration on UMTS RNC or CDMA2000 BSC products. Full understanding of carrier-class engineering requirements. A very good understanding of the role of Radio Resource Control/Management in the performance of wireless systems. Experience with the design and performance validation of mobility mechanisms (softer/soft/hard handoff) including macro-diversity. Good understanding of wireless terminal states (active/sleep/idle) and the design/implementation of area and local paging controllers. Intimate familiarity with higher layer network protocols and the convergence of circuit-switched cellular network architecture with IP network architecture. Hands-on high-caliber software engineering experience. Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment; excellent communication skills; solid team player. Bonus Direct and relevant experience with provisioning and management of wireless network elements (RNC, BSC, BTS) in real deployments. A good understanding of the migration from 3GPP UTRAN to 3GPP Evolution SAE network architecture. A good understanding of high-speed packet-switched air-interface (EV-DO/HSPA/WiMAX/LTE) mechanisms such as resource allocation and scheduling. No Relocation at this time No Agencies at this time No Sponsorship at this timeJune 26th, 2008 · No comments
