Archive for April, 2007

Technology in the hiring process

April 26, 2007 at 4:51 pm · Filed under Business Tools

Technology(Activerecruiter-jobpartner) and hiring

The need to integrate technology into the bank hiring process emanated from the number of e-mail and snail mail applications from applicants, students and temporary work agencies. To effectively distribute these information to supervisors, branch managers and the hiring team. The IT department of a leading French bank opted for Activerecruiter from jobpartner after training the human resource executives. And over a period of one year the experience have proved very useful and the bank intends to deploy the software on a global basis and increase the number of people to be hired.

Source : La Tribune 25 April 2007

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Electronic voting

April 21, 2007 at 6:23 pm · Filed under Institutional

It was introduced for the first time in 1970 due to a legislation that was passed in 1969 and it was a complete disaster. As we are sliding to the first round of the French presidential election only 82 of the 1 600 polling stations will use electronic voting. Electronic voting is through a touch screen and there are three operators in France for the moment:

-nedap-france elections

-indras sistemas and

-ES & S

ES&S anticipates controlling a 40% share of the market in the years ahead, as against indras systemas that has a 10%  share of the electronic voting market and nedap-france elections is the market leader.

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IT and the military

April 14, 2007 at 6:42 pm · Filed under Institutional

Siemens and IBM

The Herkules IT project which will run for 10 years will be managed for the German army by Siemens and IBM. In short, this is basically operating and servicing 140, 000 PC’s, 7000 application servers and 345,000 fixed and mobile phone lines in over one thousand locations.

Source: The Guardian, december 29, 2006

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emailvision.com-or taking e-mail marketing to a new level

April 7, 2007 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

www.emailvision.com 

Setting marketing budgets and measuring its effectiveness are issues that professionals worry about very often. While there are numerous studies on the benefits to be derived from the use of different sales techniques. A company that was listed on the stock exchange have proved again the advantages of e-mail marketing by using technologies:

-for e-mail target marketing

-communication message and

-e-mail campaign timing.

According to the web site of www.emailvision.com, about 10% of prospects do make a purchase and only 40% bother to open the e-mail despite a plan with ISP’s not to classify most of these campaigns as unsolicited e-mail or spams.

Source: La Tribune March 28, 2007

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