Travel Marketing Summit 2008 Coming to Ft. Lauderdale
Join us on Thursday, September 18th at the Westin Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale for 2008
Travel Marketing Summit. Learn from the leading
brands and experts and keep abreast of the latest tools and tactics to
survive from video marketing to internet technology.
With speakers from companies such as Travelocity, Google, and Starwood
Hotels, this is an event that no hoteliers, travel marketers, meeting
planning professionals, ad agencies, and interactive and integrated
marketers can afford to miss!
Space is limited. Register early to avoid additional $15 walk-up fee.
IT Women and PMI Partner For Business Case Development Workshop
Join us on Thursday, September 18th as Angelo Gasparri, PMP, facilitates a workshop to ensure
the right projects and initiatives, gain business support!Often identified as
an area for improvement by business executives, ‘Business Case
Development’ is a skill that cannot be underestimated, especially in
today's cash strapped economy, whereby investment in any new initiative is a
highly scrutinized pursuit, with only a very small portion of initiatives
getting the green light.
Join us for great networking, lively conversation and a new skill set!!!
SFIMA to Run 1-day Mobile & Social Media Marketing Workshop
Join us on Friday, September 19th at NSU in Davie for a 1-Day Workshop Taught by Leading Professionals in Interactive. The Workshop will address Using Mobile & Social Media to Effectively Engage Consumers
and Drive Results.
Our panel will feature guests from Office Depot, MySpace, Crispin Porter Bogusky, and more! Join
us for this innovative workshop and learn how you can maximize social
media and mobile marketing tools to enhance your company's bottom line!
Join us on Thursday, September 25th in Davie as we learn how virtualization can help you save time and money while achieving more. Industry thought leaders will come together to share their insight so that you can learn how to address key business objectives.
Join us on Thursday, September 25th in Ft.
Lauderdale as Lisa Gibbs, Executive Business Editor for the Miami
Herald, moderates a panel of CEOs of South Florida based companies that have one thing in common: Growth. They
will share their biggest challenges and opportunities and most
importantly, how they are accelerating the growth of their companies in
a difficult economic environment.
Join us on Thursday, September 25th at Nova Southeastern University in Davie as Saritha Bollineni talks about Preventing SQL Injections and best practices for application development.
The
South Florida chapter of PMI is pleased to have Angelo A. Gasparri,
J.D., PMP from KPMG Advisory Services for our October Dinner Meetings. Angelo’s topic, “Transforming Enterprise Accomplishment: Enlightened
Project Management” will look at the unexplored dimension of project
management that has little to do with the PMBOK, and yet everything to
do with applying its principles successfully.
Join us on Thursday, October 2nd in Ft. Lauderdale and/or Wednesday, October 8th in Miami for two great nights of networking with peers and industry leaders. This is an event you can't afford to miss!
Join us on Saturday, October 11th on the FSU Campus for the 2008 Tallahassee Code Camp! This FREE event will feature speakers from 8am-6pm and will feature some of Florida's Microsoft Developers and MVPs. It also provides training for local speakers to become the next rockstar in .net
They are starting at some of South Florida’s
top companies such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Burger King, and Sherlock
Technology, but they didn’t graduate from the University of Miami,
NovaSoutheastern, or FIU. They haven’t
even graduated from High School. Thanks
to the Academy of Information Technology (AOIT), today’s best and brightest are
getting a head start at some of Miami-Dade County’s Fortune 500 Companies.
And their on-the-job training is something
that even the best Information Technology (IT) schools can’t provide.
“I personally think this is a good experience
for my future career,” said Cristopher Jimenez, AOIT student and intern at
Carnival Cruise Lines in Miami, “and it really helped me figure out that this
is what I want to do.”
Jimenez, a Senior at Miami Central Senior
High School, has been in his school’s AOIT program since the ninth grade. The AOIT is a program that is being picked up
by more and more schools around the country to help High School students decide
what aspect of IT they would like to get into.
“Unless we make inroads early on in student
IT education, students aren’t going to understand what IT jobs exist for them
with employers and how to decide on a career path to achieve success ,” said
Andrew Tabone, Manager of Information Systems and Recruitment & Career
Development for Carnival and AOIT Chairman. “Internships are an opportunity for high school students to gain insight
into how IT is being used to drive business decisions and draw from this
on-the-job experience to journey from high school to college and into
industry.”
This is the third year that Carnival has
participated in the AOIT’s Summer Internship Program and with companies such as
Carnival, Burger King, Ryder, and Sherlock Technology leading the way, the AOIT
has made significant progress toward placing senior high school students at
companies throughout South Florida and both interns and companies alike are
feeling the benefits.
“We are very pleased with our interns and it
energizes our employees, too, because it brings a different kind of enthusiasm
to our IT department and it’s contagious,” said Tabone. “This may be the first time that high school
students even see the inside of a Fortune 500 company in action. They’re
already majoring in IT, so internships show them what to expect before going on
to college and entering the IT job market.”
“Having worked with over 120,000 IT
professionals worldwide, this is the kind of experience that anyone would have
jumped at the chance for,” claimed Alex Funkhouser, President of Sherlock
Technology. “The students that are
working with me have had the chance to speak with close to 2,000 IT
professionals in the State of Florida and they gained valuable insight into
their future profession. All the while,
they have helped improve the overall effectiveness and productivity of our
company.”
The three-year-old internship program has
given the students an unparalleled insight into the various fields within the
IT industry from Project Management to system development to programming to
telecommunications. It also gives them
the opportunity to meet with people who are in various jobs within Fortune 500
companies and find out how and why they are there and understand the path they
took to get here.
“I saw how their systems work and they even
took me out to one of their ships to see how [the on-board] systems
worked. It was really interesting and
something I would like to get into,” said Jimenez. “I personally think this is a good experience
for my future career and it really helped me figure out that [networking] is
what I really want to do.”
The AOIT is part of the National Academy
Foundation and was created in 1978 by Sanford Weill, who is the former chairman
of Citigroup and has continued to be a big part of the program on the national
level. The program is essentially a
school within a school where a student who knows that they want to get into the
IT field can get a head start on their education at their local high
school.
For more information on the AOIT, you can
visit their national website at www.naf.org.
Get Involved With INETA - Further Your IT Career
INETA provides structured, peer-based
organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing
worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. Our mission is to
offer assistance and resources to community groups that promote and
educate their membership in Microsoft's .NET technologies. INETA
welcomes all facets of the .NET user community, from developers and
architects to project managers and IT professionals. Members can be
user groups or special interest groups that focus on a single aspect of
.NET, such as C#, target the entire .NET platform or concentrate on
other development technologies but are also interested in .NET. INETA
is the next evolution in user group communities a non-profit,
independent organization, chartered with supporting all user groups
interested in the Microsoft .NET platform. INETA is run by a board of
user group leaders, elected by their peers, and supported by Microsoft
Corporation and other sponsors.
There
are 21 different User Groups in Florida involved with INETA. For the
User Group closest to you and your specialty, please visit:
This
animatronic brain incorporates The Concise encyclopedia from
Britannica™, a dictionary, and a world history timeline...Its database
can store telephone numbers and the device connects to a phone jack,
allowing it to become a your personal operator that dials the phone
numbers of friends and family in response to verbal commands, or you
can use the attached keyboard to prompt the animatronic roommate to
initiate a phone call.
IT Industry News
Employment services up 5% in 2Q, Census
says
The
U.S. government estimate of quarterly revenue for employment services was up 5%
year over year in the second quarter, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The
Census estimates revenue for employment services at $45.7 billion in the second
quarter, up from $43.5 billion in the second quarter in 2007. The Census
reported year-over-year growth of 7.3% in the first quarter of 2008. These growth estimates for the first and
second quarter are higher than growth reported from other industry
sources. Staffing Industry Analysts
projects 1% growth for the staffing industry in 2008.
Manpower survey finds Q4 hiring to slow
U.S.
companies plan to hold back on hiring in the fourth quarter compared with the
third quarter and the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the Employment
Outlook Survey by Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN).
In
the fourth quarter, 22% of U.S. companies plan to add staff while 13% plan to
decrease their number of workers for a seasonally adjusted net employment
outlook of 9%. That's down from the seasonally adjusted employment outlook of
12% in the third quarter and 18% in the fourth quarter of 2007.
"The
continuing softness in hiring activity comes as no surprise as weakening market
conditions are causing many companies to carefully adjust their hiring in line
with the demand for their product or service," said Manpower Chairman and
CEO Jeffrey Joerres.
The
report surveyed 14,000 U.S. employers.
Source: Staffing Analysts Daily News
Expert Advice
Sherlock Helps You Enhance Your Professional Career
Develop A Firm Grip To Get A Job
By Anthony BalderramaCareerBuilder.com
Before you head out to the interview, check your suit for lint,
your résumé for typos, your teeth for spinach and your hands for a firm
grip.
A new survey finds that all of your years of experience
and the hard work you put into preparing for an interview can disappear
if you extend your hand and offer a languid shake.
A dead fish
handshake can be just as dooming as ripped jeans and a neck tattoo when
it comes to landing a job, says the survey conducted by Greg Stewart, a
business professor from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
Why is a good handshake so important? Because you're being interviewed the second you walk through the door.
Everything from your appearance to your body language sends signals to
interviewers about you and your fit in the company. They're looking for
anything to distinguish you from the pack, so they will let the
handshake set the tone for the rest of your meeting.
"Job seekers are trained how to act in a job interview, how to talk, how to
dress, how to answer questions, so we all look and act alike to varying
degrees because we've all been told the same things," Stewart reminds.
Your handshake is one of the few interview components that are unique
to you.
"We probably don't consciously remember a person's
handshake or whether it was good or bad. But the handshake is one of
the first nonverbal clues we get about the person's overall
personality, and that impression is what we remember," Stewart says.
For the survey, 98 students went through mock job interviews.
Handshake raters, who did not reveal their purpose, were introduced to
students and shook their hands.
After the interviews, the
hiring managers scored how well the job seekers performed and the
handshake raters graded the handshakes separately. The scores were
compared and showed that those students with high scoring handshakes
were the same ones the interviewers viewed most hireable.
The
correlation between handshakes and favorable impressions goes beyond an
interviewer's preference for a firm grip. Interviewers perceived
students with good handshakes as being more outgoing and having better
interpersonal skills.
What is a good handshake? Interviews are
filled with opportunities for overthinking. Which tie exudes
confidence? Which hairstyle says professional yet approachable? How
early should I arrive so that I don't seem too eager or too
disinterested?
And now you're probably wondering just how to
go about crafting the perfect handshake. Chances are you probably
already know the answer.
One of the first lessons of Business
101 is to have a firm, personable handshake, and that's exactly what
interviewers favored.
The handshake that received the best
responses involved a strong grip, maintained eye contact and deliberate
pumps up and down. A lazy handshake makes you appear disinterested,
sort of like a five-fingered yawn. If you're overzealous, however, it's
distracting and annoying.
On your next
interview, as you walk into the room and flatten the creases in your
crisp suit jacket, remember to give the same attention to the hand
you're extending.
Look for more tips in our next newsletter.
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