Instead of hiring big-name professors, Jones recruited a platoon of 60 young scientists taking breaks from graduate school or pit stops between academia and industry.
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"Offshore firms are hiring big names so they have people with reputations that a chief executive in the U.S. or in Europe can check out, " says John Parkinson, managing director of ParkWood Advisors and the former chief technology officer of Capgemini in North America.
The allure of hiring a big shot from out of town seems to entice many business owners who are trying to run with the big dogs.
Founded in 2006 by Radu Georgescu, a serial entrepreneur who sold a previous anti-virus software company to Microsoft (MSFT), Avangate helps 2, 800 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe and Asia to sell their software without hiring a big sales force.
And it does not hurt that hiring is a big market that has led investors to assign very high valuations to HR software companies.
Automakers like General Motors and Chrysler are taking on the biggest number of new employees in Detroit, and CVS Caremark is doing heavy hiring in the Big Apple.
One analyst uncharitably compares his appointment to hiring the boss of a big charity to do a corporate turnaround.
Manpower expects this to rise to around 3% almost everywhere as the trend in hiring more temps extends from big firms to middle-sized companies.
Second, in a badly needed effort to appeal to younger buyers Ford is taking a big risk in hiring comedian Jimmy Fallon to help create the ad (but not appear in it).
If (still a big if) hiring by firms picks up sharply in coming months, pushing up incomes, then consumers will become less reliant on asset appreciation and debt, and the recovery will become more soundly based.
Bold-faced names like Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts and Britney Spears have bypassed the scores of paps, as they're often called, by tipping off a single photographer or hiring their own to capture big-ticket events such as nuptials and births.
Startup veterans, for the most part, move on to second careers as angel investors, from which new position they now compete with venture capitalists, often trying to engineer early-exit scenarios at lower multiples, and effectively allying themselves with the big acqui-hiring companies against the traditional VC class.
Most hiring of temps is done by big firms, who can presumably read contracts for themselves.
On Monday, the Big Board announced the hiring of Duncan Niederauer, a Goldman managing director, to be president and co-chief operating officer.
Executives all make big decisions, about hiring, company valuations, product launches, investments, strategic direction, building new facilities, mergers, acquisitions, changing technology, new approaches to doing business, and more.
Next steps: securing a patent on the sizing algorithm--before the big retailers do it themselves--and hiring a market research team to get the 10, 000 or so survey responses needed to build a size database big enough to convert all those crazy sizes.
Other big tech firms doing heavy hiring: Cisco, Yahoo, and Sony.
Go after these big companies that are purposely hiring those folks -- (applause) -- because they're the ones who are actually taking advantage of the system.
While there is a competitive hunt for talent, hiring candidates simply based on prestigious education or big name experience will ultimately fail.
You could say the smaller angel investors in particular, are effectively the new outsourced middle managers for big companies in the acqui-hiring market.
If big firms are unlikely to start hiring again briskly whenever the economy revives, what about smaller ones, which have, after all, long been a far greater source of new jobs?
And to spur hiring and sustain growth we've placed a big emphasis on energy.
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Other big and bright firms are doing heavy hiring on the West Coast.
Whilst some funds, such as Providence Equity Partners and Elevation Partners, have long focused on media, some of the big, generalist funds have lately been hiring expertise.
However, a new report from the job aggregator SimplyHired.com offers good news for job seekers everywhere: There are big companies in every major metropolitan area hiring in heaps.
But perhaps more importantly, if all the talk is the risk of renewed recession in two of the world's biggest markets, the US and the eurozone, companies think twice about making that big investment to increase capacity or about hiring extra people.
When Bradford demonstrated HireVue for me on his iPhone, it seemed so simple and fluid, I had a strong sense that this would catch on, especially at big companies that do a lot of hiring and for those who are screening far-flung candidates for executive positions.
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One area in which the ICC feels they have a big opportunity to make a difference is in hiring the five new security managers.
Another big reason not to invest is the cost of hiring and firing workers.
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