Volume
3 - Issue 4
July 2001
1.
Shameless Commerce Division -
Release Tease
2.
Mini Training Moment - Job Order
Shortcuts
3.
Commonly Asked Questions -
- "Someone left me a message with only their phone
number!
I know he/she's in my database, but how do I find them?"
- "Why do people write computer viruses?"
4.
Administrator's Utility
Review - Updating Skills from Resumes
5.
Manager's Moment - Wisdom from the
Recruiter Message Boards
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1.
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2.
Mini Training Moment - Job Order Shortcuts
Sometimes
clicking a mouse here and there can slow you down.
We
offer the following shortcuts from the Job Order Screen to
help
you get to where you are going faster!
From the Job Order Screen:
View the Candidate List -
Ctrl+C
View the Placement List -
Ctrl+L
Reports from any Job Order:
Open Permanent Jobs
- Ctrl+M
Open Temporary Jobs
- Ctrl+T
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3.
Commonly Asked Questions -
- "Someone
left me a message with only their phone number!
I know he/she's in my database, but how do I find them?"
Bring up a list of everyone from all the modules!
a. At the Main Menu
click <F2>.
b. The list starts
alphabetical by last name;
use the
Tab key on your keyboard to reorder
by First Name or Company.
The list at the far right tells you which
module the record is found in.
c. Once you have the
desired individual highlighted,
hit enter and their record will be ready to work with!
- "Why
do people write computer viruses?"
To answer a question with a question, why do people climb
mountains? We quote several sources in an attempt to answer
this often asked question that is boggling every computer
user lately.
Cody Kniffen, a student from Illinois posted on a message board:
"Hacking is very confusing to the average 'joe' but can be
very fun if you know your stuff."
Article February 13, 2001 by Maria Godoy, TechTV News
A Dutch hacker known as "OnTheFly" is claiming credit for
an email virus disguised as a photo of 19-year-old Russian
tennis star Anna Kournikova, which has swamped corporate
computer networks around the world.
"I didn't do it for fun," OnTheFly wrote in a Web posting
Tuesday. "I never wanted to harm the people who opened the
attachment. But after all: it's their own fault they got
infected."
A July 22, 1999 article from Steven Trilling, director of research
at Symantec reads:
"Most virus writers are simply flaunting their intelligence
and ego by proving they can write a virus. This type of
person isn't necessarily out to harm lots of computer users;
virus writers are usually driven more by ego than malice."
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4.
Administrator's Utility Review - Updating Skills from Resumes
You’ve added skills, synonyms, and cleaned up the Skills Dictionary!
How to pull those new skills from resumes that are already imported?
The StaffSoft Program has a built in Update Resume Text feature.
a. Schedule this for a
night or a weekend to let it run unhindered.
b. From the Utilities
Menu, choose Update Resume Text
c. Choose to Update
ALL
d. Choose
to Extract Skills “Add to existing skill set”
e. Hit PROCEED and let
run till complete.
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5.
Manager's Moment - Wisdom from the Recruiter Message Boards:
"Which is more important when walking, the right leg or the left
leg?
More seriously, the one that's more important, in practice, is the one
that's missing more often. Organizing skills are far more common than
real leadership skills. But a successful team certainly needs both --
although not necessarily in the same person.
Problems happen when organizing is simply glorified bean-counting and
button-sorting, and is privileged over leadership, or when leadership is
only motivational, and doesn't include enough direction. Getting
everybody
to pull together isn't useful if you're pulling things toward the nearest
cliff.
Like most things, there's balance and a tension between the two."
Joel Rosenberg, CEO
joelr@ellegon.com
Ellegon, Inc.
Who
could have said this better? Least
we forget the two sides of one coin;
I
offer Mr. Rosenberg's answer to a question.
This answer was so well stated,
it
can stand on it's own. Mr.
Rosenberg is a technical and copy writer.
Special
thanks for his permission to quote him.
Johnnie
Tate, Technial Support Manager
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