Hi ,
This is Ann with James Moore and Associates.
We are conducting a search for a Mac OS X Software Developer for an established, well-funded, pre-IPO company that already has 150 employees and sales in the tens of millions of dollars. The person hired will develop an SSL VPN client for the Mac OS X platform using Objective C and the Cocoa framework. They are flexible on the employment arrangement and can work on a Contract, Regular or Contract-to- hire basis.
As an added bonus, there may also be an opportunity to port the finished application to the iPhone platform.
Requirements
- Full life cycle commercial quality Mac OS X software development
- Objective C expertise
Preferred
- Data security, VPN, SSL, Firewall experience
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
If this sounds interesting to you, please send me your resume as a Word attachment ASAP. If you are not available at this time but can think of someone else for the position, please feel free to forward this announcement to your friends.
Regards, Ann
P.S. Interviews start next week, so a quick reply is important if you would like to learn more or wish to be considered.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
Ann Mitchell
Director of Research
james moore & associates
http://www.jamesmoo re.com
5150 El Camino Real, Suite A-26
Los Altos, CA 94022
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Market Planning Manager - SOuth SF - 9 mos
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please click here (if the url is not a link, copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=713&cid=2310
Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Market Planning Manager to work for a biotech firm in South San Francisco. This individual will be responsible for supporting the disease area strategic initiative, portfolio and investment planning decision making.
Responsibilities Include
Perform pipeline simulations, portfolio performance benchmarking analysis and pipeline risk assessments.
Support development teams, functional area partners, and senior management to ensure the mix of development activities and allocation of resources meet client's business needs.
Manage risk for investment, prioritization and trade off development program.
Develop strategy on how to optimize product portfolio value, managing level of resources allocation.
Apply financial analysis while making recommendations.
Skills Required
5+ years of experience as a management consultant or investment banking analyst at a top tier firm.
Ability to draw insight form analytics, develop recommendations, and communicate in a clear, concise, and well-organized manner.
Must be able to work with ambiguities and uncertainties, have ability of turning questions or opportunities into value added deliverables with minimal instruction/supervision.
Advance degree in Sciences/Engineering or MBA.
Timing: 9+ months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: South San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: TBD as W-2; (n/a if S-Corp/LLC)
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please click here (if the url is not a link, copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=713&cid=2310
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=713&cid=2310
Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Market Planning Manager to work for a biotech firm in South San Francisco. This individual will be responsible for supporting the disease area strategic initiative, portfolio and investment planning decision making.
Responsibilities Include
Perform pipeline simulations, portfolio performance benchmarking analysis and pipeline risk assessments.
Support development teams, functional area partners, and senior management to ensure the mix of development activities and allocation of resources meet client's business needs.
Manage risk for investment, prioritization and trade off development program.
Develop strategy on how to optimize product portfolio value, managing level of resources allocation.
Apply financial analysis while making recommendations.
Skills Required
5+ years of experience as a management consultant or investment banking analyst at a top tier firm.
Ability to draw insight form analytics, develop recommendations, and communicate in a clear, concise, and well-organized manner.
Must be able to work with ambiguities and uncertainties, have ability of turning questions or opportunities into value added deliverables with minimal instruction/supervision.
Advance degree in Sciences/Engineering or MBA.
Timing: 9+ months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: South San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: TBD as W-2; (n/a if S-Corp/LLC)
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please click here (if the url is not a link, copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=713&cid=2310
Friday, February 26, 2010
Business Process Design Consultant
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please click here (if the url is not a link, copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=709&cid=2310
Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Business Process Design Consultant to work for a large multinational company that is a leading innovator and designer of consumer electronics and software products in Cupertino, CA. Consultant will be responsible for the business processes focused on global finance projects.
Responsibilities Include
Identify best practices, create new workflows and/or procedures, and manage solution implementation.
Evaluate current business environment to determine the most effective integration and implementation strategy.
Develop root cause analysis and business cases for proposed technology, staff and structure changes, including cost estimates.
Provide recommendations towards successful implementation planning, solution preparation, delivery to the field, and measurement of initiatives.
Present analyses, solutions and business cases to senior management.
Lead the development of complex business definition documents and requirements.
Implement fixes (including updating process docs), audit and monitor process changes to ensure adoption occurs and produce reports on progress.
Skills Required
10+ years of experience doing business process work, including analysis and implementing process re-design.
Experience utilizing six sigma / DMAIC methodology.
Proven experience in key strategy roles requiring business acumen, analytical skills and ability to execute strategic projects.
Demonstrated success quickly identifying, analyzing and resolving complex business and technical problems under strict deadlines.
Skills Preferred
Experience leading and managing multiple complex projects and design solutions for global finance teams.
Timing: 6+ months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: Cupertino, CA; onsite
Hourly rate: TBD as W-2; (TBD if S-Corp/LLC)
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please click here (if the url is not a link, copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=709&cid=2310
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=709&cid=2310
Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Business Process Design Consultant to work for a large multinational company that is a leading innovator and designer of consumer electronics and software products in Cupertino, CA. Consultant will be responsible for the business processes focused on global finance projects.
Responsibilities Include
Identify best practices, create new workflows and/or procedures, and manage solution implementation.
Evaluate current business environment to determine the most effective integration and implementation strategy.
Develop root cause analysis and business cases for proposed technology, staff and structure changes, including cost estimates.
Provide recommendations towards successful implementation planning, solution preparation, delivery to the field, and measurement of initiatives.
Present analyses, solutions and business cases to senior management.
Lead the development of complex business definition documents and requirements.
Implement fixes (including updating process docs), audit and monitor process changes to ensure adoption occurs and produce reports on progress.
Skills Required
10+ years of experience doing business process work, including analysis and implementing process re-design.
Experience utilizing six sigma / DMAIC methodology.
Proven experience in key strategy roles requiring business acumen, analytical skills and ability to execute strategic projects.
Demonstrated success quickly identifying, analyzing and resolving complex business and technical problems under strict deadlines.
Skills Preferred
Experience leading and managing multiple complex projects and design solutions for global finance teams.
Timing: 6+ months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: Cupertino, CA; onsite
Hourly rate: TBD as W-2; (TBD if S-Corp/LLC)
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please click here (if the url is not a link, copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.sageca.com/Apply/login.aspx?pID=709&cid=2310
Thursday, February 11, 2010
not layoffs but lack of new jobs
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/30360/Not+Layoffs%2C+but+Lack+of+New+Jobs
Analyst Blog
Not Layoffs, but Lack of New Jobs
By: Dirk van Dijk, CFA
February 09, 2010 | Comments: 0
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When the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts out its monthly employment report like it did last Friday, the number of jobs gained or lost is the net number between jobs lost and jobs gained. Today, they put out a more detailed picture -- but for December, not January -- in what is known as the Job openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).
This is a very interesting survey, but unfortunately it only goes back to 2000, so it is of limited usefulness in comparing this recession to other historical downturns. As the graph below (from http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/) shows, the biggest problem with the labor market is the lack of new jobs, not a particularly high rate of job losses.
People leave their jobs for a couple of reasons. They can quit, but they usually only do that when they already have another job lined up. Or they can be laid off or retire. The former are shown in the light blue bars, the latter in the red bars. Together they make up the number of jobs lost in the economy.
The purple line is the number of people hired each month. When the purple line is below the light blue bar (stacked on top of the red bar) it means that the economy is, on-balance, losing jobs (roughly corresponding to the establishment survey numbers from the monthly employment reports). The yellow line is the number of job openings. The numbers are snapshots at the end of each month.
In a dynamic economy, there will always be some jobs being lost, even in the most exuberant of economic booms, and there will always be people finding new jobs, even in the most brutal of economic downturns. It is the difference between them that matters.
Our Recent Job-Loss Environment
Without a question, 2009 was one of the more brutal years in the labor market in a very long time. However, in calendar 2009, hires totaled 49.4 million. That’s right -- there were 49.4 million people who started a new job in 2009. The problem was that separation totaled 53.6 million, yielding a net employment loss of 4.2 million.
The 49.4 million figure was way below normal. What is particularly noteworthy in the graph is that the total number of jobs being lost is just about at its lowest level on record, although the record is frustratingly short. Even in the worst days of the downturn a year ago, when the economy was hemorrhaging net jobs at the staggering pace of three quarters of a million per month, the total number of jobs actually being lost was below where it was for most of 2005, 2006 and 2007.
There was, however, a huge change in the make-up of jobs lost. With the overall economy imploding, the number of people willing to tell their boss to “take this job and shove it” fell dramatically, while the number of involuntary separations soared.
The number of layoffs has since receded. It is still somewhat elevated relative to the overall short history of the survey, but it is well off the peak. The big drop in the layoff rate came in the spring, shortly after the ARRA came into effect. Thus it looks like the Act has been relatively more successful at saving jobs than at creating them.
Declines Began Pre-Recession
The core of the problem was the number of new hires fell even faster. The decline in the number of new jobs being created started in the middle of 2006, well before the recession formally started in December of 2007. The number of layoffs bounced around, but the number of people quitting their jobs fell, allowing for net job creation to continue even with fewer people getting hired.
The number of people willing to quit their jobs plunged in the first half of 2009. The new hire rate actually bottomed out in May. Both it and the number of job openings seem to be in a broad U-shaped valley, no longer declining but not showing any signs of rising.
Relative to December of 2008, there were 9.6% fewer hires in December 2009, with a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.073 million, down from 4.508 million. Private hires were down 9.4% year over year.
Total separations were down 14.5%. However, they were running at a 4.238 million rate, which is still substantially above the new hire rate. Private job losses were down even more sharply, falling 15.6% year over year. Not surprisingly, the number of people voluntarily quitting their jobs is also down, off, 16.6%.
The report does not directly give the number of layoffs, but it does give the number of quits, so subtracting quits from total separations gives us a rough idea of the total number of layoffs (but also includes retirements). The number of apparent layoffs is down to 2.474 million in December 2009, from 2.844 million a year ago, a decline of 13.0%. The number of job openings, though, is down even more, off 22.5% to 2.497 million from 3.224 million a year ago.
Unemployment Ratio Way Up
According to the household survey in the employment report, the number of unemployed was 15.267 million in December. Thus there are now 6.1 unemployed people for each job opening. That is up from 3.7 job seekers per job a year ago.
Regionally, the Northeast seems to have fared the best. The number of new hires in the Northeast was actually 3.0% higher in December than a year ago. It, however, is the smallest of the four census regions. The West has seen the biggest decline in the number of new hires, off 14.2% from a year ago, followed by the Midwest with a 10.8% decline. The South, the biggest of the four regions, saw a 8.6% decline.
However the Northeast also showed the smallest decline in the total number of separations, down just 4.5%. The South, on the other hand, saw a 17.7% decline, while the West was down 16.7% and the Midwest was down 13.6%.
Job Growth Budding - But Where?
The table below shows the number of job openings, hires are total separations broken down by industry. While not a huge industry to start with, the Arts and Entertainment field has seen a particularly steep drop in the number of job openings relative to a year ago, falling 45.0%. Meanwhile the number of separations has barely fallen at all, down just 1.9%.
In retail (these are seasonally adjusted numbers so it is not just Christmas), the number of job openings rose sharply in December from November, up 24.9%, but they remain 27.0% below a year ago. While retail jobs tend to be at the low end of the pay spectrum, firms like Wal-Mart (WMT - Snapshot Report) and Target (TGT - Analyst Report) are among the biggest employers in the country (Wal-Mart is the biggest).
The pick-up in December could be just because of bad seasonal adjustments, but if it is real, it is a good sign about the total number of jobs in the economy. However, it is not that great an omen about the quality of the jobs being created.
In other words, what we are seeing is a big drop in the mobility of the job market. One potential reason for this could be the housing market. If people cannot sell their house because they are underwater on their mortgage, they are less likely to move to take a new job.
However, the short length of the time series makes any conclusions of that sort very tentative. That said, it does seem clear that the real problem is the lack of new job creation, not the rate of job losses.
The government line is both Federal as well as state and local, so to get the Federal Government numbers subtract the state and local line from the total government line.
Dirk van Dijk, CFA is the Chief Equity Strategist for Zacks.com. With more than 25 years investment experience he has become a popular commentator appearing in the Wall Street Journal and on CNBC. Dirk is also the Editor in charge of the market beating Zacks Strategic Investor service.
Analyst Blog
Not Layoffs, but Lack of New Jobs
By: Dirk van Dijk, CFA
February 09, 2010 | Comments: 0
Recommended this article (1)
WMT | TGT
Print Share
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts out its monthly employment report like it did last Friday, the number of jobs gained or lost is the net number between jobs lost and jobs gained. Today, they put out a more detailed picture -- but for December, not January -- in what is known as the Job openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).
This is a very interesting survey, but unfortunately it only goes back to 2000, so it is of limited usefulness in comparing this recession to other historical downturns. As the graph below (from http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/) shows, the biggest problem with the labor market is the lack of new jobs, not a particularly high rate of job losses.
People leave their jobs for a couple of reasons. They can quit, but they usually only do that when they already have another job lined up. Or they can be laid off or retire. The former are shown in the light blue bars, the latter in the red bars. Together they make up the number of jobs lost in the economy.
The purple line is the number of people hired each month. When the purple line is below the light blue bar (stacked on top of the red bar) it means that the economy is, on-balance, losing jobs (roughly corresponding to the establishment survey numbers from the monthly employment reports). The yellow line is the number of job openings. The numbers are snapshots at the end of each month.
In a dynamic economy, there will always be some jobs being lost, even in the most exuberant of economic booms, and there will always be people finding new jobs, even in the most brutal of economic downturns. It is the difference between them that matters.
Our Recent Job-Loss Environment
Without a question, 2009 was one of the more brutal years in the labor market in a very long time. However, in calendar 2009, hires totaled 49.4 million. That’s right -- there were 49.4 million people who started a new job in 2009. The problem was that separation totaled 53.6 million, yielding a net employment loss of 4.2 million.
The 49.4 million figure was way below normal. What is particularly noteworthy in the graph is that the total number of jobs being lost is just about at its lowest level on record, although the record is frustratingly short. Even in the worst days of the downturn a year ago, when the economy was hemorrhaging net jobs at the staggering pace of three quarters of a million per month, the total number of jobs actually being lost was below where it was for most of 2005, 2006 and 2007.
There was, however, a huge change in the make-up of jobs lost. With the overall economy imploding, the number of people willing to tell their boss to “take this job and shove it” fell dramatically, while the number of involuntary separations soared.
The number of layoffs has since receded. It is still somewhat elevated relative to the overall short history of the survey, but it is well off the peak. The big drop in the layoff rate came in the spring, shortly after the ARRA came into effect. Thus it looks like the Act has been relatively more successful at saving jobs than at creating them.
Declines Began Pre-Recession
The core of the problem was the number of new hires fell even faster. The decline in the number of new jobs being created started in the middle of 2006, well before the recession formally started in December of 2007. The number of layoffs bounced around, but the number of people quitting their jobs fell, allowing for net job creation to continue even with fewer people getting hired.
The number of people willing to quit their jobs plunged in the first half of 2009. The new hire rate actually bottomed out in May. Both it and the number of job openings seem to be in a broad U-shaped valley, no longer declining but not showing any signs of rising.
Relative to December of 2008, there were 9.6% fewer hires in December 2009, with a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.073 million, down from 4.508 million. Private hires were down 9.4% year over year.
Total separations were down 14.5%. However, they were running at a 4.238 million rate, which is still substantially above the new hire rate. Private job losses were down even more sharply, falling 15.6% year over year. Not surprisingly, the number of people voluntarily quitting their jobs is also down, off, 16.6%.
The report does not directly give the number of layoffs, but it does give the number of quits, so subtracting quits from total separations gives us a rough idea of the total number of layoffs (but also includes retirements). The number of apparent layoffs is down to 2.474 million in December 2009, from 2.844 million a year ago, a decline of 13.0%. The number of job openings, though, is down even more, off 22.5% to 2.497 million from 3.224 million a year ago.
Unemployment Ratio Way Up
According to the household survey in the employment report, the number of unemployed was 15.267 million in December. Thus there are now 6.1 unemployed people for each job opening. That is up from 3.7 job seekers per job a year ago.
Regionally, the Northeast seems to have fared the best. The number of new hires in the Northeast was actually 3.0% higher in December than a year ago. It, however, is the smallest of the four census regions. The West has seen the biggest decline in the number of new hires, off 14.2% from a year ago, followed by the Midwest with a 10.8% decline. The South, the biggest of the four regions, saw a 8.6% decline.
However the Northeast also showed the smallest decline in the total number of separations, down just 4.5%. The South, on the other hand, saw a 17.7% decline, while the West was down 16.7% and the Midwest was down 13.6%.
Job Growth Budding - But Where?
The table below shows the number of job openings, hires are total separations broken down by industry. While not a huge industry to start with, the Arts and Entertainment field has seen a particularly steep drop in the number of job openings relative to a year ago, falling 45.0%. Meanwhile the number of separations has barely fallen at all, down just 1.9%.
In retail (these are seasonally adjusted numbers so it is not just Christmas), the number of job openings rose sharply in December from November, up 24.9%, but they remain 27.0% below a year ago. While retail jobs tend to be at the low end of the pay spectrum, firms like Wal-Mart (WMT - Snapshot Report) and Target (TGT - Analyst Report) are among the biggest employers in the country (Wal-Mart is the biggest).
The pick-up in December could be just because of bad seasonal adjustments, but if it is real, it is a good sign about the total number of jobs in the economy. However, it is not that great an omen about the quality of the jobs being created.
In other words, what we are seeing is a big drop in the mobility of the job market. One potential reason for this could be the housing market. If people cannot sell their house because they are underwater on their mortgage, they are less likely to move to take a new job.
However, the short length of the time series makes any conclusions of that sort very tentative. That said, it does seem clear that the real problem is the lack of new job creation, not the rate of job losses.
The government line is both Federal as well as state and local, so to get the Federal Government numbers subtract the state and local line from the total government line.
Dirk van Dijk, CFA is the Chief Equity Strategist for Zacks.com. With more than 25 years investment experience he has become a popular commentator appearing in the Wall Street Journal and on CNBC. Dirk is also the Editor in charge of the market beating Zacks Strategic Investor service.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
job trends as of feb 2010
Trends in the US Job market as of Feb 06 2010
Posted by: "pfraysse@sbcglobal.net" pfraysse@sbcglobal.net pfraysse@sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 6, 2010 10:38 am (PST)
I share with you here some greats graphics published in WSJ on Sat, Feb
06.
TWO info to note:
1) The recession is OVER ! (But a second fall is still possible...)
2) With 8.4+ millions jobs lost, it's going to take 4+ years for the US
economy to be back to "normal".
Look at the specifics for your industry/profession al background and see
what the crystal ball says for YOU.
go to :
http://graphicsweb. wsj.com/document s/econtracker/ index.php? t=unemploymen\
t
Pierre.
The stubbornly weak U.S. employment picture is ratcheting up pressure on
Washington to fix what ails the labor market, but policy makers and
economists are concluding there's no magic bullet to boost jobs.
Opinion is split over which, if any, of the policies in play offers the
best hope of spurring employment. Even those who advocate government
action say federal efforts can only reduce, not repair, the labor
market.
More than eight-million jobs have been lost during the recession, a
deficit compounded by the fact the economy needs to add more than one
million jobs annually simply to keep up with the growth of the labor
force.
Cumulative Job Losses
See how many jobs the economy has lost since December 2007.
View Interactive <#>
[http://s.wsj. net/public/ resources/ images/OB- FL324_JOBSDE_ D_201002051246\
35.jpg] <#> Unemployment Rate
Track the U.S. unemployment rate since 1948.
View Interactive <#>
[http://s.wsj. net/public/ resources/ images/OB- FL280_jobspr_ D_201002051031\
57.jpg] <#>
Posted by: "pfraysse@sbcglobal.net" pfraysse@sbcglobal.net pfraysse@sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 6, 2010 10:38 am (PST)
I share with you here some greats graphics published in WSJ on Sat, Feb
06.
TWO info to note:
1) The recession is OVER ! (But a second fall is still possible...)
2) With 8.4+ millions jobs lost, it's going to take 4+ years for the US
economy to be back to "normal".
Look at the specifics for your industry/profession al background and see
what the crystal ball says for YOU.
go to :
http://graphicsweb. wsj.com/document s/econtracker/ index.php? t=unemploymen\
t
Pierre.
The stubbornly weak U.S. employment picture is ratcheting up pressure on
Washington to fix what ails the labor market, but policy makers and
economists are concluding there's no magic bullet to boost jobs.
Opinion is split over which, if any, of the policies in play offers the
best hope of spurring employment. Even those who advocate government
action say federal efforts can only reduce, not repair, the labor
market.
More than eight-million jobs have been lost during the recession, a
deficit compounded by the fact the economy needs to add more than one
million jobs annually simply to keep up with the growth of the labor
force.
Cumulative Job Losses
See how many jobs the economy has lost since December 2007.
View Interactive <#>
[http://s.wsj. net/public/ resources/ images/OB- FL324_JOBSDE_ D_201002051246\
35.jpg] <#> Unemployment Rate
Track the U.S. unemployment rate since 1948.
View Interactive <#>
[http://s.wsj. net/public/ resources/ images/OB- FL280_jobspr_ D_201002051031\
57.jpg] <#>
Saturday, February 6, 2010
project manager, staff attroney wanted at the foundation center
Current Jobs: Project Manager, Attorney,
Grant Writer, COO
The Job Corner
openings at foundations, grantmaking public charities, and other
nonprofits. A selection of positions in California is listed below. To
view the full listing of open position announcements, visit Job Corner
* Re-entry Project Manager, Rubicon
Programs
* Staff Attorney, Investigations,
Disability Rights California
* Grant Writer & Coordinator, Sierra Club
* Chief Operating Officer, TransForm
Grant Writer, COO
The Job Corner
openings at foundations, grantmaking public charities, and other
nonprofits. A selection of positions in California is listed below. To
view the full listing of open position announcements, visit Job Corner
* Re-entry Project Manager, Rubicon
Programs
* Staff Attorney, Investigations,
Disability Rights California
* Grant Writer & Coordinator, Sierra Club
* Chief Operating Officer, TransForm
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