B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

While it is not likely your IT group has sales people, it is likely that IT resources and business sponsors are required to sell the cost/benefits of project initiatives (capital projects or otherwise) to the CFO, CEO, COO, or project committee.

Past articles from Remedi, Valuable Relationships in Tough Times and RDBMS Versus Real Relationships detail the candidate supply and demand pendulum that confronts EDI hiring managers and integration managers when staffing contract and full-time hire needs in varying economic conditions. These articles outline in each economic circumstance how hiring managers can best engage the sourcing pros of professional services firms to derive value in the search for resources.

We have received positive feedback from hiring managers on these articles, and somewhat surprisingly, from Integration candidates as well. The article Interviewing your Recruiter takes a reciprocal approach, providing guidance for integration professionals in terms of how to best select and engage with a recruiter. Hopefully hiring managers will find this view of the recruiting process valuable as well.

With a look at both sides of the integration talent equation let’s move on to the CareerBuilder 2015 job forecast.  The first 1/3 of the year seems to be unfolding along the lines of this report at least from our observations.

This weekend it is time to spring ahead for many of us...time change.  It also usually means spring is just around the corner, but with 6 inches of snow outside the window we in the upper mid-west have our doubts.

This change of time not only means spring is on the way and the approach of another season, but it also means at least a weeks worth of resetting our internal clock...dragging out of bed and into work, and out of work to home, and then to bed.  Each season we change time it requires that we change our routine a bit to get rid of the fog associated with the process since the status quo is disrupted somewhat. 

Earlier in the week one of our consultant Blog authors addressed the issue of Integration and EDI Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) and testing those plans in a simulated outage...Necessary Evils: EDI Disaster Recovery. 

The article struck a cord with many and prompted some discussion among our followers and here internally.  The discussion topics resulting from the Blog included...