“Network, plan your career and show potential and current employees that you’ll help do the same.”
In this guest article, Klaas van der Leest, V.P. of Sales for Attenda (a leading European managed services business) talks about the importance of managing your own career and making sure that your potential and current employees understand that you’ll help them do the same.
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Views from Mobile World Congress 2008
Each year the wireless industry focuses on Barcelona for the erstwhile titled 3GSM, now Mobile World Congress. This year 55,000 attendees from the provider, hardware, software and services communities visited the congress. According to the GSM Association this was the largest turnout yet, increasing 3,000 from last year.

Keynote Speakers
The conference featured senior-level speakers from across the world that included chief executive of Vodafone Arun Sarin, CEO of China Mobile Wang Jianzhou, Cisco CEO John Chambers and Nokia’s Chief Executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Key soundbites included:

• Sarin, Vodafone: Data revenues up 40% year on year;
• Jianzhou, China Mobile: We have 370 million mobile subscribers, adding 5 million (yes, 5 million!) every month;
• Sarin, Vodafone: The broadband mobile internet has arrived - we now have 21 million 3G customers;
• Jianzhou, China Mobile: The majority of our new subscribers will experience the internet for the first time via a mobile telephone;
• Chambers, Cisco: ’mobility’ is no longer about particular devices, technologies or services. It is about using any device to access any content over any network, with IP as the basis for all communication.
• Sarin, Vodafone on WiMAX: "In the end... technology is not what matters; it’s services, it’s applications, it’s experiences...WiMAX will be just one part of the solution."

Download free Recruitment Best Practice Guide
In January, Allan|Carter published its recruitment guide: “43 Ways To Stop The Best Talent Choosing To Work For Your Competitors”. This guide is designed for any hiring manager or HR professional looking to minimise the risk of interviewing candidates who then choose to join one of their competitors. The guide takes you through the process. The key topics include:

• How to protect and enhance your employer-brand;
• How to perform effective pre-selection of candidates;
• Interview question techniques and pitfalls;
• How to get the offer right, first time.

 

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Selected Search Assignments
We are currently working with a range of early-stage and established companies including service providers, networking vendors, software companies and systems integrators. To sample a more complete list of current assignments, please click here.

ROLE	DESCRIPTION	REF	LOCATION
Programme Managers	Our client is one of the world's foremost vendors within the access network space. They boast an enviable client list of Tier One carriers and major ISP's and continue to develop innovative new systems (including ISPA award winning products) to address the needs of this diverse customer base.	355	UK
Project Manager, Business Intelligence	Our client is a global leader in business intelligence. We are looking for Project Managers with significant experience of implementing large scale software solutions. Experience within the BI, ERP or CRM sectors would be advantageous.	353	UK
Senior Consultants, Business Intelligence	Our client is a private American software vendor, with significant European presence, who concentrates on solving large scale or complex comkputing problems. Dur to on-going company growth we are now looking to recruit additional Senior Consultants.	291	UK, Turkey
Account Director	Due to continued success our client is looking to recruit an additional person to join the new business sales team of this rapidly growing managed services company. YOu will be responsible for driving specific new business revenue t argets through taking the lead rold in identifying, pursuing, winning and closing opportunities across multiple vertical sectors.	290	UK
EMEA Marketing Managers, Vertical Marketing	Our client, a global brand leader in the wireless sector, is looking to recruit an EMEA Marketing Manager to drive programmes within two of the mostexciting and fast growing sectors for this company, financial and professional services.	346, 347	UK, Germany, France
VoIP Applications Designer	Our client boasts an enviable client list of Tier One carriers and major ISP's. The company continues to develop innovative new systems (including ISPA award winning products) to address the needs to this diverse customer base. This role is based in their Software Development Team, providing Application Design and support to their range of VoIP telecommunications products.	342	UK
Service Managers	Due to continued growth our client, a global leader in IP Networking are currently recruiting for Senior Service Managers to join their EMEA organisation responsible for managing all post-sales service for key accounts forthem, including escalation and crisis management.	345, 339	Italy, Germany
Networking Engineers & Customer Support	We are currently working with a number of hardware and service provider companies looking to recruit engineers at senior support, design and technical support levels.	333, 313, 328, 354	Netherlands & Belgium

 

About Allan|Carter:
Allan|Carter is a niche recruitment partner for high-growth businesses in the Communications Technology sector, across EMEA. Our clients include the software, hardware, services and service provider communities. Allan|Carter has successfully delivered for many of the industry’s leading companies, including HP, Juniper Networks, Thus, Intel, Fujitsu, BlackBerry and IBM. Our fast, cost-effective recruitment solutions, as well as our focus on this market, has established us as a leading company in our field.

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