LatinTech Wire - April 30, 2009

Positioning Your Value in Today’s Job Market
In this tough job market environment, candidates who know how to position themselves to meet the needs of a company will have the shortest searches. But before you update your resume based on the latest self-marketing fad, ask yourself these questions...

How to avoid a bad job
When searching for the right job, the best advice I can give is to be choosy. There are plenty of less than great jobs out there, many of which you may easily obtain. But no one on the professional level should settle for just a J-O-B...

Older Workers Need Not Apply
Qualified. Yes. Expensive? No. Peter Cappelli, the director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School, is the author, with Bill Novelli, of a forthcoming book on managing older workers. Nothing is really new about employers preferring to hire younger candidates...

Technology & Science News

IBM sees financial services, telcos driving BPO sales in Latin America
IBM expects for financial firms - including banks and insurers - and telcos to drive growth in Latin American sales of its BPO services offering...

Linux Latin America opens first interoperability lab
Chilean IT firm Linux Latin America has launched its first interoperability laboratory, aiming to provide testing services for companies and government entities working with hybrid IT environments...

Coasin unit sees North America offshoring potential of US$1bn
Chile has the potential during 2010 to bill some US$1bn in offshoring services to North America, primarily the US...

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