ActLikeAnOwner.com Launches Talent Network Service For Corporate IT Managers; New Internet-based Capability is Foundation for Upcoming Talent Exchange.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 ActLikeAnOwner.com, the leading Internet commerce platform for IT professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , has expanded its offering with the launch of Talent Networks. Talent Networks is the first step and foundation of a new Internet-based Talent Futures Exchange Futures Exchange Traditionally, a term referring to a central marketplace where futures contracts and options on futures contracts are traded. More recently, with the growth in electronic trading, it is also used to describe the activity of futures trading itself. to be introduced by ActLikeAnOwner.com by the end of the year. Talent Networks Function as Virtual Talent Reserve With ActLikeAnOwner.com's online Talent Network, a corporate IT manager can assemble and maintain an active, handpicked network of IT professionals ready to support his current and future IT project needs. Through a customized web interface, managers review the online Personal Portfolios of individual ActLikeAnOwner.com affiliates whose skills and qualifications fit their target profile. The Personal Portfolio tools, including a five minute autobiography---Interview-on-Demand, provide a complete snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. of an IT professional's aptitude, business-savvy attitude and professional image, allowing corporate IT managers to develop a 90% confidence level with the candidate within minutes. To establish their customized Talent Networks web interface, corporate IT managers should contact an ActLikeAnOwner.com account manager at 800/927-6293 or via e-mail at customer-service@actlikeanowner.com. The IT Futures Market futures market, a commodity exchange where contracts for the future delivery of grain, livestock, and precious metals are bought and sold. Speculation in futures serves to protect both the developers and the users of the commodities from unfavorable and unpredictable ActLikeAnOwner.com co-founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Bob Blonchek said, "Talent Networks is an important first step to helping our clients plan for and manage the disruptive disruptive /dis·rup·tive/ (-tiv) 1. bursting apart; rending. 2. causing confusion or disorder. effects of the IT talent drought on their bottom line and on shareholder value by taking a risk management approach. This new service also extends our value proposition to Business Technology Professionals by offering them the ability to option their future services thus minimizing, if not actually eliminating, downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. between assignments. It also eliminates the marketing hassles that project based IT consultants endure every time their current assignment ends." Recently, ActLikeAnOwner.com introduced several other affiliate services in addition to Interview-on-Demand. They include Smart Outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. , a comprehensive menu of Internet-based services, tools, enhancements to its innovative incentive referral programs and the establishment of the IT Institute, providing classroom and web-based training at substantial savings through a reverse auction process. ActLikeAnOwner.com launched its portal, http://www.actlikeanowner.com, in 1999 and is the first Internet-based service that allows IT professionals to build and operate their individual IT businesses via the web. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion