Hello Everyone,

It’s Storage Expo (held at the Olympia) on Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th October  2008. Ed and I will be attending on the Thursday and hope to see you there.

Kind Regards

Melanie

The popularity of Social Networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have exploded in recent years. Users can join networks to connect and interact with other people, and they’ve fast become the most popular way to communicate, keep in touch, and find lost friends.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site, and is now taking the business world by storm. Launched only in May 2003 its site traffic in December 2007 was 3.2 million visitors per month, and in May 2008, it boasted more than 24 million registered users. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

How can this be helpful to you? Apart from being a simple way to stay in touch with former colleagues, LinkedIn can be a great way to get / keep in touch with potential recruiters. In-house recruiters as well as recruitment companies are using LinkedIn as a way unearthing potential talent. Registering with LinkedIn will help you get noticed, and the more contacts you have, the better. It’s a fact that people with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five.

Ifftner Solutions are embracing this technology, and you’ll find all of our consultants registered with LinkedIn and Facebook. They’ll be pleased to network with you, making it easy to keep you informed quickly of potential opportunities. Ifftner also has a fan’s page on Facebook- and we’d love you to become a fan!

Our mentioned in the blog previously, former Ifftner / Vodafone contractor Brett Britton competed in the recent Sherborne Iron Man race on Sunday 7th September. We’re pleased to announce that Ifftner sponsored Brett completed the grueling course (a full distance triathlon involves a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112 mile bike ride, finishing off with a 26.2 mile run) in an excellent time of 13 hours, 8 minutes and 53 seconds. Well done Brett, you truly deserve the title of Iron Man!

Full race results can be found at http://iron.ironmanuk.com/DOWNLOADS/7675.xls

The Ifftner management team met with John O’Sullivan last week for a very productive day to discuss future strategy plans for Ifftner. John, who has over 20 years experience working within the recruitment sector, has advised many dynamic niche recruitment companies, helping them to become fast growing market success stories.

Jim Marshall – Ifftner’s Managing Director met John at an Elite Leaders meeting – John is the co-owner and managing director of Elite Leaders - http://www.eliteleaders.co.uk/ .

John has a very interesting article in the current Recruiter magazine on how to survive in a changing market – worth a read, can be found online - http://tinyurl.com/56w9k6

Former Ifftner / Vodafone contractor Brett Britton will be braving the Sherborne Iron Man on Sunday 7th September.
Ifftner are proud sponsors of Brett and wish him all the best for this most challenging event.

In recent correspondence Brett’s training had totaled 3000 miles on the bike, 880 miles running and 132 miles of swimming.

Further details of the event can be found at http://iron.ironmanuk.com/