Head Hunting

I’m looking for people who have experience in Amdocs. I realise that this is a difficult thing to find these days, so I’ll be happy if I can find people with Oracle, SQL Server and Unix skills (and are willing to learn).

Send me your CV or get in contact with me (info at lisaillichmann dot com) if you’re interested in opportunities in Vienna (freelancer and fix employment contracts). English and German speakers welcome.

Are you an experienced web programmer looking for new fun in Carinthia or do you know one? Well read on.

I’m looking for web programmers with good to very good scripting skills (ASP, PHP, Java, Java Script) and experience in data base design and programing (My SQL, Max DB, Access, SQL Server). Ability to work in a team and functioning communication skills go without saying.
But don’t worry, your English doesn’t have to be as good as mine ;-).

If everything fits to you except the team and communication part (let alone the English part), then contact me anyway. I have something else for you.

Und wenn Sie gar kein English sprechen (aber wenigstens Deutsch), kontaktieren Sie mich trotzdem.

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Hey, all you finance specialists out there. I’ve got a great career opportunity for a project controller with a degree in finance (or something similar). And if this person also has experience in software development, then guess what? -

I’ve got a great job for you - so drop me a line.

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For years companies have spent their energy gathering and hoarding data. Data about their customers, their potential customers, their customers’ customers, their employees, their employees’ sales figures, their revenues, their costs, and so on and so forth ad nauseum. Basically not a bad idea either, considering the fact that, generally speaking, the more information you have to base your decisions on, the better your decisions should be. The more information you have about your company and market, the higher your chances should be of recognizing and utilizing possibilities, identifying and avoiding pit-falls, and ultimately boosting your return on investment.

This idea of business intelligence (BI) has been, and is, a large issue for organizations and companies throughout the world. According to some experts, BI is (or should be) one of the top priorities of all companies today. Sounds important - and it is.

Logically, collecting data alone won’t help companies at all. Just having the information doesn’t help, if it cannot be easily found, accessed, and used for analytical purposes.
And here lies the crux.
You can imagine the excitement in the office when Mr. Data Compliance from The Large, Famous and Very Expensive Consulting Company comes to do his audit and finds zillions of Excel spreadsheets stored locally on individual desktops. (Ahh, thank you, Bill Gates - gotta love the guy.)

Obviously, management and IT have got to entertain open communication channels in order to design systems (data warehouse systems) that businesses 1) want, 2) need, and 3) will/can actually use.

It’s not always as easy as it sounds. Data warehouse experts are often confronted with seemingly non-combinable heterogeneous systems and varying management requirements. Systems can only be as good as their architecture and the quality of their data (and the good-will of Frau Tralala who feeds the system with the (hopefully relevant) information). To get an idea of some of the problem areas, here is a pertinent post from a self confessed data warehouse noob.

Why am I writing about this now? Well, because I have a customer who is looking for such an expert, and hence I am, too.

Who are we really looking for?
Well, we’re looking for somebody for the conceptualization and design of such a system (at a company in Vienna). We’re looking for somebody with more than 5 years of experience in heterogeneous IT systems, business logic knowledge, and the ability to understand and implement complex requirements and needs.

Want to learn more? Please contact me for a job specification.

For others, here is a site with more-or-less understandable information about business intelligence and data warehousing. And here something for the easily intimidated. Here’s a post called datawarehousing for cavemen (again more for the quickly daunted).

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I found an interesting article about women in technical fields here (in German, so square your shoulders and pull out your dictionaries). 

Even Austria (AMS - the state employment agency) and Austrian companies (Infineon for example) are setting measures to help women get their foot in the door of technical fields. An excellent idea, considering the current development in the job market and the poor pay in conventional women’s fields (especially out here in the boondocks).

Of course, you have to wonder about the effectiveness of these programs (especially the AMS, seeing as its reputation is not the best). But all this might represent a step in the right direction and might help women get the help they need to even consider a technical career (not very common here in traditional Austria, where many women still wear the venerable “Dirndl” and go shopping with a basket every morning).

Most all the well paying jobs here in Austria are still dominated by men, but with support (and a ritual basket-burning), we women might be able to catch up with those male big-earners one day. The coming generations aren’t going to put up with the same discrimination that we, and our mothers, had/have to deal with.

The key is education, self confidence and tenacity (good communication skills can’t hurt either - and trading the baskets in for briefcases and/or sleek handbags is a hot tip too, ladies).

So girls, get movin’. Let’s hit the fast lane and earn beaucoup bucks.

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I’m looking for SAP Speicalists - if you are one or know one, just drop me a line.

office (at) lisaillichmann dot com

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As some of you may (or may not have) noticed, I changed my blog’s title from “Lisa’s Blog on Communication, Headhunting and Horses” to “Lisa’s Blog on Stuff”. It seemed more appropriate.

When I started this blog, I wanted to present myself from my purely professional side. I wanted to leave personal things out of it and concentrate on business related topics (with a wee bit of horse to keep it light). 

I tried to do that, I really did … sort of.

Pretty early on I realised that it’s not going to work out that way. The main problem seemed to be that I don’t have an undiluted professional side.

The many sides and aspects of my life flow together and are downright impossible to keep strictly divided.

For many years I spent 8, 10 or more hours a day in an office “working”. Afterwards I would go home and have “leisure time”. These two parts of my life were clearly non-related and were spent in absolute opposition to each other.

Work was, well, work. And leisure time was fun. Lots more fun than work, because work was work.

Finally (after the usual soul-searching) I figured out that it doesn’t have to be that way. I can work and live and be me all at the same time. It was only my attitude towards work that I had to change (and some of my habits). By changing my attitude (and those nasty habits), I also changed my priorities and became a much nicer person to spend time with - and work with.
Work became fun because I allowed all areas of my life to flow together - creating an infinitely more holistic me.

Life is too short. If all we do is work and forget who we are, then we have nothing at the end of the day (except maybe the large bank account that we could have anyway). If we are able to combine our work, our hobbies, our families, our friends and ourselves into one big package, then we have life - not just life, but with all probability a prosperous life.  We’ll never worry about having to work until we’re 66, 69 or even 85. We’ll want to. Work is enjoyable - if we are allowed to integrate our lives into it.

That’s work-life balance for me.

So at any rate, my blog got a new title and I got rid of the stress of trying to make all this sound business related. It is business related.

For those of you who are still having some issues in this area, here’s the blog of workplace wellness via yoga (in case reading my blog hasn’t already helped).

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Have you ever tried to find a contact lens in your back yard, on the lawn, right next to the dog’s dinner bowl at about 8pm in the winter with the light from your mobile telephone? If you have, then you’ll know what I’m talking about here.

I’m looking for a Unix Integration Specialist, and I can’t figure out what’s happened to them all.
I’m looking for someone who knows lots about Unix (Solaris, AIX) incl. shell scripting, VB, Perl, C++, has solid experience with a RDBMS (Sybase, Oracle…), good communication skills,  and is basically a nice person who doesn’t need to be hidden in the back closet.

Sounds easy, doesn’t it.

Well, I don’t know. I’m stumped.
What’s happened to our wonderful world of heterogeneous platforms and system specialists sporting glasses taped together with band-aids? Has something changed? Something I missed?

Help me here, guys.

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