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Good morning.  I hope that everyone enjoyed the Talener Holiday Party in NYC and the Talener LA outing with John Devine.  2009 was a great year for Talener.   

I’d like to thank  our staff, our consultants and candidates and, of course, our clients for all of their hard work this year.  2009 was a challenging year and I feel that we all outperformed the market and our expectations heading into the year.  Our staff is committed to providing top service to our candidates, our clients and our ..read more

The summer weather has finally arrived and we hope you all are taking an opportunity to enjoy the (finally) warm weather. Our office is definitely taking some time out to spend time with our families and the sun before it goes away and as a result of this the deadline for getting time sheets in needs to be a little tighter for the next month.

Please Note:Time sheets/hours for August 1 – 15, 2009 must be turned in by 5:00pm on ..read more

In the past several months, we at Talener has definitely seen an uptick in hiring. In a survey discussed in this past Sunday’s New York Times, more companies are reducing job cuts, as well as increasing their technology budgets.

Check out the blurb here on the Times web site.

Talener Los Angeles, led by Curt Williams and his trusty side-kick Rory Bebbington, are off to a great start to the month.  They just completed their 3rd deal of the month!  This is our 4th month since planting the flag April 6th. 

Congratulations Curt and stick to Staffing, your Videos on Facebook are good, but you are no Spielberg.

In this past weekend’s Sunday Business section of the New York Times, a new web startup was profiled called Chegg.com. They are a web-based service that rents textbooks to students. They took a product with consistently high demand (students need the books to take their classes) in an often unorganized and chaotic market (no widespread marketplace previously existed for used textbooks), and offered them to the consumer (students) at a large discount. It sounds like a great solution to a ..read more

In the world of technology, the oversued idiom that “if you’re not moving forward, you are falling behind” certainly applies. Besides the necessity for companies to utilized the “latest and greatest” when it comes to their actually technology, businesses are now finding the same to be true for marketing and public relations. The rise of social networking in the last 5 years has not only brought about a new “field” of the Internet, but more importantly, a new method and ..read more

As social networking has exploded over the Internet, many websites have a dedicated focus on “professional” and “business” social-networking. LinkedIn is the most popular professional social-networking site by a long shot, with well over 45 million users, and growing.

The site has grown to a point, based on users and fucntionality, where its profiles can now be considered a “virtual resume.” To that extent, the site is being used more and more by hiring managers as a resource in vetting candidates ..read more

Many of the biggest online retailers employ recommendation engines on their sites. Netflix started a contest in 2006 open to anyone willing to help improve its recommendation algorithms. Specifically, the challenge was to create an algorithim to best the one Netflix currently uses by 10%. The prize: $1 million.

After nearly three years, it looks like we just may have a winner. Check out the Bits blog on NYTimes.com for an interesting post on the achievement. As per the rules of ..read more

The perfect news to start off Friday: No more doom and gloom! From government figures released yesterday, there are increasing signs that our economy is improving. Leading indicators have risen for the second straight month, less people are taking unemployment benefits, and analysts are predicting the economy will grow in Q3 2009.

Check out the full article here.