Making Ideas Happen

9 Aug 2010

The Legendary Maltese Falcon

Finally got a chance to spot the legendary Maltese Falcon in action last week while on a vacation. Amazing speed, amazing beauty. Sorry about my bad pic quality, you can find better pics on Google.

9 Jul 2010

Interesting Music Industry Fact

19 Jun 2010

Learn to Search Before the Research - A Headhunter Irony

I sincerely believe that multinational headhunter firms are mostly retarded and they want to make money just by piggybacking on their global brand, instead of doing a good job. If you think that's a prejudice, read on.

I received a call from the local offices of a top ranking headhunter firm on Friday. The girl on the phone said that she is a researcher and that their database has 2008 version of my cv and she asks me to send my up-to-date CV to update their database. She is also claiming that if I do that she is gonna reward me by sharing a project that she is working on. How genius?! Seriously, is this how multinational headhunters work?

In these times, especially when speaking to someone like me, who I believe has one of the highest online exposures a person can have, she could at least search my name on Google before making the call to get the latest cv status. It's truly sad that someone gives her the title "researcher" if you think that she can't do a simple Google "search" let alone the headhunting "research".

Anyways, I told her that she can check my name on LinkedIn for the latest update and can call me back. Of course, she did not get the fact that I was almost making fun of her over the phone about her so called "research". My last word and maybe sort of a recipe to headhunters in order not to look/sound stupid:

Don't call your people "researcher" that easily!
Train your people!
Do your homework before approaching a candidate!
Learn the website address www.LinkedIn.com and how to use it!
Record your outgoing calls to evaluate employee performance!
And finally read this Mashable article to get a sense of latest trends in your industry!

16 Jun 2010

The pattern behind self-deception

11 Jun 2010

New TV Campaign from sahibinden.com

25 May 2010

Our Motivations Are Unbelievably Interesting

21 May 2010

Thinking about TV advertising?

Google is coming on strong and that's no news. What's news is that there might be no tomorrow for today's media companies. I can already see the TV ad planning products from Google which are inevitably gonna be coming.

5 May 2010

Idee

Came across this on the streets of Berlin.

28 Apr 2010

The iPad DJ

The iPad DJ: @ranajune
Scobleizer wrote: Rana Sobhany, http://twitter.com/ranajune , rocked the house over the weekend at the iPad Dev Camp in Silicon Valley and here we learn how she was DJ'ing there. You can find her DJ site at http://www.destroythesilence.com/ and she's put all the apps she's using here: http://www.destroythesilence.com/apps

The Legendary Maltese Falcon

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