ICA July 21 Event at FCCJ

Topic: Recent Trends in the IT Job Market
Essential Insights for IT Career Management

A Round-Table Discussion with Industry Specialists from Microsoft, Goldman Sachs
& Hartford Life.

This special discussion will cover the current IT job market, where it is going,
and how you can best prepare yourself and make yourself marketable both here in
Japan and globally. Recruiting top talent has always been an important objective
of top management, and creative recruitment strategies are essential for
finding, attracting, and hiring the best talent to achieve management
objectives. This event will provide a wealth of IT recruitment knowledge, and
insights into the recruitment strategies of three market leaders. The topic will
be of great interest to managers, to human resource departments, and to
individuals looking to proactively manage their careers.

Each speaker will make a 10 minute presentation covering a specific topic, and
then the discussion will be opened for audience participation.

SPEAKERS

Presenter: James Ryland, Recruiting Group, Human Resources, Microsoft Japan
Presentation: 'Finding Your Potential at Microsoft Japan'
James has over 5 years experience in Human Resources in Japan, starting at a
small IT recruitment company, before joining a telecom start-up where his main
focus was recruiting. James is a Masters graduate from the School of East Asian
Studies at Sheffield University in the UK, and has been working in Japan in some
form since 1996.

Presenter: Lyle Andrews, Regional Recruitment Manager, Goldman Sachs Asia
(seconded from Resource Solutions)
Presentation: 'Diversity recruitment in Japan: building a long-term local
candidate pipeline'
Lyle has 6 years of recruitment experience on both the agency and the in-house
sides. He has worked in Japan for over 8 years and has experience working for
Japanese companies in the UK. He is responsible for all lateral and contingent
recruiting across Goldman Sachs Asia and directly recruits for the Technology
Division.

Presenter: Andrew Bishop, Staffing & Vendor Manager, Business Technology
Department, Hartford Life Insurance K.K.
Presentation: 'Recruiting success- growing a Technology department from 120 to
300 staff in one year'
Andrew Bishop is responsible for overseeing staffing for the Business Technology
Department, which comprises of 130 full time staff and 170 contracted vendor
staff. In addition, he is responsible for employee training and development and
talent management for the department. Andrew has a background in the IT staffing
industry, and has lived and worked in Japan since 1998.

Meeting Details
Date: Thursday July 21
Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.
7:10 Dinner, 7:45 Round Table, 8:45 Finish
Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost, including dinner: 3,000 yen for members, 5,500 yen for non-members
Cash bar available.
No-shows will be billed.

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RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by 17:00 Tuesday July 19

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PMP-JAPAN

PMP-Japan provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://www.pmp-japan.com

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Support -- staffing services.
http://www.skillhouse.co.jp/eng_home.htm

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
Business Exchange meeting of Executives will run on July 22nd at the Akasaka
Prince Hotel http://www.jci-inc.com/executive.html. Investor and Executive
Network provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, Lawyers, accountants,
entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct business matching.
The event is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and the cost is 10,000 yen. The deadline for
completing registration (payment by furikome and notification to JCI) is July
22nd. The cost includes beverages and food. You can apply from the web site
http://221.255.83.197/public/html/modules/formmail/index.php?id_form=1

The venue for this event is Top of Akasaka at Akasaka Prince Hotel, 40F, 1-2,
Kioicho, Chiyodaku ( Akasakamitsuke, Ginza Line). Registration is limited to 100
people, so please apply early. For further information and registrations, please
contact seminar@..., Tel: 03-5226-5081. providing your name, company,
email, phone and fax numbers.

Fax Application Form (English): http://www.jci-inc.com/7.22e.pdf
Meeting Details (English): http://www.jci-inc.com/7.22pe.pdf

>----------- Pink Cow Comspiracy -----------<
PCC 17: Blogging for Business: The future of blogging in Japan, July 13, 7pm
'til late
Nobuhiro Seki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Japan, Six Apart,
Ltd.
For details see http://www.thepinkcow.com/pcc.html

>--------- NetTokyo - Summer 2005 ----------<
NetTokyo - Summer 2005, Sat. July 23 14.00 - 19.00
A charity event aiming to be the largest gathering this year of professionals
from the international community in Japan.
For details and to sign up see http://www.nettokyo.jp

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