There has been a lot made of the worldwide economic recession. I have only seen a small glimpse as I toil daily to match up CCIEs and Network engineers with channel partners in my network. Most of the bad news comes from the TV but I hear from folks who get laid off and cut because of the lack of profits some organizations face. In the USA I have several CCIEs in my network who are hurting. I have had trouble with a few who live in places where their economic situation once supported but now they are remote and out of the areas doing hiring. We see a lot of different situations in our work. Jack Taylor has been helping me in the North American region. He has been managing our clients and supporting the CCIE searches we are conducting daily. As a great recruiter he has been keeping the channels and CCIEs in line. M known as CCIE Agent Girl Friday has shown her skills in hooking up CCIEs with channels globally. Her efforts resulted in two Network Engineers landing new jobs just yesterday. Nigeria and New York so far apart yet she makes it look effortless. When I review our efforts daily I am amazed at the amount of traffic we are able to handle with such a small team.

Hiring is still steady for CCIEs in many parts of the world we have been responding to many roles in very diverse places;

San Diego, Tripoli, Palm Springs, Athens, Oslo, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Lagos, Atlanta, Chicago, Montreal, Winnipeg and I am missing a few I am sure (sorry M) but it has been a busy week.

The aggressive response to our CCIE Agent Economic Stimulus program has resulted in many new clients calling to see if we can help. Now we have Sales Executives, programmers, systems engineers and other IT roles we did not expect to be asked to chase before. I guess the economy has hit some of the recruiting companies hard or maybe we do a good job making our clients happy.

I think that the surge in hiring is coming at the right time for some IT professionals and I only wish manufacturing could see the same demand. The dominoes are still falling in some sectors. The clothes which are not being bought in Canada result in the layoff of seamstresses in China. The plunge of Wall Street speculative investing in mortgages resulted in retirement plans for firemen in the UK losing their pensions after the banks in Iceland fail. What we I learned here is the global interdependence of our economies.

The thaw is on though. The rest of the year is looking bright for those of us here at CCIE Agent, Limited Jack, M, Dan (my big brother and web master), Charles (my boss at Bridge) and the CCIEs in our network. We have started reaching out to clients in Brazil, Botswana, Texas, Eastern Europe, Mexico, China, Japan, Israel, Australia, and Malaysia to mention a few. The writing is on the wall and we are betting that our efforts in introducing our services to these broad and varied channels will be a good move for our network of CCIEs.

Keep your chin up and give us a call.

Thanks

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