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a link to Xtra Effort’s client hiring needs for the month of July

Below is a link to Xtra Effort’s client hiring needs for the month of July.   It’s in a spreadsheet format. As a reminder/frame of reference, Xtra Effort clients are high growth, enterprise scale technology companies (products and services) that hire Sales, Sales...
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Xtra Effort attends Boston’s 2014 TechJam

Xtra Effort attended last evening’s annual TechJam in Boston. Great time. Lots of fun activities, and a chance to connect with old and new clients and candidates, including Evergage, Veracode, and Lavastorm, .
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Kevin Jordan receives a $500 Xtra Effort Amazon.com Gift Card for referring Sales Executive with Application Security experience in TX

Xtra Effort’s client provides application security software for Fortune 1000 companies.  Success selling their solutions requires their sales people to be credible in discussing a Fortune 1000 company’s business objectives, application software development and infrastructure processes, and enterprise security. This...
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2014 YTD Compensation and Turnover Explanation Data For Enterprise Software Co. Hiring Managers

Hiring managers may find this LINK to be helpful when deciding on compensation for their hiring requirements. The spreadsheet provides detail behind a large sampling of Xtra Effort’s 2014 client hiring requirements; including Sales, Sales Engineering, and Professional Service career positions...
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Paresh Nana receives $500 Amazon.com Gift Certificate as part of Xtra Effort Candidate Referral Program

Xtra Effort has known Paresh for several years and we have found his assessment of talent to be laser sharp. He recommended a customer facing Solution Architect.  This candidate had the unique mix of enterprise security and enterprise search. Xtra Effort’s client...
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CSO Magazine article about five fixes to enterprise security heavily supports Xtra Effort client value proposition

I am no security expert, but this article makes a lot of sense, particularly about enterprises needing to improve security incident response (“Fix #3”) and shifting to data-based decision making (“fix #5”). It also seems to align with Xtra Effort’s new...
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Scott Van Slyck receives $500 Amazon.com Xtra Effort Gift Card for referring key sales executive

Xtra Effort’s client is a leader in Business Process Outsourcing within the niche of Property and Casualty Insurance administrative cycles, from policy and claims to analytics. They needed a sales/solution specialist who could immediately understand client needs and add value. This type...
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Anyone capable of creating charts of this March’s Xtra Effort Enterprise Technology Client Sales, Sales Engineering, and PS Hiring Requirements?

Xtra Effort March Enterprise Technology Client Sales_Sales Engineering_and PS Hiring Requirements provides safe access to an Excel spreadsheet that summarizes Xtra Effort’s current enterprise technology client Sales, Sales Engineering, and Professional Services Recruiting requirements – nationally. It includes 47 job requirements...
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Why hiring managers dislike seeing “Created X$’s in ‘pipeline'” within a resume

Xtra Effort suggests sales candidates DO NOT have “created X dollars in ‘pipeline’ for FY 2012” within a resume. The reason is that hiring managers construe it to be an excuse for insufficient actual sales $. Furthermore, it is difficult...
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