End of Q3, heading into Q4, expectations??

Summer is ending, and that means there are 4 months left till year end. September is all about tying up processes from the summer hiatus, and building for the end of the year.

Clients need to hire by end september if the want someone to start before the end of 08, candidates need to begin looking now if they want a new role for 09. All sorts of factors come into play as new budgets are thrashed out in companies across the world.

Our world (nice link there eh) looks OK. Our focus is the technology and especially enterprise software hiring and this area seems less affected than the other side of our business (banking) by the global downturn.. let’s hope this continues.

We are continuing to work with established players, start-ups and US firms looking to enter EMEA and we are on target to hit our first full year’s forecast…. hopefully with some healthy invoices to send to kick off 2009 well!

Keep updated on our job lists http://www.capital2solutions.com

Olympics

Bit of a sticky subject, we hesitated to blog on the olympics due to our opposition to what China is doing in Tibet but the actual sporting achievements we’ve seen compelled us to at least comment.

Highlights:

Usain Bolt – awesome, and a funny guy too. Good to see a sprinter not taking themselves too seriously

Michael Phelps – a freak of nature, if swimming didn’t exist he’d be in a circus. What an achievement though!

Jamaica – how can such a small place have such a fast population?

Medal tables – just how are they calculated? If it is on number of golds, china are winning, however the USA calculates it on total medals which means they’re winning, the Aussies calculate it on gold medals per population so they’re winning and so on. We thought the games weren’t political??

Modern Pentathlon – weird

A world without Word??? Microsoft sees past the Windows era!

Full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7540282.stm 

This seems to be a logical step if the ‘virtualisation’ of software continues. The whole SaaS space and on-demand solutions are growing very quickly, Google is trialling the docs package and possibly looking at Salesforce.com as an acquisition….. Microsoft has to keep up.

But can you imagine how different computing will be without the Windows OS? We can’t!