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User Experience Designer| Contract position | San Jose, CA


Summary
IdeaReboot Inc is looking for one of its leading ecommerce client and has an immediate need for experienced User Experience Designer. The ideal candidate should have a strong sense of design in respect to creating simple, elegant, aesthetically pleasing interfaces based on user-center design principles. This person will be responsible for all stages of user experience design throughout the product lifecycle ensuring a compelling look and feel that meets branding, business and user requirements (spanning user interface, interaction and visual design). Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills are a must.
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Senior J2EE Engineer | Santa Clara, Permanent | 90k-100k


Summary

IdeaReboot Inc, is looking for a Java Software Engineer who will work with members of the development team and is responsible for the development and implementation of workforce management applications and integration with other 3rd party solutions. Continue reading ‘Senior J2EE Engineer | Santa Clara, Permanent | 90k-100k’

Simple Zoom Application in WPF


In this blog, i am going to create a simple Zoom application using WPF. The Classes and controls which i will be using for this purpose are:

Control - Slider
Classes - ImageBrush
Property - Viewbox( Dependency property of ImageBrush) Continue reading ‘Simple Zoom Application in WPF’

Pixel dilemma and WPF


History
The word pixel was first published in 1965 by Frederic C. Billingsley of JPL, to describe the picture elements of video images from space probes to the moon and Mars; but he did not coin the term himself, and the person he got it from (Keith E. McFarland at the Link Division of General Precision in Palo Alto) does not know where he got it, but says it was “in use at the time” (circa 1963).
The word is a combination of picture and element, via pix. Pix was first coined in 1932 in a Variety Magazine headline, as an abbreviation for the word pictures, in reference to movies; by 1938 pix was being used in reference to still pictures by photojournalists.
The concept of a picture element dates to the earliest days of television, for example as Bildpunkt (the German word for pixel, literally picture point) in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow. According to various etymologies, the earliest publication of the term picture element itself was in Wireless World magazine in 1927,though it had been used earlier in various U.S. patents filed as early as 1911. Continue reading ‘Pixel dilemma and WPF’

The IR Factor - Why IR…


IdeaReboot is a Human Capital Solutions Platform which uniquely mobilizes

people skills, alliances,technologies, processes

to offer top-notch services and resources to companies which employs IT workforce. Founded by technologists and HR experts, IdeaReboot is the result of years of research and analysis of the proven practices of the Staffing industry.

IdeaReboot Advantage
IdeaReboot offers a gamut of services which aims at providing you with an ADVANTAGE that will help address the issues impacting your recruitment strategy. With these advantages, you are well set to beat your intra-industry recruiting competition.

Reducing Cost to Hire Our services despite being world-class come at a highly competitive price. We achieve cost savings by employing repeatable, optimized processes driven largely by automation and best practices. All these cost savings are passed directly to you, significantly reducing your cost-to-hire. Just so you know we consider a 25%-35% agency fee of a full-time hire ludicrously high!

Reducing Vacancy Cost Our quick turnaround time with a high-conversion rate in providing well evaluated, high quality candidates is aimed at significantly reducing the number of days a position remains vacant. We share with you the candidate-book consisting of all who were considered by IdeaReboot for a given position. This ensures that the more you work with us, the faster and bigger your talent pool becomes, ready to be employed for your future needs.

Increasing Candidate Reach We employ our proprietary S.E.A.R.C.H tool (Search Engine Adaptation for Recursive Candidate Hunt) to reach candidates which are well beyond the reach of job boards. Coupled with our existing quality network of professionals, the tool guarantees us a virtually limitless scope for reaching candidates.

Bridging Communication gap We market your job requirement on various channels across the Internet. These include job search engines, job boards, sites and blogs with viewership from potential candidates. Besides this, we float your requirement on Idea Net (IR network), and very quickly it gets a viral spread. In the past, we have ourselves been amazed at the magnitude of responses we received.

Resolving Retention crisis While the retention capacity is determined largely by the market opportunities and workplace dynamics, we go an extra mile in guaranteeing you a free replacement for any of our candidates quitting your firm within a reasonable period of time. Alternatively, we also provide consulting services that could help you understand and manage your workforce attrition issues.

How We Add Value
Idea Net: the staffing network - Over the years, we have invested heavily into creating a valuable network for us. We have built an active talent pool of over 55,000 available candidates and have created a network of 4000 (and ever-growing) referrers, partner firms and professionals who are always keen to generate referrals for us. We also maintain active mailing lists of our own and are a part of a number of popular ones which advertise jobs to a large number of candidates. We periodically conduct seminars with several industry associations to constantly expand our network. All of this is what we collectively call Idea Net. We effectively utilize this in generating quick and massive, viral responses to your requirements. This also plays a critical role when we attempt to execute a program for recruitment branding for you.

Invaluable Team Our team is our biggest asset. We come from very diverse backgrounds, experience and expertise. From HR experts with over 20 years of recruiting background to seasoned technologists, from sharp industry researchers & analysts to fresh-out-of-college statisticians, from researching psychologists to nerdy web surfers, we have an eclectic mix of talent that is highly adaptable and efficient in working out smart solutions and rendering top-notch services. Idea Reboot has been founded by hardcore technologists who have created enterprise-scale applications for several business domains. With a been there, done that advantage, we are uniquely placed in thoroughly understanding your project needs and requirements not only as HR experts but also from the perspective of project managers, architects and team leads.

Dedicated Account Analysts We believe in building an enduring relationship with you. We dedicate analysts to work exclusively with you to build and tailor our services to meet your objectives. The analysts are experts in developing solutions after understanding your workplace dynamics, business goals, success criteria, corporate fit, technology and requirement needs.

Redefining S.E.A.R.C.H. Search Engine Adaptation for Recursive Candidate Hunt. We have developed a sophisticated tool for adapting various open/specialized search engines and professional networking sites to crawl the entire Internet and help us accurately search for candidates and their resumes. The tool offers us a rich set of options and flexibility and its results guarantee that if a candidate exists anywhere on the internet, he/she is reach-able by us. These candidates are typically not available on existing job-boards, thus giving us and eventually you a tremendous advantage.

Evaluation & training We maintain on board a panel of technologists who have been trained in the best practices of interviewing and training. The panel maintains a rich set of question bank and internal online/offline training materials. They apply rigor in evaluating a candidate in terms of the assessment content, coverage and scoring guidelines. The evaluation process applies a progressive methodology of assessing the candidates in several rounds. After each such round, a detailed feedback is given to the candidate, which forms the basis for subsequent assessment rounds. Additionally, we provide free training to deserving candidates to close any minor before he/she can be considered a perfect fit for your needs.We have the resources, processes and infrastructure to completely take over your candidate assessment function and reduce your imputed cost-to-hire. On a per-need basis, we also conduct 3rd-party online testes/certifications for our potential candidates. As an additional service, we also execute on-demand background checks and verifications.

Competitive Pricing Our services come at a highly competitive price. The attractive part of our model is that you get a whole gamut of services free and you pay only for the converts. These free services typically include job postings to multiple job boards, search engine submissions, viral response elicitation, candidate-mining, evaluations and recruitment branding. Besides saving costs through repeatable, optimized processes incorporating the best methodologies, we also aim at reducing the need for “middleman” staffing firms, thereby further reducing our costs. All our cost savings translate to reduced fees for you.

Recruitment Branding Majority of the firms allocate a large part of their marketing budget only to reach out to the target audience of their services and/or products. We believe that potential candidates form an equally important audience segment for your branding initiatives. We translate this belief into a set of services that help you reach out to the largest possible talent pool with a message containing the unique success proposition that your business model and workplace stands for. Our Idea Net and dedicated account analysts play a critical role in defining that segment and building such a recruitment branding program.