The New Year is over a month old. I couldn’t get a chance to write a post here in January. Like everyone else, we struggled through the icy roads, with the heavy snow, and settling back in the work routine, after a very relaxing holiday season, spent on the bean bag watching Prison Break and doing family stuffs. The break was worthwhile.
A Review of 2009; A Preview of 2010!
Posted by Vic Okezie on December 31st, 2009 | No CommentsIt’s late here. Soon, 2009 will be gone and we’d welcome 2010. At least in this part of the world. The Aussies have had their share earlier today, as well as some of my friends in the Indian sub-continent.
Obviously, this is my last post for this year, after a week or more off active work, and fun with the family and holidays as expected. I have kept tabs with a few plans for next year, while reflecting on this year’s.
Executive Search – East & West Africa
Posted by Vic Okezie on November 6th, 2009 | No CommentsAutumn is fast approaching and the rains are falling.
Exciting to be in the last Quarter of the year. Working a lot. Executive Search across African countries has sort of taking most of my time the last few months and the dark days and wet nights, no longer bother.
Summer – The Sun, Sand and The Sea
Posted by Vic Okezie on August 13th, 2009 | No CommentsThe month is racing by as holidays are ringing on. Things are a bit slower because of summer, but here – work has been quite immense the past weeks.
Been working on several International recruitment projects the last month and also hired to consult for a major UK company on areas of implementing a Social Recruitment strategy for their entire HR unit. Hence, my rather silence on the blog for the last month.
August has seen us consolidate all our ventures and online portals under our Crexia brand. Crexia is now divided into several arms namely Advertising, Consulting, Technology and Social Media in Recruiting.
A few months ago, I challenged myself to have at least 5000 LinkedIn contacts. Unfortunately, I have just crossed the 3000 connections on my LinkedIn profile and am quite pleased with this.
Today, I took a few hours off my many projects to create a 1 page website that shows my professional profile and links to a few social media sites that I use. It is like an online business card, if you know what I mean. Check out vicokezie.co.uk
This month will see us launch a few add on projects on some of our portals in emerging markets, while in September – we will roll out some robust applications that has been in the works for a few months now.
On a lighter note, I am off for our family holidays tomorrow to experience some summer, and expect some silence for a short while. A bientot.
CareersOilGas.com – Launch Due in July
Posted by Vic Okezie on June 17th, 2009 | No CommentsHave been working a lot on our new oil jobsite, CareersOilGas.com which is due for public launch in July – we hope the 1st. Tidying up lots of codes and getting feedback from early users about better ways to improve their online recruitment experience.
We are starting an online marketing campaign for candidates and recruiters from next week, and generate enough prudent buzz in the early launch stages.
The site has started gaining some SEO grounds, getting indexed in search engines and growing in some rankings. Again, its early days.
We have experienced quite a few interests from major oil & gas recruiters and will further establish our offerings while also listening to them to better understand their needs.
There is competition – which only but makes things more interesting. Will write more updates on this and other endeavors in the days to come.
Rebranded Crexia: Launched Oil Jobsite
Posted by Vic Okezie on June 1st, 2009 | No CommentsI am quite pleased to present a new smart 1 page website for Crexia Limited, a rebranded UK online recruitment firm.
The old version will soon be seen on www.crexiaconsulting.com, which will continue to handle Executive Search assignments.
However, the new Crexia Limited will focus on developing online jobsite, job boards and recruitment portals for UK & International markets.
Having said that, its with pleasure that we have launched today a brand new site for the Oil & Gas industry called – CareersOilGas.com
We have been working on this for the last few months, and its currently in its Alpha stage.
I will write more about this in a few days, and will spend the rest of the week developing its beta version which will be available from July 2009. The new site is open for registration by International oil jobs seekers and oil recruiters.
Joined the 500+ Contacts on LinkedIn
Posted by Vic Okezie on May 25th, 2009 | 1 CommentI have been spending quite sometime on LinkedIn these days – and have been very impressed at the volume of profiles on there.
Growing rapidly, especially with this current economic downtime, LinkedIn now attracts over 40 Million professionals in 200 countries.
Mostly used by web savvy recruiters and business owners, are now using LinkedIn to expand their networking and International appeal. The beauty of LinkedIn is, the more contacts you have, the more you can view specific kind of professionals. Hence, when I had 100 contacts, I might only see around 1000 results for some searches.
Somehow, I have exceeded the 500+ contacts and counting (connect with me on LinkedIn), and now get hundreds of thousands of profiles when I do searches related to current projects I am working on. Brilliant!
Current limit on LinkedIn is 30,000 contacts. I think my target for July 31st 2009, will be 5000 contacts, i.e 20 Million connections in my network. Catch me if you can …
Just Read ‘The Real Deal’ – James Caan
Posted by Vic Okezie on May 8th, 2009 | No CommentsJust finished reading The Real Deal, by James Caan. For those of you who dont know, he is more popular cos of his TV role as the most recent dragon in BBC’s Dragon Den.
Jimmy C, as he called himself stylishly built very successful recruitment companies and sold them, raking in millions of pounds, before starting a private equity firm, assist entrepreneurs build successful businesses.
The book, which was his autobiography, was quite a different from the books I have read recently.
Relaunched CareersNigeria.com – Online Recruitment for Jobs in Nigeria
Posted by Vic Okezie on April 30th, 2009 | No CommentsA hiatus from blogging, but just a quick one to talk a bit more about the relaunching and rebranding on the jobsite for Nigeria, CareersNigeria.com
Planned lots of features for the site soon, and also a futher launch of some niche / country websites.
While I have quite enjoyed the Executive Search market the last couple of months and have made some great placements, I will take some time this year to develop online recruitment portals.
Will explore my passion for recruitment and a strong interests in technology …