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The most frustrating experiences of possessing a car is when you need to replace or repair a broken windscreen. Windscreen replacement is not for the faint of heart; it requires strength, a pair of steady hands, and a willingness to follow instructions carefully.

All cars are different, but in general, removing a windscreen requires loosening the urethane that holds it in position, then cautiously lifting it out. Next, using the a utility knife the remaining urethane must be cleared away to make room for the new windscreen. The new windshield is then affixed into place, and enforced with bolts. An extremely important step is to make sure that the new urethane seal is applied properly, because any outflows can cause wind to get into the vehicle, totally ruining the experience of driving.

If you discover a chip on the windscreen, it may be possible to repair it. Windscreen repair is an simple procedure. Every auto parts store these days have repair kits, and involves sealing the chip with resin. The resin dries clear, and once the procedure is complete, it is almost impossible to notice that the windshield was ever damaged. Windscreen repair kits can be unreliable when used to repair large cracks, however, and can sometimes make the problem worse, needing a replacement. This job is generally better left to professionals.

If you decide to let a professional deal with your windshield problems, you may be delighted to find that this is one of the few auto repair jobs that does not require your car to be brought to a garage. Many companies offer mobile repair services, which can be completed in a matter of an hour or less, even if the windscreen needs to be replaced completely. Mobile windscreen repair services are able to perform the service at your home, or while you are at work, making the process an extremely convenient one.

The Internet offers huge opportunities for a job seeker, but also presents several possible challenges. It also adds several complexities, and a lot more things to consider…and be mindful of.

Job search needs to be thought of as a highly personal, extremely aimed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an advertisement. Your extended network of associates is your source for information and opportunities.

So where does the internet fit in? At AA-Careers, we just posted a job on a popular job board and got over 650 responses in a calendar week. For a single opening. That’s increased competition for jobs.

Had the right person called us before we ran the ad, they could have gotten the job before getting all that competition. How? By knowing an employee at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 9 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be sure to check your application matierials carefully! When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily eliminated with a quick triage process. How? The same way any manager would. By rejecting resumes where the objective didn’t match our job posting. By eliminating prospects whose cover letters gave us grounds not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating candidates whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by passing over prospects who didn’t bother to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the great news is that job boards give you a feel of who is hiring, and for what kinds of positions. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well thought out resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another potential problem to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be checked on on the net. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some MySpace comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing insane, but enough to tilt our thinking about who to choose.

AA-Careers provides a all-inclusive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

Information Technology professionals may find it strenuous or even time consuming to manage several heterogeneous servers. New challenges emerge when there are a growing number of virtual servers and IT departments are looking for ways to resolve this matter or else there’ll be a lot to deal with in the near future.

Hosting and cloud computing company Rackspace conducted a survey recently and the results revealed that IT professionals are now facing growing challenges in terms of managing the environment now that there’s growing demand for servers. These developments usually lead to the need to avail of having managed hosted services as a viable alternative.

Rackspace reportedly hired Loud House two months ago to make the survey among IT managers at midsize companies based in United Kingdom and the United States in a bid to determine the habits in server management.

The survey showed that about a third of the IT staff time is used solely with server management task. This is considered a hassle among almost sixty percent of the IT managers surveyed. This led participants to suggest there’s a need to come up with time-effective management of these ever growing numbers of servers.

Rackspace President and CEO Lanham Napier said that a large part of IT manager’s time is utilized just to maintain stability of the servers. A certain percentage of those surveyed specified that in this day and age, there’s a need to have a 24×7 server support since most of their operations have global reach and that servers need to run all the time.

Mezeo Software president and CEO Steve Lesem is set to take part in a panel discussion on storage services at the Hosting Transformation Summit North America. The panel is entitled, “Storage Opportunities: Cloud vs. Conventional” and is going to look into the benefits of modern cloud storage relative to the traditional NAS- or SAN-based technologies.

The cloud market is experiencing rapid growth and provides significant opportunities for Managed Hosting Service Providers, says Lesem. He explained that the service’s clientele has specific needs that are based on diverse business models and is constantly in search for service enabled solutions that will offer differentiation as opposed to the bulk solutions that were formerly popular.
Lesem also said that he is looking forward to this discussion with other industry experts as it will provide him and his colleagues with new insights on best practices for service providers who want to monetize cloud storage solutions.

The Hosting Transformation Summit North America will be held on September 14 to 16 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. The summit is organized by Tier1 Research, a recognized forum for industry leaders in data center, hosting and internet infrastructure sectors. It will cover an overview of the many opportunities and challenges that the hosting industry is faced with today. These range from power, partnering and cooling to M&A strategies and the issue of meeting the constantly increasing expectations of the industry’s clients.

Tier1 Research is an independent technology analyst that specializes in the vendor hosting marketplace as well as in the technology sectors that are associated with this market. The summit is expected to be attended by some of the most renowned leaders in the web hosting industry as it will provide a fruitful venue for learning more about industry developments and how companies can incorporate these in their own products and services.

• January 29th, 2009
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