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Sales Executive – IT Training Solutions	28 November 2007
Sales Executive – IT Training Solutions 18k Base, 40-50k OTE + Bens London Our Client is an established and growing IT solution provider with an objective to provide customers with an innovative and cost-effective solution through the efficient deployment, integration and management of information technology and training solutions. With their exciting portfolio of advanced training solutions our client is well positioned to meet the needs of today's business user. Due to continued growth and internal expansion they now have an opening for a Sales Executive to be based at their City office As Sales Executive you will be responsible for generating business opportunities from within both the SME and Corporate sectors. You will work closely with colleagues to identify, qualify and close opportunities of varying value across a large territory. The ideal candidate will posses a minimum of 12 months sales experience with a good technical appreciation or an IT qualification. You will be confident, driven, dynamic, proactive and committed to joining a professional organisation to further your career. You will have excellent communication skills, high levels of self motivation, integrity and excellent time management skills. The successful candidate can expect an initial basic salary of 18k with an uncapped OTE of 40-50k + additional benefits. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Field Sales Executive – Software Piracy	28 November 2007
Field Sales Executive – Software Piracy London 18-25k Base, 48k OTE, car allowance + Bens Over the past 15+ years, our client has been fighting software theft and software piracy in the business community. Through selling the consultancy and corporate membership services they enable companies both large and small to run a sustainable and cost effective compliant software management environment. Due to continued growth they now have an exciting opening for a filed based Sales Executive to cover Central London. As a Field Sales Executive you will have access to our client's full portfolio of consultancy services and membership solutions. You will primarily focus on sell membership solutions through working with prospects to identify their current state of appliance. This role comes with the full backing of an internal sales team that will book in excess of 40 qualified appointments on a monthly basis with senior decision makers throughout your territory. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1-2 years b2b and client facing sales experience preferably within a technology, training or media based environment. You will be professional in your approach and posses excellent communication and presentation skills. You will be able to demonstrate maturity, stability and the ability to work in a self managed environment where you will have full responsibility territory revenue. You will need to be driven, highly motivated and determined to develop a lasting sales career. The successful candidate can expect a base salary of 18-25k dependent upon experience with an uncapped OTE of 48k, a generous car allowance and an additional benefits package. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Senior Sales Executive – Telcoms Solution Sales	28 November 2007
Senior Sales Executive – Telco Solution Sales London / South East 35-45k Base, 80-100k OTE + Exec Bens As a specialist one-stop business to business technology services company focused on converged information and communication networks our client has grown organically to become a certified and leading partner to some of the world's leading and best of breed technology companies. With their growing portfolio of Telco solutions that include VoIP, Call Centre applications, Mobile and data solutions to name just a few, they are well positioned to meet the needs of today's technical aware business buyer. Due to continued growth within the London market they now have an exciting opening for a Senior Telco Sales Professional. As a Senior Sales Executive you will focus on the generation of new revenue streams from within both new and existing accounts. It is anticipated that your time will be split between the up-selling and cross-selling to existing accounts and mapping out and generating new business opportunities. This is an involved role that will give you access to an entire portfolio of products and solutions enabling you to deliver cost effective solutions to meet the needs of both SME and corporate accounts. The ideal candidate will be of graduate calibre and have a minimum of 2+ years target driven business to business Telco sales experience. It will be a distinct advantage to have a working knowledge of Avaya, Mitel and or Siemens products/solutions. You will be highly motivated, driven by success and posses first class communication and presentation skills with the ability to liaise within both the SME and corporate market place. This is an excellent opportunity to further your career with an organisation poised for continued growth. The successful candidate can expect an initial salary base of 35-45k with an uncapped and very achievable OTE of 80-100k in the first year. Additionally there is a generous benefits package. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Field Sales Executive – Corporate Clothing	27 November 2007
Field Sales Executive – Corporate Clothing London 20k Base, 30-35k OTE + Bens Our Client is a direct retailer of custom clothing for today's busy professional. Based on sound the fundamentals of quality and service our client is experiencing solid growth and is developing a strong reputation throughout the City for high quality corporate business wear. Due to this continued growth and they now have an exciting opening for an additional field based Sales Executive to cover London. As a client facing Sales Executive it is anticipated that you will spend the majority of your day in a client facing capacity with the rest spent developing new business and contacts from our clients London Office. Initially, you will be new business focused whilst developing a customer base, moving more into an account management role once you have developed a sufficient pipeline of prospects. With access to the full portfolio of products you will identify, win and grow business from within the corporate community, selling to today's industry leaders and those at the top of their profession. This is an excellent role for a sales executive looking to further their career. Full product training will be available to the successful applicant. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 12 months b2b sales experience. You will be professional in your approach and posses excellent communication and presentation skills. You will be able to demonstrate maturity, stability and the ability to work in a self managed environment where you will have full responsibility for your own diary. You will need to be driven, highly motivated and determined to develop a lasting sales career. The successful candidate can expect a base salary of 20k with an uncapped OTE of 30-35k plus additional benefits. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Sales Support Executive – Technology/Information	27 November 2007
Sales Support Executive – Technology/Information London SW6 25k Base Salary + Excellent Benefits Our client is a premium business information company specialising in consumer and business analysis. Their leading information solutions which also include online verification and consumer credit reporting helps companies of all sizes address often complex and important information issues. Due to continued growth they now have an exciting opening for a Sales Support Executive to join their SW6 based sales team. As a Sales Support Executive your role will involve working alongside a sales team managing all sales administration whilst managing a varied volume of customer's queries and enquiries for all of our client's products and services. This role specifically includes the creation and collation of sales orders and documents, the management and administration of a database and the general day to day sales support required for a busy team The ideal candidate will be educated to degree standard and posses a minimum of 18 month sales support experience. You will be competent in your office skills, have a broad understanding of standard MS software packages and be a confident user of CRM software. You will also have first class communication and presentation skills along with a high level of self motivation. The successful candidate can expect a base salary of 25k plus additional benefits. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Senior Sales Professional, Account Manager, Account Management, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Area Sales, Internal sales and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Sales Executive – Sales Training Solutions	27 November 2007
Sales Executive – Sales Training Solutions 22-24k Base, 44-48k uncapped OTE + Bens London Our client is a provider of high quality business solutions centered around training and performance coaching that is geared towards increasing and sustaining business performance. Through their in-house and on-site services they are well positioned to deliver the very best in performance, sales, strategy and management training to both the SME and corporate sectors. Due to continued growth and an ever expanding portfolio of products our client now requires an additional sales executive to join their London based team. As a sales executive you will have access to the entire portfolio of training solutions and an open remit to develop business throughout London and the South East. The role will require the generation of leads through networking, referrals and business development although you can expect to receive company generated database gathered through extensive marketing, conferences and exhibitions. With order values of 1-100k and lead times of 2-3 months you will be liaising at a senior level across all business sectors in this exciting sales position. The ideal candidate will be of graduate calibre and posses 18-24 months business to business sales experience. Ideally you may have previously sold training solutions and although this is not a prerequisite it would be desirable. Alternatively, you will have previous experience of solution based selling into both the SME and Corporate sector. You will have excellent communication and presentation skills, a high degree of self motivation and the drive required to follow through on generated opportunities. The successful candidate can expect a negotiable basic of 22-24k with an uncapped and very realistic first year OTE of 44-48k. Additionally there is an excellent benefits package on offer. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Senior Information Sales Executive – Online Gaming	27 November 2007
Senior Information Sales Executive – Online Gaming London 40-55k Base, 80-110k OTE + Executive Benefits Our client is a premium business information company specialising in consumer and business analysis. Their leading information solutions which also include online verification and consumer credit reporting helps companies of all sizes address often complex and important information issues. Due to continued growth they now have an exciting opening for a Senior Sales Executive to focus on the online gaming sector. As a Business Development Manager you will focus on the development of both new and existing online gaming accounts at a strategic level. Working closely with an internal sales team you will act upon given leads to ensure that every opportunity is explored in detail. Business will be generated at senior levels where you will liaise with key decision makers in some of the UK's largest companies. You will develop, prepare and deliver factual presentations using internal expertise and support to close order values of varying size. It is anticipated that this role will require you to attend the London office 1-2 days per week. The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level, be intelligent, inquisitive and posses a minimum of 4-5 years client facing solution sales experience and a working knowledge of the online gaming sector. This role requires business acumen, motivation and a dynamic yet professional approach to sales and strategic account management. You will have first class communication and presentation skills and the ability to liaise with customers at board level. This is an excellent opportunity to break into the growing business information market. The successful candidate can expect a negotiable base salary of 40-55k dependent upon experience with a first year OTE of 80-110k plus additional benefits. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Sales Executive – Online Payment Solutions	26 November 2007
Internal Sales Executive – Online Payment Solutions London 19.5k Base, 28k OTE + Exec Bens Our Client, part of a FTSE 250 listed technology group is an exciting, innovative and profitable business with a clear vision. With their impressive track record and a world class technology platform they enable companies of all sizes to accept credit card payments, manage risk and trade profitably in the online environment. This technically advanced company are now embarking on a period of sustained and rapid growth and as such have an exciting opening for an Internal Sales Executive to work from their London office. As an Internal Sales Executive your principle task will be to develop revenue opportunities for our client's technology platform throughout the SME and corporate community. This role involves a mix of in-bound and out-bound sales as well as some account management opportunities. This is a consultative sales role that will ultimately lead into a client facing position for the successful individual. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 6-12 months sales experience from within a b2b focused environment. You will have first class communication skills along with a structured approach, solid time management and the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. You may be of graduate calibre, have high levels of self motivation and ultimately are seeking a solid career within a technology leader. The successful candidate can expect an initial base salary of 19.5k with an uncapped OTE of 28k in the first year plus an excellent benefits package. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Senior Sales Professional, Account Manager, Account Management, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Area Sales, Internal sales and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
jQuery and Microsoft	28 September 2008
jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code.  jQuery supports this via a nice "selector" API that allows developers to query for HTML elements, and then apply "commands" to them.  One of the characteristics of jQuery commands is that they can be "chained" together - so that the result of one command can feed into another.  jQuery also includes a built-in set of animation APIs that can be used as commands.  The combination allows you to do some really cool things with only a few keystrokes. For example, the below JavaScript uses jQuery to find all <div> elements within a page that have a CSS class of "product", and then animate them to slowly disappear: As another example, the JavaScript below uses jQuery to find a specific <table> on the page with an id of "datagrid1", then retrieves every other <tr> row within the datagrid, and sets those <tr> elements to have a CSS class of "even" - which could be used to alternate the background color of each row: [Note: both of these samples were adapted from code snippets in the excellent jQuery in Action book] Providing the ability to perform selection and animation operations like above is something that a lot of developers have asked us to add to ASP.NET AJAX, and this support was something we listed as a proposed feature in the ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap we published a few months ago.  As the team started to investigate building it, though, they quickly realized that the jQuery support for these scenarios is already excellent, and that there is a huge ecosystem and community built up around it already.  The jQuery library also works well on the same page with ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Rather than duplicate functionality, we thought, wouldn't it be great to just use jQuery as-is, and add it as a standard, supported, library in VS/ASP.NET, and then focus our energy building new features that took advantage of it?  We sent mail the jQuery team to gauge their interest in this, and quickly heard back that they thought that it sounded like an interesting idea too. Supporting jQuery I'm excited today to announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch.  The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license. We will also distribute intellisense-annotated versions that provide great Visual Studio intellisense and help-integration at design-time.  For example: and with a chained command: The jQuery intellisense annotation support will be available as a free web-download in a few weeks (and will work great with VS 2008 SP1 and the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1).  The new ASP.NET MVC download will also distribute it, and add the jQuery library by default to all new projects. We will also extend Microsoft product support to jQuery beginning later this year, which will enable developers and enterprises to call and open jQuery support cases 24x7 with Microsoft PSS. Going forward we'll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new Ajax server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC.  New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client template support) will be designed to integrate nicely with jQuery as well.  We also plan to contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches back to the jQuery open source project.  These will all go through the standard jQuery patch review process. Summary We are really excited to be able to partner with the jQuery team on this.  jQuery is a fantastic library, and something we think can really benefit ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX developers.  We are looking forward to having it work great with Visual Studio and ASP.NET, and to help bring it to an even larger set of developers. For more details on today's announcement, please check out John Resig's post on the jQuery team blog.  Scott Hanselman is also about to post a nice tutorial that shows off integrating jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX (including the new client templating engine) as well as ADO.NET Data Services (which shipped in .NET 3.5 SP1 and was previously code-named "Astoria"). Hope this helps, Scott
Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available	26 September 2008
This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship.  We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update their existing Silverlight Beta2 applications so that they'll work the day the final release ships, as well as to enable developers to report any last minute showstopper issues that we haven't found internally (please report any of these on the www.silverlight.net forums). Important: We are releasing only the Silverlight Developer Runtime edition (as well as the VS and Blend tools to support it) today, and are not releasing the regular end-user edition of Silverlight.  This is because we want to give existing developers a short amount of time to update their applications to work with the final Silverlight 2 APIs before sites are allowed to go live with it.  There are some breaking changes between Beta2 and this RC, and we want to make sure that existing sites can update to the final release quickly once the final release is out.  As such, you can only use the RC for development right now - you can't go live with the new APIs until the final release is shipped (which will be soon though). You can download today's Silverlight Release Candidate and accompanying VS and Blend support for it here.  Note that Expression Blend support for Silverlight 2 is now provided using Blend 2.0 SP1.  You will need to install Blend 2.0 before applying the SP1 service pack that adds Silverlight 2 support.  If you don't already have Blend 2.0 installed you can download a free trial of it here. Beta2->RC API Updates Today's release candidate includes a ton of bug fix and some significant performance optimization work. Today's release candidate also includes a number of final API tweaks designed to fix differences between Silverlight and the full .NET Framework.  Most of these changes are relatively small (order of parameters, renames of methods/properties, movement of types across namespaces, etc) although there are a number of them.  You can read this blog post and download this document to get a listing of the known API breaking changes made from the Beta2 release.  We have updated the styles of the controls shipped with Silverlight, and have also modified some of the state groups and control template names they use.  When upgrading from Beta2 you might find it useful to temporarily remove any custom style templates you've defined, and get your application functionality working using the RC first - and then after that works add back in the styles one style definition at a time to catch any rename/behavior change issues with them. If you find yourself stuck with an question/issue moving from Beta2 to the RC, please report it on the www.silverlight.net forums (Silverlight team members will be on there helping folks).  If after a day or two you aren't getting an answer please send me email (scottgu@microsoft.com) and I can help or connect you with someone who knows the answer. New Controls Today's release candidate includes a bunch of feature additions and tweaks across Silverlight 2, as well as in the VS and Blend tools targeting it. In general you'll find a number of nice improvements across the controls, networking, data caching, layout, rendering, media stack, and other components and sub-systems. Over the next few months we will be releasing a lot of new Silverlight 2 controls (more details on these soon).  Today's release candidate includes three new core controls - ComboBox, ProgressBar, and PasswordBox - that we are adding directly to the core Silverlight runtime download (which is still only 4.6MB in size, and only takes a few seconds to install): At runtime these controls by default look like: The ComboBox in Silverlight 2 supports standard DropDownList semantics.  In addition to statically defining items like above, you can also use databinding with it.  For example, we could define a "Person" class like below: And the add a ComboBox to a page like so: And then write the below code to databind a collection of Person objects to the ComboBox (by setting its ItemSource property): At runtime our simple app will then display the data-bound Person names (note that we set the DisplayMemberPath property on the ComboBox above to display the "Name" value from our Person objects): We could then implement a SelectionChanged event handler like below to run code when a person is selected from the ComboBox: Notice above how we can retrieve a reference to the selected "Person" object from the databound ComboBox using the ComboBox's "SelectedItem" property.  We can then call the MessageBox.Show() helper method (new in the RC) to display a modal dialog box that displays some details about our selected person:   New Control Skins The final release of Silverlight 2 will have a much more polished set of default control template skins than those that were in Beta1 and Beta2.  Our goal with the default control templates is to have a look that is professional and attractive, can be used in the majority of applications as-is (without requiring you to author custom style templates), and which is also easily tweakable using Expression Blend. Today's RC build has skins that are close to the final look we plan to ship (there are a few final tweaks we are doing post RC on the focus color of controls, as well as to tighten up and tweak a few issues in some of the control templates).  Below is the default look for the DataGrid, RadioButton, CheckBoxes, and the DatePicker controls with today's RC build: Note that the DatePicker control above allows users to type in a date (with a masked edit to ensure it is a valid date), or they can click the calendar icon to the right of the textbox and select the date using a popup Calendar control: One of the most powerful features of Silverlight and WPF, of course, is the ability for designers and developers to completely customize the look and feel of any control.  This goes beyond simple styling of colors and fonts - you can literally completely change the visual UI of a control, as well as customize its behavior (for example: add animation) without writing any code. Within Expression Blend, simply right-click on any Silverlight control and choose the "Edit Control Parts" sub-menu to open and edit its control template:   When in control template editing mode, you can manipulate any sub-element of a control (for example: a checkbox's inner content), as well as customize each "state" its in (notice the states pane circled in red below).  This allows designers to customize what the control looks like in individual states (for example: checked, unchecked, mouseover, etc).  Silverlight will then automatically handle animating the control from state to state depending on the user action: You can learn more about how Silverlight's Visual State Model works from my previous blog post here.  Previous releases of Silverlight often rendered graphics on sub-pixel locations - which could cause lines and shapes to sometimes appear "fuzzy".  The RC of Silverlight has a new features called "layout rounding" that causes the layout system to round the final measure of a control to an integer ("pixel snapping"), which results in crisper lines and fewer rendering artifacts.  This feature is now on by default, and helps make applications look nicer. Summary The final release of Silverlight is not that far off now.  It has been a pretty amazing project that has come a long way in a pretty short amount of time. If you have existing Beta2 applications, please start getting them ready for the final release - as once we release Silverlight 2, users that have existing beta releases installed will automatically be upgraded to use the final version.  Testing your application out with the release candidate will ensure that you can easily update your applications and have them ready within hours of the final release. Let us know if you find issues with today's release candidate, and please make sure to post them on the forums on http://www.silverlight.net. Hope this helps, Scott