Life As An Intern At Comrise

My name is Brendan and I am working this summer as an intern at Comrise Technology. I am currently a senior at Holmdel High School and will be attending Colby College in Waterville, Maine this fall. I try to stay active at school and I am a member of the Holmdel’s varsity swim team as well as the school Jazz Band. As of today, I have already been working one week at Comrise, and so far so good.

Although this is my first job in an official office setting, I have really enjoyed it and I am looking forward to working here the rest of the summer. My first task here at Comrise is to revamp the Comrise Facebook page, so be sure to keep an eye on it and “like” our page if you haven’t already. Soon the Facebook site should include a brief history about the company and will include a few case studies. The Facebook site is my big project for the week, but check in soon for more updates.

Our Mission: Redefined.

We're incredibly pleased to announce that the entire Comrise team has worked diligently to re-evaluate what we stand for, gather and structure that data, and produce a new mission statement and set of core values that we can stand besides for many years to come. Our mission comes from many days of careful research and thought about why Comrise is in business and what beliefs we will always resort back to.

Our mission focuses on our three main priorities: our clients, our employees, and our community. We also include a detailed note about what our management philosophy is and what it will be going forward.

This mission statement can be found at Comrise.com, but we hope you enjoy reading it here as much as we enjoyed being able to proudly release it. You may download a PDF here.

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Our Clients

We believe our first responsibility is to our clients around the globe who depend on us to deliver top quality human capital and solutions in a timely, cost-effective manner. The Comrise Customer Experience must be of the highest standards of quality and excellence. Our foundation must be built on trust, respect, and valuing long-term success over short-term gain.

We must always act as our client’s trusted advisors and most passionate advocate. To do so, we must cultivate strong business relationships with both our clients and consultants. We must always strive to be as adaptive and flexible as possible to meet our client’s ever changing needs. We must constantly strive to reduce our costs and increase our efficiency and effectiveness. Our client’s requirements must be serviced promptly and accurately.


Our Team

We are responsible to our Comrise Team Members, the men and women who work with us throughout the world. Everyone must be valued as an individual. We must respect their dignity and recognize their merit. They must have a sense of security in their jobs. Compensation must be fair and adequate. We must always provide a positive, fun work environment. We must be mindful of ways to help our employees fulfill their family responsibilities. Employees must feel free to make suggestions and complaints.

There must be equal opportunity for employment, development and advancement for those qualified. We must provide competent management, and their actions must be just and ethical. Teamwork must be at the core of the Comrise culture, and we should strive to be as collaborative as possible. This teamwork shall be built on the principles of mutual trust, mutual respect, effective communication, accountability, candor, and integrity. We must celebrate our accomplishments. Our diversity is our strength.


Our Community

We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well. We must be good citizens – and support good works and charities.

We must encourage civic improvements and better health and education. We must maintain in good order the property we are privileged to use, protecting the environment and natural resources.


Our Management Philosophy

Our final responsibility is to our shareholders. Business must make a sound profit. We must experiment with new ideas and always seek to innovate rather than stagnate. Research and development must be carried on, innovative programs implemented, and mistakes paid for.

We must embrace technological innovation and seize the growth opportunities that it brings. Reserves must be created to provide for adverse times. When we operate according to these principles, the shareholders should realize a fair return.

Recruiting Leaders

So far, our search to find a great 2010 Leadership in Training team has been a success. We had a very long, enriching Campus Recruitment season. Here is an in depth look at some of the wonderful candidates we had attend our Open House "super days" in March 2010. Thanks so much to all who attended and everyone who came out for campus recruiting, too.

They flew, drove, came by bus and train prepared to win a prized seat at Comrise. From Boston, NY, Pittsburgh and NJ they came, all ready to play the Comrise game. We threw down the gauntlet and off they ran. All dressed for success and well prepared, they shook hands, sat down, then ran around.

One arrived at 3 a.m. and laughed about his journey. He didn't miss a beat throughout the day. One explained how she wakes up at 4:30 to work out each day. Each person told a unique tale of leadership, accomplishment, and personality. They drew cities together without saying a word - debated social networks tie or win - recruited talent and revised budgets. Aside from very challenging classes, each talked about their work, their families, their faith, their activities and hopes for their future They explained how they could be an asset to the Comrise team

One story was better than the next - one played piano at Carnegie Hall - one graduates from Carnegie Mellon speaking Chinese and having already taught English in Shanghai. The piano player also skied moguls - to challenge himself. One owns an independent record label and clothing company. One was President of the Malaysian & Indonesian Students Society and in two years increased membership by 200% . One marketed the advantages of Newark, NJ to its business owners. One caddied - One campaigned for the President, One worked for the State's Attorney General. One was a member of the Women's Varsity Swimming and Diving Team.

They worked for MTV, Liz Claiborne, Rutgers Football, iCIMS, Thomson Reuters, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, J&J, Becton Dickinson, The Boston Red Sox, Phillip Morris, Duane Reade. One works at Nobu and meets the stars.

They believe in service to others and live that belief. One raised $330,000 to send 650 students on Spring Break service trips to build homes in impoverished communities and also ran the college's financially independent newspaper, rescuing it from bankruptcy. Another raised $10,000O for a service trip to Mississippi. One adopted and worked to support a local grade school hoping to encourage kids to continue their education, and many more stories.

Together, they speak Mandarin, Maylay, Spanish, Latin, Hindi, Bengali, Hebrew, Urdu, Gujarati and English.

They attend: NYU, BC, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon,

If we listed all of their honors, they'd fill the whole page.

At the end of the day, each streamed out the door - with much of the energy they had coming in. Their enthusiasm was contagious. The hardest part is to select the best. We all look forward to their arrival in June.

Tossing Around Virtualization

Here at Comrise, we hear the term "virtualization" tossed around an awful lot, whether it be by our clients, candidates, or industry competition. It is incredibly easy to lose the meaning to such a loaded term, so I thought it would be a great idea to kind of break it down and re-visit the basics of what virtualization stands for.

My favorite definition of virtualization comes from CIO.com:

"Virtualization refers to technologies designed to provide a layer of
abstraction between computer hardware systems and the software running on
them."

I agree with many experts that virtualization has been around for a while. IT administrators, like myself, have been partioning hard-drives for years. Personally, I think the best benefit to virtualization is the cost savings of not having unnecessary, redundant systems that eat up overhead costs. I love this video by VMware, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnNX13yBzAU. The professional in this video makes great sense of the virtualization term.

Virtualization, in my opinion, became so popular and widespread to the abundant cost savings. Employing people and staffing projects to promote virtualization will save our clients money, since they're increased virtualization will save on server and overhead costs, as a very general example. We're excited and more than happy to help our clients with initiatives involving virtualization. I hope this short article has helped give you some insight into such a tossed-around, overused term.

Key Lessons from "Undercover Boss"

Read an interesting article based on the new TV show on CBS "Undercover Boss"

The writer discusses key lessons that professionals in management and leaderships role can take away from the show.

To read the article click on the link below:

http://hrguru.monster.com/news/articles/3326-key-lessons-from-undercover-boss?utm_source=nlet&utm_content=hrg_c1_20100219_undercoverboss