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CVBUD PRESS RELEASE

CvBud, the brainchild of one of the UKs number one Recruitment Consultants, Sean Smith has been launched. Developed by BamsBoard (UK) Ltd and operating throughout the UK with over 30 job search tool local & regional websites, further expansion plans to follow into Europe later this year.

CvBud is an innovative recruitment tool that allows job seekers to submit their curriculum vitae in a matter of minutes and have it automatically sent out to relevant recruitment agencies and potential employers in a matter of minutes. Once a CV is matched the details of the position, agency and their details are sent to the candidate. This simple yet effective tool saves hours of filling out forms as well as the costs of seeking out recruitment agencies, postage, stationary and travelling. Using an extensive database of bona-fide recruitment agencies and employers that have been verified and vetted CvBud is breaking new ground in the employment sector and looks to be a bigger success than BamsBoard JobBud that became the largest Job Board in Wales in a matter of only six months.

Other products and recruitment tools include a free Video CV service, CV writing services and Interview4; another ground breaking development enabling interviews to be conducted via live video feed with record functionality thus eliminating costly overheads; travel and time consumed using conventional face to face meetings. Furthermore CvBud will be a lifesaver for recruitment agencies who in an aggressive market are struggling to meet quotas due to competition, locale and inability to compete with the larger recruitment agencies.

The major selling point of CvBud is that it is completely free to use for both job seekers and recruiters. Further recruitment and job search tools are under research and development and the future is looking bright for BamsBoard (UK) Ltd as well as the progression of the recruitment sector as we move forward in the digital age of social media recruitment technology. SMRT

BamsBoard announce their management team

BamsBoard (www.BamsBoard.co.uk) who have recently launched www.CvBud.co.uk an innovative free recruitment job search tool that allows job seekers to submit their CV to literally hundreds of interested recruitment agencies and potential employers in minutes and whom only eight months ago launched JobBud.co.uk, already the biggest Job Board in Wales, have announced their experienced winning management team.

·         CEO; Sean Smith considered one of the UK’s leading recruitment consultants with over 14 years’ experience and a passion for SMRT (Social Media Recruitment Tools) His innovative and ground breaking job tool applications has been the backbone to his success within the online recruitment sector. He founded Sean Smith & Associates with his (then) life-partner, Rugby & Big Brother Star, Gareth Thomas. Sean developed JobBud (www.JobBud.co.uk) that BamsBoard launched and that within six months became the biggest Job site in Wales. Sean Smith himself has over 260,000 loyal social media twitter followers. (@SeanSmithAssoc)

·         Chairman; Stephen Beverley, a partner with a highly respected Mayfair Law Firm and with over 25 years’ experience within the Corporate and Commercial sector. Stephen is considered an expert in the field of company commercial legal matters including Litigation, Employment Law, media law and Dispute Resolution.

·         Director of SMPA; Nick Harrington who is one of the UK’s leading Recruitment Directors, bringing his vast experience and entrepreneurial flair from the Recruitment Industry to the table. Nick is also the Managing Director of the Eximius Group, one of the largest & fastest growing specialist executive search companies in the UK.

·         Director of Online Development; Paul Robinson who carries several years of experience in both SEO and Social Media having consulted to major gaming companies, brings his expertise to the development of all aspects of the sites developments of their Social Media and Search Engine Optimisation.

With a strong management team in place BamsBoard are paving the way in Social Media Recruitment Tools, providing the very best in services to jobseekers and recruitment agencies with their Social Media Platform set to reach a phenomenal half million followers over the next month. Not only are they developing and creating new job search tool applications, but are offering a life-line to recruitment agencies who can tap into the huge resources in place that BamsBoard have already built allowing positions to be filled by potential job seekers matching the required skill sets within the ever growing aggressive employment sector. The company have also recently been granted the UK license for the highly innovative ‘Interview4’ , that offers live & recorded video interviews via a centralised portal, an essential recruitment tool for recruitment agencies attracting candidates from abroad.

Further information may be found at www.BamsBoard.co.uk or by emailing us at media@bamsboard.co.uk

Sean Smith to Launch free Cv Distribution tool

Gareth Thomas ex-Boyfriend Sean Smith in major Jobs Launch

Sean Smith, former Boyfriend to Gareth Thomas is the brains behind CvBud which has been developed by BamsBoard (UK) in partnership with Inteli Graphics and is due to launch later this month.

The first fully automated CV distribution service of its kind in the UK, CvBud provides individuals seeking new jobs, looking to further their careers or seeking jobs in specific locales to submit their CV to a free search service that uses an extensive validated database of suitable recruitment consultants to match their requirements to their needs such as type of work, locale and skill sets.

CvBud not only saves time for candidates, eliminating hours and hours of filling out forms, but using their innovative system gets their CV’s in front of literally hundreds of suitable recruitment agencies within minutes matching the required criteria. What is even more astounding is that it is completely free to use.

CvBud provides the very best in job searching and matching software, providing candidates with information of each recruitment agency to which their CV has been submitted, thus allowing follow ups and keeping a detailed record of their employment search.

Every time a candidate is registered with CvBud their basic details are also tweeted with a link to their CV providing real time information for recruiters and potential employers.

As well as the ideal tool for job searchers, CvBud offers recruitment agencies an increased candidate flow, which in an ever increasing aggressive market will help increase recruiters' bottom line. With more and more recruitment agencies going out of business due to candidate shortage CvBud should be considered an essential recruitment tool to attract new candidates and more importantly successfully fill vacancies. Recruiters are able to log into CvBud and specify the types of CVs they require and will receive them within minutes of a matching submittal.

Other BamsBoard products include the highly successful JobBud.co.uk which within six months of launch has already established itself as the biggest and most successful Job Board for jobs in Wales. Built on the backbone of Social Media, a worldwide trend that is here to stay, JobBud provides employers and recruitment agencies with free unlimited jobs advertising as well as access to the innovative Interview4 platform, enabling interviews to be conducted via live video feed with record functionality thus eliminating costly overheads, travel and time consumed using conventional face to face meetings. JobBud has already over 200,000 social media followers.

As well as an expansion program seeing JobBud and CvBud break into Europe in August and International markets by 2013; BamsBoard (UK) together with partner Inteli Graphics are currently working on several more innovative and cutting edge recruitment applications and free job search tools specifically designed to improve the lives of both jobseekers and recruitment consultants.

The man behind these innovative products, Sean Smith is regarded as one of the UK's leading recruiters, specialising in publicly funded legal recruitment. Sean only works on an exclusive basis  and is retained by several of the UK’s biggest firms of solicitors such as Duncan Lewis.

Sean Smith is an ex-boyfriend of former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas. Sean finished the couples two year relationship earlier this year. Smith, 42 also terminated Big Brother Contestant Thomas's directorship from Sean Smith & Associates on the same day. Sean is no stranger to the limelight. Sean, who has always been open about his colourful past hit tabloid headlines again three months ago when it was revealed that 5 years ago, he was wrongly imprisoned in a South African Jail for 19 months where he suffered rape and torture. He fled South Africa having been freed on bail, allegedly with the aid of the British Government. Sean Smith ended his relationship with Gareth Thomas (LOCOG Olympics Ambassador) in February 2012. With over a quarter of a million Twitter followers, Sean Smith recently revealed he had signed a book deal to write his biography.

As a business advisor to BamsBoard (UK) Ltd, Sean Smith understands the business of recruitment and the importance and influence of Social Media; bringing them together is a natural transition not only giving job seekers the very best chance of securing their ideal position but also throwing a life line to small recruitment agencies that without access to these free tools could see their doors permanently closing.

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A Popularity Wave for Careers at Sea

Opportunity is high at sea for those seeking employment, and there are a number of reasons for this.

With the expansion of the Maritime Security Program (MSP), the MSP fleet is growing from 47 to 60 ships. There is also growth in the U.S.-flag cruise ship industry. Because there are so many different types of vessels, there is a range of choices that is unmatched. That means as employees working under contracts between maritime companies and the Seafarers International Union, merchant mariners have the opportunity to sail on a wide variety of vessels, including deep-sea cargo vessels and military support ships, where mariners continue to support U.S. troops in Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

Also in the opportunity mix are Great Lakes vessels, cable ships, tugboats and passenger ferries.

The place for many American men and women who set their sights on setting sail is the Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education. The state-of-the-art school, affiliated with the Seafarers International Union, offers the most U.S. Coast Guard-approved courses of any maritime school in the nation-from entry level to license preparation to academic support.

In addition to academic support, the school offers GED and college degree programs. In fact, many of the maritime classes can be used for college credits.

Since its opening in 1967, approximately 145,000 students have trained there. The apprentice program blends hands-on training with classroom instruction. It consists of three phases, including 90 days aboard a U.S.-flag ship. That particular phase has helped boost the industry's retention rate-approximately 75 percent of students who complete the entire program are still sailing four years later.

At any given time there are 100 trainees at the school-some in Phase 1, others in Phase 3 (Phase 2 is at sea).

Based in Piney Point, Md., the school's training free job tools include bridge and engine simulators, the Joseph Sacco Fire Fighting and Safety School and a culinary lab.

The Monster of a Leadership Challenge: The Creature that Ate your Career

In the 1964 movie, "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster", King Ghidorah was a gigantic, dragon-like creature that came from outer space.  It had three heads on long necks, bat-like wings, no arms, and twin tails.  It terrorized Tokyo until Godzilla, in a role reversal as protector rather than destroyer, defeated it in a terrible battle and chased it back into outer space.

As a leader, you don't have to go to the movies to face Ghidorah.  You do it every day.  Ghidorah is the three-headed monster of fear, failure, and self-doubt.  How you deal with the triple threat will determine to a great extent how your career develops.

Though fear, failure and self-doubt are each separate, they cannot be separated: The prospect of failure can lead to fear of failure, and fear of failure can lead to self-doubt, which closes the cycle by leading back to fear of failure.

Of course, this is not strictly linear.  Three-headed Ghidorah is comprised of any number of combinations.  For instance, self-doubt may lead to failure or failure may lead to self-doubt, which leads to fear.

Don't concern yourself with the combinations that can afflict you.  Concern yourself instead with how to deal with Ghidorah.  The first thing to understand about how to deal with the monster is that if you're NOT dealing with Ghidorah,  you're doing something wrong.  Leadership is not about living an easy life for ourselves but a hard life for other people and for the organizations you serve.  Fear, failure, and self doubt are a natural outcomes of good leadership.

That's especially so for leaders who are trying to motivate people to meet extraordinary challenges.

You'll never know how good you are as a leader unless you are motivating others to be better than they think they are. In that endeavor, you'll inevitably get at least some of the people angry.

Most people are settled into a comfortable status quo and resist and resent being challenged to break out.

But if you aim to get great results, people not only have to be pushed but more importantly, they must be challenged to push themselves.

So, if you're not getting some people angry with you over the pushing, you're doing something wrong as a leader, you're not challenging people enough.

The second thing is that if you face Ghidorah head on, you'll find that fear, failure and self-doubt are your benefactors; for Ghidorah can be your partner in achieving limitless results.

For instance, I worked with the CEO of a company that proved results are limitless.  In the 1930s, the company was making tea bag paper.  Over the years, they kept changing and improving their products so today they are making high tech thermoplastics.  Going from making tea bag paper to high tech thermoplastics involved innovation, hard work, and great leadership.  My bet is that  fear, failure and self-doubt were driving factors in that three-generation, results-are-limitless evolution.  

Don't simply overcome Ghidorah.  Instead, use Ghidorah -- use fear, failure and self-doubt as your results-partner.  To do so, you need to cultivate your inner, submerged strengths.

An assault by Ghidorah is an opportunity for us to manifest strengths we did not know we possessed.

"I'm afraid I might fail." – We can manifest perseverance.  

"I doubt if I can do this."  -- We can be innovative.

"I have failed." -- We can evince patience, tenacity, and resilience.

My leadership processes, which today may look simple, clear, and robust, were developed with my grappling countless times with Ghidorah.  There is not a process I teach that did not have its birth in a failure of one kind or another.  Often, I really didn't understand the process until I first failed in trying to put it into action.  I have to give Ghidorah much of the credit for their success.

Over time, as we keep manifesting our strengths in the face of Ghidorah's assaults, we tend to avoid getting carried away by appearances or our mercurial desires but instead will gradually actualize a centered leadership.  The more we assess our strengths in times of affliction, the more easily assessable those strengths become.  

But that's not all.  Here's the final secret: We manifest these strengths not just for ourselves but also for the people we lead; for when we face Ghidorah, we show others the path; and in doing so, help them tap into their own inner strengths, creating a motivational bond between you.

King Ghidorah was brought to life on the movie screen by a stunt actor inside an elaborate costume, with a team of puppeteers controlling the beast's many appendages.  When tough challenges call forth Ghidorah in your leadership, you may see that the creature is, similarly, not substance but the dazzle of our minds and emotions, reminding us that leadership begins not when we grasp at outward appearances but when hold to our center and the resources flowing from that center.