Insight into the HR World
From the monthly archives:
Whenever I see other people advertising on job boards and the like, one thing that bugs me is when people don’t put down the pay range and benefits. Note that my annoyance level goes up with the maturity and specificity of the position.
For instance, one employer put down that they wanted a person with 15 [...]
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Much like primary school where you can play tag, Dennis over at WirelessJobs.com has tagged me to reveal five things you might not know about me. Dennis needs to fix his permalinks because I can’t directly link to the post that he tagged me but REST ASSURED it is there.
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For those who may be interested, this blog has been nominated for “Recruiting.com Best Blog” award. If you like this blog, take a minute and please vote for it. Also, please feel free to vote for some of the other fantastic blogs on there. While I don’t expect to win (after all, those pesky [...]
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Businesspundit has a great article about how (and why) to network if you’re an introvert.
Networking is essential to all jobs but the job of being a job seeker and the job of seeking the job seekers are one of the incredibly important places where networking works. Everybody says that, in landing a job, it [...]
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No, really.
So I was talking to Joel Cheesman a month or two ago about the fact that Google hadn’t indexed my website. Since it had been six months since I started this thing, I thought it was a bit weird. So did he and we pretty much left the conversation baffled. MSN and Yahoo already [...]
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I don’t know.
Okay, that is a lie. Fittingly enough, Wikipedia sums up the Web 2.0 question pretty nicely (itself, of course, being part of web 2.0). If you don’t feel like reading through that, I believe that the two bedrock principles of web 2.0 are collaboration through technology and using the web as a [...]
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Tiffany at “Pote Magico de Trabajos” posted about ROWE again and I thought I’d throw myself in that mix.
First of all, work places should already be results only. This is, of course, laughable. Between mandatory Monday – Friday meetings and archaic attendance policies, your best performer might be on a written warning even though (with [...]
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Of course, the answer is on CNN and it is online.
I don’t know how much I agree with some of these. Making your college degree choice based on what the job market is doing today and ignoring your personal traits and skills (not even considering whether you would enjoy it or not) is asking for [...]
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I am so happy to be writing about Ami and his Blogversity blog. In the short measure of time we have spent gazing upon each other’s blogs with lust, I also have respect for the great amount of time and thought that is put into each one of his posts. The move from wordpress.com to [...]
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I hope there is more to this story than what has been publicized. The current Bank of America CFO is quitting due to regulatory burdens. Bank of America doesn’t have any additional regulatory burdens compared to its major competitors. He also seemed to complain that the CFO doesn’t get the glory like the [...]
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