Okay, I don’t usually watch The Millionaire Matchmaker. I only happened to catch it last night because (and I’m totally stealing my co-worker Craig’s lame excuse here) I lost my remote somewhere in my house last night, thus crippling my efforts to change the channel and forcing me to watch it. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2009
The Search is Over: CareerBuilder’s Resume Search Agents Were With You All the While
- February 25th, 2009
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I don’t often invoke the music of Survivor in my posts — okay, make that never. But who am I kidding? I’d do it all the time if I could. We’ve talked before about cutting corners in your recruiting process to make your life a little less stressful and find better-suited candidates in less time. Continue reading
Reason #41 to Leave the BlackBerry at Home: More Efficient Employees
- February 25th, 2009
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Lost your BlackBerry somewhere along St. Charles Avenue (you know you had it with you at Popeye’s…) during your visit to New Orleans for Mardi Gras? You might come back to more efficient employees because of it…at least that’s what you could take away from this recent Harvard Business Publishing article. Continue reading
Locked in the Car Trunk? CareerBuilder’s Most Outrageous Excuses for Being Late to Work
- February 24th, 2009
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It’s 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning. As you’re drinking your double espresso and fumbling through a slew of new e-mails, your phone rings.
“Hello?” Continue reading
Is Your Corporate Culture Hurting Your Social Media Policy?
- February 23rd, 2009
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According to IBM employee and blogger Adam Christensen in his recent post, The Impact of Corporate Culture on Social Media, “[Corporate] culture is…the most overlooked, underestimated factor determining whether social media succeeds or fails in a company.”
He ought to know. Continue reading
Speaking of Workplace Gender Shifts…More Men Using Plastic Surgery to Cope with Career Anxiety
- February 19th, 2009
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Last week, my colleague, Amy Chulik, wrote a post about how the number of working women is set to surpass that of men for the first time in history.
Now, the Financial Times is reporting on another gender shift: The increase of men undergoing plastic surgery or non-invasive cosmetic treatments to further their professional longevity. Continue reading
Oh, Dear! Get a Free T-Shirt From CareerBuilder
- February 19th, 2009
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By now, you’ve all seen the CareerBuilder Big Game commercial…right?
Well, we’ve made our favorite koala (Is he British? Is he Australian? We don’t really know) into a minor celebrity and put his likeness on some limited-edition T-shirts. This is where you come in. Continue reading
CareerBuilder’s Free Tools You Can Use: One-Click Candidate Communication
- February 18th, 2009
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We all have our little wish lists of things we want someone cool to invent, like, immediately. One of mine? Most recently (as in, this past Sunday), I had a moment of panic and thought I was out of my beloved Metropolis coffee. Continue reading
CareerBuilder Big Game Results Wrap-Up
- February 18th, 2009
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As the most visited Web site among all of the Big Game advertisers, according to Hitwise Competitive Research, immediately following the airing of its commercial during Super Bowl XLIII, CareerBuilder amplified its traffic and furthered its reputation as the go-to job seeker resource online. Continue reading
Survey Finds More Companies Cutting Benefits in 2009
- February 18th, 2009
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Looks like Starbucks’ dollar coffees are coming at the perfect time for the thousands of U.S. employees who are soon going to have to start paying for their morning caffeine fixes.
Following in the steps of Google and the like, nearly four in ten (38 percent) employers plan to cut back on various benefits this year, in efforts to curb overall operating expenses, according to CareerBuilder’s most recent survey of over 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals nationwide. Continue reading
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