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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Recruiters, Do You Secretly Envy The Millionaire Matchmaker?

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

By in Talent Acquisition

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The Search is Over: CareerBuilder’s Resume Search Agents Were With You All the While

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

By in Free Tools You Can Use, Talent Acquisition

Reason #41 to Leave the BlackBerry at Home: More Efficient Employees

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

By in Talent Acquisition

Locked in the Car Trunk? CareerBuilder’s Most Outrageous Excuses for Being Late to Work

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

By in Employment Branding, Generational Hiring, Leadership Development, Survey Results

Is Your Corporate Culture Hurting Your Social Media Policy?

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

By in Employee Engagement, Social Media

Speaking of Workplace Gender Shifts…More Men Using Plastic Surgery to Cope with Career Anxiety

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

By in Economy

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Oh, Dear! Get a Free T-Shirt From CareerBuilder

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

By in Contests, Employee Engagement, Retention, Talent Acquisition

CareerBuilder’s Free Tools You Can Use: One-Click Candidate Communication

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

By in Free Tools You Can Use, Talent Acquisition

CareerBuilder Big Game Results Wrap-Up

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

By in Talent Acquisition

Survey Finds More Companies Cutting Benefits in 2009

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

By in Retention, Survey Results

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