Archive for April, 2009

Well, it’s not exactly proof that my earlier prediction that twinternships will take the business world by storm has come true (…yet), but today in the AdAge 3-Minute Video below, BBDO Worldwide CEO Andrew Robertson discusses a very similar trend happening at the worldwide ad agency: reverse apprenticeships.

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 24, 2009
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• Categories: Employee Engagement, Talent Acquisition

Tomorrow is Earth Day.  In honor of it, today, Ben & Jerry’s is having Free Cone Day.  (Okay, it’s more than likely just a coincidence, but the company is very environmentally conscious, and I’d be remiss not to show my support for that by eating some free Chunky Monkey.)

In actual honor of Earth Day, however, CareerBuilder released the results of its latest survey, which found that one in ten employers say they’ve added environmentally focused positions to their companies in the last 12 months.  

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 21, 2009
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• Categories: Employee Engagement, Employment Branding, Going Green, Insights & Trends, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Do you know someone graduating this spring (and no, watching the “Donna Martin Graduates” episode of old-school 90210 doesn’t count)? Chances are if you do, you’ve sensed or outright listened to them rant about heard their trepidation about entering the “real world” and throwing their hat into the current job market ring. Continue reading

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• Posted by: Amy Chulik on April 21, 2009
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• Categories: Economy, Generational Hiring, Social Media, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Anyone want to tell Michael Setzer and Kristy Hammonds that Pizza Hut is hiring? No? Just a thought…

On Friday, Pizza Hut announced its opening for a ”twintern”…That is, an intern who uses Twitter and other online networking tools to “be our social media journalist, chronicling in 140 characters or less what’s going on at Pizza Hut,” the company’s VP for marketing communications told The New York Times.

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 20, 2009
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• Categories: Employee Engagement, Employment Branding, Social Media, Talent Acquisition

Top Chef versus Julia Child. Real Housewives of Orange County versus The Golden Girls.  The Jonas Brothers versus… The Beatles??? Okay, scratch that last one. The point is, generations may differ on what’s great in TV shows or music or clothing, but in the workplace, generational differences add up to more than just entertainment preferences — and the consequences can be dire. Continue reading

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• Posted by: Amy Chulik on April 16, 2009
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• Categories: Economy, Employee Engagement, Generational Hiring, Retention, Social Media, Talent Acquisition

Hmmm…guess who won’t be Domino’s “Employee of the Month”?

By now, you’ve likely seen the now infamous YouTube video of the two Domino’s Pizza employees who filmed a rather, ahem, tasteless prank in the kitchen of a Conover, N.C. store: In the video, one employee narrates as another employee prepares a sandwich in a way that violates pretty much every health code there is.

(Note: If you haven’t seen it, you might have some trouble finding it, as the video has been taken off YouTube…but that’s probably in your best interest anyway.)

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 16, 2009
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• Categories: Social Media

By now, most of you have probably heard of a little thing called Twitter. People everywhere are talking about it: on the nightly news, late-night talk shows – it’s even recently caused troubles in, ah, celebrity relationship paradise a la Maniston. Continue reading

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• Posted by: Amy Chulik on April 9, 2009
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• Categories: Social Media, Technology

Remember that “Seinfeld” episode where Jerry starts crying – evidently for the first time ever – and he’s looking at the tears he’s wiped from his eyes with wide-eyed confusion, saying, “What is this salty discharge?!”  Well, I do.  It’s kind of how I felt (minus Jerry’s resulting annoyance) upon reading CareerBuilder’s latest survey, which happens to have…what is this? Uplifting news? 

According to the survey, 41 percent of workers who were laid off from full-time jobs in the last three months have found new full-time, permanent positions, while another 8 percent found part-time work.  Wait.  News about people finding jobs? A positive outlook?  I feel like I’m looking at something I’ve never seen before  - or at least, not in a very long time….I think I like it.

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 8, 2009
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• Categories: Employee Engagement, Retention, Survey Results

Sunday, on yet another painful to watch shocking episode of “Celebrity Apprentice,” Donald Trump fired Khloe Kardashian.  But it wasn’t Kardashian’s firing that was surprising (no offense to the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians’” star) – rather, it was the reason for her firing. 

Usually contestants leave the show because they failed the week’s challenge, but Trump fired Kardashian supposedly because he discovered she had a previous DUI – a reason my co-worker, an overly enthusiastic “Apprentice” fan, believes is completely unwarranted (so much so that he asked me to blog about it so all the world might know of his ire).

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 7, 2009
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• Categories: Retention

What’s wrong with Iowa??  Yesterday, Gawker posted a job listing for an associate editor at Best Events magazine — no Iowa- or Seattle-based job seekers need apply.  In fact, if you’re from either of these areas and planning to send your resume, the magazine is “begging you to stop. BEGGING.” 

Apparently they’re serious: It’s in there twice.  (Don’t they know Ashton and Demi live in Iowa?  Nice Best Events. Nice. You just blew that chance.)

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• Posted by: Mary Lorenz on April 3, 2009
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• Categories: Talent Acquisition