While you were trying to buy a $10 TV at Best Buy, petitioning for Brad Pitt to run for mayor, or reflecting on what guitar legend Les Paul taught you, here’s what the rest of the world was doing this week…
The new rules for office romance…not to be confused with the ‘new’ sexual harassment Continue reading.
Remember that time you thought your co-worker was a pimp? Me, neither. But anyway…
In efforts to “bring a little levity to the workplace,” CareerBuilder recently surveyed 2,600 hiring managers nationwide about the oddest complaints they’ve ever received from employees. Today, it released the results of that survey, and below is the cream of the creepy crop:
Job boards are dying…at least if you believe some people.
The latest so-called evidence of this phenomenon is in this Wall Street Journal online article, which discusses how more companies today are enhancing their own Web sites in efforts to attract talent (a tactic I wholeheartedly agree with); but it also seems to imply that because of this, companies no longer have a need for job boards in their recruiting strategies. That’s where I don’t so much agree, and here’s why… Continue reading
While you were busy negotiating the release of imprisoned American journalists in North Korea, paying tribute to John Hughes, or making Supreme Court history, here’s what the rest of the world was doing this week… Continue reading
Temperatures here in Chicago are finally expected to creep around the 90s this weekend (you know, just to give us a glimpse of summer). Of course, sweltering heat also falls squarely on the city’s annual Lollapalooza festival at Grant Park. I’ll be bringing my BFF, water, in full force. Continue reading
Economy sluggish and no good news to be found? Not so fast. U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are safely back in the U.S., Susan Boyle’s glam makeover is in Harper’s Bazaar, and the JK Wedding Dance video isn’t being e-mailed with quite its former intensity (and Jill and Kevin are using the fame for a good cause!). Oh! Continue reading
