While you were busy updating your Facebook status at the altar, furiously looking up the meaning of the word “transgression,” or screaming “Who Dat!” at the TV screen on Monday night, here’s what was happening in the world of hiring and recruiting this week…

• What the what? The unemployment rate went and did something we haven’t seen it do in quite some time…
• This is the true story of several business leaders, picked to go to the White House to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real stop the growing unemployment rate.
• Microsoft puts a price on London bosses’ heads…
• Viral video enables businesses to make corporate training fun again (just in case it ever wasn’t).
• Words I never thought I’d type: What Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest teach us about passing the baton
• Three reasons business leaders should embrace their inner Picasso (or Thomas Kincade…whoever tickles your fancy…)
• The Executive Gift Guide (or: What to Get for the Colleague Who Has Everything But a Roll-Up Piano, Golf Ball Personalizer or Doggy Backpack)
• We’re all about getting creative with holiday perks, just so long as the words “Jelly of the Month Club” don’t come up.
• How to tell if you’re ready to start hiring…and why internships might be the answer if you’re not.
• ESPN, ahem, cries ‘foul’ over The Sports Guy’s Twitter use.
• And finally…If they ever make a movie about this trend, I think Michael Keaton and Teri Garr should star in it.