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Win a Facebook Page Makeover From CareerBuilder!

In honor of Halloween, we’re holding a SPOOKtacular contest for those of you looking to makeover your social media presence on Facebook.

Here’s a quick rundown – Continue reading

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We Asked, You Answered: What Do You Want Candidates to Know, and What are You Willing to Teach?

Due to factors like a struggling economy and advancing technology, more and more workers have been going back to school to advance or brush up on their skills and make themselves more marketable. With this in mind, we were curious as to what skills employers expect candidates to have in this economic climate, and what they’re willing to teach on the job. Continue reading

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Give Us Your Thoughts — and You May Win a CareerBuilder Institute Training Class

It’s happening. Retail stores everywhere are stocking the shelves, folding the clothes, straightening the shoes, organizing the Trapper-Keepers, and bracing themselves for restless, sun-streaked kids to come and clutter it all up. Back-to-school shopping is now in season. 

We’re not kids anymore, but as adults (employed or not), continuing to educate ourselves and hone our skills is one of the most important things we can do for our careers and ourselves. Continue reading

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We Asked, You Answered: How Does Your Company Promote Employee Wellness?

“How isn’t it?” Is more like it…Two weeks ago, we asked you to share with us if and how your organization promoted employee health and wellness.  Aside from giving you the chance to brag about how your organization could easily give Jillian Michaels a run for her money in the fitness coaching department, we also wanted to give you the chance to share with each other creative – and often cost-effective – ideas for promoting employee wellness. Continue reading

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How Does Your Company Promote Employee Wellness? Tell Us for the Chance to Win $200 Worth of Fitness Gear (including an iPod Shuffle)!

There’s been growing evidence to suggest that not only do American workers need to better care of their health and wellness (recent studies show correlations between job stress and weight gain, and working overtime and heart health), but also that companies benefit from wellness programs, which help them cut back on costs related to healthcare and lost productivity. Continue reading

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We Asked, You Answered: “Would a Results-Only Environment Work at Your Company?”

Workplace Flexibility — It’s Not a Trend

More and more businesses are talking about the importance of workplace flexibility in today’s society – and the White House even dedicated a recent forum solely to the topic. As the forum stressed, we need a 21st century workplace to meet the demands of a 21st century work force. Continue reading

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Give Us Your Thoughts for Your Chance to Win Breakfast for Your Team, Three Months of Coffee and More!

Be the hero and surprise your team with three months of breakfast treats from Wolferman’s, or singlehandedly caffeinate your employees for all of Q3 2010 with a 3-month Dunkin’ Donuts coffee subscription. And even if you don’t win either of those, you have a chance to win your own copy of “Why Works Sucks and How to Fix It.”

Entering is Easy: Continue reading

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“What Happens if the Owner Dies?” True Tales of Interview Questions That Stumped Hiring Managers

Last week, I challenged readers to share the most difficult interview questions they’ve ever gotten – as interviewers.

From the blunt (“What don’t you like about working for your company?”) to the bizarre (“If you walked into a room filled with jars and I was one of the jars, what would I have to contain to stand out from the others?”), the only thing more surprising than the actual questions our readers submitted were the surprisingly insightful lessons they gleaned from those questions. Continue reading

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Has a Job Candidate Ever Stumped You? Tell Us for the Chance to Win an iPod Nano!

We’ve all heard stories about “difficult” interview questions. Rarely, however, do those stories focus on the interviewer, so…For our latest “We Ask, You Win” contest, The Hiring Site is asking you to share with us: Has a job candidate ever asked you a question that you found particularly difficult to answer?  Continue reading

Perhaps, for example, a candidate asked a question that threw you off-guard and made you change the way you prepare yourself or your team for interviews…
Or maybe a candidate asked about something you never would have thought would be important to them (like your corporate social responsibility or green initiatives), thus making you rethink how you sell your company to job candidates…
Or perhaps a candidate asked about something your company didn’t currently offer (like a certain benefit), that you had never considered before…

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The Most Important Factor in Determining Talent Compensation — And Why You Need a Strategy

What is your compensation strategy — or do you have one at all? In many workplaces, employers are often just throwing darts to ultimately decide upon the monetary figure which becomes an employee’s salary. Last week, we asked all of you to answer the following question for a chance to win a Talent Compensation Portal report for two job positions: “What do you think is the most important factor in determining compensation?”

We received some excellent and diverse answers from you, our readers, and here are a few: Continue reading

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