January, 2011

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Career Tools to Check Out in 2011 | CareerSolvers

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, January 3rd, 2011 Career Tools to Check Out in 2011 This month’s Career Collective topic is trends, tools, and hiring practices for 2011. I love writing about career tools that help job seekers keep informed. Here are a few of my favorites. TweetMyJOBS Imagine having job leads delivered directly to your computer or smart phone just seconds after they are posted by employers.

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What to Do After the Exit Interview

Insperity

You know you’re supposed to conduct exit interviews. And you may actually be doing them. But too often, the results are parked in a drawer never to be looked at again, says Nora Akins, who does HR consulting and training in Indiana and the Chicago area. Once the interviews are conducted, you need to analyze them to identify patterns that call for rectifying a situation.

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After the Tunisian Revolution, which Arab country is next?

Ahmed's Universe

'PARIS In the late 1970''s, I was a teenager spending part of the summer in my mother''s hometown in Romania when the inhumanity of the Communist regime of the self-styled Danube of Human Thinking, Nicolae Ceausescu, hit me. The paucity and bad quality of goods in stores; the weird cat-and-mouse game we had to play in Bucharest when staying with a cousin so that the resident man from the Securitate (Ceausescu''s answer to the Gestapo) wouldn''t see us spending the night with her (yes, you''ve he

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Is Your Personal Brand As Good As Starbucks? | CareerSolvers

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 Is Your Professional Brand as Strong as Starbucks? Starbucks just unveiled their new logo featuring their well-known green siren but with one dramatic change – the words “Starbucks Coffee&# have been dropped from the logo. At first I thought, “What the heck?

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Reflections on Smoking in the Workplace | CareerSolvers

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, January 31st, 2011 Reflections on Smoking in the Workplace Last week I wrote a post about smoking at work and looked at the productivity of smokers versus non-smokers over the course of a work day. The results are inconclusive as to whether smokers actually take more breaks at work or if they are any less productive even if they do take more work breaks than non-smokers.

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Ted Williams and the New Era of Job Search | CareerSolvers

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Home About Us How It Works FAQs Contact Resources Request a Proposal Monday, January 10th, 2011 Ted Williams and the New Era of Job Search The job offers are pouring in for Ted Williams , the homeless man whose YouTube video featuring his “golden voice&# went viral last Monday. The video was recorded by an employee of The Columbus Dispatch who spotted Williams with his sign claiming he had the God-given gift of voice and was an ex-radio announcer.

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Wage and Hour Violations are Costly and Avoidable

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Business owners usually associate fraud with accounting. But did you ever think that something as simple as filling out extra hours on a timesheet could hit your bottom line pretty hard? Lying about hours worked or consultants charging for time they didn’t spend on projects can cost small businesses thousands of dollars. And it’s not just the employer that’s impacted.