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Someone At G•Neil Has A Sense Of Humor
2007-11-28 18:06:55
Browsing through a recent HR Resource Guide catalog from g•Neil, I came across this ‘Sapphire Reflections Award’ and had a good chuckle. I’m of course assuming that the name on the award is entirely intentional, as I cannot imagine it being random. Assuming such is the case, it’s nice to see a sense of humor in unexpected places.
Tags: Employee Recognition, Employee Recognition Awards, HR, Human Resources, Michael Scott, NBC’s The Office, Steve Carell, Employee Awards
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A Conversation With Nick Corcodilos (aka Ask The Headhunter) About LinkedIn
2007-11-27 15:33:26
This morning, I received an email from LinkedIn notifying me that Nick Corcodilos had accepted my connection on that social networking site. Nick has a terrific site with a diverse range of excellent content. He also writes the always informative and insightful, syndicated column ‘Ask The Headhunter.’ To anyone working in the recruiting field, I would highly recommend subscribing to Nick’s weekly newsletter. In any event, Nick left a comment for me on LinkedIn about LinkedIn, which started a small back-and-forth conversation which I thought would be worth reprinting here.
Hi Toby,
LinkedIn fascinates me, more for what people expect out of it than for what it actually does. All those nodes! But the system does little about the quality of the connections. Let me give you an example from real life. I know a guy named Jon — a pretty good friend of mine. He’s former pres of a major college, a medical doctor, venture capitalist. He and his wife regularly have di ...
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Daily Newspapers Crushed By Horrendous Q3
2007-11-26 12:22:32
The rapid deterioration of the daily newspaper industry continued unabated in the 3rd quarter, with the National Newspaper Association reporting that ad revenue fell 7.4%. Print ad revenue fell 9% and classified ad revenue fell 17%. Among the big 3 classified categories, real estate advertising fell 24.4%, employment classifieds fell 19.7%, and auto classifieds fell 17.7%. While many newspapers pointed to a 21% rise in online advertising as a faint glimmer of hope amidst the decimation, the uptick in online ad revenue was smaller than it was during the same period a year ago (25.3%), on a smaller overall revenue base. In other words, it’s not much of a glimmer at all, and certainly not enough to off-set the overwhelming decline of print ad revenue. It’s akin to celebrating the arrival of a thimble to bail out a dinghy with a 4-foot gash in the hull.
Tags: Death of the Dailies, Declining Newspaper Industry, Newspaper Revenue Falling Off the Cliff, Is This The End?
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Sweetland Makes A Sweet Holiday Gift
2007-11-24 17:59:51
Tags: Sweetland, Sweetland The Movie, Movies Everyone Should See, Spirit Award Winning Films, Great Independent Films, Ali Salim, Gorgeous Movies, Phenomenal Movies, Minnesota Movies
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Happy Thanksgiving
2007-11-24 15:17:54
Tags: Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Turkey, Sleep Comas, Football, Family
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Pay-Day Loans Are Devastating to the Working Poor
2007-11-20 09:38:54
Without getting overly political as to the causes, one of the most startling aspects of the current U.S. economy is the phenomena of the working poor - individuals and households that work one or more jobs (most often more than one) and are still unable to climb out of poverty. In 2003, there were 7.4 million working poor in the U.S., roughly 24% of the entire U.S. labor force. It is a horrifying set of circumstances and institutional barriers that prevent people from achieving financial stability in their lives despite their best intentions, hard work, and dedication. For anyone interested in the topic, or for those who approach poverty with the typical assumptions and biases, I would highly recommend reading David Shipler’s The Working Poor: Invisible in America or Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Among the thousands of institutional barriers that exacerbate people’s financial difficulties, payday loans are one of the worst an ...
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Yahoo Consortium Keeps Growing; USA Today Cuts Staff; Will Google Enter The ATS Business?
2007-11-19 14:51:27
Another flurry of news in the daily newspaper, media, advertising, and talent management spaces:
1) Yahoo added 17 more daily newspapers into its employment classifieds consortium (here)
2) USA Today cut 45 newsroom jobs, despite the fact that it remains one of he few dailies in the country with a growing circulation (here)
3) While on a call today with a technology company in the recruitment advertising/talent management space, this company mentioned that they heard a leak from a decent source that Google was going to be entering the applicant tracking system business at some point in the near future. While rumors surrounding Google’s strategic intentions are as ubiquitous (and worthless) as Paris Hilton gossip, I thought this was somewhat interesting.
Tags: Google, Applicant Tracking Systems, Yahoo, USA Today, ATS
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I Need Some Facebook Friends!
2007-11-16 10:33:12
I have completely neglected my Facebook profile since joining a while ago, and have decided that it needs some attention. Thanks to Cheezhead for the reminder with his plea for ‘fans’ this morning (sorry for plagarizing the idea). If you are feeling kind and generous, please add me to your friends list on Facebook. I will admit, just writing this evokes a very odd feeling - it definitely qualifies as one of the strangest thing I’ve ever written about in this blog. Perhaps the uncertainty and doubt about this kind of a post is just another example of a blatant generational difference. Or maybe it truly is just as ridiculous as it feels.
Tags: Facebook, Facebook Friends, A Desperate Plea For Love And Attention, Pathetic Blog Posts?, I Need Friends!, Sure Signs Of Being An Online Loser
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Some Sobering Statistics About The Workplace
2007-11-15 10:47:52
Patrick Lencioni, author of ‘The Three Signs of a Miserable Job,’ appeared on CNBC yesterday to plug his book. During the interview, there were a bunch of stats being flashed across the bottom of the screen. Thanks to Tivo, I was able to rewind and capture them. They are as follows:
• 28% of U.S. employees are unhappy with their boss (CareerBuilder)
• 84% of workers are not in their ‘dream job.’ (CareerBuilder)
• 80% of employees do not think their job is fun (Reuters)
• Only 50% of employees are satisfied with their job (Conference Board)
• 21% of workers feel their boss is untrustworthy (CareerBuilder)
• Every year, 2.5 million people will quit their job (BOLS)
• #1 reason people quit: poor relationship with their boss
• 24% of workers feel they can do a better job than their boss (Reuters)
• 32% of workers call in sick when they were not (Harris)
As a side note, the 3 signs of a miserable job are being anonymous, irrelevant, and unable to measure your succe ...
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Yahoo Adds To Its Consortium; A Daily Celebrates Mediocrity; MinnPost Launches
2007-11-14 10:28:20
Plenty of news in the media, advertising, publishing, and recruitment advertising space from the past few days…
1) Yahoo adds the New York Daily News to its consortium of newspaper partners
2) Philadelphia’s daily papers celebrate the fact that their weekday circulation rose by 8,000 readers or 2% (even though Sunday circulation fell by 20,000 readers)
3) MinnPost.com, a non-profit alternative to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is launched
As if the list of exhibits wasn’t already long enough, these are just a few more examples of the chaos and turmoil surrounding the media and advertising landscape.
Tags: Yahoo, New York Daily News, Philadelphia, MinnPost.com, Media, Advertising, Continuing Migration Online, Media Landscape
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LinkUp: An Employment Search Engine
2007-11-12 14:53:26
Thanks to ‘The Chad’ for posting an excerpt from a Financial Times article by Ray Schreyer, head of IBM’s global recruiting initiatives online and a founder of DirectEmployers Association, that highlights the value of employment search engines. The article itself attempts to dispel some of the myths about looking for a job online and in it, Schreyer defines employment search engines as those sites that aggregate jobs taken directly from corporate web sites. As such, LinkUp would most definitely qualify. Schreyer states in the article, “Employment search engines, which aggregate jobs from corporate sites, are invaluable to any job hunt, especially now that jobs are global. Top sites include JobRapido in Europe, Recruit.net in Asia and Jobcentral.org in the US.” I’ll do my best to see if Schreyer would add LinkUp to his rather exclusive list.
Tags: LinkUp, Employment Search Engine, Job Aggregators, Ray Schreyer, The Chad, The Financial Times, Job ...
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Employment Guide Still Running Bogus, Scam Ads
2007-11-11 19:16:53
As it has for as long as I can remember, the Employment Guide is still running job scam ads in all of its papers across the country. As I’ve written about before (here), this particular scam ad purports to offer postal worker jobs and other government jobs. When an unsuspecting job seeker calls the number, they are informed that to apply, they need to send $24.99 to the company running the ad to obtain the application which is freely available on government web sites. It is a horrendous disservice to readers to be placing classifieds for companies that blatantly rip people off and take advantage of their circumstances. It shows how little regard the Employment Guide has for its readers (and advertisers) and how desperate they are for whatever revenue they can generate, no matter how unscrupulous the source. I was particularly surprised to see a half-page ad for the postal worker scam in the New York edition of the Employment Guide (which was, like most of its papers across the c ...
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Can A Free Weekly Be Considered Art? Stephanie Diamond’s Can.
2007-11-09 12:25:02
An artist in Queens, Stephanie Diamond, has created a very unique, highly intriguing work of art modeled after a freely-distributed weekly shopper. The piece, which is essentially a cookbook, is entitled This Is What I Eat and features photographs and recipes submitted by people in and around Corona Plaza, Queens. The project was part of a recent group exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art. The front cover of the newspaper states, “You are reading a work of art.” As Stephanie states on her web site:
“Through recipe sharing, image making, and stories created around the topic of food; this newspaper/cookbook attempts to unite and empower the community through their own words and vision pertaining to food, a “medium” that all people need, understand, can talk about, and love.”
While we would never presume to call our JobDig publications works of art (which says nothing about Stephanie calling her newspaper art - because hers most certa ...
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A Great Article From Minnesota’s Newest Newspaper
2007-11-08 22:57:38
In a good piece on MinnPost (an alternative to the daily paper founded by ex-Star Tribune people that you can read online or download and print) a representative from hyper-conservative Utah provides a valuable lesson for Minnesota about the value of modestly raising taxes and actually investing in transportation infrastructure. It’s a sad, pathetic state of affairs when we’re having to be lectured about investing in our future from someone from Utah. But it’s a very good article and MinnPost is off to a solid start with a decent alternative to the wafer-thin, increasingly irrelevant Star Tribune.
Tags: MinnPost, Star Tribune, How Thin Can The Strib Be and Still Be Called a Major Metro Daily?, Alternative Publications, Decline of the Dailies
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