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Archive | March, 2008

careertv coming to a boob-tube near you

24. March 2008

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More details have emerged about CareerTV’s monthly show. The first 30-minute show will launch in April and premier on stations at several colleges, such as Columbia, NYU, U. of Texas and U. of Chicago. The show will also be run on CareerTV. They will be distributed on a mixture of broadcast, cable, video-on-demand, and closed-circuit television [...]

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“socialnetworkingitis”

22. March 2008

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I’m on my way to Florida tomorrow to present at ITT’s Future Workforce Solutions conference (which is a phenomenal collaboration between many of the world’s most influential tech companies to prepare our nation’s talent pipeline for the future… more on that later), and the discussion topic I’m leading is “social networking”. As I’m completing [...]

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better hiring through … wait for it … handwriting!

20. March 2008

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Forget about traditional background checks and assessment tests. All you need is a handwriting sample. Or so says Candidate Insight, a company that claims to help employers make better hiring decisions with just two short paragraphs. They promise to reveal hundreds of personality traits never before “available to employers prior to hiring.” Says VP Ryan Vener, [...]

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u.s. new & world report’s career guide 2008

20. March 2008

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If you’re in the employment industry, and, hey, most of my readers are, then you may want to checkout U.S. News and World Report’s “Career Guide 2008,” on newsstands now. Cheezheads should pay particular attention to page 49. Additionally, The Office learnings are particularly fun. And did you know being a chef really, really sucks? Which, [...]

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ohio state football nabs no. 1 high school prospect

19. March 2008

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Forgive my personal interjections, but I’m giddy as hell SI is reporting QB Terrelle Pryor, the No.1 prospect coming out of high school, has committed to Ohio State. Suck it, Michigan!

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google testing search within search

19. March 2008

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Probably one of the many tests that won’t go anywhere, but Google is currently adding search within specific domains via Web searches. So far, such functionality only accompanies No. 1 rankings and, like most tests, is visible sporadically. My own opinion is this clutters-up an already ever-cluttering results page. They’d be best served to kill this.

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recruiting in a social world

19. March 2008

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We are in the midst of a significant communication transformation. The momentum being generated through the fingertips of individuals seems to have taken off exponentially in the past few months. February metrics from Compete offer an exciting view into growth across several networks. Accounting for the high levels of growth already experienced last year when Facebook [...]

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