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Archive | June, 2008

Keeping Your Workplace Off Myspace

30. June 2008

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Technology has become crucial to today’s workplace. Since you can’t slow down to snail-mail after you’ve been souped up to warp speed, many employers are now facing a new problem: How do you limit the use of the Web and its various modes of communications to those beneficial to company productivity? Giving employees free rein to [...]

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screw jobs! monster wants to sell phones, lipstick

30. June 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - A loyal reader and not-so-loyal Monster client sent us the following promo e-mail that went out last week: The recipient followed-up the forwarded message by saying, “Now Monster is offering me cell phones, DVDs, and beauty products.

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newspaper despair in cleveland

30. June 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - Readers of Ohio’s largest newspaper, The Plain Dealer, were greeted with a personal letter from the publisher on Sunday’s front page yesterday. While the overall message was one of warm-fuzzies, it was sprinkled with apocalyptic distress.

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SHRM Looks to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World

30. June 2008

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Why are human resources professionals important? The Society for Human Resources Management hopes to answer that question with its new marketing campaign. William Maroni, SHRM’s Chief External Affairs Officer, talked about the “more balanced and interwoven” campaign at the recent SHRM conference in Chicago. “It’s an education and awareness campaign about the value and importance of [...]

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y! hotjobs shrm interview (part one)

26. June 2008

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I sat down with Jeff Kinder and Kevin Krim of Yahoo! HotJobs (wiki - search) while in Chicago for the SHRM conference this week. Here’s Part One: If you can’t wait for Part Two, head-on over to Recruiting Fly for the full-length version.

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jobdig is coming to pillage your local job board

26. June 2008

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By Joel Cheesman - We recently noticed JobDig growing into states previously unoccupied by the niche job board targeting local markets. What used to encompass a small footprint in the middle of the country, now bleeds into places westward and southward. So, we gave head ‘Digger Toby Dayton a shout to see what was going on.

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10 Trends in Employment Background Screening for 2009

25. June 2008

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Who knew people actually read these things? It was great to meet and catch up with those of you who stopped by at the SHRM Annual Conference and said hello. I can’t believe that none of you took the opportunity to heckle me for my Xtra Columns. We even enjoyed hanging and [...]

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