In the spirit of these August dog days, here’s a little collection of HR snacklets to entertain you and, maybe, even inform you. I swear, though, … Read more
Jobs Supercommittee Plan Being Readied
The U.S. doesn’t yet have a jobs czar, but it could soon have a Congressional supercommittee on jobs creation to join the supercommittee on deficit … Read more
Why Facebook Will Destroy LinkedIn
The Wall Street Journal recently published a story by Joe Light that highlighted certain employers, such as Waste Management, finding more recruitment … Read more
Being the Nice Guy Will Cost You $10,000
“‘Niceness’ — in the form of the trait of agreeableness –does not appear to pay.” Not at all. In fact, it costs to be … Read more
What Top Internship Programs Look Like
A new study examines what some of the best internships have in common. A company called J-InterSect looked particularly at General Electric, Goldman Sachs, … Read more
Chamber Survey Finds Employer Social Media Policies, Firings Becoming NLRB Issues
When Dawnmarie Souza called her boss a “scumbag” on Facebook she was fired. It wasn’t just the offensive comment (one of several) that … Read more
Millennials Are Like You and Me, Only Different
There’s nothing that different about Millennials that age doesn’t explain. So concludes an interesting study by the Kenexa High Performance … Read more
Bing Bang Boom
It’s been a full week since Yahoo converted the organic results for its European properties to Bing’s search directory. This news came almost a year after … Read more
Recruitment 4.0: Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Recruitment as a Profit Center, … and the Death of Recruitment Agencies!
4.0? We’re only just digesting 3.0. But what direction are we heading in? Is it a coherent journey? Is there a clear destination/end goal? 4.0. What on … Read more
Besides Bad PR, Currently Employed-Only Ads May Get You EEOC Attention
Is your company among those who reject the unemployed because they are unemployed? If you are — and a report from the National Employment Law Project … Read more